Didn't Tengen make working unlicensed NES games? I don't recall any of their stuff ever having Nintendo's seal on it, and their packaging was very different too.
What magazine was that in? And what other unnecessary links to Live are they planning? It was nice as an option, but I'm gonna be a bit irked if everything suddenly requires it.
I just played through Thief on the Xbox in about a week and loved it. Didn't see a single bug anywhere in the game, and saved/reloaded everytime I quit/resumed and quite a bit from dying or being discovered when I couldn't cope with it.
Never had a single glitch. I wouldn't know about the difficulty level problem, since I never adjusted it, but I never had a single case of a puzzle breaking or the state of anything in the game changing. My only gripe would be that the load times are sorta evil.
Why are people talking about it having glitches? Is it possible that there is more than one version of the disc printed?
Er, how would rotating to find a nested folder work if each of your folders contained multiple folders, each of which contained multiple folders, each of which contained... ? I could see that working if I had a folder containing a single folder, containing a single folder, containing..., but not for any other case. The problem with 3D displays of any sort of data, in which the individual data points must be distinct, is that the data needs a fixed number of dimensions. Folders don't guarantee that.
Yea, I don't see why I should want an OS that performs arbitrary actions just because I moved a cursor to a screen corner. That would drive me mad. Also, how would it work for people who have their cursor wrap around the screen?
The really sad part (at least of the moderation system) is that the only time I actually bother to post a truly meaningless rant, it gets modded "informative" and "insightful"... when normally, informative and insightful comments (largely from people who are not me; I rarely get past a single syllable on most things) get ignored. Frankly, if I weren't me I'd have modded myself "troll" or perhaps "offtopic", had I both mod points and the ability to do so.
I don't understand Google's plan on this either... they are introducing an unnecessary middleman (themselves) to the magazine advertising process, and legality aside, wouldn't that cost more to the customer (the company wishing to advertise) in the long run anyway?
Doing its own research would be really neat, but in lieu of that, just stopping the proliferation of stories from Associated Press, Reuters, and their clones (CNN, Yahoo, etc) would be good. Not that discussion on some of the topics from the major medias is bad from time to time (when something significant happens in one), but the major media outlets are repetitive by nature, and Slashdot is getting that way by copying from them. I guess the dupes don't help either, but they're not the root of the problem.
Who is Carl Johnson? The only really memorable game character I've seen in years was Jade from BG&E, although Garrett from the Thief games was a decent character too.
Is everything on Slashdot lately just the stuff that was on Reuters in the morning? I read this hours ago. Yar! I've half a mind to demand that stories copied from big news sites not be accepted, as they are already obvious at other news outlets.
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project was a great example of a 2d game rendered in 3d. Its fairly awesome, though I think sales bombed on it... you can probly find it online for $5.
There is a hole over the arctic, its been known and monitored for at least as long as the antarctic one. The antarctic one gets press since it was fluctuating a lot back in the early 90s, and everyone was pointing the finger at CFC emissions.
No idea why they end up over magnetic poles, unless it just happens to coincide with the lack of vegetation... I don't really know anything about that stuff.
If you want a good stealth game try either of the Deus Ex games or Thief: Deadly Shadows... you can actually do well in any of those even on an all-out assault if you want. Stealth is an option, not a requirement. The Hitman games are OK, but not great, and the Splinter Cell games are awful.
Racing games seem to completely suck with the possible exception of F-Zero, which is actually fairly cool.
The best game I've played lately, though, is definitely Zombie Smashers X2 (http://www.totallyscrewed.net/). That game is absolutely incredible, though it plays best if you've got a PC gamepad of some sort. Jets n' Guns is pretty good too (http://www.rakeingrass.com/).
I've had too many zip archives turn out corrupt over the years, not to mention they are large compared to other compressed formats. Hasn't everyone more or less stopped using zip anyway?
Historically, Apple may not have relied on MS to validate features, but they have relied on external vaidation before adding them to the OS. Most of systems 7.5, 8.x, and 9.x were cobbled together from prior Apple releases and third-party (usually free) components which were already widely used and liked... except that somehow Apple would always make their new OS boot and run slower than the prior OS + free extensions. They really poached off their own shareware/freeware market for a long time, and made increasingly shoddy stuff. I quit using Apple during the 8s since I could get more functionality and versatility from a Windows box at the time, and haven't gone back. As such, I don't know if they've stopped that behavior since OS X or not. I know I had single-click application toolbars that I could customize back in OS 7.0.1 though, and that Windows has had them for years, so what's with this dashboard thing?
Radeon 9200s and 7500s are ancient crap? I guess I should feel pretty bad having a Geforce2 on my XP machine and a 4MB ATI (now that is admittedly a piece of crap) in my laptop running 2000. I dunno though, they seem to do me fine, though I wish I had a bit better in the laptop from time to time. I have to admit that I've been seriously thinking of picking up something like a Radeon 9600 or such to play the second Deus Ex game and a few other things. The actual desktop computer is only about 3 years old, I just never bothered to get a new video card since I gutted the old computer when I put it together.
About 8 years ago, the DIA luggage handler actually bit the corners off my suitcase... took rougly 2" sided pyramids off five corners, cleanly. Fortunately it didn't really damage anything inside, but I thought it was pretty amazing.
I dunno about jetskis, since those things seriously suck, but taking a small sailboat (like a laser) out into the Mobjack Bay during the day before a hurricane (granted, they are weak when they are this far North) or major storm is pretty awesome. For some reason the water stays fairly flat (it swells a lot, but isn't choppy), but the wind is steady and strong. Its just about the best sailing weather there is. Only thing you gotta watch out for is the microbursts that come up sometimes, but there's a fair amount of warning on those and enough time to temporarily scuttle the boat. Being around a bay or river during a storm is neat around here anyway since all the phosphorescent bacteria and algae light up when the real low pressure hits and the bad stuff starts. And good stuff (like arrowheads) washes up on the sandbars after one too.
Wasn't there a web site that let you place calls from a VOIP client to a landline, free, about 4 or 5 years ago? I remember it had a short queue, and showed some ads in the dialer application (presumably to fund the service), but it was a fairly clear signal and sounded fine even with my crummy $20 headset mic rig. I can't remember what it was called though... I saved a ton of long distance money through it in college.
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Didn't Tengen make working unlicensed NES games? I don't recall any of their stuff ever having Nintendo's seal on it, and their packaging was very different too.
Was the comet repelled by launching an even equally large ball of garbage at it?
What magazine was that in? And what other unnecessary links to Live are they planning? It was nice as an option, but I'm gonna be a bit irked if everything suddenly requires it.
I just played through Thief on the Xbox in about a week and loved it. Didn't see a single bug anywhere in the game, and saved/reloaded everytime I quit/resumed and quite a bit from dying or being discovered when I couldn't cope with it.
Never had a single glitch. I wouldn't know about the difficulty level problem, since I never adjusted it, but I never had a single case of a puzzle breaking or the state of anything in the game changing. My only gripe would be that the load times are sorta evil.
Why are people talking about it having glitches? Is it possible that there is more than one version of the disc printed?
Where does one go upon leaving slashdot?
Er, how would rotating to find a nested folder work if each of your folders contained multiple folders, each of which contained multiple folders, each of which contained... ? I could see that working if I had a folder containing a single folder, containing a single folder, containing..., but not for any other case. The problem with 3D displays of any sort of data, in which the individual data points must be distinct, is that the data needs a fixed number of dimensions. Folders don't guarantee that.
Yea, I don't see why I should want an OS that performs arbitrary actions just because I moved a cursor to a screen corner. That would drive me mad. Also, how would it work for people who have their cursor wrap around the screen?
That's actually the most reasonable theory I've ever seen on this... I'd mod ya if I could.
The really sad part (at least of the moderation system) is that the only time I actually bother to post a truly meaningless rant, it gets modded "informative" and "insightful"... when normally, informative and insightful comments (largely from people who are not me; I rarely get past a single syllable on most things) get ignored. Frankly, if I weren't me I'd have modded myself "troll" or perhaps "offtopic", had I both mod points and the ability to do so.
I don't understand Google's plan on this either... they are introducing an unnecessary middleman (themselves) to the magazine advertising process, and legality aside, wouldn't that cost more to the customer (the company wishing to advertise) in the long run anyway?
Doing its own research would be really neat, but in lieu of that, just stopping the proliferation of stories from Associated Press, Reuters, and their clones (CNN, Yahoo, etc) would be good. Not that discussion on some of the topics from the major medias is bad from time to time (when something significant happens in one), but the major media outlets are repetitive by nature, and Slashdot is getting that way by copying from them. I guess the dupes don't help either, but they're not the root of the problem.
Who is Carl Johnson? The only really memorable game character I've seen in years was Jade from BG&E, although Garrett from the Thief games was a decent character too.
Is everything on Slashdot lately just the stuff that was on Reuters in the morning? I read this hours ago. Yar! I've half a mind to demand that stories copied from big news sites not be accepted, as they are already obvious at other news outlets.
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project was a great example of a 2d game rendered in 3d. Its fairly awesome, though I think sales bombed on it... you can probly find it online for $5.
There is a hole over the arctic, its been known and monitored for at least as long as the antarctic one. The antarctic one gets press since it was fluctuating a lot back in the early 90s, and everyone was pointing the finger at CFC emissions.
No idea why they end up over magnetic poles, unless it just happens to coincide with the lack of vegetation... I don't really know anything about that stuff.
If you want a good stealth game try either of the Deus Ex games or Thief: Deadly Shadows... you can actually do well in any of those even on an all-out assault if you want. Stealth is an option, not a requirement. The Hitman games are OK, but not great, and the Splinter Cell games are awful.
Racing games seem to completely suck with the possible exception of F-Zero, which is actually fairly cool.
The best game I've played lately, though, is definitely Zombie Smashers X2 (http://www.totallyscrewed.net/). That game is absolutely incredible, though it plays best if you've got a PC gamepad of some sort. Jets n' Guns is pretty good too (http://www.rakeingrass.com/).
I've had too many zip archives turn out corrupt over the years, not to mention they are large compared to other compressed formats. Hasn't everyone more or less stopped using zip anyway?
I have actually been chased up a tree by an angry sheep.
Now, why I admit this randomly on the internet, I don't know... In any case, those things are mean.
I thought most letters from lawyers were bills?
Historically, Apple may not have relied on MS to validate features, but they have relied on external vaidation before adding them to the OS. Most of systems 7.5, 8.x, and 9.x were cobbled together from prior Apple releases and third-party (usually free) components which were already widely used and liked... except that somehow Apple would always make their new OS boot and run slower than the prior OS + free extensions. They really poached off their own shareware/freeware market for a long time, and made increasingly shoddy stuff. I quit using Apple during the 8s since I could get more functionality and versatility from a Windows box at the time, and haven't gone back. As such, I don't know if they've stopped that behavior since OS X or not. I know I had single-click application toolbars that I could customize back in OS 7.0.1 though, and that Windows has had them for years, so what's with this dashboard thing?
Radeon 9200s and 7500s are ancient crap? I guess I should feel pretty bad having a Geforce2 on my XP machine and a 4MB ATI (now that is admittedly a piece of crap) in my laptop running 2000. I dunno though, they seem to do me fine, though I wish I had a bit better in the laptop from time to time. I have to admit that I've been seriously thinking of picking up something like a Radeon 9600 or such to play the second Deus Ex game and a few other things. The actual desktop computer is only about 3 years old, I just never bothered to get a new video card since I gutted the old computer when I put it together.
About 8 years ago, the DIA luggage handler actually bit the corners off my suitcase... took rougly 2" sided pyramids off five corners, cleanly. Fortunately it didn't really damage anything inside, but I thought it was pretty amazing.
I dunno about jetskis, since those things seriously suck, but taking a small sailboat (like a laser) out into the Mobjack Bay during the day before a hurricane (granted, they are weak when they are this far North) or major storm is pretty awesome. For some reason the water stays fairly flat (it swells a lot, but isn't choppy), but the wind is steady and strong. Its just about the best sailing weather there is. Only thing you gotta watch out for is the microbursts that come up sometimes, but there's a fair amount of warning on those and enough time to temporarily scuttle the boat. Being around a bay or river during a storm is neat around here anyway since all the phosphorescent bacteria and algae light up when the real low pressure hits and the bad stuff starts. And good stuff (like arrowheads) washes up on the sandbars after one too.
Wasn't there a web site that let you place calls from a VOIP client to a landline, free, about 4 or 5 years ago? I remember it had a short queue, and showed some ads in the dialer application (presumably to fund the service), but it was a fairly clear signal and sounded fine even with my crummy $20 headset mic rig. I can't remember what it was called though... I saved a ton of long distance money through it in college.
Most games span one disk. If one gets scratched, you're fucked.
The difference?
Illbleed (a really strange DC game) was exactly this, and is definitely prior art.