The Atari ST shipped with a two-button mouse years before PCs even had mice.
BZZZT, try again. I was using a Mouse Systems mouse on an IBM modem 5150 in 1983 and it had two buttons on it. Atari ST didn't exist in 1983.
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It can be ordered via Amazon, I believe.
I am appalled that the Buckaroo Banzai DVD didn't make it -- it is easily the most feature-packed DVD in my entire collection -- hell, it even has features for Nuon players!!
You must not play first-person shooters, where fine detail (for distance shooting) AND a fast framerate (for twitch-reflex aiming and evading) are both mandatory. Otherwise, the machine quite obviously holds you back and affects your performance.
That being said, there is definitely such a thing as TOO fast. How fast is too fast? Too fast is when your framerate exceeds 1. the refresh rate of your monitor, 2. the refresh rate of your human visual system, or 3. both. Since both top out at 120, anything being 120fps is overkill.
Almost any card can do 120fps if properly adjusted, but 120fps *with quality* gives you an edge.
Whenever I see articles like this, it bothers me a tiny bit since the demoscene has existed for over a decade earlier than machinima has, and the artform is much more interesting and sophisticated. Yet demos get hardly any recognition from mainstream media because they don't appeal to the common denominator (probably because the art of the demoscene is so nebulous and abstract). Where is the coverage of the stunningly beautiful engines and music of the demoscene?
Then again, coverage of the scene would probably drive it further underground and/or stifle its creativity. Okay, forget I said anything.
To add to this, I wouldn't limit yourself to ONE database and ONE interactive language -- for example, once you're done with PHP+MySQL, try Zope+PostgreSQL. If/When you become professional, you will not always have your choice of backends, so get used to a few of them so you can be prepared.
I disagree, since the Apple II predated those computers by several years and lasted just as long in the marketplace (there was still software being published for Apple II as late as the early 1990s).
Aside: You must be European, as the Vic-20 and C64 didn't catch on nearly as much in the USA as the Apple II did.
WRONG! You can only do that if you're following the contraction by a verb or adverb. "The game's notable" is INVALID as notable is an adjective. Study harder, son.
Not true if the story is dated. For example, the movie Strange Days was fantastic in 1995, with a story that was slightly futuristic taking place during the millenium New Year's party. Ten years later, and five years after the actual event, it's hard to appreciate the story since the "2000 New Year's Party" aspect really gets uncomfortable.
The only way to enjoy Strange Days now is to look at it as some sort of "alternate-reality" piece. Which is a shame, since I kept trying to get my wife to watch it (I'm sure she would have liked it) but I'm sure the future-past thing would just bug her now.
I'm astonished people haven't brought up front-projection yet. A friend of mine has a vibrant, crisp, GIANT 120" widescreen viewing experience in his basement, for a total investment of $1400 for the projector (he went LCD) and $400 for a high-gain screen. Native resolution of the projector is 1280x720. We hooked it up to a 1.8GHz PC through the DVI connection and almost passed a brick when we saw the quality.
I'm currently broke, but my next television won't be a television -- it will be a projector hooked up to my ReplayTV (and game systems, and DVD player).
No, they are not out of business! Sheesh. You can buy units for $100 and the monthly fee is $12.95 a month (worth it for the great program guide and searching).
For almost half a decade, ReplayTV units have had 30-second skip, automatic commercial skip, and a TCP/IP port so that you can suck shows off the unit and burn them to DVD (with DVArchive and others). I honestly cannot understand why people keep buying TiVo when ReplayTV is and always has been a much better option.
"IMO we should have a system where - say you are browsing your web site and you spot a spelling mistake on it at http://www.i-like-kibble.org/about.html you should just be able to click an edit button in your browser, be asked to supply a username and password and then have it open webdav://www.i-like-kibble.org/about.html either in a built in editor or it should ask you to select an editor (such as notepad, gedit or even MS Word). When the page is 'saved' in the editor, the changes should be uploaded to the site automatically by the browser."
Yeah, it's called Zope. I've had this for half a decade. Just tack on "/manage" to the end of the URL and bingo, you're editing it.
The scary thing is, it *used* to be part of mainstream media, as least it was as I remember it back in the mid-1980s. I think that one of the things the comic book industry did to shoot itself in the foot was to stop selling comics at typical point-of-sale locations frequently visited by minors: Grocery stores, corner stores, dime stores, pharmacies, 7-Eleven, whatever you want to call them. That's how I got started in 1984, and before I stopped in 1989 (when Alan Moore left Swamp Thing, for anyone interested) over 80% of my comics were bought that way.
I'm not saying that graphic novels such as Preacher should be sold like that, but the comics industry would never had gone into the financial slump of the mid 1990s if they had kept the traditional point of sale racks.
God, yes. I always wonder what would have happened if IBM went with their original idea to go with a Motorola 68000, a true 32-bit CPU with actual registers, as opposed to "Moe, Larry and Curly" (ax, bx, dx) that x86 coders have had to deal with for far too long.
What, like X was good? I consider the last Trek movie to be the 2nd worst, next to V. What a rediculous, inconsistent, unexplainable, slap in the face to the characters that inhabited the Enterprise.
Yeah, like they'd just FIND a mysterious fourth prototype of Data lying around on a planet. Whatever.
Most of the stuff at www.fourmilab.ch is interesting, but it was only after reading The Hacker's Diet that I had the understanding and motivation to lose weight. After eight years of being overweight, I'm losing one pound a week the right way, through gradual changes to my diet and lifestyle.
Many books recommended here will enrich your mind, but how many will help you live longer?:-)
My vote would be for Air America Radio. You can listen to live streaming at www.airamericaradio.com, or get archived shows from www.airamericaplace.com. And it doesn't have to be boring and stuffy -- there are shows with Al Franken (comedian, SNL performer and writer), Liz Winstead (creator of The Daily Show, comedian), Chuck D (yes, THAT Chuck D of Public Enemy), Jeanenne (sp?) Garofalo (comedian, actress), etc. -- it's usually never boring.
"I would be so bold as to say that PoP is the spiritual ancestor of the modern "stealth" genre."
You'd very REAL damn bold to say that, since there was nothing stealthy about PoP. You're conveniently ignoring *actual* stealthy titles from around that time, like Covert Action and The Great Escape.
Prince of Persia was a great game for its time, but it was not stealth in any way.
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No, as DV uses a different (and already more optimal) DCT transform scheme, IIRC.
The Atari ST shipped with a two-button mouse years before PCs even had mice.
BZZZT, try again. I was using a Mouse Systems mouse on an IBM modem 5150 in 1983 and it had two buttons on it. Atari ST didn't exist in 1983.
It can be ordered via Amazon, I believe.
I am appalled that the Buckaroo Banzai DVD didn't make it -- it is easily the most feature-packed DVD in my entire collection -- hell, it even has features for Nuon players!!
You must not play first-person shooters, where fine detail (for distance shooting) AND a fast framerate (for twitch-reflex aiming and evading) are both mandatory. Otherwise, the machine quite obviously holds you back and affects your performance.
That being said, there is definitely such a thing as TOO fast. How fast is too fast? Too fast is when your framerate exceeds 1. the refresh rate of your monitor, 2. the refresh rate of your human visual system, or 3. both. Since both top out at 120, anything being 120fps is overkill.
Almost any card can do 120fps if properly adjusted, but 120fps *with quality* gives you an edge.
Who's the moron who modded this up as Informative? Guys, the OP was kidding.
Whenever I see articles like this, it bothers me a tiny bit since the demoscene has existed for over a decade earlier than machinima has, and the artform is much more interesting and sophisticated. Yet demos get hardly any recognition from mainstream media because they don't appeal to the common denominator (probably because the art of the demoscene is so nebulous and abstract). Where is the coverage of the stunningly beautiful engines and music of the demoscene?
Then again, coverage of the scene would probably drive it further underground and/or stifle its creativity. Okay, forget I said anything.
To add to this, I wouldn't limit yourself to ONE database and ONE interactive language -- for example, once you're done with PHP+MySQL, try Zope+PostgreSQL. If/When you become professional, you will not always have your choice of backends, so get used to a few of them so you can be prepared.
I disagree, since the Apple II predated those computers by several years and lasted just as long in the marketplace (there was still software being published for Apple II as late as the early 1990s).
Aside: You must be European, as the Vic-20 and C64 didn't catch on nearly as much in the USA as the Apple II did.
WRONG! You can only do that if you're following the contraction by a verb or adverb. "The game's notable" is INVALID as notable is an adjective. Study harder, son.
Not true if the story is dated. For example, the movie Strange Days was fantastic in 1995, with a story that was slightly futuristic taking place during the millenium New Year's party. Ten years later, and five years after the actual event, it's hard to appreciate the story since the "2000 New Year's Party" aspect really gets uncomfortable.
The only way to enjoy Strange Days now is to look at it as some sort of "alternate-reality" piece. Which is a shame, since I kept trying to get my wife to watch it (I'm sure she would have liked it) but I'm sure the future-past thing would just bug her now.
I'm astonished people haven't brought up front-projection yet. A friend of mine has a vibrant, crisp, GIANT 120" widescreen viewing experience in his basement, for a total investment of $1400 for the projector (he went LCD) and $400 for a high-gain screen. Native resolution of the projector is 1280x720. We hooked it up to a 1.8GHz PC through the DVI connection and almost passed a brick when we saw the quality.
I'm currently broke, but my next television won't be a television -- it will be a projector hooked up to my ReplayTV (and game systems, and DVD player).
No, they are not out of business! Sheesh. You can buy units for $100 and the monthly fee is $12.95 a month (worth it for the great program guide and searching).
For almost half a decade, ReplayTV units have had 30-second skip, automatic commercial skip, and a TCP/IP port so that you can suck shows off the unit and burn them to DVD (with DVArchive and others). I honestly cannot understand why people keep buying TiVo when ReplayTV is and always has been a much better option.
ACTUALLY, Indianapolis 500, their real first game, was the first to have this. Was a technical marvel, too -- it did truly amazing things on an 8088.
If your display has a response time of 25ms, then your maximum framerate is 40fps. Sorry, but I *need* true 60fps or higher for my action games.
I'm sure it's fine for strategy games, though.
You have to dig to find out who actually developed a software title
You don't have to dig very hard; it's listed on the main rap sheet of any game in the database.
--Trixter, one of MobyGames' founders
"IMO we should have a system where - say you are browsing your web site and you spot a spelling mistake on it at http://www.i-like-kibble.org/about.html you should just be able to click an edit button in your browser, be asked to supply a username and password and then have it open webdav://www.i-like-kibble.org/about.html either in a built in editor or it should ask you to select an editor (such as notepad, gedit or even MS Word). When the page is 'saved' in the editor, the changes should be uploaded to the site automatically by the browser."
Yeah, it's called Zope. I've had this for half a decade. Just tack on "/manage" to the end of the URL and bingo, you're editing it.
The scary thing is, it *used* to be part of mainstream media, as least it was as I remember it back in the mid-1980s. I think that one of the things the comic book industry did to shoot itself in the foot was to stop selling comics at typical point-of-sale locations frequently visited by minors: Grocery stores, corner stores, dime stores, pharmacies, 7-Eleven, whatever you want to call them. That's how I got started in 1984, and before I stopped in 1989 (when Alan Moore left Swamp Thing, for anyone interested) over 80% of my comics were bought that way.
I'm not saying that graphic novels such as Preacher should be sold like that, but the comics industry would never had gone into the financial slump of the mid 1990s if they had kept the traditional point of sale racks.
Remember the oldskooler Golden Rule(tm): "If it's too old, you're too young."
God, yes. I always wonder what would have happened if IBM went with their original idea to go with a Motorola 68000, a true 32-bit CPU with actual registers, as opposed to "Moe, Larry and Curly" (ax, bx, dx) that x86 coders have had to deal with for far too long.
What, like X was good? I consider the last Trek movie to be the 2nd worst, next to V. What a rediculous, inconsistent, unexplainable, slap in the face to the characters that inhabited the Enterprise.
Yeah, like they'd just FIND a mysterious fourth prototype of Data lying around on a planet. Whatever.
You don't put swap on a flash drive -- he's got 128MB of RAM, he shouldn't need swap at all if he doesn't run X.
Most of the stuff at www.fourmilab.ch is interesting, but it was only after reading The Hacker's Diet that I had the understanding and motivation to lose weight. After eight years of being overweight, I'm losing one pound a week the right way, through gradual changes to my diet and lifestyle.
:-)
Many books recommended here will enrich your mind, but how many will help you live longer?
My vote would be for Air America Radio. You can listen to live streaming at www.airamericaradio.com, or get archived shows from www.airamericaplace.com. And it doesn't have to be boring and stuffy -- there are shows with Al Franken (comedian, SNL performer and writer), Liz Winstead (creator of The Daily Show, comedian), Chuck D (yes, THAT Chuck D of Public Enemy), Jeanenne (sp?) Garofalo (comedian, actress), etc. -- it's usually never boring.
"I would be so bold as to say that PoP is the spiritual ancestor of the modern "stealth" genre."
You'd very REAL damn bold to say that, since there was nothing stealthy about PoP. You're conveniently ignoring *actual* stealthy titles from around that time, like Covert Action and The Great Escape.
Prince of Persia was a great game for its time, but it was not stealth in any way.