Self checkout lanes still typically have a person at the end monitoring a few lanes, and some scales you have to put everything on after you scan it.
They have to have people there because the machines are so incredibly unreliable. 'Put the item in the bag'.. 'I already put the item in the bag you moron'... 'Put the item in the bag'... takes item out of bag.. 'Return the item to the bag'... puts it back in the bag... 'Please wait for an assistant'.
Most times I could get through the checkout faster if they just had a human doing it for me.
Maybe you should try not to confuse the machine. I find self check out easy to use, and faster then live people.
It's a machine, so you have to be smart about it. Don't do shit super fast, make sure stuff you are scanning isn't crumpled at the scanning bar thingys. Also, check to make sure the glass that house the laser & the mirror thingy aren't all smudged up.
Move item across the scanner, when you here the beep, drop it in the bag.
Not rocket science. Just plain old simple common sense, and not getting frustrated because you don't have common sense.
You are really going to hate the light bulbs with the IP address in them, i think...
I grew up gaming since the beginning. And I love my old computers & games. Not going to talk about C64, Snes, xbox, or any of the other crap that people started talking about here, that has nothing to do with dosbox.
While some systems are easy to find, I don't find old PC's (486 and lower) very easy to find. Let alone a decent monitor that can do 320x200 vga modes (or even ega/cga modes). And honestly, if you don't have the correct monitor, you might as well be running dosbox. (of course, I have 3 Commodore monitors, which can do CGA for sure, maybe ega modes, but I also have a EGA monitor, Sony cpd-1302).
Honestly, doing a Dos Box isn't that practical these days. Not for gaming. Gamepads are way better these days. You can make the dosbox look decent on modern monitors by using different types of filters. Speed of the games can be adjusted. You don't have to have 20 million different settings for booting in your config.sys & autoexec.bat. Dosbox can have different settings for the game, done automatticly when you click on the game icon (if you setup dosbox to run auto like that).
Unless your game is using a non-standard keyboard. Example: Try playing Sid Meier's Red Storm Rising on an emulator. Since he wrote it to work with a C64 keyboard, you really need a C64. Hence the need for the original hardware.
But other than that, yes I agree emulators are easier to maintain and keep working. Unless you are playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time which uses the unique N64 controller, and is nigh-impossible to play on an emulator.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This is about Dosbox, or using a Dos Box.
Why would you use Dosbox, or a Dos Box to run an emulator, when they are supported in your current linux/windows/mac os's?
Dosbox is for Dos games. Meaning, IBM PC Compatable games, from the 80's & early 90's.
Games that require Dos, which normally means, MSDos. Not windows, not a SNES, not Xbox, and not a fucking C64.
Dosbox is a Dos emulator. If you think Dos Emulator means every emulator, your smoking crack.
"Sorry teacher, but I couldn't do my homework during the snowdays because:
The Snow knocked my Internet Down. Too poor to have internet. My Dog ate my computer. My dog chewed on my ethernet cord. My dad was too busy watching porn. Nuke Duke'm was finally released and my dad spent the snow days playing it. Um, Fuck off, it was a snow day, so i did what all kids do, went out and had fun.
since i'll be pirating the games because you put in a fucked up system that rewards some people and punishes other based on obscure ideas such as "good & bad".
One of my fav quotes: "Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." Ash - Armies of Darkness.
As opposed to what? The 1.50$ plus 10$ shipping cost from a website? People keep forgetting that most sites add the shipping on top of the advertised price.
Seems to me if it's in a dollar store, it should cost a dollar.
Look, good computer repair people, will NOT want to fix your computer. They'll be busy, know what a hassle it is, try to avoid it. Fake/crappy/untrustworthy repair people will be happy to fix you computer, since they aren't going to do too much and collect money.
You don't know what it is to lack free speech, because you've had it all your life. You're just a spoiled whiner who wants to be able to do literally whatever he wants, instead of almost whatever he wants.
When a reporter in Russia gets disappeared for saying the wrong things; when a man in Afghanistan gets his organs spread around town square for dancing with his wife; when an elderly Chinese woman is sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor for requesting a permit to protest at the Olympics... that is a lack of freedom.
When you are punished for leaking top secret documents, or copying other people's creations without payment, or spreading vicious lies about your peers... that is called living in an orderly society. You might think it's too orderly, but to claim you have no freedoms is fucking insulting.
Oh, so your saying we should shut up about our free speech being trampled on because it's worse else where?
Sorry, no. I don't care about Russia, I don't care About Afganistan. And I sure as fuck don't care about China. If they want to be able to bitch about thier governments, then they should do something about their governments. It's not my job or life mission to make sure they have freedom, that's their own job/life mission.
I have been saying for years that I would like to get my channels al la carte. If I can get channels for between $2-$5 each, and not have to get a stupid package, yeah, sure, I would pay for SyFy. Lets see,... 6) HDNet...
if they constantly replayed Star Trek, Firefly, BSG, and Dr Who I'd be down. there is more than enough good scifi content out there to fill the air time. i just cost $ that the network doesn't have.
You know what plays those shows? Whenever i want?
My computer. ya, see, I downloaded those shows, and I get to watch them, when I want, commerical free.
I used to watch Doctor Who every saturday, on some local channels. But they no longer show.
I can watch new (2005+) Doctor Who on a BBC channel, but, i'd rather watch older Doctor Who, thank you.
If the networks don't give me what i want. I won't watch them and still watch what I want, on my own schedule.
How are small networks going to compete with that? Mainly if they don't have a record of keeping new series ongoing?
Actually, Stargate should have ended... um... as the movie.
Naw, the First Stargate TV Show run was decent.
The second Stargate show (Atlantis) was so so. Could of been better, could of been way worse.
Now SGU, that was a cluster fuck in the making. For a year and a half, you thought they just wanted to go home, and then they dump the real mission the ship has. cool. Was down with that. But the time travel, the other SGU ship and people, the droid thingys always attacking them, etc. is just too fucking much. Yes, I know you need a story, but lets stick with a story, not throw every scifi cliche into the series before it ends. I mean, really now.
Anyways, if a series isn't making the channel millions of dollars in ad revenue, then it's going to be canceled. Or if it's a popular show, on a smaller network and it's taking viewers from another show on a bigger network? It's going to either be canceled, or it's time moved (then canceled).
I've had the white part of that Spectrum Ring Mouse thingy for a few years now. It was a pain trying to figure out what it was, as it only has "Spectrum" on it, and that that is a search nightmare.
Now i know what it is. Even got some pdf's for it.
Where's MP3.com right now? They tried this 10 years ago, and got shot down in court. What's different now?
If i remember correctly, the original MP3.com wasn't a locker as much as it stored 1 copy of each song (not per person, but total) and if you put in a CD that it "ripped", it would give you access to those songs, but it only held 1 copy of it.
so there was no way to tell if you owned the CD or not.
Supposedly the difference now is these are storage lockers, that hold what music you upload to it, so like Google Music will have mass copies of some songs, depending on what people have in the their lockers. Google won't just hold 1 copy of Led Zepplin Black Dog, it will have as many copies as people have in their lockers.
Somebody needs to take a refresher course in "What is this 'news" thing, anyway?" Something that happens with utter predictability and regularity, like a dog biting a man, is never really news. But if a man were to bite a dog, or Facebook was caught protecting user information, then that would be news.
Welcome to Slashbook, the web site dedicated to News for Facebook.
no messages from the president that took over TV & Radio. Closes I've ever seen was when Reagen was shot, but that wasn't a message (well, it was a message to Reagen) to the people.
Shit, the first Gulf War is probably the only thing I've ever seen that took over almost all the TV Stations.
No, the president doesn't need a direct communicans with me. Never has, never will.
If he needs me to fix his computer, he can call me like everyone else.
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Self checkout lanes still typically have a person at the end monitoring a few lanes, and some scales you have to put everything on after you scan it.
They have to have people there because the machines are so incredibly unreliable. 'Put the item in the bag'.. 'I already put the item in the bag you moron'... 'Put the item in the bag'... takes item out of bag.. 'Return the item to the bag'... puts it back in the bag... 'Please wait for an assistant'.
Most times I could get through the checkout faster if they just had a human doing it for me.
Maybe you should try not to confuse the machine. I find self check out easy to use, and faster then live people.
It's a machine, so you have to be smart about it. Don't do shit super fast, make sure stuff you are scanning isn't crumpled at the scanning bar thingys. Also, check to make sure the glass that house the laser & the mirror thingy aren't all smudged up.
Move item across the scanner, when you here the beep, drop it in the bag.
Not rocket science. Just plain old simple common sense, and not getting frustrated because you don't have common sense.
You are really going to hate the light bulbs with the IP address in them, i think...
I grew up gaming since the beginning. And I love my old computers & games. Not going to talk about C64, Snes, xbox, or any of the other crap that people started talking about here, that has nothing to do with dosbox.
While some systems are easy to find, I don't find old PC's (486 and lower) very easy to find. Let alone a decent monitor that can do 320x200 vga modes (or even ega/cga modes). And honestly, if you don't have the correct monitor, you might as well be running dosbox. (of course, I have 3 Commodore monitors, which can do CGA for sure, maybe ega modes, but I also have a EGA monitor, Sony cpd-1302).
Honestly, doing a Dos Box isn't that practical these days. Not for gaming. Gamepads are way better these days. You can make the dosbox look decent on modern monitors by using different types of filters. Speed of the games can be adjusted. You don't have to have 20 million different settings for booting in your config.sys & autoexec.bat. Dosbox can have different settings for the game, done automatticly when you click on the game icon (if you setup dosbox to run auto like that).
Unless your game is using a non-standard keyboard. Example: Try playing Sid Meier's Red Storm Rising on an emulator. Since he wrote it to work with a C64 keyboard, you really need a C64. Hence the need for the original hardware.
But other than that, yes I agree emulators are easier to maintain and keep working. Unless you are playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time which uses the unique N64 controller, and is nigh-impossible to play on an emulator.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This is about Dosbox, or using a Dos Box.
Why would you use Dosbox, or a Dos Box to run an emulator, when they are supported in your current linux/windows/mac os's?
Dosbox is for Dos games. Meaning, IBM PC Compatable games, from the 80's & early 90's.
Games that require Dos, which normally means, MSDos. Not windows, not a SNES, not Xbox, and not a fucking C64.
Dosbox is a Dos emulator. If you think Dos Emulator means every emulator, your smoking crack.
... He's a big-time shaker, mover and influencer in all things that make the world go around.
And who did he piss off in the US Government to get rape charges against him?
"Sorry teacher, but I couldn't do my homework during the snowdays because:
The Snow knocked my Internet Down.
Too poor to have internet.
My Dog ate my computer.
My dog chewed on my ethernet cord.
My dad was too busy watching porn.
Nuke Duke'm was finally released and my dad spent the snow days playing it.
Um, Fuck off, it was a snow day, so i did what all kids do, went out and had fun.
since i'll be pirating the games because you put in a fucked up system that rewards some people and punishes other based on obscure ideas such as "good & bad".
One of my fav quotes: "Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." Ash - Armies of Darkness.
So you hurt people just to spite them? If someone asks you to hold the door for them, do you slam it in their face for not saying "please"?
Yes, and I'll bet they'll remember to say please next time. Mainly if I'm the one holding the door.
TEN dollars at the DOLLAR store??? what a rip off
As opposed to what? The 1.50$ plus 10$ shipping cost from a website? People keep forgetting that most sites add the shipping on top of the advertised price.
Seems to me if it's in a dollar store, it should cost a dollar.
Mickey has grown into a very bad rat. I would recommend warfarin.
blood thinner? how does that help anything?
Does Mickey have blood clots?
Look, good computer repair people, will NOT want to fix your computer. They'll be busy, know what a hassle it is, try to avoid it.
Fake/crappy/untrustworthy repair people will be happy to fix you computer, since they aren't going to do too much and collect money.
and yes, this sounds like a joke, but it's not.
EQ2 servers came up about 5pm PDT today.
So with all the caps people have on their 3G/4G connection, streaming movies are the way to go!!!!
.... It's all patently absurd.
They own the patent on it?
figures
$60 for 2/3rds of a game
It probably needs online activation also.
You don't know what it is to lack free speech, because you've had it all your life. You're just a spoiled whiner who wants to be able to do literally whatever he wants, instead of almost whatever he wants.
When a reporter in Russia gets disappeared for saying the wrong things; when a man in Afghanistan gets his organs spread around town square for dancing with his wife; when an elderly Chinese woman is sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor for requesting a permit to protest at the Olympics... that is a lack of freedom.
When you are punished for leaking top secret documents, or copying other people's creations without payment, or spreading vicious lies about your peers... that is called living in an orderly society. You might think it's too orderly, but to claim you have no freedoms is fucking insulting.
Oh, so your saying we should shut up about our free speech being trampled on because it's worse else where?
Sorry, no. I don't care about Russia, I don't care About Afganistan. And I sure as fuck don't care about China. If they want to be able to bitch about thier governments, then they should do something about their governments. It's not my job or life mission to make sure they have freedom, that's their own job/life mission.
... are going to sue any one for leaking their code?
=)
where is the code? where is the code?
What is google?
Honeycomb is big, ya ya ya
It's not small, no no no
Honeycomb has a big big bite
Big big taste in a big big bite.
I have been saying for years that I would like to get my channels al la carte. If I can get channels for between $2-$5 each, and not have to get a stupid package, yeah, sure, I would pay for SyFy. Lets see, ... ...
6) HDNet
Can't miss Guys Night In huh?
if they constantly replayed Star Trek, Firefly, BSG, and Dr Who I'd be down. there is more than enough good scifi content out there to fill the air time. i just cost $ that the network doesn't have.
You know what plays those shows? Whenever i want?
My computer. ya, see, I downloaded those shows, and I get to watch them, when I want, commerical free.
I used to watch Doctor Who every saturday, on some local channels. But they no longer show.
I can watch new (2005+) Doctor Who on a BBC channel, but, i'd rather watch older Doctor Who, thank you.
If the networks don't give me what i want. I won't watch them and still watch what I want, on my own schedule.
How are small networks going to compete with that? Mainly if they don't have a record of keeping new series ongoing?
Actually, Stargate should have ended... um... as the movie.
Naw, the First Stargate TV Show run was decent.
The second Stargate show (Atlantis) was so so. Could of been better, could of been way worse.
Now SGU, that was a cluster fuck in the making. For a year and a half, you thought they just wanted to go home, and then they dump the real mission the ship has. cool. Was down with that. But the time travel, the other SGU ship and people, the droid thingys always attacking them, etc. is just too fucking much. Yes, I know you need a story, but lets stick with a story, not throw every scifi cliche into the series before it ends. I mean, really now.
Anyways, if a series isn't making the channel millions of dollars in ad revenue, then it's going to be canceled. Or if it's a popular show, on a smaller network and it's taking viewers from another show on a bigger network? It's going to either be canceled, or it's time moved (then canceled).
I've had the white part of that Spectrum Ring Mouse thingy for a few years now. It was a pain trying to figure out what it was, as it only has "Spectrum" on it, and that that is a search nightmare.
Now i know what it is. Even got some pdf's for it.
woot!
still probably sit in the box it's in though...
Where's MP3.com right now? They tried this 10 years ago, and got shot down in court. What's different now?
If i remember correctly, the original MP3.com wasn't a locker as much as it stored 1 copy of each song (not per person, but total) and if you put in a CD that it "ripped", it would give you access to those songs, but it only held 1 copy of it.
so there was no way to tell if you owned the CD or not.
Supposedly the difference now is these are storage lockers, that hold what music you upload to it, so like Google Music will have mass copies of some songs, depending on what people have in the their lockers. Google won't just hold 1 copy of Led Zepplin Black Dog, it will have as many copies as people have in their lockers.
Somebody needs to take a refresher course in "What is this 'news" thing, anyway?" Something that happens with utter predictability and regularity, like a dog biting a man, is never really news. But if a man were to bite a dog, or Facebook was caught protecting user information, then that would be news.
Welcome to Slashbook, the web site dedicated to News for Facebook.
no messages from the president that took over TV & Radio. Closes I've ever seen was when Reagen was shot, but that wasn't a message (well, it was a message to Reagen) to the people.
Shit, the first Gulf War is probably the only thing I've ever seen that took over almost all the TV Stations.
No, the president doesn't need a direct communicans with me. Never has, never will.
If he needs me to fix his computer, he can call me like everyone else.