Well, now the news channels are speculating on affected countries coming up with an early warning system. Now we get to hear all of southeast Asia squabble over that for the next couple of decades. Whether or not an actual solution gets produced is another story.
It means you won't find any Spanish words, at least ones which were not derived from other languages, that contain the letter "K". "W" and "Y" are also subject to this, I believe.
Just the same as native English words do not have "ñ" or "ch" (being considered as a single letter in the alphabet).
I've heard of projects like these before, but isn't there the huge problem of only being able to view the picture from directly ahead, seeing as it's usually a passive matrix screen? It seems like it defeats the purpose of having one as a background decoration.
Whatever happened to people who posted really obtusely-formatted articles just to be funny because they were heavily laced with ads to the point of illegibility?
Yeah, Ubuntu was the first thing I was looking at when I was getting rid of SuSE, but of course I had to have the huge user base of Debian, so I went with that instead. Quite nice for finding third party package trees for things the official ones wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (think libdvdcss).
All this time, I was searching for a copy of the original so I could run it within BasiliskII. I figure that it's at least worth checking out because it the game that was always brought up when Mac gaming was discussed in the mid 90s.
Isn't there a non-asm version? I don't remember hacving nasm required to compile it. At least there used to be pre-compiled versions without it when I used the MS-DOS version back in my Pentium 133 days (DOS versions of emulators were always faster for some reason).
Nerd (Doug): We need the outlet for our rock tumbler. Bart & Lisa: PLUG IT IN! PLUG IT IN! Nerd (Doug): What, the rock tumbler or the TV? Bart & Lisa: THE TV! THE TV!
(Itchy and Scratchy theme plays, Krusty comes back on)
Krusty: WOW! They'll never let us show that one again... never in a million years!
You never know...Mega Man fans would love this. There were so many parts that dropped to 30 fps because of too much going on. Now if they could only deal with the 8 sprites per scanline limit to eliminate flicker (i.e the score counter in Jackal)
I believe one of the main factors besides the manufacturing cockblock Sony put on their format was that the discs could only store 1 hour's worth of video and there was no technically feasible way to fit in more video without losing quality or changing the form factor. At least not at first, but they snoozed and lost because it took them too long to find a solution.
Well, it relies on another technology which is also very slow to adapt: HDTV. People aren't going to be interested in Blu-ray until they get a better TV, though I would love the storage space for backups - the general public probably doesn't care enough about that yet.
The only reasons DVD was so quick to adapt was because of its ability to be manufactured for dirt cheap and the huge quality jump that is to be expected when you come from media that had disappointing quality even 20 years ago.
And as for the Apple thing, you guys saw that Apple Product Cycle link a couple days ago, right? A bunch of people wearing black turtlenecks speculating is no fun, either.
Well, it helps to not slant your argument by using a jacked up economy (Greece) as an example. It makes a much larger differnce than a gradual inflation of ticket prices in the U.S.
Just to give you an example, many CDs cost around $30-40 in Japan.
Of course, as a counterpoint, I think I still had to pay $8.50 after student discount to get into the main theater in Oklahoma City, one where something always went wrong during the movie, whether it was A/C failure, speaker channels going out, fire alarms, bad projector focus and alignment, etc.
There was a time (late-nineties) that I was too much of a tightwad to bother with CD recorders or Zip disks. I just transferred files using 10-20 disk volumes. Those went bad 75% of the time. There were even times when I made three copies of something just in case two went bad. Did it work? Nope. All three went bad within a few hours of making them.
There was a workaround though. I can't believe I got my friends to open their computer cases so often so I could use one of my old HDs to do a file transfer. Also kinda scary to have to open up my family's brand new OEM computer to move files from the old one (this was 1999, before home machines typically had NICs in them).
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Well, now the news channels are speculating on affected countries coming up with an early warning system. Now we get to hear all of southeast Asia squabble over that for the next couple of decades. Whether or not an actual solution gets produced is another story.
You know what they say: a friend in need is a friend with Kroff Dinner!
It means you won't find any Spanish words, at least ones which were not derived from other languages, that contain the letter "K". "W" and "Y" are also subject to this, I believe.
Just the same as native English words do not have "ñ" or "ch" (being considered as a single letter in the alphabet).
Yeah, but you have to wonder how the KDE team reacted with the idea of the Spanish language not having a native "K"?
* runs *
I've heard of projects like these before, but isn't there the huge problem of only being able to view the picture from directly ahead, seeing as it's usually a passive matrix screen? It seems like it defeats the purpose of having one as a background decoration.
Yes, but would offering a cute screensaver for it change things?
Whatever happened to people who posted really obtusely-formatted articles just to be funny because they were heavily laced with ads to the point of illegibility?
Yeah, Ubuntu was the first thing I was looking at when I was getting rid of SuSE, but of course I had to have the huge user base of Debian, so I went with that instead. Quite nice for finding third party package trees for things the official ones wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (think libdvdcss).
Yeah, but what is a Camero, anyway?
All this time, I was searching for a copy of the original so I could run it within BasiliskII. I figure that it's at least worth checking out because it the game that was always brought up when Mac gaming was discussed in the mid 90s.
...until Debian users get to see this in the unstable branch? Still waiting for Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 to get introduced - might be a while.
Man, remember how the wind in the intro in FF3 sounded before noise wave emulation was introduced? BWWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWWWEEEEEEEIIIIIIIWWWWWUUUUUUU!!
Isn't there a non-asm version? I don't remember hacving nasm required to compile it. At least there used to be pre-compiled versions without it when I used the MS-DOS version back in my Pentium 133 days (DOS versions of emulators were always faster for some reason).
Don't smirk; it'll be the next topic on Ask Slashdot.
Oh come on...
That doesn't need answering.
Damn! We warned them to test KDE 3.3 out before upgrading!
(Ok, so just more obnoxious than anywhere near fatal)
Nerd (Doug): We need the outlet for our rock tumbler.
Bart & Lisa: PLUG IT IN! PLUG IT IN!
Nerd (Doug): What, the rock tumbler or the TV?
Bart & Lisa: THE TV! THE TV!
(Itchy and Scratchy theme plays, Krusty comes back on)
Krusty: WOW! They'll never let us show that one again... never in a million years!
When we were kids and didn't know better, we thought the slowdown was a special effect in the game.
You never know...Mega Man fans would love this. There were so many parts that dropped to 30 fps because of too much going on. Now if they could only deal with the 8 sprites per scanline limit to eliminate flicker (i.e the score counter in Jackal)
Wow, you're blind.
Hint: that last one is not Shockwave.
Oops, you're right. That was a result of a overly-hasty Google search where I saw "DKK" and "Greece" next to each other.
Turns out theirs is actually the GRD.
You're right. It's 9:53 on the 26th here in Japan.
I believe one of the main factors besides the manufacturing cockblock Sony put on their format was that the discs could only store 1 hour's worth of video and there was no technically feasible way to fit in more video without losing quality or changing the form factor. At least not at first, but they snoozed and lost because it took them too long to find a solution.
Well, it relies on another technology which is also very slow to adapt: HDTV. People aren't going to be interested in Blu-ray until they get a better TV, though I would love the storage space for backups - the general public probably doesn't care enough about that yet.
The only reasons DVD was so quick to adapt was because of its ability to be manufactured for dirt cheap and the huge quality jump that is to be expected when you come from media that had disappointing quality even 20 years ago.
And as for the Apple thing, you guys saw that Apple Product Cycle link a couple days ago, right? A bunch of people wearing black turtlenecks speculating is no fun, either.
Well, it helps to not slant your argument by using a jacked up economy (Greece) as an example. It makes a much larger differnce than a gradual inflation of ticket prices in the U.S.
Just to give you an example, many CDs cost around $30-40 in Japan.
Of course, as a counterpoint, I think I still had to pay $8.50 after student discount to get into the main theater in Oklahoma City, one where something always went wrong during the movie, whether it was A/C failure, speaker channels going out, fire alarms, bad projector focus and alignment, etc.
There was a time (late-nineties) that I was too much of a tightwad to bother with CD recorders or Zip disks. I just transferred files using 10-20 disk volumes. Those went bad 75% of the time. There were even times when I made three copies of something just in case two went bad. Did it work? Nope. All three went bad within a few hours of making them.
There was a workaround though. I can't believe I got my friends to open their computer cases so often so I could use one of my old HDs to do a file transfer. Also kinda scary to have to open up my family's brand new OEM computer to move files from the old one (this was 1999, before home machines typically had NICs in them).