Ah yes. Happy times. My first computer, given to me by my brother on my 7th birthday with a whole boxfull of games. Many happy memories of Quest, Kriegspiel, Crystal Castles, El Bandito and Space Wrek. I've still got it in my attic, although I've no idea if it still works. Might be time to dig it out and have a look.
Ah yes. Happy times. My first computer, given to me by my brother on my 7th birthday with a whole boxfull of games. Many happy memories of Quest, Kriegspiel, Crystal Castles and El Bandito. I've still got it in my attic, although I've no idea if it still works. Might be time to dig it out and have a look.
Since the method used by the detector vans to tell if you have a TV is to detect the output from a CRT (be it a tv or Pc's monitor) an easy solution would be to buy either a TFT or plasma screen then they can't detect anything coming from your house. I have qualms with paying the BBC any money for the right to watch TV as I dont watch BBC channels and since I pay a subscription to SKY each month I'm not using BBC equipment to recive the programmes I do watch. The whole TV licence thing is nothing more than a throwback to the days when the BBC was the only tv provider and in my opinion they havn't given us anything remotly worth watching in the past 5 years that would justify me paying them £100+ a year.
It had a supporting cast of Zelda, Link, Megaman, Simon Bellmont, Kid Icarus and a giant floating talking Gameboy. It was basicly a marketing medium for Nintendo products. Each episode featured bit parts from various characters from Nintendo games. I seem to remember the idea of the show was that Mother Brain, Egg Plant Wizard, Doctor Wiley and some boxer guy called King Hippo(from Punch Out I think) were trying to steal the Power Glove from the Palace of Power & Captain N some guy who got pulled through his TV screen with his dog Poltergeist style when playing a Nintendo game (let this be a warning to you, games are bad for your health) had to defend it using his Nintendo light gun and gaem pad that he could use to pause things.
Just how stable is this system? I for one wouldnt like it to freeze up when going 70 down a motorway. Gives new meaning to the phrase Blue Screen of Death.
Ahhh that takes me back, Life Force the first game that I actually bought with my own money (I seem to remember it was about £30 which was a lot of money for a 9 year old). Cracking two player shoot-em-up action that I played over and over again. They tried remaking it on ther GBA but it just wasn't the same.
Woooo! Didn't see that one coming. Seriously that thing was dead in the water before it was even launched. Someone put a bullet in it and put it out of its misery.
So when someone zombies your machine then uses it to send 1000's of spam mails for "Penis 'B' Big" to 10 year olds, that are then traced back to your machine and the 'powers that be' come and lock you away for 40 years,,,,,you'll be fine with that yeah?
The people selling the films cant make as much money off them anymore. DVD writers have become too cheap, a DVD writer can be had for $25 these days and DVD-R/+R discs are cheaper than ever. A new medium for distributing media is attractive to the larger companies because there is no (mass market, lit:cheap)way of copying the discs at the moment (yes I know they could be down sized onto a regular DVD at a lower resolution, but isn't that kind of missing the point)
That thing with the DVD add on for the Xbox really pissed me off. the fact that the console was completly capable of playing dvd's but you couldn't do it until you'd forked out more money on top of the £340 that you'd already handed over to be able to do it. Sure you got a remote control but they could at least have included an option to use the joypad like Sony did. However Microsoft isn't the first company to do something like this, car companies have been doing it for years. Alfa Romeo offered an upgrade option for its cars to fit heated leather seats, the customers who didn't pay the extra for option still got leather seats with the heating elements installed they just didn't get the switch to turn them on.
Yes it is, and if he paid 8.5k for two of these he's been ripped off
auta5p.car.cz/katalog/rover/rover_111_01.jpg
Seriously though, for that price I'd want something that was on par with HAL9000 and could make a decent cup of coffee.
This is old tech. Olympus produced something that was not too much bigger than this years ago called the Eye-trek http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/news/2001b/image/nr011 010fmd220e_03.jpg These came with two screens that claimed a screen size of 52" viewed at 6ft and could be bought in a range of flavours capable of various resolutions up to 800x600 SVGA. They were powered by camcorder batteries and it was also possible to get an RF connector for them. They came with warnings about the fact that they would mess up your hand-eye coordination and balance if used for extended periods of time and as such should not be used by anyone under the age of 16 unless they wanted to go blind in the longterm. After being used for 2 hours or more they switched themseveles off forcing you to take a break. And yes I was one of the 5 people in the world who forked out £300 for a pair. Olympus dont make them anymore but they can still be found on ebay. I'd be willing to sell mine but I've gone blind and cant find them.
Arrgghhh, those fools! their going to rip a hole in the fabric of space time all for the sake of video conferencing. iMac now avalible with Quantum physics;)
The US army cant even give all of its troops flak jackets so I doubt very much if we'll see platoons of exoskelton augmented troopers storming whichever middle-eastern country Bush decides to "liberate" next.
This wont bother me, I've never been able to use the earbud style headphones due to the fact that they dont fit properly in my ears. When I have used them they fall out within a few minutes and on the odd times that I've managed to get them to stay in they start to hurt my ears after a short while. Personally I prefer my Sony ones that hook over the back of my ears.
In the kingdom of the deaf the man who used over the ear headphones is king:)
I'm just waiting for the moment when they all find out they've been had and attack Jonnie Vaughn beating him into a coma with their helmets. Seriously due to the selection process they used they've not ended up with a group of contestants that could be said to be wired up correctly have they? I can see one or more of them suffering a psychotic break when they find out that they've been the laughing stock of a nation for the past 10 days. They'll probably end up suing the BBC for emotional distress afterwards.
This is no suprise to me. Looking at some of the kids in the area where I live I've suspected for a long time that they were a few rungs further down the evolutionary ladder than monkeys.
They are similar enough to us that many/most of the same drugs that work on us work on them.
It's true..I came home last night to find that some mice had gotten into my stash and were sat around giggling and eating nachos.
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Ah yes. Happy times. My first computer, given to me by my brother on my 7th birthday with a whole boxfull of games. Many happy memories of Quest, Kriegspiel, Crystal Castles, El Bandito and Space Wrek. I've still got it in my attic, although I've no idea if it still works. Might be time to dig it out and have a look.
Ah yes. Happy times. My first computer, given to me by my brother on my 7th birthday with a whole boxfull of games. Many happy memories of Quest, Kriegspiel, Crystal Castles and El Bandito. I've still got it in my attic, although I've no idea if it still works. Might be time to dig it out and have a look.
Since the method used by the detector vans to tell if you have a TV is to detect the output from a CRT (be it a tv or Pc's monitor) an easy solution would be to buy either a TFT or plasma screen then they can't detect anything coming from your house. I have qualms with paying the BBC any money for the right to watch TV as I dont watch BBC channels and since I pay a subscription to SKY each month I'm not using BBC equipment to recive the programmes I do watch. The whole TV licence thing is nothing more than a throwback to the days when the BBC was the only tv provider and in my opinion they havn't given us anything remotly worth watching in the past 5 years that would justify me paying them £100+ a year.
Nevermind fingerprints, its scraches that Apple has problems with.
It had a supporting cast of Zelda, Link, Megaman, Simon Bellmont, Kid Icarus and a giant floating talking Gameboy. It was basicly a marketing medium for Nintendo products. Each episode featured bit parts from various characters from Nintendo games. I seem to remember the idea of the show was that Mother Brain, Egg Plant Wizard, Doctor Wiley and some boxer guy called King Hippo(from Punch Out I think) were trying to steal the Power Glove from the Palace of Power & Captain N some guy who got pulled through his TV screen with his dog Poltergeist style when playing a Nintendo game (let this be a warning to you, games are bad for your health) had to defend it using his Nintendo light gun and gaem pad that he could use to pause things.
someone to invent a selfcleaning ass to go with this.
Just how stable is this system? I for one wouldnt like it to freeze up when going 70 down a motorway. Gives new meaning to the phrase Blue Screen of Death.
It was released as Gradius Galaxies on the GBA.
Ahhh that takes me back, Life Force the first game that I actually bought with my own money (I seem to remember it was about £30 which was a lot of money for a 9 year old). Cracking two player shoot-em-up action that I played over and over again. They tried remaking it on ther GBA but it just wasn't the same.
Woooo! Didn't see that one coming. Seriously that thing was dead in the water before it was even launched. Someone put a bullet in it and put it out of its misery.
Surely before we get to WWW:TNG there should be WWW:DOS somewhere.
So when someone zombies your machine then uses it to send 1000's of spam mails for "Penis 'B' Big" to 10 year olds, that are then traced back to your machine and the 'powers that be' come and lock you away for 40 years,,,,,you'll be fine with that yeah?
I wonder how many sex offenders work for government.
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In England they all have jobs in the education system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4604490.st
The people selling the films cant make as much money off them anymore. DVD writers have become too cheap, a DVD writer can be had for $25 these days and DVD-R/+R discs are cheaper than ever. A new medium for distributing media is attractive to the larger companies because there is no (mass market, lit:cheap)way of copying the discs at the moment (yes I know they could be down sized onto a regular DVD at a lower resolution, but isn't that kind of missing the point)
That thing with the DVD add on for the Xbox really pissed me off. the fact that the console was completly capable of playing dvd's but you couldn't do it until you'd forked out more money on top of the £340 that you'd already handed over to be able to do it. Sure you got a remote control but they could at least have included an option to use the joypad like Sony did. However Microsoft isn't the first company to do something like this, car companies have been doing it for years. Alfa Romeo offered an upgrade option for its cars to fit heated leather seats, the customers who didn't pay the extra for option still got leather seats with the heating elements installed they just didn't get the switch to turn them on.
Yes it is, and if he paid 8.5k for two of these he's been ripped off auta5p.car.cz/katalog/rover/rover_111_01.jpg Seriously though, for that price I'd want something that was on par with HAL9000 and could make a decent cup of coffee.
This is old tech. Olympus produced something that was not too much bigger than this years ago called the Eye-trek http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/news/2001b/image/nr011 010fmd220e_03.jpg These came with two screens that claimed a screen size of 52" viewed at 6ft and could be bought in a range of flavours capable of various resolutions up to 800x600 SVGA. They were powered by camcorder batteries and it was also possible to get an RF connector for them. They came with warnings about the fact that they would mess up your hand-eye coordination and balance if used for extended periods of time and as such should not be used by anyone under the age of 16 unless they wanted to go blind in the longterm. After being used for 2 hours or more they switched themseveles off forcing you to take a break. And yes I was one of the 5 people in the world who forked out £300 for a pair. Olympus dont make them anymore but they can still be found on ebay. I'd be willing to sell mine but I've gone blind and cant find them.
Arrgghhh, those fools! their going to rip a hole in the fabric of space time all for the sake of video conferencing. iMac now avalible with Quantum physics ;)
The US army cant even give all of its troops flak jackets so I doubt very much if we'll see platoons of exoskelton augmented troopers storming whichever middle-eastern country Bush decides to "liberate" next.
This wont bother me, I've never been able to use the earbud style headphones due to the fact that they dont fit properly in my ears. When I have used them they fall out within a few minutes and on the odd times that I've managed to get them to stay in they start to hurt my ears after a short while. Personally I prefer my Sony ones that hook over the back of my ears.
:)
In the kingdom of the deaf the man who used over the ear headphones is king
Damn it. My mistake, I meant Channel 4. Apologies, I must have missed a cup of coffe today.
I'm just waiting for the moment when they all find out they've been had and attack Jonnie Vaughn beating him into a coma with their helmets. Seriously due to the selection process they used they've not ended up with a group of contestants that could be said to be wired up correctly have they? I can see one or more of them suffering a psychotic break when they find out that they've been the laughing stock of a nation for the past 10 days. They'll probably end up suing the BBC for emotional distress afterwards.
This is no suprise to me. Looking at some of the kids in the area where I live I've suspected for a long time that they were a few rungs further down the evolutionary ladder than monkeys.
They are similar enough to us that many/most of the same drugs that work on us work on them. It's true..I came home last night to find that some mice had gotten into my stash and were sat around giggling and eating nachos.
Nope, thats just because you've not got the right codecs installed for the file to be played.