Probably one of my biggest memories too. My younger cousin started playing it..... I think she wears glasses now..... And mine are rather thick... I blame Nintendo.... (which is probably accurate when taking into account the years of sitting in front of the TV playing Nintendo *)
FMV games had their place, specifically with shooters like Lethal Enforcers and Corpse Killer. They weren't all bad (although most heavly on FMV were. I liked the Detective RPGs like Snatcher on Sega CD myself).
Nintendo has a decently long track history of innovation. Some have flopped, some appear to be doing well (Nintendo DS), and others just may come out on top (Wii). The Virtual Boy was a flop. I got one when it first came out, however, and I thought it was a good idea. Colors sucked, but the 3d Effect was very unique and an interesting precursor to the dominance of 3D graphics (and VB was actually a 3D screen so to speak). What I found to be nice was the abundance of $5 games around in stores trying to liquidate it (My local EBGames had a bunch of Japanese ones that proved to be interesting). Although what wasn't nice was the VB selling for like $20 at Walmart less then a year after it was released.... I think I will play that today.... (oh, the stand for it sucks, mine broke).
You know how much it costs to keep a computer running 24/7? If you look into it, you'll see it's usually at least a couple hundred dollars a year (if not more depending on energy cost, peripherals, and stuff like that.) Yeah, you have a huge server case, and penis envy might make you want to pop in a huge 600W power supply with a huge power-hungry CPU, and lots of high end and extra stuff that you don't actually need. I recall harddrives, as the main part of most home servers, do not take too much power (a couple dozen Watts i think). I used to leave my desktop on all the time and let it act as my file server, but am now using an older computer with a 250W power supply and a minimialist configuration, and let my desktop suspend to ram most of the time. Yeah, some may need that 600W for a home server if it's acting as a mythtv server/web server/media reencoding server, but most probably do not.
How hard is it to make a couple a character alpha-numeric passwords and dedicate them to memory? After maybe a week with it written down in your wallet for reference, you'll have them memorized and have no problems!!! Then you just have to worry about yourself muttering them in your sleep....
I agree, this is so stupid. no company should be changing how they do business in a country the US doesn't have control over because we bitch.... and while on the topic of stuff that offends Americans, there is plenty of stuff in Japan that could probably be considered offensive in the US (mainly the glorification of young girls in sailor suits as "sexy"), but that doesn't mean they are preventing companies from using it as a cash cow because we don't agree with it.
A disaster happens (I wonder if they would have used such a thing during 9|11 even to tell people who were not directly at risk?), and I find my pda beeping, cell phone vibrating, TV sirening, computer flashing, and maybe even my fax maching faxing. And to anyone who dares make fun of me having all these devices active at once, I'd imagine quite a few people here would too....
At least as a US citizen. Companies like Microsoft (Microsoft specifically) are a pretty big part of our economy. I don't think I have to even say how much money is coming into the US economy with each OEM computer bought out there putting probably $150 into our economy including MS Windows and Office.... Open Source is good for the global interest, yes, but I don't think so for the United States interest. It's easy to continue riding a wave of success (Like Microsoft has done for the past couple decades), but the combination of the United States decline as an innovator and common-sense idea that people from one country are not smarter then people from another in general makes me think that if Open Source ever overthrew closed source, it's likely the companies making money off from it might not be based in the US....
Forgot about Game Players. That was a great mag too. Two editors (I believe Mike and Bill were there names) did work on a couple other things, like the IGN site and PCXL. I theorize one of them gave a lot of character to the magazines they had pull with.
I remember those..... I used to get them a lot back in the day. Subscribed to PCXL (PC Accelerator) since it wasn't bland tech/gaming news. Also had a subscription to Nintendo Power for many years since it was only $5 more then a strategy guide I'd get anyways for a year subscription and the guide. PCXL was mainly for game demos though since I was on dial-up then. I really don't see much of a use for magazines in the day of the internet. Sure, it's nice reading a magazine from time to time, but gaming news seems like it would be best served on a computer, and with fast connections, demo discs are no longer needed (other then for consoles).
I usually mount my Linux server's samba share on my iBook. Whenever I download posts from newsgroups that preserve folder structure based on post title (which often includes symbols such as '[', '~', and '*") on my iBook and want to transfer them to the server, it bitches And won't let me copy them. Yes, it's a protocol error, but I dislike that I well know Linux and HFS+ can both read these, but it won't copy....
I'm sick of typing in "yahoo" and "MSN" and not seeing the search portals. It's such a terrible anti-competition practice. *tries it* Oh, wait. They are the first results. In that case, Google must consider this niche search engine to be a bigger threat then MSN and Yahoo!. Who would have thought? And on a side note, KinderStart now comes up as #4 in an article pertaining to the lawsuit.
IANAL either, but I would think since it is under their control, if they really wanted to and had evidence, they could probably nail you for it. What you want doesn't sound like "private use". Many things specifically say "blah blah, not for commercial distribution". Much software says "if this is used in a business, you have to pay, but if it's personal, you don't". So in short, I'd check the disclaimers of the material, and check with the copyright holders if you want to be safe. The chances of them nailing you for it are slim to none, but it sounds like you want to do it 100% legally.
I looked into GoDaddy's FIleFolder last year when I renewed my domain, but I decided against it when I learned there was no easy way to access it for linux file backup (I was thinking via Samba/WFS, maybe NFS, or FTP if desperate). I saw one on the site that had FTP. Anyone know of a decent one that supports something more secure like Samba of SFTP?
I'm not saying this persons motives are correct. If anything, she's probably being a pawn in her parents plans to live doing nothing for the rest of their life. But it is true myspace doesn't do enough to prevent minors from going on the site. Cases of sexual assault/contact at an unlawful age like this have probably happened at least several dozen times over myspace. And I've always seen mySpace as something for middle schoolers since I knew a girl who was in middle school who was rather obsessed with it..... But yeah, I do agree they need stronger policies to prevent minors from registering somehow, because this girl has proven that there are a fair number of young girls out there that are too stupid not to get themselves into trouble.
I liked this application as an Outlook replacement in Linux, and has been the only "free" software I've seen that comes close to the features of Outlook and the functionality with Exchange servers (I forget if Evolution has it's own groupware server software). Might fare well on Windows if they can get compatibility good and improve configuration (I remember it being a pain in the ass to get working right with Exchange due to differences in how Outlook and it handles the data needed to connect).
Yeah, that "point of demarcation" as you said is a bitch... I (ironically) had two of the tree jacks in my apartment dead. (I would be sure as many readers are probably saying to themselves right now that they didn't screw up the installation, but 90% of my testing was thankfully done at the one jack that worked from the start, so something was def. off). It sucks when it's not your house.... The apartment isn't your responsibility, the phoneline going into the house isn't..... I was afraid I was going to be caught in the middle of finger pointing where I'd be paying the phone company for "something that wasn't there fault" and an apartment complex that claimed it wasn't there fault either.....
I just moved into a new apartment a couple weeks ago.. I had DSL at my parents house with no problem, and it had speeds that made most typical broadban users salivate (about 600k/s, which is ususually fast around here). So I decided to get it here... Huge huge mistake... First off, they just changed their policies a couple months ago so that a phone line is _required_ (I was just gonna cell it, but this landline costs an extra $13/mo with who knows how many other misc. phone charges added on). Second of all, they didn't install it right so the phone line did not work. Third of all, they package did not get delivered to my place (said it was delivered here, but it never was). They at least let me go to their office about 10 minutes away and get one in its place. Fourth of all, DSL is not meant for old complexes. I'm getting under 100k/s here, about 1/3 what a friend of mine in another building here gets. Terrible wiring kills your connection quality. Sure, the package delivery wasn't their fault, but other then that, these are all things I wouldn't have had to deal with probably with cable (assuming the line is already running here). DSL is faster _if_ the conditions are right (good household phone system, close central office), but without it, yeah, it sucks...... A bit off topic.... But I had to vent........ Haven't gotten my bill yet, but it'll surely be more then $30, around $45 or $50 I'm assuming....
First we have XP. Major security problems. So Microsoft has patched the hell out of it and released a lot of security tools to help users. Enter Vista. A brand new OS noone has really had much of a chance to exploit and punch through and find security flaws. Add onto this the justifyable paranoia Microsoft got over XP's security, which helped the development of Vista being more secure and tools that will be part of Vista. I would be more worried if they didn't say this. Even the simplest reasonable encryption in the world was "secure" at one point in time. Once Vista gets out there, it will have plenty of problems (probably not as many as XP since they are prepared, but they will exist). The real question is will Vista or OS X (or OS XI?) have more security problems this coming generation? We'll have to wait and see.....
This is stupid. I look around my room, and It's probably likely at least half, if not more like 80% of the stuff here probably has some sweatshop labor in it (with 20% being made in the US if I push it). Although Apple and the related company are no small fries, they are in the overall picture of this sweatshop labor stuff. Ohhh, Apple indirectly uses sweatshop labor. Time to gang up on them, and about every other company that does it, especially directly.
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Probably one of my biggest memories too. My younger cousin started playing it..... I think she wears glasses now..... And mine are rather thick... I blame Nintendo.... (which is probably accurate when taking into account the years of sitting in front of the TV playing Nintendo *)
FMV games had their place, specifically with shooters like Lethal Enforcers and Corpse Killer. They weren't all bad (although most heavly on FMV were. I liked the Detective RPGs like Snatcher on Sega CD myself).
Nintendo has a decently long track history of innovation. Some have flopped, some appear to be doing well (Nintendo DS), and others just may come out on top (Wii). The Virtual Boy was a flop. I got one when it first came out, however, and I thought it was a good idea. Colors sucked, but the 3d Effect was very unique and an interesting precursor to the dominance of 3D graphics (and VB was actually a 3D screen so to speak). What I found to be nice was the abundance of $5 games around in stores trying to liquidate it (My local EBGames had a bunch of Japanese ones that proved to be interesting). Although what wasn't nice was the VB selling for like $20 at Walmart less then a year after it was released.... I think I will play that today.... (oh, the stand for it sucks, mine broke).
That'll be fun playing the classic re-release of Doom on a billboard advertizing it in Quake 5.....
You know how much it costs to keep a computer running 24/7? If you look into it, you'll see it's usually at least a couple hundred dollars a year (if not more depending on energy cost, peripherals, and stuff like that.) Yeah, you have a huge server case, and penis envy might make you want to pop in a huge 600W power supply with a huge power-hungry CPU, and lots of high end and extra stuff that you don't actually need. I recall harddrives, as the main part of most home servers, do not take too much power (a couple dozen Watts i think). I used to leave my desktop on all the time and let it act as my file server, but am now using an older computer with a 250W power supply and a minimialist configuration, and let my desktop suspend to ram most of the time. Yeah, some may need that 600W for a home server if it's acting as a mythtv server/web server/media reencoding server, but most probably do not.
How hard is it to make a couple a character alpha-numeric passwords and dedicate them to memory? After maybe a week with it written down in your wallet for reference, you'll have them memorized and have no problems!!! Then you just have to worry about yourself muttering them in your sleep....
I agree, this is so stupid. no company should be changing how they do business in a country the US doesn't have control over because we bitch.... and while on the topic of stuff that offends Americans, there is plenty of stuff in Japan that could probably be considered offensive in the US (mainly the glorification of young girls in sailor suits as "sexy"), but that doesn't mean they are preventing companies from using it as a cash cow because we don't agree with it.
A disaster happens (I wonder if they would have used such a thing during 9|11 even to tell people who were not directly at risk?), and I find my pda beeping, cell phone vibrating, TV sirening, computer flashing, and maybe even my fax maching faxing. And to anyone who dares make fun of me having all these devices active at once, I'd imagine quite a few people here would too....
At least as a US citizen. Companies like Microsoft (Microsoft specifically) are a pretty big part of our economy. I don't think I have to even say how much money is coming into the US economy with each OEM computer bought out there putting probably $150 into our economy including MS Windows and Office.... Open Source is good for the global interest, yes, but I don't think so for the United States interest. It's easy to continue riding a wave of success (Like Microsoft has done for the past couple decades), but the combination of the United States decline as an innovator and common-sense idea that people from one country are not smarter then people from another in general makes me think that if Open Source ever overthrew closed source, it's likely the companies making money off from it might not be based in the US....
Am I the only one that reads "British Phonographic Industry" as "British Pornographic Industry" every time I see them in a Slashdot headline?
"What? No more ornis?" (If _anyone_ has played the Dune Sega CD game, they would recognize this instantaneously...)
Forgot about Game Players. That was a great mag too. Two editors (I believe Mike and Bill were there names) did work on a couple other things, like the IGN site and PCXL. I theorize one of them gave a lot of character to the magazines they had pull with.
I remember those..... I used to get them a lot back in the day. Subscribed to PCXL (PC Accelerator) since it wasn't bland tech/gaming news. Also had a subscription to Nintendo Power for many years since it was only $5 more then a strategy guide I'd get anyways for a year subscription and the guide. PCXL was mainly for game demos though since I was on dial-up then. I really don't see much of a use for magazines in the day of the internet. Sure, it's nice reading a magazine from time to time, but gaming news seems like it would be best served on a computer, and with fast connections, demo discs are no longer needed (other then for consoles).
I usually mount my Linux server's samba share on my iBook. Whenever I download posts from newsgroups that preserve folder structure based on post title (which often includes symbols such as '[', '~', and '*") on my iBook and want to transfer them to the server, it bitches And won't let me copy them. Yes, it's a protocol error, but I dislike that I well know Linux and HFS+ can both read these, but it won't copy....
I'm sick of typing in "yahoo" and "MSN" and not seeing the search portals. It's such a terrible anti-competition practice. *tries it* Oh, wait. They are the first results. In that case, Google must consider this niche search engine to be a bigger threat then MSN and Yahoo!. Who would have thought? And on a side note, KinderStart now comes up as #4 in an article pertaining to the lawsuit.
IANAL either, but I would think since it is under their control, if they really wanted to and had evidence, they could probably nail you for it. What you want doesn't sound like "private use". Many things specifically say "blah blah, not for commercial distribution". Much software says "if this is used in a business, you have to pay, but if it's personal, you don't". So in short, I'd check the disclaimers of the material, and check with the copyright holders if you want to be safe. The chances of them nailing you for it are slim to none, but it sounds like you want to do it 100% legally.
I looked into GoDaddy's FIleFolder last year when I renewed my domain, but I decided against it when I learned there was no easy way to access it for linux file backup (I was thinking via Samba/WFS, maybe NFS, or FTP if desperate). I saw one on the site that had FTP. Anyone know of a decent one that supports something more secure like Samba of SFTP?
I'm not saying this persons motives are correct. If anything, she's probably being a pawn in her parents plans to live doing nothing for the rest of their life. But it is true myspace doesn't do enough to prevent minors from going on the site. Cases of sexual assault/contact at an unlawful age like this have probably happened at least several dozen times over myspace. And I've always seen mySpace as something for middle schoolers since I knew a girl who was in middle school who was rather obsessed with it..... But yeah, I do agree they need stronger policies to prevent minors from registering somehow, because this girl has proven that there are a fair number of young girls out there that are too stupid not to get themselves into trouble.
Hook it up to a Linux box, and..... Yeah, that's all I've got.... It's probably possible though with the right kind of modem hardware and drivers.
I liked this application as an Outlook replacement in Linux, and has been the only "free" software I've seen that comes close to the features of Outlook and the functionality with Exchange servers (I forget if Evolution has it's own groupware server software). Might fare well on Windows if they can get compatibility good and improve configuration (I remember it being a pain in the ass to get working right with Exchange due to differences in how Outlook and it handles the data needed to connect).
Yeah, that "point of demarcation" as you said is a bitch... I (ironically) had two of the tree jacks in my apartment dead. (I would be sure as many readers are probably saying to themselves right now that they didn't screw up the installation, but 90% of my testing was thankfully done at the one jack that worked from the start, so something was def. off). It sucks when it's not your house.... The apartment isn't your responsibility, the phoneline going into the house isn't..... I was afraid I was going to be caught in the middle of finger pointing where I'd be paying the phone company for "something that wasn't there fault" and an apartment complex that claimed it wasn't there fault either.....
I just moved into a new apartment a couple weeks ago.. I had DSL at my parents house with no problem, and it had speeds that made most typical broadban users salivate (about 600k/s, which is ususually fast around here). So I decided to get it here... Huge huge mistake... First off, they just changed their policies a couple months ago so that a phone line is _required_ (I was just gonna cell it, but this landline costs an extra $13/mo with who knows how many other misc. phone charges added on). Second of all, they didn't install it right so the phone line did not work. Third of all, they package did not get delivered to my place (said it was delivered here, but it never was). They at least let me go to their office about 10 minutes away and get one in its place. Fourth of all, DSL is not meant for old complexes. I'm getting under 100k/s here, about 1/3 what a friend of mine in another building here gets. Terrible wiring kills your connection quality. Sure, the package delivery wasn't their fault, but other then that, these are all things I wouldn't have had to deal with probably with cable (assuming the line is already running here). DSL is faster _if_ the conditions are right (good household phone system, close central office), but without it, yeah, it sucks...... A bit off topic.... But I had to vent........ Haven't gotten my bill yet, but it'll surely be more then $30, around $45 or $50 I'm assuming....
First we have XP. Major security problems. So Microsoft has patched the hell out of it and released a lot of security tools to help users. Enter Vista. A brand new OS noone has really had much of a chance to exploit and punch through and find security flaws. Add onto this the justifyable paranoia Microsoft got over XP's security, which helped the development of Vista being more secure and tools that will be part of Vista. I would be more worried if they didn't say this. Even the simplest reasonable encryption in the world was "secure" at one point in time. Once Vista gets out there, it will have plenty of problems (probably not as many as XP since they are prepared, but they will exist). The real question is will Vista or OS X (or OS XI?) have more security problems this coming generation? We'll have to wait and see.....
This is stupid. I look around my room, and It's probably likely at least half, if not more like 80% of the stuff here probably has some sweatshop labor in it (with 20% being made in the US if I push it). Although Apple and the related company are no small fries, they are in the overall picture of this sweatshop labor stuff. Ohhh, Apple indirectly uses sweatshop labor. Time to gang up on them, and about every other company that does it, especially directly.
Blu-Rays of course. Isn't that obvious?