I doubt Microsoft code would only have three laws. They would have a bloated 16,777,216 laws. That's my guess anyway.
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I tried it yesterday. When I first connected I had an ASCII plan view of a football pitch, so I was expecting an "O" to appear for the ball and move about during the game.
It wasn't that at all. It was the live picture converted to ASCII. It was impossible to see what was going on when it had a wide shot of the field (i.e. most of the time), but when it cut to a close up, you could quite easily make out the people moving around. You could also see the on-screen captions appear.
Totally useless, but brilliant in a geeky way:-)
BTW, games start at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 BST (I'll let you convert that to your own time).
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I'm from the UK, and for about the last 10 years I've been muting the adverts every time they come on mainly because of the volume. I hate adverts and have never watched them since the late 80's. I have always either switched channels, or left the room, muted, checked the internet, read a magazine etc.
The stupidity of them is insulting. I was told to watch CNN (which I was told I probably get through NTLs cable package) to see how strange it was. I found it and saw the funniest advert I've ever seen in my life. It went something like this:
The essence of life is laughter, the essence of laughter is love, the essence of love is lemons.
Yes lemons! Said seriously.
I actually fell off the sofa laughing. I wish I'd taped it. I don't even know what it was advertising (lemons I guess) as I was in shock/dis-belief/histerics for the rest of it and several minutes after.
Well, I didn't take much interest in Nintendo's E3 info because they have already alienated me with the kiddie games of past years, but if indeed they are goind to have lots of Mario-free games (and hopefully some more adult games) then I would consider getting one. I'll have to see what happens after release.
I was just commenting on the impression I get from Nintendo consoles. My opinion wasn't based on fact, just the feeling I get every time I see an advert for a Nintendo product and when people talk about it. I guess it's a marketing choice, but it's not targetted at me, so I probably get the wrong impression.
Well, I can't say I'm surprised. I post my opinion on the way I feel about something and someone who doesn't agree marks it as Flamebait. Ho hum.
Did I say Mario or Nintendo were shit? No. I was even playing Donkey Kong a few weeks ago and enjoying it. I just said I was sick of seeing Mario everywhere and I wasn't going to get a Wii because I expect him to be on loads of Wii games.
I'm from England and I couldn't care less about Mario, but there are people here who do like him. I'm sick to death of him and Nintendo TBH. If they hadn't put Mario in what seems like 95% of all games on any Nintendo system I might have thought about getting a Wii. I know he'll be in all the games though, so I'll not bother.
Every forum I visit that is either about games, or has an off-topic area has at least one thread laughing at the name. We all (well, maybe 99.9999% of us from the UK) think it's a load of wii.
There are very strict regulations for emissions from computer equipment, so how it it legal for mobile phones to emit such ludicrous amounts of interference? I remember reading that several computer companies in the 80's had problems getting their computers (in plastic cases) past the regulations.
When I worked with VT terminals I remember the screen used to completely freak out when a mobile phone rang, and the speakers on my PC would start buzzing. I was amazed that this was allowed, and still am.
I'm currently using 8.51 and have been using various versions of Opera for about 5 years. I have never seen anything like you describe in Slashdot or anywhere else.
Games at the moment have voice acting, cinematic scenes, thousands of scanned images for textures etc. What difference does it make if you render them at a higher resolution? PC games do this at the moment and cost LESS than console games!
Am I missing something, or are the companies just using "next-gen" as an excuse?
I was just about to say the same thing. I keep hearing about this crash, but for me there wasn't a crash. I'm not sure what time it was supposed to happen, but I think it was the time I was playing the best games I'd ever seen and they were loads of them coming out all the time. I had a Vic-20, and C64 from about 84 until Sept 87. I only heard about this crash about 5 years ago and I didn't know what people were talking about.
And as for the NES saving us all! HA! I've never even SEEN one in real life (apart from probably in a shop or a computer show/museum under glass). I don't know of a single person who had one and I can't remember anyone ever mentioning playing on one. I'm sure someone I know had one (or played on one), but it's never some up in conversation. The C64, Spectrum, Amiga and even Dragon 32 have all been mentioned several times by people I know, but never an NES (or SNES for that matter).
If we have another "crash" that affects me in the same way as the last one, then it will be the second "golden age of gaming" for me!
You should see the code that Pacbase creates. It's an application that writes COBOL with as many GOTOs as possible. It's horrendous! You are not supposed to look at the COBOL of course; you program with the Pacbase language which is almost as bad.
I drive a right-hand drive car. I am right-handed and steer with my right hand. I find it very difficult to steer with my left hand, but changing gear with my left hand is very natural.
I would think that doing accurate things like steering would be better done with your favoured hand. I would expect left-handed people to drive better with a left-hand drive car.
I managed to eventually get the Lara trailer to run, and I still have no idea what the game is like. There were about 5 cuts a second. They are either trying to hide the game by changing the image every few frames so you don't get a look at it, or it was just a slideshow played too fast.
See my other reply, but another reason is that the big pics eat up memory cards like crazy. I can happily snap away for hours with a smaller size. On maxumum I run out quickly.
A few times. I sometimes use the maximum size as a zoom, then crop it afterwards. I've tried printing lower res pics and they look almost the same as the higher res pics when printed on my Epson Stylus 680 at 4x3 inches. Maybe my printer isn't very good.
For the screen I obviously don't need anything like 3MP.
Wow, you got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!
Do you normally pick on someone, then go looking for their other posts and reply the same to each one?
I would buy Opera in a second, if it was £5. Other browsers are free, but I like Opera. There is almost nothing worse about the free version (I lose 9mm of screen across the top where the ad strip is). I can't justify spending $40 on it just for that. They provide a free version. There is nothing wrong with using that and I don't think I need to defend using it.
As for the sig. I have seen other people put things like that in a sig, and I have clicked on them. I don't know these people, but I thought I would help them. You say it doesn't help the company. Of course it does. It gets 250 people to click on a link that shows them the Opera website. It spreads the word. Some people might actually download it while they are there. What does it matter if people from a website visit click on it, or people from a forum? 250 people are still looking at the site. That's doing more good to Opera than if I got Firefox and didn't get 250 people to look at anything.
Thank you to the people who have clicked on the link. I'll do the same for you if I see something similar. I might even be interested in the product and download/buy it.
I didn't want to put a post about Opera as that has nothing to do with my original post (apart from a one line sig), but I thought I should reply to your flamebait. I know you were waiting for a reply, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Yep, I've been reading bad reviews and trying to lower my expectations, too.
My hopes were dashed first when Douglas died (a sad day indeed), then when I heard about the casting I was even more worried about how it would turn out. Then I saw Zaphod's "second head" and a picture of Marvin. Oh dear.
The effects look fantastic though.
I still don't know if I will go and see it. I am a big fan, so I HAVE to see it, but I also think it will be terrible and I don't want to encourage people to do this sort of thing (and pay them at the same time), so I SHOULDN'T see it. Being a fan is hard some days...
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There was also an American version (in fact two pilots were made) of Red Dwarf. I downloaded one of them and it was truly awful. There was one really good original joke, but the rest was bad.
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Because I can't run all the software I want to use on a Mac. Macs are great (my brother has one), but not everything is compatible and not many games come out for them.
Also, I didn't say money was no object. You could say "why not buy a supercomputer as they are better than a PC or Mac". I should have said "within reason". The optimum usefulness/price balance, rather than just "give me the cheap one". Sometimes the cheap one IS the best, but I would never just get something BECAUSE is was the cheapest. I used my Amiga every day until December 2000 because it did what I wanted. I had to spend more to upgrade it than a PC, but I found it more usefull and nicer to use. Once that changed and I couldn't do what I wanted, I got a PC.
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I prefer whichever is the best (usually the most expensive). I've always been like that. Sometimes it's also the most popular, and sometimes it isn't, but as long as I'm happy I don't really mind.
I got a C64 (instead of a Spectrum), an Amiga (instead of an ST), a Betamax (instead of VHS), a widescreen TV (instead of a 3:4 one), surround sound (instead of stereo), Opera web browser (instead of IE), etc.
In the end, if the cheaper option doesn't do what you want, then you have wasted your money. If you get the best and pay a bit more, you have something that has given you more value for money. That's the way I see it anyway.
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I doubt Microsoft code would only have three laws. They would have a bloated 16,777,216 laws. That's my guess anyway.
I tried it yesterday. When I first connected I had an ASCII plan view of a football pitch, so I was expecting an "O" to appear for the ball and move about during the game.
:-)
It wasn't that at all. It was the live picture converted to ASCII. It was impossible to see what was going on when it had a wide shot of the field (i.e. most of the time), but when it cut to a close up, you could quite easily make out the people moving around. You could also see the on-screen captions appear.
Totally useless, but brilliant in a geeky way
BTW, games start at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 BST (I'll let you convert that to your own time).
I'm from the UK, and for about the last 10 years I've been muting the adverts every time they come on mainly because of the volume. I hate adverts and have never watched them since the late 80's. I have always either switched channels, or left the room, muted, checked the internet, read a magazine etc.
The stupidity of them is insulting. I was told to watch CNN (which I was told I probably get through NTLs cable package) to see how strange it was. I found it and saw the funniest advert I've ever seen in my life. It went something like this:
The essence of life is laughter,
the essence of laughter is love,
the essence of love is lemons.
Yes lemons! Said seriously.
I actually fell off the sofa laughing. I wish I'd taped it. I don't even know what it was advertising (lemons I guess) as I was in shock/dis-belief/histerics for the rest of it and several minutes after.
Anyone know if it's available for download?
Well, I didn't take much interest in Nintendo's E3 info because they have already alienated me with the kiddie games of past years, but if indeed they are goind to have lots of Mario-free games (and hopefully some more adult games) then I would consider getting one. I'll have to see what happens after release.
I was just commenting on the impression I get from Nintendo consoles. My opinion wasn't based on fact, just the feeling I get every time I see an advert for a Nintendo product and when people talk about it. I guess it's a marketing choice, but it's not targetted at me, so I probably get the wrong impression.
Well, I can't say I'm surprised. I post my opinion on the way I feel about something and someone who doesn't agree marks it as Flamebait. Ho hum.
Did I say Mario or Nintendo were shit? No. I was even playing Donkey Kong a few weeks ago and enjoying it. I just said I was sick of seeing Mario everywhere and I wasn't going to get a Wii because I expect him to be on loads of Wii games.
[shakes head and walks away]
I'm from England and I couldn't care less about Mario, but there are people here who do like him. I'm sick to death of him and Nintendo TBH. If they hadn't put Mario in what seems like 95% of all games on any Nintendo system I might have thought about getting a Wii. I know he'll be in all the games though, so I'll not bother.
No, we don't like it.
Every forum I visit that is either about games, or has an off-topic area has at least one thread laughing at the name. We all (well, maybe 99.9999% of us from the UK) think it's a load of wii.
There are very strict regulations for emissions from computer equipment, so how it it legal for mobile phones to emit such ludicrous amounts of interference? I remember reading that several computer companies in the 80's had problems getting their computers (in plastic cases) past the regulations.
When I worked with VT terminals I remember the screen used to completely freak out when a mobile phone rang, and the speakers on my PC would start buzzing. I was amazed that this was allowed, and still am.
Can anyone explain?
I'm currently using 8.51 and have been using various versions of Opera for about 5 years. I have never seen anything like you describe in Slashdot or anywhere else.
Games at the moment have voice acting, cinematic scenes, thousands of scanned images for textures etc. What difference does it make if you render them at a higher resolution? PC games do this at the moment and cost LESS than console games!
Am I missing something, or are the companies just using "next-gen" as an excuse?
I was just about to say the same thing. I keep hearing about this crash, but for me there wasn't a crash. I'm not sure what time it was supposed to happen, but I think it was the time I was playing the best games I'd ever seen and they were loads of them coming out all the time. I had a Vic-20, and C64 from about 84 until Sept 87. I only heard about this crash about 5 years ago and I didn't know what people were talking about.
And as for the NES saving us all! HA! I've never even SEEN one in real life (apart from probably in a shop or a computer show/museum under glass). I don't know of a single person who had one and I can't remember anyone ever mentioning playing on one. I'm sure someone I know had one (or played on one), but it's never some up in conversation. The C64, Spectrum, Amiga and even Dragon 32 have all been mentioned several times by people I know, but never an NES (or SNES for that matter).
If we have another "crash" that affects me in the same way as the last one, then it will be the second "golden age of gaming" for me!
You should see the code that Pacbase creates. It's an application that writes COBOL with as many GOTOs as possible. It's horrendous! You are not supposed to look at the COBOL of course; you program with the Pacbase language which is almost as bad.
A Ha! I think I've solved Sony's problem. It's the silver paint! Paint them black and they will start working again.
I'm with Barclays, and I've never heard of them having hardware password generators like this either.
Thanks for that. I'll have a look through them.
:-(
It's a real shame that the Aliens one was stopped being released. I've searched for a release of it in other places, but couldn't find one.
Is there a list of HL2 mods anywhere? I'd like to play something like the Aliens Total Conversion that came out for Doom all those years ago.
I'll check the MINERVA one mentioned in a post above when I get home.
I couldn't disagree with you more.
I drive a right-hand drive car. I am right-handed and steer with my right hand. I find it very difficult to steer with my left hand, but changing gear with my left hand is very natural.
I would think that doing accurate things like steering would be better done with your favoured hand. I would expect left-handed people to drive better with a left-hand drive car.
I managed to eventually get the Lara trailer to run, and I still have no idea what the game is like. There were about 5 cuts a second. They are either trying to hide the game by changing the image every few frames so you don't get a look at it, or it was just a slideshow played too fast.
See my other reply, but another reason is that the big pics eat up memory cards like crazy. I can happily snap away for hours with a smaller size. On maxumum I run out quickly.
I should probably get a bigger memory card!
A few times. I sometimes use the maximum size as a zoom, then crop it afterwards. I've tried printing lower res pics and they look almost the same as the higher res pics when printed on my Epson Stylus 680 at 4x3 inches. Maybe my printer isn't very good.
For the screen I obviously don't need anything like 3MP.
Wow, you got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!
Do you normally pick on someone, then go looking for their other posts and reply the same to each one?
I would buy Opera in a second, if it was £5. Other browsers are free, but I like Opera. There is almost nothing worse about the free version (I lose 9mm of screen across the top where the ad strip is). I can't justify spending $40 on it just for that. They provide a free version. There is nothing wrong with using that and I don't think I need to defend using it.
As for the sig. I have seen other people put things like that in a sig, and I have clicked on them. I don't know these people, but I thought I would help them. You say it doesn't help the company. Of course it does. It gets 250 people to click on a link that shows them the Opera website. It spreads the word. Some people might actually download it while they are there. What does it matter if people from a website visit click on it, or people from a forum? 250 people are still looking at the site. That's doing more good to Opera than if I got Firefox and didn't get 250 people to look at anything.
Thank you to the people who have clicked on the link. I'll do the same for you if I see something similar. I might even be interested in the product and download/buy it.
I didn't want to put a post about Opera as that has nothing to do with my original post (apart from a one line sig), but I thought I should reply to your flamebait. I know you were waiting for a reply, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Yep, I've been reading bad reviews and trying to lower my expectations, too.
My hopes were dashed first when Douglas died (a sad day indeed), then when I heard about the casting I was even more worried about how it would turn out. Then I saw Zaphod's "second head" and a picture of Marvin. Oh dear.
The effects look fantastic though.
I still don't know if I will go and see it. I am a big fan, so I HAVE to see it, but I also think it will be terrible and I don't want to encourage people to do this sort of thing (and pay them at the same time), so I SHOULDN'T see it. Being a fan is hard some days...
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There was also an American version (in fact two pilots were made) of Red Dwarf. I downloaded one of them and it was truly awful. There was one really good original joke, but the rest was bad.
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Because I can't run all the software I want to use on a Mac. Macs are great (my brother has one), but not everything is compatible and not many games come out for them.
Also, I didn't say money was no object. You could say "why not buy a supercomputer as they are better than a PC or Mac". I should have said "within reason". The optimum usefulness/price balance, rather than just "give me the cheap one". Sometimes the cheap one IS the best, but I would never just get something BECAUSE is was the cheapest. I used my Amiga every day until December 2000 because it did what I wanted. I had to spend more to upgrade it than a PC, but I found it more usefull and nicer to use. Once that changed and I couldn't do what I wanted, I got a PC.
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Really?
I prefer whichever is the best (usually the most expensive). I've always been like that. Sometimes it's also the most popular, and sometimes it isn't, but as long as I'm happy I don't really mind.
I got a C64 (instead of a Spectrum), an Amiga (instead of an ST), a Betamax (instead of VHS), a widescreen TV (instead of a 3:4 one), surround sound (instead of stereo), Opera web browser (instead of IE), etc.
In the end, if the cheaper option doesn't do what you want, then you have wasted your money. If you get the best and pay a bit more, you have something that has given you more value for money. That's the way I see it anyway.
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