Oh, we're being attacked, let's blow something up rather than solve the problem or engage in constructive prevention.
Most Americans have never stepped foot in foreign soil. Even fewer yet pay attention to events in foreign countries. To "hate Americans" for "what they've done" is quite a bit more irrational than for Americans to hate Terrorists, who consistantly kill innocent people instead of targeting threatening forces.
America doesn't attack unprovoked. Consider America provoked. Any counter-strike is a logical, if highly unfortunately expected outcome.
All those people cheering at the destruction of the trade centers should be a clue to the rest of the world how fucked up they are. They don't seem to grasp the concept that 20,000 innocent people that have never done anything to them are now dead.
I hope justice is served in the form of all of their deaths, but I certainly won't cheer about it.
The real irony in this to me isn't that it's been done. I've known about 3D Printers for a while.
What really blew my mind reading the article is the fact that this morning I turned in a 10 page report for my Production Operations Management class, and in that report I specifically mention 3D Printers and how they would be used for this very thing before too long.
Little did I know "before too long" was going to be... oh... uh... right about now.
I suspect the bit about sympathetic vibrations causing a bridge to collapse is mostly an urban legend
ROUTE STEP! That's it! I had forgotten!
No, it's not an urban legend. I remember seeing a Black and White video clip that was inserted into an instructional video where a bridge began bouncing to the point that soliders were falling down over themselves. Apparently, some weaker bridges HAVE collapsed or sustained damage, and thus ROUTE STEP was created out of necessity. I remember specifically the video said that while some well constructed modern bridges probably would not collapse, the order is to be given regardless as a matter of standard practice to prevent possible "bad judgement calls".
It wasn't simultaneously, otherwise the effects WOULD have definately been much greater.
There is a military command (I can't remember the exact order) given in a march that instructs marching soldiers to lose cadance when crossing a bridge. Failure to do so has been known to collapse bridges as the combined force of dozens of troops marching in unison is capable of creating a powerful ressonance.
So all this isn't about dot-com CEOs going back to school. It's about the uneducated going back to get an education.
Too bad not everybody who comes out of school is well educated. In fact, I'd dare say more than half aren't. School isn't about education, and you've been ass-over-minded if you think otherwise. It's a business. A very profitable business, unlike the Dot-Coms. In fact, I'm not predisposed to the idea that the dot-com failures weren't some elaborate conspiracy to make school look even more important than people already think it actually is.
I'm in college. I'm a double major even. The more time I spend in college the more full of shit I find it actually ends up being. I've taught myself way more than most professors, and the few professors who HAVE taught me something preach that the system is full of shit.
I know what you're going to say, "Your school sucks, then." Probably. But I'm willing to bet yours does too. I'm quite sure they want your money and just like any other monopoly they will hunt down and destroy any system of teaching which undermines their stronghold on the market. You are a head of cabbage to them. A monthly income. A product being tested for loyalty to be sold off in the end to companies that want lapdogs and throw-rugs.
Dot-Coms failed for a large number of reasons, but any education that the tech-workers may have lacked was quite probably not a major contributing factor. I know of a few nice sized tech companies that doesn't have very many people with degrees simply because they want free thinkers who are willing to solve problems, not college grads with elitist attitudes. (Yes, I'm saying that most college grads have elitist attitudes. It's true, and deep down you know I'm right. There are exceptions of course, which is why I say most not all, but...) These companies have some bright schooled kids, there, too, to be sure. But most of the people who work for these companies are either still in college or they never started, and not only do they make good money but they have a stable jobs at companies that aren't dot-bombing.
I think everyone needs to ask themselves just a few simple quesitons...
1. Do I value a degree because I think I'm worthless without one?
2. Does my company value a degree as a test of devotion, or out of a requirement for a "well educated" background.
3. Am I happy working for someone else anyway?
...
I'm getting a degree for only one reason. I have a good job that's paying for it entirely. I realize not everyone is so lucky.
It's not becuse Linux filemanagers are bad - they aren't.
I don't guess they are really all that bad, but I've yet to find one I can tolerate.
under Win or NT, I have little problems with using their filemanager
Me too, I disable all of the buttons, address bars, and other crap (turn off file hiding and extensions... it becomes usable!)
MacOS, I'd feel lost without having directory windows everywhere.
The MacOS does things well too. So did/does the Amiga. In fact, my favorite still today is the "Bland Old Amiga" file management system. It was very simple, yet powerful. Some people thought it was too simple, so along came many tools to spruce it up. Of course, they were OPTIONAL, the way features should be.
I think it's something about how you think about your system.
I tend to agree. 9 out of 10 times I use my BSD machine over a telnet connection. It sits on the other side of the room. The monitor is almost always off, the keyboard is a POS, and the mouse sucks. BUT, I do use it, and frequently. I just tend to use shells most of the time. I hate KDE. I hate Gnome. I hate X. Loath them, even. If they weren't both so emmensely popular with Linux users, I'd say the Unix world had a better chance of a "new killer underdog" popping up out of no-where and totally replacing X, since that's normally the way the computer industry works. But with the attitude of users today, esspecially current day Linux users, a really radical new desktop system for Unix would get flamed down and kicked under in much the same way Microsoft handles their competition: Without mercy.
I tend to agree with that, too. If Copy Protection doesn't prevent the majority of the users from pirating games, and it just bothers the rest of us who buy the games.
Some Copy Protection isn't so bad. Single disc games that require the disc to play tend to annoy me less, since I tend to play the same game for days at a time thus I just leave the disc in my gaming system's drive. Multi-disc games are the worst offenders, though. Swapping discs is so 1980's.
I wish it weren't true, but it is. There are more pirates than there are legit owners. Nearly every user I know gets pissed when they ask if they can "burn a copy off of me" in reference to whatever newest game I just bought. Besides thinking they're all cheap bastards (they are), I find it annoying that they try to convince me that "those big companies" have "too much money".
All I can say is maybe. But not all of the game devs are monoliths that deserve to be stolen from.:-( Just look at Loki.
High graphics and bandwidth just don't work well, and it's always slow and irritating. Even Diablo 2 has this problem on Battle.net
I almost never have problems with Battle.Net. I hear other people complain about all the problems they have.
I guess one's milage may very as such, but for the most part, Battle.Net works better for me than having someone else host the game.
True, LAN play works best, but I HATE opened characters. There's no thrill in trading because if you didn't hack the stuff you're trading, the other person probably did.
Battle.Net is as close to a cheat free environment as I've seen (ignoring the exploits that pop up now and then - kudos to Blizzard for being on top of them, though...)
I know many roms users. Almost none have the original games. Most don't have all of the games they have the roms for. Few I know have most of the games they have the roms for, and some of us still look for the carts for games we don't have (yet).
Those are the facts. Almost nobody who downloads roms has all of the original games. It's not nice, and it's not fair, but it is true. I've seen it, you've seen it, and you're only denying it to justify you own guilt.
If you are downloading roms, you are breaking the law. Note, I DID NOT SAY you were doing something "morally wrong". It's a fuzzy issue that I could take either side of.
Am I telling people not to download roms? No. I've downloaded Roms and I admit it. But if a copyright holder wishes to protect their investment, they have that right and I do respect it.
Emulation authors and users DO pirate. Some just have more justification for doing so than others. There are two types of emulation users. The first type is the punk who downloads 350 SNES games from a newsgroup flood just to say he has them all. Then there is the person who wants to relive the Adventures of Link, but his NES is packed away, broken, or he no longer owns a TV to plug it into. The first user certainly does not have the same justification for his actions as the second user.
Unfortunately the FACT IS there are more of the first user type than there are the second. And that is a BOLD FACED FACT.
I understand your point, but my big beef is...
...
I honestly can't figure any easy way around it.
I know.:-( This is why the issue is so hard. I tend to agree downloading roms is a logical way for most of us to get our old games off of that hard medium onto our current machines. After all, fair use, right? We are entitled to use the title. After all, we have the cartridge RIGHT HERE. Some of us do, anyway. I certainly do. I even go out of my way to find old cartridges I don't have just to add to my collection.
I was very annoyed at Nintendo when they won their lawsuit against one company that was selling a cartridge backup device (I can't remember the name of it now) but I was looking into buying one when they suddenly became illegal. It was sad, but I do definately understand why they did it. Still, the devices exist, though they're used mostly for piracy.
Fair use. What's fair about a bunch of punk kids breaking the law and ruining a good thing for the rest of us?
If it costs them nothing to sell it, why wouldn't they?
Costs aren't always monentary.
Take for example Super Mario Brothers Advance. SMB Advance is essentially just SMB2 with some new stuff thrown in. It will now make for a really nice hand-held title, but do you honstly think Nintendo could resell the title as an N64 remake, or a Gamecube remake? It can sell as a handheld title, simply because at the moment not everybody has a handheld PDA that will effectively emulate the GBA.
Do you honestly think Nintenod could sell SMB1, SMB2, and SMB3 all on one disc as a collection for the Gamecube? No, probably not. Most likely not, due to the fact that a large percent of the market that still loves those games already has them illegally on their PCs.
If Nintendo COULD get away with doing it, it's only because there isn't a larger number of people pirating roms. The number of ROMZ pirates grows ever day. For the moment, it's still not nearly as mainstream as MP3 piracy. If we're lucky, it'll stay fairly obscure and won't draw any real legal attention.
Also one must consider that games aren't like music. People consume them like food and move on. Someone can very easily justify buying a CD when they already have the MP3s, just to have the physical medium. Video games, for whatever reason, haven't felt like "physical medium" since the first ROM image got pulled off of a Cartrige and uploaded to the 'net.
I still buy my video games. I still spend more money on video games than any other expense I have, and one could say that's almost obsessive. (I wonder sometimes myself). But I also know that not everybody buys their PC titles, fewer still buy old games, and even less go out looking for rare SNES, GENESIS, or N64 carts to add to their collections.
As much as I enjoy going to Classic Gaming and snatching down a rom image or two, I fully understand why some companies such as Nintendo and Sega don't want their ROMS being distributed. I also understand why they make a good point in "some cases".
And that's just the thing. "Some Cases". Some games have much higher replay/resell/remarketability value than others. Some of the publishers are gone, others strive on today. But it's those few gems that could resurface as modern products that set the argument for Copyright holders keeping a tight grip on their titles. Nintendo is about to show exactly what they "want to do" with those old titles" when they re-release them on the GBA.
I was all over Super Mario All Stars when it came out on the SNES. Do you think such a thing is ever going to surface on the Gamecube with piracy all but having destroyed the marketability of older titles? Dream on.
I think THAT alone should answer the question "why wouldn't they"?
Trident did some nice stuff back in the early, non-standard days of SVGA.
They've all but fallen into obscurity in today's world of NVidia, ATI, and (for a few remaining users) Matrox.
This is very obviously an attempt by Trident to hitch themselves into users minds as "Early Adopters" of XP. In a way, I sort of hope it works because we need more variety in this inbred world of Video Cards that we have going on.
I just don't expect them turning their backs on open source to help them much.
People complaining should think long and hard and try and understand that what Miyamoto is doing is for the good of the Zelda series as Im sure none of you would like to see Zelda dry up, cause if it did, Im pretty damn sure you would be begging for a change in the series like this to happen.
I tend to agree, but I would have to say that almost every Zelda game released has been worth playing. (And there was only one for the SNES, at least, in the US anyway. 2 for the 8 bit NES.)
Sorry about that, I meant "ALMOST" as much as an X-Box, not "the same as".
The X-Box is $100 bucks stiffer... but at least it's a tangible product.
Microsoft's $200 OS price point is just plain fraud.
To the two replies who said this DOESN'T sound like something Microsoft would do -- I think you missed the point. It's EXACTLY the sort of fraud Microsoft would attempt.
It's probably not technical feasible, but if Microsoft can sell you an overpriced product with limited functionality, they will. I mean, they've been doing it for years.
I wouldn't doubt it if Microsoft released a "Windows GE". Geared towards gamers, played X-Box titles, was rock solid stable, didn't actually DO anything but play X-Box titles, but cost $199 (the same as an X-Box).
Does this, or does this not sound exactly like something Microsoft would do (except for the rock solid stable part...)?
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The funny thing is -- that everybody's acting like "Peer to Peer" is some recent buzzword that was created in this new age of unwashed idiot internet users.
It wasn't coined recently. It's been around forever. It's just that nobody ever bothered saying "Yes, this network is peer to peer..." or "...this one has a server."
I remember hooking up two Amigas with a parallel cable and running that nifty little tool called "Parnet". It was supposed to create a "Peer to Peer" network of... uh... two computers.
Not much of a network, but in a way it kind of resembles the internet of today. A kludge.
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You can't play N64 games with MAME. It stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Arcade only. kthx:)
That division line between arcade and console is so blurred now, that it's very feasible that someone could change that overnight.
All it would take to create support for NES memory mappers, the Genesis hardware, or the SNES (and maybe even later than these systems) would be to write the proper (I believe Mame uses a modular driver design now days, rihgt?) driver.
Essentially, all of the required hardware to be emulated by those consoles has already been done in emulating the various arcade machines.
The 6502, the 68000, the Z80, they're all emulated there in MAME, and very well, in fact.
As for everything else, such as SuperFX and the like, there has been so much work done in emulating those for other (opened sourced) emulators, including console emulation (other than NeoGeo) is probably a matter of choice for the MAME team more so than any technical limitation.
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Various Joypads from Microsoft are recognized in numbers of up to 16 devices. Most games that allow any kind of control customization allow you to select the device. Mame32 is no exception.
One of the best controllers for use in MAME on Windows is current the Sidewinder Gamepad Pro. There are others that are very good as well, but this one works very well with most MAME titles, features eight fire buttons and 1 shift button, and the D-Pad is both proportionate or digital which allows it to be used for just about any type of game.
In fact, I also use it with just about every other DirectInput powered emulator.
So a more useful answer is that if you had 4 of these controllers, you could very easily play Guantlet with 3 of your friends provided you had enough USB ports.
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Oh, we're being attacked, let's blow something up rather than solve the problem or engage in constructive prevention.
Most Americans have never stepped foot in foreign soil. Even fewer yet pay attention to events in foreign countries. To "hate Americans" for "what they've done" is quite a bit more irrational than for Americans to hate Terrorists, who consistantly kill innocent people instead of targeting threatening forces.
America doesn't attack unprovoked. Consider America provoked. Any counter-strike is a logical, if highly unfortunately expected outcome.
All those people cheering at the destruction of the trade centers should be a clue to the rest of the world how fucked up they are. They don't seem to grasp the concept that 20,000 innocent people that have never done anything to them are now dead.
I hope justice is served in the form of all of their deaths, but I certainly won't cheer about it.
The real irony in this to me isn't that it's been done. I've known about 3D Printers for a while.
... oh ... uh ... right about now.
What really blew my mind reading the article is the fact that this morning I turned in a 10 page report for my Production Operations Management class, and in that report I specifically mention 3D Printers and how they would be used for this very thing before too long.
Little did I know "before too long" was going to be
I suspect the bit about sympathetic vibrations causing a bridge to collapse is mostly an urban legend
ROUTE STEP! That's it! I had forgotten!
No, it's not an urban legend. I remember seeing a Black and White video clip that was inserted into an instructional video where a bridge began bouncing to the point that soliders were falling down over themselves. Apparently, some weaker bridges HAVE collapsed or sustained damage, and thus ROUTE STEP was created out of necessity. I remember specifically the video said that while some well constructed modern bridges probably would not collapse, the order is to be given regardless as a matter of standard practice to prevent possible "bad judgement calls".
The kids didn't actually jump simultaneously.
It wasn't simultaneously, otherwise the effects WOULD have definately been much greater.
There is a military command (I can't remember the exact order) given in a march that instructs marching soldiers to lose cadance when crossing a bridge. Failure to do so has been known to collapse bridges as the combined force of dozens of troops marching in unison is capable of creating a powerful ressonance.
Ah, but soon, thanks to Yet Another Corporate Merger, we'll have another defunt company icon in the topics field.
Defunct. Like Compaq desktop systems.
Good riddance.
You forgot WRONG = 2 and STUPID= 3.
So all this isn't about dot-com CEOs going back to school. It's about the uneducated going back to get an education.
Too bad not everybody who comes out of school is well educated. In fact, I'd dare say more than half aren't. School isn't about education, and you've been ass-over-minded if you think otherwise. It's a business. A very profitable business, unlike the Dot-Coms. In fact, I'm not predisposed to the idea that the dot-com failures weren't some elaborate conspiracy to make school look even more important than people already think it actually is.
I'm in college. I'm a double major even. The more time I spend in college the more full of shit I find it actually ends up being. I've taught myself way more than most professors, and the few professors who HAVE taught me something preach that the system is full of shit.
I know what you're going to say, "Your school sucks, then." Probably. But I'm willing to bet yours does too. I'm quite sure they want your money and just like any other monopoly they will hunt down and destroy any system of teaching which undermines their stronghold on the market. You are a head of cabbage to them. A monthly income. A product being tested for loyalty to be sold off in the end to companies that want lapdogs and throw-rugs.
Dot-Coms failed for a large number of reasons, but any education that the tech-workers may have lacked was quite probably not a major contributing factor. I know of a few nice sized tech companies that doesn't have very many people with degrees simply because they want free thinkers who are willing to solve problems, not college grads with elitist attitudes. (Yes, I'm saying that most college grads have elitist attitudes. It's true, and deep down you know I'm right. There are exceptions of course, which is why I say most not all, but...) These companies have some bright schooled kids, there, too, to be sure. But most of the people who work for these companies are either still in college or they never started, and not only do they make good money but they have a stable jobs at companies that aren't dot-bombing.
I think everyone needs to ask themselves just a few simple quesitons...
1. Do I value a degree because I think I'm worthless without one?
2. Does my company value a degree as a test of devotion, or out of a requirement for a "well educated" background.
3. Am I happy working for someone else anyway?
...
I'm getting a degree for only one reason. I have a good job that's paying for it entirely. I realize not everyone is so lucky.
I really don't see what this OS offers that Linux doesn't have.
A nice standard desktop?
It's not becuse Linux filemanagers are bad - they aren't.
I don't guess they are really all that bad, but I've yet to find one I can tolerate.
under Win or NT, I have little problems with using their filemanager
Me too, I disable all of the buttons, address bars, and other crap (turn off file hiding and extensions... it becomes usable!)
MacOS, I'd feel lost without having directory windows everywhere.
The MacOS does things well too. So did/does the Amiga. In fact, my favorite still today is the "Bland Old Amiga" file management system. It was very simple, yet powerful. Some people thought it was too simple, so along came many tools to spruce it up. Of course, they were OPTIONAL, the way features should be.
I think it's something about how you think about your system.
I tend to agree. 9 out of 10 times I use my BSD machine over a telnet connection. It sits on the other side of the room. The monitor is almost always off, the keyboard is a POS, and the mouse sucks. BUT, I do use it, and frequently. I just tend to use shells most of the time. I hate KDE. I hate Gnome. I hate X. Loath them, even. If they weren't both so emmensely popular with Linux users, I'd say the Unix world had a better chance of a "new killer underdog" popping up out of no-where and totally replacing X, since that's normally the way the computer industry works. But with the attitude of users today, esspecially current day Linux users, a really radical new desktop system for Unix would get flamed down and kicked under in much the same way Microsoft handles their competition: Without mercy.
Copyprotection is getting really annoying.
:-( Just look at Loki.
I tend to agree with that, too. If Copy Protection doesn't prevent the majority of the users from pirating games, and it just bothers the rest of us who buy the games.
Some Copy Protection isn't so bad. Single disc games that require the disc to play tend to annoy me less, since I tend to play the same game for days at a time thus I just leave the disc in my gaming system's drive. Multi-disc games are the worst offenders, though. Swapping discs is so 1980's.
I wish it weren't true, but it is. There are more pirates than there are legit owners. Nearly every user I know gets pissed when they ask if they can "burn a copy off of me" in reference to whatever newest game I just bought. Besides thinking they're all cheap bastards (they are), I find it annoying that they try to convince me that "those big companies" have "too much money".
All I can say is maybe. But not all of the game devs are monoliths that deserve to be stolen from.
High graphics and bandwidth just don't work well, and it's always slow and irritating. Even Diablo 2 has this problem on Battle.net
I almost never have problems with Battle.Net. I hear other people complain about all the problems they have.
I guess one's milage may very as such, but for the most part, Battle.Net works better for me than having someone else host the game.
True, LAN play works best, but I HATE opened characters. There's no thrill in trading because if you didn't hack the stuff you're trading, the other person probably did.
Battle.Net is as close to a cheat free environment as I've seen (ignoring the exploits that pop up now and then - kudos to Blizzard for being on top of them, though...)
It's not nice, and it's not fair.
I know many roms users. Almost none have the original games. Most don't have all of the games they have the roms for. Few I know have most of the games they have the roms for, and some of us still look for the carts for games we don't have (yet).
Those are the facts. Almost nobody who downloads roms has all of the original games. It's not nice, and it's not fair, but it is true. I've seen it, you've seen it, and you're only denying it to justify you own guilt.
If you are downloading roms, you are breaking the law. Note, I DID NOT SAY you were doing something "morally wrong". It's a fuzzy issue that I could take either side of.
Am I telling people not to download roms? No. I've downloaded Roms and I admit it. But if a copyright holder wishes to protect their investment, they have that right and I do respect it.
Emulation authors and users DO pirate. Some just have more justification for doing so than others. There are two types of emulation users. The first type is the punk who downloads 350 SNES games from a newsgroup flood just to say he has them all. Then there is the person who wants to relive the Adventures of Link, but his NES is packed away, broken, or he no longer owns a TV to plug it into. The first user certainly does not have the same justification for his actions as the second user.
Unfortunately the FACT IS there are more of the first user type than there are the second. And that is a BOLD FACED FACT.
I understand your point, but my big beef is ...
:-( This is why the issue is so hard. I tend to agree downloading roms is a logical way for most of us to get our old games off of that hard medium onto our current machines. After all, fair use, right? We are entitled to use the title. After all, we have the cartridge RIGHT HERE. Some of us do, anyway. I certainly do. I even go out of my way to find old cartridges I don't have just to add to my collection.
...
I honestly can't figure any easy way around it.
I know.
I was very annoyed at Nintendo when they won their lawsuit against one company that was selling a cartridge backup device (I can't remember the name of it now) but I was looking into buying one when they suddenly became illegal. It was sad, but I do definately understand why they did it. Still, the devices exist, though they're used mostly for piracy.
Fair use. What's fair about a bunch of punk kids breaking the law and ruining a good thing for the rest of us?
If it costs them nothing to sell it, why wouldn't they?
Costs aren't always monentary.
Take for example Super Mario Brothers Advance. SMB Advance is essentially just SMB2 with some new stuff thrown in. It will now make for a really nice hand-held title, but do you honstly think Nintendo could resell the title as an N64 remake, or a Gamecube remake? It can sell as a handheld title, simply because at the moment not everybody has a handheld PDA that will effectively emulate the GBA.
Do you honestly think Nintenod could sell SMB1, SMB2, and SMB3 all on one disc as a collection for the Gamecube? No, probably not. Most likely not, due to the fact that a large percent of the market that still loves those games already has them illegally on their PCs.
If Nintendo COULD get away with doing it, it's only because there isn't a larger number of people pirating roms. The number of ROMZ pirates grows ever day. For the moment, it's still not nearly as mainstream as MP3 piracy. If we're lucky, it'll stay fairly obscure and won't draw any real legal attention.
Also one must consider that games aren't like music. People consume them like food and move on. Someone can very easily justify buying a CD when they already have the MP3s, just to have the physical medium. Video games, for whatever reason, haven't felt like "physical medium" since the first ROM image got pulled off of a Cartrige and uploaded to the 'net.
I still buy my video games. I still spend more money on video games than any other expense I have, and one could say that's almost obsessive. (I wonder sometimes myself). But I also know that not everybody buys their PC titles, fewer still buy old games, and even less go out looking for rare SNES, GENESIS, or N64 carts to add to their collections.
As much as I enjoy going to Classic Gaming and snatching down a rom image or two, I fully understand why some companies such as Nintendo and Sega don't want their ROMS being distributed. I also understand why they make a good point in "some cases".
And that's just the thing. "Some Cases". Some games have much higher replay/resell/remarketability value than others. Some of the publishers are gone, others strive on today. But it's those few gems that could resurface as modern products that set the argument for Copyright holders keeping a tight grip on their titles. Nintendo is about to show exactly what they "want to do" with those old titles" when they re-release them on the GBA.
I was all over Super Mario All Stars when it came out on the SNES. Do you think such a thing is ever going to surface on the Gamecube with piracy all but having destroyed the marketability of older titles? Dream on.
I think THAT alone should answer the question "why wouldn't they"?
This was hardly a troll.
It's hard facts.
Trident did some nice stuff back in the early, non-standard days of SVGA.
They've all but fallen into obscurity in today's world of NVidia, ATI, and (for a few remaining users) Matrox.
This is very obviously an attempt by Trident to hitch themselves into users minds as "Early Adopters" of XP. In a way, I sort of hope it works because we need more variety in this inbred world of Video Cards that we have going on.
I just don't expect them turning their backs on open source to help them much.
what happens to the signal in my ups?
You know, that did lead me to thinking...
Will we start seeing UPS systems that are also Firewalls/Routers?
Of course, it'll be interesting to see the first guy who "wires" his own house get fried.
Now that you put it that way, I hope AOL wastes no time offering this service to the masses.
The privacy aspects?
If you have any uncertainty about your privacy, you should check out this statement.
And finally, it should be large enough for its gravity to crush it into a spherical shape.
As someone else pointed out, how round is "sphere"? Even Earth isn't a perfect sphere.
I think a better qualification would be...
Is it's orbit stable? And if so, does it share it with other objects?
If it's one of a many rocks in a steady path around the sun, it's obviously an astroid belt.
If it's just a big chunk of rock making a circular voyage, let it be a Planet. It's not hurting anybody.
People complaining should think long and hard and try and understand that what Miyamoto is doing is for the good of the Zelda series as Im sure none of you would like to see Zelda dry up, cause if it did, Im pretty damn sure you would be begging for a change in the series like this to happen.
I tend to agree, but I would have to say that almost every Zelda game released has been worth playing. (And there was only one for the SNES, at least, in the US anyway. 2 for the 8 bit NES.)
Sorry about that, I meant "ALMOST" as much as an X-Box, not "the same as".
The X-Box is $100 bucks stiffer... but at least it's a tangible product.
Microsoft's $200 OS price point is just plain fraud.
To the two replies who said this DOESN'T sound like something Microsoft would do -- I think you missed the point. It's EXACTLY the sort of fraud Microsoft would attempt.
It's probably not technical feasible, but if Microsoft can sell you an overpriced product with limited functionality, they will. I mean, they've been doing it for years.
I wouldn't doubt it if Microsoft released a "Windows GE". Geared towards gamers, played X-Box titles, was rock solid stable, didn't actually DO anything but play X-Box titles, but cost $199 (the same as an X-Box).
Does this, or does this not sound exactly like something Microsoft would do (except for the rock solid stable part...)?
The funny thing is -- that everybody's acting like "Peer to Peer" is some recent buzzword that was created in this new age of unwashed idiot internet users.
... uh ... two computers.
It wasn't coined recently. It's been around forever. It's just that nobody ever bothered saying "Yes, this network is peer to peer..." or "...this one has a server."
I remember hooking up two Amigas with a parallel cable and running that nifty little tool called "Parnet". It was supposed to create a "Peer to Peer" network of
Not much of a network, but in a way it kind of resembles the internet of today. A kludge.
You can't play N64 games with MAME. It stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Arcade only. kthx :)
That division line between arcade and console is so blurred now, that it's very feasible that someone could change that overnight.
All it would take to create support for NES memory mappers, the Genesis hardware, or the SNES (and maybe even later than these systems) would be to write the proper (I believe Mame uses a modular driver design now days, rihgt?) driver.
Essentially, all of the required hardware to be emulated by those consoles has already been done in emulating the various arcade machines.
The 6502, the 68000, the Z80, they're all emulated there in MAME, and very well, in fact.
As for everything else, such as SuperFX and the like, there has been so much work done in emulating those for other (opened sourced) emulators, including console emulation (other than NeoGeo) is probably a matter of choice for the MAME team more so than any technical limitation.
Various Joypads from Microsoft are recognized in numbers of up to 16 devices. Most games that allow any kind of control customization allow you to select the device. Mame32 is no exception.
One of the best controllers for use in MAME on Windows is current the Sidewinder Gamepad Pro. There are others that are very good as well, but this one works very well with most MAME titles, features eight fire buttons and 1 shift button, and the D-Pad is both proportionate or digital which allows it to be used for just about any type of game.
In fact, I also use it with just about every other DirectInput powered emulator.
So a more useful answer is that if you had 4 of these controllers, you could very easily play Guantlet with 3 of your friends provided you had enough USB ports.