I just replaced my seven year old tires about two weeks ago... granted, three of them were worn down to the wire underlay. They had gotten just a bit too unsafe for my liking.
Argh, I drove to DC once by accident (missed an exit on I95) and it was the single worst thing that I've ever done... I finally got where I was going, but 4 hours late. I hope never to return there.
Quake 3 will run fairly well at 640x480 on a Pentium 1 233 with a Voodoo card in it... but good luck getting it to work with the awful pci video card they used in those tests...
Hmm, I quit using macs around 94, but I remember there being several hundred viruses even at that point... though I doubt most of them would work on OS-X these days.
Not to take any sides here, but wouldn't the cloned animal (or person) not possess the same soul? I mean, its just replicated meat, when that clone matures its brain and soul are just a blank slate, free to become whatever they will.
Even if the clone were raised in exactly the same manner and force-fed exactly the same information as the original, chance says that they won't be the same as the original...
However, I will say that if being cloned suddenly yanks one's soul from the afterlife and back into reality, then I'm signing up!
is definitely those talking "Hulk Hands" things... Its incredibly fun to grab a pair of them in WalMart and then try to pick up whatever things you came to WalMart to get with the clumsy gloves, which are incessantly screaming "HULK SMASH!"...
Its even more fun if you get a few people and do it!
I bought an IPOD last year to replace my ancient Rio 500, and I actually think its an all around worse unit, except for the storage capacity. I mean, the old Rio ran for 12 hours on a rechargeable AA, had push buttons that required a bit of force to operate, and had really intuitive controls. Thus, it could actually be operated even inside of a coat pocket without having to unlock the controls, take it out, look like a dork spinning my finger around on its ridiculous touch sensitive wheel, etc...
I have difficulty imagining that the IPOD was designed as a portable music player at all. Of course, it works wonders hooked up to the line-in in my car, where it can be operated in plain sight and doesn't have other things touching it, so I guess I can't complain there. Its likely the best thing in my car.
How long until someone makes a good hard-drive based player using Rio style controls?
Also, those old Rios were practically indestructable and were easily waterproofed with a bit of shoe-repair gel.
The awesome thing about the Newton was its hilariously bad handwriting recognition... The first one I messed with actually interpreted "Newton" as "Neutered", which was, of course, excellent. Never messed around with one much after that.
I was mainly complaining about video... I don't know anyone who uses WMP for audio, since mplayer2 doesn't have playlists or a file browser, and the WMP 8-9-10 interfaces are bloated monstrosities that take up the whole screen.
I hope that if MS ends up having to remove the big flashy WMP 9, they actually leave mplayer2 sitting around like it is now, with no file extensions bound to it, so people can use it if they want to.
Winamp or an old (say 3.0 or so) musicmatch are better music players any day. Its a shame what's happened to musicmatch lately too... suddenly it takes forever to load, has a web browser, marketing crap, etc... back before the company dealt with the OEMs they actually made good software.
Why is it that everytime people decide to attack Windows Media Player they always wave around Real Media as some sort of championed alternative?
Its one of the worst pieces of software I've ever seen in my life, its ugly encoding, and its almost impossible to convert...
At least WMP (using the old mplayer2) is compact, quick, and doesn't crash things.
While I wouldn't mind seeing Quicktime preinstalled if Apple would drop the "buy now" crap from it and make it full screen, having Real preinstalled would just make life ugly... one more reason to need to format every OEM PC out of the box.
Forget EA... when was the last time they made aything worthwhile... a shame they're picking on Ubi though. Ubi actually does a good game now and then.
I've mainly been playing shareware stuff lately. Granted I like twitch shooters, and usually only play them in quick bouts when I'm away from home.
A few things I'd highly recommend:
1. Alien Shooter (and its expansions) - Sigma Team's Alien shooter is simply the best thing ever!
2. rRootage - an awesome freeware shooter which randomly generates Ikaruga-style boss enemies of increasing difficulty and madness. I can't remember the site, but its made by Kenta Cho, and should be findable on Google. Kenta Cho has some other really cool games, but rRootage is my favorite.
3. Demonstar Secret Missions 1 and 2 - great pseudo-retro shooters from Mountain King studios. Excellent games on their hardest difficulties. Really good mouse control too.
4. Atomaders, After the End - two great games from Kraisoft... one is a souped-up space invaders, the other is a different take on the SmashTV style gameplay of Alien Shooter. Atomaders' graphics are a bit nastily compressed, but its still entertaining.
5. Wik and the Fable of Souls - A really cool platformer from Reflexive. Sort of a cross between lode runner and the old NES Bionic Commando.
6. Ultra Assault - A shooter from Small Rockets, which is absolutely gorgeous to look at, but I find not-too-playable since it has no mouse support, and I haven't got a decent PC gamepad around at the moment... it does make me sort of want one though.
Anyway, I'm personally happy that the shareware market is picking up again to make arcade games, since the mass game market seems to no longer care for them. Granted, I don't mind a big-budget cinematic display of gaming excess if its well done, but so few are, and I really just like old shooters, and fighting games and whatnot... cloned FPSs and console-style RPGs don't really appeal to me at all.
I've been waiting for someone to make a good centipede for Windows, and its never happened. I once had a Mac IIsi, and loved Apeiron (Ambrosia Software), but they never made a Win port of it (or any of their older titles), and nobody else has ever made aything close.
I also wish someone would make a proper sequel to Tyrian (not a lame re-release like Tyrian 2000), but seeing as how XSIV squandered all of their cash and effort making a failed GBA port, I suppose that will never happen. And all Epic's interested in these days is Unreal (bleh).
And one last, off topic, thing: The Aleph-One engine (for Marathon 2) can now run Mac data files on Windows, which means that Marathon Infinity is now playable under Windows... which is awesome.
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Contra is easy... try Mars Matrix (dreamcast).
Wouldn't that be "winword.exe"?
Sony boosts quality of products?!
Tandbergs rock! Expensive, though.
the National Ray-Gun Association?
Yea, I've been carrying my X20 around in a ziploc freezer bag for four years now, it works great.
I just replaced my seven year old tires about two weeks ago... granted, three of them were worn down to the wire underlay. They had gotten just a bit too unsafe for my liking.
The day that happens, I would actually consider buying a cell-phone.
I don't particularly think MS is behind that stuff... look towards the antivirus vendors, and especially Yahoo (amongst the most evil of corporates).
Argh, I drove to DC once by accident (missed an exit on I95) and it was the single worst thing that I've ever done... I finally got where I was going, but 4 hours late. I hope never to return there.
Quake 3 will run fairly well at 640x480 on a Pentium 1 233 with a Voodoo card in it... but good luck getting it to work with the awful pci video card they used in those tests...
Hmm, I quit using macs around 94, but I remember there being several hundred viruses even at that point... though I doubt most of them would work on OS-X these days.
Not to take any sides here, but wouldn't the cloned animal (or person) not possess the same soul? I mean, its just replicated meat, when that clone matures its brain and soul are just a blank slate, free to become whatever they will. Even if the clone were raised in exactly the same manner and force-fed exactly the same information as the original, chance says that they won't be the same as the original... However, I will say that if being cloned suddenly yanks one's soul from the afterlife and back into reality, then I'm signing up!
is definitely those talking "Hulk Hands" things... Its incredibly fun to grab a pair of them in WalMart and then try to pick up whatever things you came to WalMart to get with the clumsy gloves, which are incessantly screaming "HULK SMASH!"...
Its even more fun if you get a few people and do it!
Capsela is awesome, I've got the programmable motor controller for it around the house somewhere
What?! The 80s were the best decade ever!
I bought an IPOD last year to replace my ancient Rio 500, and I actually think its an all around worse unit, except for the storage capacity. I mean, the old Rio ran for 12 hours on a rechargeable AA, had push buttons that required a bit of force to operate, and had really intuitive controls. Thus, it could actually be operated even inside of a coat pocket without having to unlock the controls, take it out, look like a dork spinning my finger around on its ridiculous touch sensitive wheel, etc...
I have difficulty imagining that the IPOD was designed as a portable music player at all. Of course, it works wonders hooked up to the line-in in my car, where it can be operated in plain sight and doesn't have other things touching it, so I guess I can't complain there. Its likely the best thing in my car.
How long until someone makes a good hard-drive based player using Rio style controls?
Also, those old Rios were practically indestructable and were easily waterproofed with a bit of shoe-repair gel.
The awesome thing about the Newton was its hilariously bad handwriting recognition... The first one I messed with actually interpreted "Newton" as "Neutered", which was, of course, excellent. Never messed around with one much after that.
I just want an unstoppable cell-phone virus that permanently disables ringing... then I could cope with the things being about.
I was mainly complaining about video... I don't know anyone who uses WMP for audio, since mplayer2 doesn't have playlists or a file browser, and the WMP 8-9-10 interfaces are bloated monstrosities that take up the whole screen.
I hope that if MS ends up having to remove the big flashy WMP 9, they actually leave mplayer2 sitting around like it is now, with no file extensions bound to it, so people can use it if they want to.
Winamp or an old (say 3.0 or so) musicmatch are better music players any day. Its a shame what's happened to musicmatch lately too... suddenly it takes forever to load, has a web browser, marketing crap, etc... back before the company dealt with the OEMs they actually made good software.
Why is it that everytime people decide to attack Windows Media Player they always wave around Real Media as some sort of championed alternative?
Its one of the worst pieces of software I've ever seen in my life, its ugly encoding, and its almost impossible to convert...
At least WMP (using the old mplayer2) is compact, quick, and doesn't crash things.
While I wouldn't mind seeing Quicktime preinstalled if Apple would drop the "buy now" crap from it and make it full screen, having Real preinstalled would just make life ugly... one more reason to need to format every OEM PC out of the box.
Hmmm, I guess I should have used some HTML tags in that and previewed it first.
It's all one giant hemorrhage of text now...
What's this about a newer enhanced version?
Forget EA... when was the last time they made aything worthwhile... a shame they're picking on Ubi though. Ubi actually does a good game now and then. I've mainly been playing shareware stuff lately. Granted I like twitch shooters, and usually only play them in quick bouts when I'm away from home. A few things I'd highly recommend: 1. Alien Shooter (and its expansions) - Sigma Team's Alien shooter is simply the best thing ever! 2. rRootage - an awesome freeware shooter which randomly generates Ikaruga-style boss enemies of increasing difficulty and madness. I can't remember the site, but its made by Kenta Cho, and should be findable on Google. Kenta Cho has some other really cool games, but rRootage is my favorite. 3. Demonstar Secret Missions 1 and 2 - great pseudo-retro shooters from Mountain King studios. Excellent games on their hardest difficulties. Really good mouse control too. 4. Atomaders, After the End - two great games from Kraisoft... one is a souped-up space invaders, the other is a different take on the SmashTV style gameplay of Alien Shooter. Atomaders' graphics are a bit nastily compressed, but its still entertaining. 5. Wik and the Fable of Souls - A really cool platformer from Reflexive. Sort of a cross between lode runner and the old NES Bionic Commando. 6. Ultra Assault - A shooter from Small Rockets, which is absolutely gorgeous to look at, but I find not-too-playable since it has no mouse support, and I haven't got a decent PC gamepad around at the moment... it does make me sort of want one though. Anyway, I'm personally happy that the shareware market is picking up again to make arcade games, since the mass game market seems to no longer care for them. Granted, I don't mind a big-budget cinematic display of gaming excess if its well done, but so few are, and I really just like old shooters, and fighting games and whatnot... cloned FPSs and console-style RPGs don't really appeal to me at all. I've been waiting for someone to make a good centipede for Windows, and its never happened. I once had a Mac IIsi, and loved Apeiron (Ambrosia Software), but they never made a Win port of it (or any of their older titles), and nobody else has ever made aything close. I also wish someone would make a proper sequel to Tyrian (not a lame re-release like Tyrian 2000), but seeing as how XSIV squandered all of their cash and effort making a failed GBA port, I suppose that will never happen. And all Epic's interested in these days is Unreal (bleh). And one last, off topic, thing: The Aleph-One engine (for Marathon 2) can now run Mac data files on Windows, which means that Marathon Infinity is now playable under Windows... which is awesome.