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Giant Red Koopa
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Since: 11-17-05
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My college experience has been pleasant, but high school was hell.
I can list a dozen things, but I don't feel like doing that right now. Out of some of them, one of the things I hated was the session of reading out loud in the Junior or Senior English classes. Read that... Junior or Senior, not Grade 3. I don't mind the part of reading out loud, I hate the part that people shouldn't have passed grade 3 ever. Reading at five words an hour, I'll usually be done by the stories reading to myself before the out-loud session is done with the first few pages. Major drawback, it somewhat made me look like I wasn't paying attention when I needed to ask how far back the record-slow-readers were. |
FreeDOS +
Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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First off, instead of using a screenshot of Wikipedia, you could have either linked to the article, or provided a snippet of text from it. Aside from bandwidth advantages, I'm not the only person annoyed (don't know anyone on the board, but I've met people on IRC and in real life) by both mechanisms that MS Windows uses to render fonts (though that one looks better than ClearFonts, or whatever it was called). Plus the background of the text clashes with the background of many board layouts.
Now to the real meat: It doesn't confirm (nor deny!) that anyone at home with hacking skills will be able to put their own programs on the PS3. It could just mean that you can get a lower-cost development kit for individuals (this also might only talk about new game studios of few people), provide cryptographic keys to get around the DRM with the know-how, or any other number of possibilities provided with that business-talk. You can always hope for the best; that should be that anyone with a PS3 immediately has the possibility to hack it (which might actually make it more popular than Wii or X360; time will tell). |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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Uh, Matroska is only a container format, the codecs usually used in them is Theora or XviD... if your computer can't handle either, then get something newer than 15 years old 
But seriously, MPlayer can do it. |
FreeDOS +
Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
From: Seattle
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| Stop paying mp4, and boom no more mp4 sex for you. (Seriously, ask questions the smart way) |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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Originally posted by HyperMackerel
As for open-source, it's a good thing, but I agree that it seems almost insulting to talk about "making a good, open-source editor" when VL-Tone's isn't even up to V1.0 and is still in active development.
Boo-hoo, if people make their own editor (under whatever license), oh well. That's how the world works. It's fair to some, unfair to others; oh well.
Originally posted by HyperMackerel
Most people think open source == GPL, and I'm really not a fan of that. Why shouldn't someone be able to use my code in a commercial app?
Weather they equate "open source" to the GNU GPL doesn't matter, use whatever license you want. I'm a fan of nice, simple, licenses that just provide adaquete attribution, particularly the one provided by OpenBSD in /usr/src/share/misc/license.template; since of course I can't expect everyone, especially on Acmlm's Board to be running obsd, here's the contents of that file:
Originally posted by /usr/src/share/misc/license.template
Below is an example license to be used for new code in OpenBSD,
modeled after the ISC license.
It is important to specify the year of the copyright. Additional years
should be separated by a comma, e.g.
Copyright (c) 2003, 2004
If you add extra text to the body of the license, be careful not to
add further restrictions.
/*
* Copyright (c) CCYY YOUR NAME HERE
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* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
* WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
* ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
* WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
* ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
* OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
Also I should note that GPL does in fact allow commercial use, just not proprietary use. It's a common misconception that "Commercial = Proprietary" (similar to "open source = GPL") |
FreeDOS +
Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| New theory, are you getting a very-large high-definition video? Even the newest computers can stumble on those. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| Or you can just use GParted to resize your current partition without any data loss. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| Probably just laziness of the developers not to completely fix the speed for PAL. The game was originally designed for NTSC (the standard in Japan and North America) |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| It's not lololol, it's just Microsoft welcoming you to the world of Windows. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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So perhaps the developers took a rough estimate at how much faster they'd need to play the music to be normal on PAL, went a bit too high, and decided it was good enough?  |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| Wouldn't it be easier to just use Jabber if instant-messaging made any sense for this site? |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| How old are you, Jouw? |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| A good corruption tool sounds sexy, I despise all the ones on RomHacking.net |
FreeDOS +
Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
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| Yeah, I meant no hard feelings, but seriously... isn't it about the age of five to seven where you realize the difference between fiction and reality, thus should realize there's nothing about video games to be afraid of? |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
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Originally posted by Kailieann
Originally posted by FreeDOS +
How old are you, Jouw?
You ask that like irrational fears have anything to do with your age.
I'm 22, and I absolutely despise the Jolly Roger Bay level of Mario 64 because of that damn eel. And I'm none to fond of Hazy Cave Maze's Dorrie, either.
Badly-rendered giant CG sea monsters creep me out.
Despising something in a game isn't the same as out-right having a phobia of it. I hated the first star of Jolly Roger Bay in the original, since it was difficult to get inside the ship, then you had to solve a puzzle in little time. In Super Mario 64 DS, it was easier to get inside and there was no puzzle, just one chest  Okay I'm off on another tangent now. The point was not playing a game for phobia of Bonzai Bill is ludicris, just get through it and be over with it, it's just a video game after all. |
FreeDOS +
Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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| The original Demo World wasn't even locked, and FuSoYa even encouraged people to base hacks off of it. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
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Haha, that's why I have layouts completely disabled 
Installing a new network card does not usually increase the speed that you can connect to the Internet, since even a 10 Mbps card is faster than almost all home Internet connections. Higher speeds means you can transfer information faster, on the same network. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
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Nintendo had a great fall when they entered the fifth generation (Nintendo 64 et al), I think they did better in the 6th but not quite enough, PS2 was more attractive than GameCube for a while. Game Boy Advance was eh, not the best handheld of its time (they couldn't even bother putting in a backlight), but it did fairly well at first (and then all the franchise shit came in). This year's E3 was taken over by Nintendo; if you wanted to test out the PS3 demo there was pretty much no wait, while the Wii demo line wrapped around the whole west wing of the building. Microsoft was able to do fairly well, they already have their 7th-gen console out, thus didn't have to go over the system too much, in the end they didn't leave a real impact, but it wasn't bad. Sony killed themselves. Nintendo took everyone by storm.
It's not too late, Sony can still make the PS3 look more attractive, it's pretty much the price range that sets everyone off. But the Wii honestly looks like a clear winner of this generation, the controller, sequel to Super Mario 64, Red Steel, virtual console, it wins.
And in the handheld department, Nintendo DS really has all the fun. I hope I don't need to explain it, so I'll just sumarize it:
1. If you want great commercial games, get a Nintendo DS
2. If you want great homebrew/emulation, get a GP2X
3. If you want to be a tard, get a PSP
(edited by FreeDOS + on 07-02-06 03:26 AM)
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
From: Seattle
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| You speak a great deal of nothing. |
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Giant Red Koopa
Legion: freedos = fritos
Since: 11-17-05
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Originally posted by Darkness
Now if you have a cable modem to compliment that ethernet card then you would almost instantly see a speed increase.
Not usually, about the slowest cards and integrated chips around are 10Mbps, whereas cable internet is usually only from 128 Kbps to 8 Mbps (depending on your ISP of course). Even the fastest cable connections wouldn't have a significant increase in speed. Not to mention that those high Internet speeds are sometimes wasted because the servers you're getting information from have an upload rate to you much smaller than your alloted bandwidth. |
