I can't see a cable/satelite company letting them send a competing television service using their pipeline and I can't see a phone/dsl provider letting them provide a competing phone service using their pipeline either.
I didn't even know anything about this until Howard Stern started talking about it this morning on his show. He was pretty pissed about not having email for 2 days. He also said that nobody informed him that it wasn't on his end. He was going nuts trying to get his computer fixed, calling every computer guy that he knew to come look at it.
I am really loving the release of all of these retro game collections.
I really hope to see more in the near future.
For years, if someone wanted to play some old skool games, they had to resort to emulation. But emulation comes with several of its own issues such as legality, stability, and availability of the roms. Plus you were usually limited to playing them on your PC instead of in front of your TV.
It is refreshing that we can now relive some of classic moments in gaming history using only our current gen console and a tv. The best part is it even comes at quite a bargain. (usually at less than a $1 per game).
In the article, it is mentioned how it was very difficult to be designing the hardware and software from scratch.
These days, we have IDEs, RAD tools, and even Drag n' Drop programming kits.
It really made me realize how spoiled we are as programmers these days which in turn, makes me really admire the hard work and dedication of our fore-programmers.
"Mind you, there is a rumor that AIDS was a rogue virus that escaped from some American lab."
Actually HIV was created to help people who recieved organ transplants not reject the organ.
Originally it was thought that HIV couldn't spread, but the scientists were wrong and then it mutated, causing full blown AIDS in many people who contracted it....
I did something simular playing Gumshoe on a B&W TV.
If you adjusted the brightness and contrast just right and shot at the screen, everything would get hit at once and yet it would only use up 1 bullet.:D
My approach to this problem would be to take a camera that can capture say 60fps and mount it on a tripod like device that spins it 360 degrees at 30rpms. Then you have software pull every 30th frame for each angle. To avoid blur, it may have to spin faster than 60fps but I'm sure it will have to be a multiple of 30 (or whatever the fps capture rate is).
Take Robotron for example. Sure there are some maniacs who can play a long time, but for the most part, it just gets faster and there are more aliens and robots until you die. Personally, I did find the game subtly disturbing
Yeah, it was a pretty grim situation with no escape. The part of the game I found most disturbing was what happens to the people you don't save. Either they get pummeled by the brutish robots or have their brains enslaved by the brainbots. Creepy indeed.
How long do you think it will take before someone accidentally tosses the controller when swinging at something and their hand is sweaty from a long gaming session?
Someone could get hurt or you might end up breaking something such as the controller itself.
I hope they have something in the controller to hold the batteries in place better than regular remotes since with regular remotes, the battery connectors can get jarred out of place just by dropping it about a foot. You would then have to bang the controller until the connectors were aligned again to get it working again.
Anyone with minimal programming skill and a compiler can just write a small (less than 10 lines of code) to just start writing random characters to a file until the drive is full.
I have seen it done many times in college. People did it with VB, C/C++, and even COBOL. But then in their cases I don't think it was intentional (ie. Infinate Loops in there file writing proceedures).
So anyways, just delete everything on the HD and then run one of these programs. Besides wiping out all of the data, you might even crash the hard drive pretty bad too.:P
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Com'on Harold, grab the duct tape, we've got work to do....
Maybe they should call Lowes or Home Depot, I am sure one of them could sell them some caulk to fix their leaky windows.
You know, you might be onto something there.
Caulk sounds like a great name for Microsoft's new security software.
Any idea which of the several versions leaked?
That would be Windows Vista: Leaky Edition.
I can't see a cable/satelite company letting them send a competing television service using their pipeline and I can't see a phone/dsl provider letting them provide a competing phone service using their pipeline either.
Haven't you seen the 13th floor?
:P
If they get too close to reality, they'll crash this one!
Is there a reason to assume that Blueray drives or disks will not work smoothly in Windows, but will work fine in Linux, Mac, etc??
:P
Probably the same reason Quicktime doesn't want to work smoothly in Windows.
Bill doesn't want it to in spite of the competition.
I didn't even know anything about this until Howard Stern started talking about it this morning on his show. He was pretty pissed about not having email for 2 days. He also said that nobody informed him that it wasn't on his end. He was going nuts trying to get his computer fixed, calling every computer guy that he knew to come look at it.
RIAA asks court to appoint a fake mother (Guardian) that they can sue?
:P
If that's the case, someone should appoint the president/ceo/whatever of RIAA as her "guardian" and see where the case goes from there.
Are they going to come into the US and take all of the DNS/Registar servers?
Is this going to lead to some overblown political war that may just have the US removing itself from the UN?
I understand that we (the US) created the internet in the first place and have the most invested, but we have to tread lightly.
We don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot again in our relationship with the UN.
I am really loving the release of all of these retro game collections.
I really hope to see more in the near future.
For years, if someone wanted to play some old skool games, they had to resort to emulation. But emulation comes with several of its own issues such as legality, stability, and availability of the roms. Plus you were usually limited to playing them on your PC instead of in front of your TV.
It is refreshing that we can now relive some of classic moments in gaming history using only our current gen console and a tv. The best part is it even comes at quite a bargain. (usually at less than a $1 per game).
In the article, it is mentioned how it was very difficult to be designing the hardware and software from scratch.
These days, we have IDEs, RAD tools, and even Drag n' Drop programming kits.
It really made me realize how spoiled we are as programmers these days which in turn, makes me really admire the hard work and dedication of our fore-programmers.
Normally I'd say Eeeew...but this is so bad I'd have to say Double Eeeew which just happens to sound like 'W'.
:P
Coincidence? I think not!
This whole thing is just wrong. No judge experience and then sent straight to the top court as one? WTF?
"Mind you, there is a rumor that AIDS was a rogue virus that escaped from some American lab."
...but you didn't hear that from me. ;-)
Actually HIV was created to help people who recieved organ transplants not reject the organ.
Originally it was thought that HIV couldn't spread, but the scientists were wrong and then it mutated, causing full blown AIDS in many people who contracted it....
Somehow I don't think your average Slashdotter could fit into a Geo Metro. :P
I think thats why so many people are moving to Nevada, because there isn't a state income tax here....
But then, many of us here in Nevada who aren't from Cali think the flow of people from Cali is ruining this state (culture wise)....
That's why its so damn hard to shop for a P2P user for xmas.
Last year I got the one in my family a book.
He was like, "why did you buy me a book?"
I responded, "because everytime I try to buy you a cd, dvd, video game, or software, you tell me that you already downloaded it."
Its a little harder to download a book amongst other things....
I did something simular playing Gumshoe on a B&W TV.
:D
If you adjusted the brightness and contrast just right and shot at the screen, everything would get hit at once and yet it would only use up 1 bullet.
My approach to this problem would be to take a camera that can capture say 60fps and mount it on a tripod like device that spins it 360 degrees at 30rpms. Then you have software pull every 30th frame for each angle. To avoid blur, it may have to spin faster than 60fps but I'm sure it will have to be a multiple of 30 (or whatever the fps capture rate is).
I can see it now.
General: Ok soldier, activate the communications jammer!
Soldier: Yes, Sir!
Soldier flips a switch.
Soldier: Jammer is activated. All communications are jammed, sir.
Static is heard coming from every communications device.
General: Ok, soldier. It works. You can turn it off now.
Soldier presses a few buttons and shakes his head.
General: I said you can turn it off now soldier.
Soldier: I'm trying sir. I sent the signal to the satelite but it seems the signal was jammed.
General: By who?
Soldier: By the satelite, sir.
D'oh!
Take Robotron for example. Sure there are some maniacs who can play a long time, but for the most part, it just gets faster and there are more aliens and robots until you die. Personally, I did find the game subtly disturbing
Yeah, it was a pretty grim situation with no escape. The part of the game I found most disturbing was what happens to the people you don't save. Either they get pummeled by the brutish robots or have their brains enslaved by the brainbots. Creepy indeed.
LOL...You are so spacist...
How long do you think it will take before someone accidentally tosses the controller when swinging at something and their hand is sweaty from a long gaming session?
Someone could get hurt or you might end up breaking something such as the controller itself.
I hope they have something in the controller to hold the batteries in place better than regular remotes since with regular remotes, the battery connectors can get jarred out of place just by dropping it about a foot. You would then have to bang the controller until the connectors were aligned again to get it working again.
Just a thought...
I was checking out their store and found a plug-in thats on sale (for FREE).
Anyone with minimal programming skill and a compiler can just write a small (less than 10 lines of code) to just start writing random characters to a file until the drive is full.
:P
I have seen it done many times in college. People did it with VB, C/C++, and even COBOL. But then in their cases I don't think it was intentional (ie. Infinate Loops in there file writing proceedures).
So anyways, just delete everything on the HD and then run one of these programs. Besides wiping out all of the data, you might even crash the hard drive pretty bad too.
I fear for we are Babylon and we (the U.S.)shall be the villians of this upcoming world war whether we the people want it or not.