Audio is an important part of any real-time game. Gamers need the ability to hear detail, direction, and distance of sounds so they know what's going on. Playing an FPS against someone with no audio is extremely easy, because it makes it harder for them to notice engine sounds and gunfire (silencers were invented for a reason), and of course they can't hear your footsteps. In an RTS, you will miss out on the numerous audio indicators like unit sounds, construction finishing sounds, and alarms.
And, of course, explosions. If you don't have good bass, they're kind of dissapointing.
Yes! I actually just got my SR-80s in the mail the other day, and they are awesome. Probably the most comfortable headphones I have ever worn, and they sound great. Grado FTW.
Yes. It has probably been slowed by gravity from various objects, and if they're lucky, they might be moving at a small relative velocity to thier impact site due to orbit directions and such.
My dad uses some mobos like this for our Myth setup, with 1GHz processors and hardware mpeg decoding. They've got fans but they run really quiet, especially without harddrives. He had another fanless 600MHz one, but it was too slow to use as a Myth client. These faster ones will be great for the same purpose.
Digg is slowly getting better, but it's not quite there yet. Their new comment and moderation system has really helped them, but it's at a level so far below Slashdot's that it almost of made them more pathetic. Until they have a good moderation and comment threading system and the article submitters start typing full sentences, they won't be my primary news source.
No feature-comparable version of Linux runs on a 486 (particulary a 486 as it would have existed ca. 1994). No KDE, no GNOME, no Firefox - at least not at any sort of acceptable performance level.
But you would be able to run XFCE and a lightweight web browser. Under Windows you'd have to use 95 and a very old version of Explorer.
Linux doesn't offer anything over DOS...
Quoted for hilarity. You've obviously never used a Linux command line.
Could this be a way to block RFID signals? Wear clothes or a sticker made of this stuff over an embedded tag and people only see the signal when you press a button.
amaroK is so much better. It's got so many more features, like automated lyric search and cover management. It's even skinnable and extendible, and can connect to kde-apps.org to find new scripts.
To my knowledge, eyeToy games recognize the hand, which has a distinct shape
Nope, just motion. I played a kung-fu game with an Eye Toy once; little guys jumped at you on the screen and you waved your arms to knock them away. Toy lightsabers, chairs, my head, and anything I could move would hit them. I stuck my thumb right in front of the camera and wiggled it and I hit everything on the screen.
I played emulated N64 games on a computer that had lower specs than a Mac Mini. The PSX was less powerful than the N64, so I'm sure it would run pretty nice too. And remember that SNES, Genesis, NES, or even older games are still options.
Are you seriously comparing NES, SNES, N64 and PSX games to the Xbox 360, let alone original Xbox games?
What's wrong with that? They're all games.
I have 40 or so PSX games and to go back and give them a shot is such a serious backwards step that you laugh for about five minutes and then switch it off.
So sell them to someone who will play them, instead of letting them collect dust.
Anyways, if he was "old school" like he mentioned, I'm sure he could enjoy some good emulated games.
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Audio is an important part of any real-time game. Gamers need the ability to hear detail, direction, and distance of sounds so they know what's going on. Playing an FPS against someone with no audio is extremely easy, because it makes it harder for them to notice engine sounds and gunfire (silencers were invented for a reason), and of course they can't hear your footsteps. In an RTS, you will miss out on the numerous audio indicators like unit sounds, construction finishing sounds, and alarms.
And, of course, explosions. If you don't have good bass, they're kind of dissapointing.
Yes! I actually just got my SR-80s in the mail the other day, and they are awesome. Probably the most comfortable headphones I have ever worn, and they sound great. Grado FTW.
Yes. It has probably been slowed by gravity from various objects, and if they're lucky, they might be moving at a small relative velocity to thier impact site due to orbit directions and such.
That only happens when TV cameras are around. If they aren't there you just get run over and shot, no matter how many people are standing in the way.
Easy Ubuntu supports PPC, and is safer to use than Automatix.
My dad uses some mobos like this for our Myth setup, with 1GHz processors and hardware mpeg decoding. They've got fans but they run really quiet, especially without harddrives. He had another fanless 600MHz one, but it was too slow to use as a Myth client. These faster ones will be great for the same purpose.
Average users won't know the difference.
Of course, they wouldn't know the difference even if you didn't skin it.
$30 USD, brand new. A few older puzzle games are already selling at around $5 though.
Absolute positioning placed thier search bar and logo inside of Google's top frame. It's unuseable :D
You can't download IE, you have to buy it with Windows.
No, that's so the cashier system can add the correct amount to your bill. You might be surprised to learn that most other products use bar codes, too.
Digg is slowly getting better, but it's not quite there yet. Their new comment and moderation system has really helped them, but it's at a level so far below Slashdot's that it almost of made them more pathetic. Until they have a good moderation and comment threading system and the article submitters start typing full sentences, they won't be my primary news source.
I think the only bad thing about T2TV was that you couldn't look at everything at once.
And the only thing better than T2TV was playing in the game.
http://slashdot.org/faq/accounts.shtml#ac100
Anyone else find it funny that's the only question in the FAQ answered by "Samzenpus"?
Could this be a way to block RFID signals? Wear clothes or a sticker made of this stuff over an embedded tag and people only see the signal when you press a button.
JuK? Wow, you're really missing out.
amaroK is so much better. It's got so many more features, like automated lyric search and cover management. It's even skinnable and extendible, and can connect to kde-apps.org to find new scripts.
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There was no Gentoo 2005.9.9a, it just went up to 2005.1
And this is a step foreward for Gentoo, they've never had a graphical installer before.
Nope, just motion. I played a kung-fu game with an Eye Toy once; little guys jumped at you on the screen and you waved your arms to knock them away. Toy lightsabers, chairs, my head, and anything I could move would hit them. I stuck my thumb right in front of the camera and wiggled it and I hit everything on the screen.
Because of the way the CD filesystem works, you'll waste about 13 megabytes of space.
I played emulated N64 games on a computer that had lower specs than a Mac Mini. The PSX was less powerful than the N64, so I'm sure it would run pretty nice too. And remember that SNES, Genesis, NES, or even older games are still options.
What's wrong with that? They're all games.
So sell them to someone who will play them, instead of letting them collect dust.
Anyways, if he was "old school" like he mentioned, I'm sure he could enjoy some good emulated games.