There's Latin on the SAT? The only remotely Latin word I remember was 'effluvium' (spelling may be wrong), which I remembered as a level in Hexen (and this is likely why I still remember it).
Well, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was awesome... but the one game I want remade from Epic is Tyrian... that was simply the best scrolly schooter ever made. I've been extremely dissapointed with Epic these last few years, since all they do now is shinier 3d engines and redundant (albeit very well done) FPS games.
Well, those days were all 7s, and July is a 7... so I guess there could be a 7s thing going on, although there should have been an attack on 7-14 then too.
If you asked me what the "blogosphere" or "podcasting" were I'd probably kick you. The "regular folks" are fortunate indeed if they are ignorant of those damnable buzzwords.
I didn't curse for years, until one day I realized that if I didn't use vulgar words to describe vulgar things, I was lying. I value honesty a bit more than politesse, so I curse a bit now, but not much, as I tend to avoid vulgar things.
Er, this is new? I've found Yahoo to be blatantly evil since the late 90s, and I go out of my way to never visit their site. They've done nothing but hemorrhage ads, spam, and crap over the net since they began (and they've spewed plenty of ads into other media as well). I've never understood how a company that does nothing but promote misery stays afloat, much less profits.
If you want a stupendously great merging of every trite, overused stereotype ever (well, at least most of them), go play Zombie Smashers X2. I think the URL is http://zsx2.totallyscrewed.net/... if not, just search for it. Its a side-scrolling brawler similar to Final Fight. It has ninjas, zombies, vampires, pirates, nazis, mummies, demons, government agents, robots, zombie pirates, vampire nazis, vampire nazi robots, etc. Awesome game, its so cliche its actually unique.
But without the 'wasteful' sorts pushing high power computing in 1980, would you have ever been able to buy your cheap boxes in 2005? Similarly, if nobody invests in cheaper ways of reaching orbit, there will never be a cheaper way of reaching orbit. That the early methods will not be as good as the later methods is irrelevant.
Perhaps I need to become a Prophet of Global Warming...
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A lot of people I knew who were Mac zealots in the early 90s jumped to Windows between 1995 and 1997 because, even with the frequently crappy Windows 95 (B was alright, mostly), the software and hardware were leagues ahead of anything the Mac could offer. This is around the same time that Apple was consistently shooting itself, between cripply PowerPCs, mediocre OS releases, Appletalk, the Newton (ugh), and finally the weak G3 launch. I think they were actually near or at bankruptcy for a while in there. Prior to that point (say 1990-1994), the situation was exactly the opposite, and software and hardware were leagues ahead on the Mac side.
Most of those people, myself included, never went back and don't deal with Macs now. As 9X problems got worse in the late 90s, people ended up leaving for NT (which was getting multimedia service packs around the same time) or Linux (which was just starting to get usable). I went to NT, then 2000, which I love (and still use). I see nothing that appeals to me on the Mac now.
That said, CALs and 'license servers' make me very angry, even in the small bit I deal with them. If I was a large enterprise, they would probably be enough to drive me to Linux, or at least heavily invest in creating better applications for it, to prepare for a migration.
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Hey, you go and try to find replacement valves for certain 5 year old faucet handles, much less 10 year old ones. Or fridge parts. Cars may be just a bit more standardized with more spare parts, but ALL manufacturers quit supporting products. Geez, why do you think there's a huge secondhand Mac part business?
Granted, I do agree that this seven versions of Vista thing is awful, and more than a bit doomed, but I guess I'll wait and see. I do know I'm not planning on getting it, unless I someday buy hardware that 2000 (or XP if I must) won't support.
Er, isn't that everywhere already anyway? Virginia Tech (not the sharpest place, granted, but generally alright) used social security numbers as student IDs for many years. And your student ID was printed everywhere, even on dining receipts. Nobody ever seemed to put the two together until about two years ago. I remember identifying my roommates before the school year started by matching their social security numbers, since the 'student ids' were frequently the only matching column in various published university record sets.
Get Skies of Arcadia, if you've got a Dreamcast or Gamecube (I assume its a faithful port). Its just about the best RPG ever made. Grandia 2 is pretty good too (DC and PS2), and lately I've been playing Stella Deus (PS2), which is more of a turn based combat-oriented game with a loose plot (so far, maybe it gets better) to hold it together. The combat is good though, and the graphics are wonderful (old style hand-drawn look). If you like turn based tactical games, I would really recommend Gladius (PS2 and Xbox), its quite good, has nifty 'swing meters' on moves to make combat performance a bit more interactive, and can be played with multiple players (controlling different party members).
I thought Deus Ex had pretty realistic gun control, at least early in the game. Pistols were only really useful at all at very close range, and usually only when standing still or walking slowly. Machine guns went everywhere, and the sniper rifle was difficult to hold steady. Of course, this all went away as you progressed through the game, as the main character became increasingly skilled with weapons (to the point of perfection, like most games).
I dunno... I used to know someone whose cat reveled in hiding in unthinkable places, and where it hid it shat. Every time she found a cat turd hidden away in some clever place, she called it a "prize". So maybe owning a piece of AOL could also be a "prize"?
You can still buy most base model compacts and coupes without power steering (in the sub $12k range). Unfortunately, the manufacturers almost always make you get it if you want to get any other option packages. I always found that manual steering felt much better out on the highway, but I prefer power if I'm stuck in some block-by-block signal mess or need to parallel park. Is there some technical reason why nobody has ever made a car on which power steering can be turned on and off?
The first game I remember using mouse + WASD by default was Terminator: Future shock from Bethesda, which really should be on any innovation list... its about the same age as Quake, but has:
Indoor and massive outdoor environments Ground and air vehicles that can be entered and exited in realtime during levels offhand grenades objective based missions (as opposed to 'find the exit')
The sequel, Skynet, also added excellent multiplayer (LAN only, unfortunately) including usable jeeps and hunter killers. Unfortunately, Bethesda must have lost the Terminator license or something, which is a shame since their Terminator games are as good as their Elder Scrolls games.
Another game that should be mentioned (as opposed to Half-Life) is Sin, which I found to be the far superior game, and had much better multiplayer (especially in terms of mapping genius), but that's an argument for some other time.
Whenever I'm in CompUSA and people are looking at the crap pc clones they sell, I always talk them over to the macs... not that I like macs a lot (I don't), but I like them a lot more than that other junk CompUSA sells. They're one of the more solid computers that can be picked up at a retail shop.
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There's Latin on the SAT? The only remotely Latin word I remember was 'effluvium' (spelling may be wrong), which I remembered as a level in Hexen (and this is likely why I still remember it).
Yea, I too miss the good old days, when life was simple, and brains flew through space, and everybody ate lasers...
Well, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was awesome... but the one game I want remade from Epic is Tyrian... that was simply the best scrolly schooter ever made. I've been extremely dissapointed with Epic these last few years, since all they do now is shinier 3d engines and redundant (albeit very well done) FPS games.
Yar, I always forget that I need to use formatting for carriage returns here...
Some good PS2 games:
Rez
R-Type Final
Gradius V
Silpheed
Neo Contra
Front Mission 4
Gungrave: Overdose
Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner
Some good PS2 games: Rez R-Type Final Gradius V Silpheed Neo Contra Front Mission 4 Gungrave: Overdose Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner
Well, those days were all 7s, and July is a 7... so I guess there could be a 7s thing going on, although there should have been an attack on 7-14 then too.
MSN is such a horrible and rudimentary social engineering voodoo bullshit fest that most people go out of their way to avoid it.
Of course people still go to Google.
If you asked me what the "blogosphere" or "podcasting" were I'd probably kick you. The "regular folks" are fortunate indeed if they are ignorant of those damnable buzzwords.
I didn't curse for years, until one day I realized that if I didn't use vulgar words to describe vulgar things, I was lying. I value honesty a bit more than politesse, so I curse a bit now, but not much, as I tend to avoid vulgar things.
Er, this is new? I've found Yahoo to be blatantly evil since the late 90s, and I go out of my way to never visit their site. They've done nothing but hemorrhage ads, spam, and crap over the net since they began (and they've spewed plenty of ads into other media as well). I've never understood how a company that does nothing but promote misery stays afloat, much less profits.
If you want a stupendously great merging of every trite, overused stereotype ever (well, at least most of them), go play Zombie Smashers X2. I think the URL is http://zsx2.totallyscrewed.net/... if not, just search for it. Its a side-scrolling brawler similar to Final Fight. It has ninjas, zombies, vampires, pirates, nazis, mummies, demons, government agents, robots, zombie pirates, vampire nazis, vampire nazi robots, etc. Awesome game, its so cliche its actually unique.
Shiver me timbers and shave me parrot! Ye should keep yer hopes high for 'Indiana Jones and the Terminators of the Carribean'! Arrrr!
But without the 'wasteful' sorts pushing high power computing in 1980, would you have ever been able to buy your cheap boxes in 2005? Similarly, if nobody invests in cheaper ways of reaching orbit, there will never be a cheaper way of reaching orbit. That the early methods will not be as good as the later methods is irrelevant.
Perhaps I need to become a Prophet of Global Warming...
A lot of people I knew who were Mac zealots in the early 90s jumped to Windows between 1995 and 1997 because, even with the frequently crappy Windows 95 (B was alright, mostly), the software and hardware were leagues ahead of anything the Mac could offer. This is around the same time that Apple was consistently shooting itself, between cripply PowerPCs, mediocre OS releases, Appletalk, the Newton (ugh), and finally the weak G3 launch. I think they were actually near or at bankruptcy for a while in there. Prior to that point (say 1990-1994), the situation was exactly the opposite, and software and hardware were leagues ahead on the Mac side.
Most of those people, myself included, never went back and don't deal with Macs now. As 9X problems got worse in the late 90s, people ended up leaving for NT (which was getting multimedia service packs around the same time) or Linux (which was just starting to get usable). I went to NT, then 2000, which I love (and still use). I see nothing that appeals to me on the Mac now.
That said, CALs and 'license servers' make me very angry, even in the small bit I deal with them. If I was a large enterprise, they would probably be enough to drive me to Linux, or at least heavily invest in creating better applications for it, to prepare for a migration.
Hey, you go and try to find replacement valves for certain 5 year old faucet handles, much less 10 year old ones. Or fridge parts. Cars may be just a bit more standardized with more spare parts, but ALL manufacturers quit supporting products. Geez, why do you think there's a huge secondhand Mac part business? Granted, I do agree that this seven versions of Vista thing is awful, and more than a bit doomed, but I guess I'll wait and see. I do know I'm not planning on getting it, unless I someday buy hardware that 2000 (or XP if I must) won't support.
Er, isn't that everywhere already anyway? Virginia Tech (not the sharpest place, granted, but generally alright) used social security numbers as student IDs for many years. And your student ID was printed everywhere, even on dining receipts. Nobody ever seemed to put the two together until about two years ago. I remember identifying my roommates before the school year started by matching their social security numbers, since the 'student ids' were frequently the only matching column in various published university record sets.
Get Skies of Arcadia, if you've got a Dreamcast or Gamecube (I assume its a faithful port). Its just about the best RPG ever made. Grandia 2 is pretty good too (DC and PS2), and lately I've been playing Stella Deus (PS2), which is more of a turn based combat-oriented game with a loose plot (so far, maybe it gets better) to hold it together. The combat is good though, and the graphics are wonderful (old style hand-drawn look). If you like turn based tactical games, I would really recommend Gladius (PS2 and Xbox), its quite good, has nifty 'swing meters' on moves to make combat performance a bit more interactive, and can be played with multiple players (controlling different party members).
I thought Deus Ex had pretty realistic gun control, at least early in the game. Pistols were only really useful at all at very close range, and usually only when standing still or walking slowly. Machine guns went everywhere, and the sniper rifle was difficult to hold steady. Of course, this all went away as you progressed through the game, as the main character became increasingly skilled with weapons (to the point of perfection, like most games).
I dunno... I used to know someone whose cat reveled in hiding in unthinkable places, and where it hid it shat. Every time she found a cat turd hidden away in some clever place, she called it a "prize". So maybe owning a piece of AOL could also be a "prize"?
You can still buy most base model compacts and coupes without power steering (in the sub $12k range). Unfortunately, the manufacturers almost always make you get it if you want to get any other option packages. I always found that manual steering felt much better out on the highway, but I prefer power if I'm stuck in some block-by-block signal mess or need to parallel park. Is there some technical reason why nobody has ever made a car on which power steering can be turned on and off?
I thought that was an Outpost.com ad? But yea, that was the best (and possibly only good) ad ever.
Twins in an acid bath?
I dunno, I never heard that in any ad.
The first game I remember using mouse + WASD by default was Terminator: Future shock from Bethesda, which really should be on any innovation list... its about the same age as Quake, but has:
Indoor and massive outdoor environments
Ground and air vehicles that can be entered and exited in realtime during levels
offhand grenades
objective based missions (as opposed to 'find the exit')
The sequel, Skynet, also added excellent multiplayer (LAN only, unfortunately) including usable jeeps and hunter killers. Unfortunately, Bethesda must have lost the Terminator license or something, which is a shame since their Terminator games are as good as their Elder Scrolls games.
Another game that should be mentioned (as opposed to Half-Life) is Sin, which I found to be the far superior game, and had much better multiplayer (especially in terms of mapping genius), but that's an argument for some other time.
Whenever I'm in CompUSA and people are looking at the crap pc clones they sell, I always talk them over to the macs... not that I like macs a lot (I don't), but I like them a lot more than that other junk CompUSA sells. They're one of the more solid computers that can be picked up at a retail shop.