Re: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game
I'm in the same position Bryan. ACtually I need to buy several of Ticonblu's games including noire, they just keep cranking them out! :D. beware the Grue! Dark. Take them to the refirbished chamber that was once bad! - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game I have yet to get chapter 2 for my IPhone. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. -Original Message- From: Charles Rivard Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 8:25 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game There might be one at www.applevis.com but I haven't checked, because I just bought the game today, and I wouldn't want to spoil the fun of playing it. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: leo largel1...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 8:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game Hi guys, I would like to ask if any of you guys knew where to find a walkthrough of the inquisitor Audio Game? Thanks, Leo Ps. I can probably find it on youtube but just wanted to check. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game
I know where there is a text walkthru, but not a recording, a full audio recording of the hole thing would take a long time and also imho would be likely to badly spoil your game sinse with the adventure games once you've heard it you've pretty much heard it. Beware the grue! Dark. Take them to the refirbished chamber that was once bad! - Original Message - From: leo largel1...@gmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 2:42 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Recording of The Inquisitor Audio Game Hi guys, I would like to ask if any of you guys knew where to find a walkthrough of the inquisitor Audio Game? Thanks, Leo Ps. I can probably find it on youtube but just wanted to check. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Well I disagree that just because you have a tough case means you will test it out. The first thing I did when I got my Iphone 5 was buy the surviver case to protect it which apparently has had a phone survive being chucked out of an airoplane. the thing I like is it means if (as I did yesterday), I manage to drop my Iphone on the carpet, I don't panic about it.= Not that i juggle with my Iphone or anything, but accidents do happen especially with a device that I am likely to wander about with. I managed to drop my phone yesterday because I was in the middle of listening to a doctor who audio book and didn't want to stop while I carried various things like Reever's baskit and my talking clock into my bedroom and the phone slipped out of my hand.. Again though, the Iphone is absolutely fine, even if it did fall down about four foot onto the floor. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt
Hi. Aaron here. When working on Traders of Known Space free version I hit the stack limit a couple of times by accidentally creating a loop where the function I called ended up in a round-about manner calling the function that called it in the first place. Oopsy. Lol. The thing for one to keep in mind is the stack is only being added on to when functions already on the stack are making calls to functions, be them already in the stack or not yet being used, they get added on the top. But if a function calls 10 functions, and those functions all explicitly return or just achieve a return by running out of statements, then the function that called those 10 will also be killed, provided those 10 functions were actually the last of what the function was to do. It's like a tree branch. If your tree has a branch on it which heads off in a northerly direction, and stretches on and on with knots along it to represent function calls, and it grows so long that it starts to overpower the tree. Eventually the branch would break, let's figuratively say that would happen at 1 knots, or what ever you use to represent the whole thing. But if our theoretical code finishes somewhere before it gets to 1, and never grew the branch that long, the tree would be ok. Function calls usually create another branch that is more or less attached somewhere on the original branch, not the trrunk. So if you finish with any of the little, or big, branches that go off the original branch, you pretty much end up on that big primary branch again. Once your code finishes what it's doing, I like to analyze that branches break off, helping to keep your branch a manageable length. As long as you don't let any main branch with all it's own branches actually end up a distance of 1 away from the trunk, and correct me if I'm wrong but you can have up to that amount for each branch that actually starts on the trunk of the proverbial tree. Again, explicit returns help to bring things under control, but just running out of tasks for a function to do, which is just a void, will do the same thing so don't let that confuse either. But at the same time, if a function calls another function that runs for a while, the function that called it is still running. This is because when just using function calls to one another like that, the code won't continue running on the calling function until the called code finishes what it's supposed to do. Analogy alert... If I'm this function, and I ask you to go get me a bottle of pop. You're the goget function. I've called the goget function. Now since I'm a function I can't do anything while I wait for you to bring me back my pop because you are the one being processed now. So I sit there frozen in time until you return my pop for me or else fail to do so release the program of your attention, where by I would immediately become unfrozen and go on about my marry way. However, if you had to ask someone else to pour the pop into a cup, and still someone else to put ice in that cup too, and then still someone else to bring it back to me. I would remain frozen, and so would you while each of your orders were carried out, so me and you would both be frozen until your orders were completely handled, either successfully or not. Once your ordered people functions finished their jobs, either successfully or not, the program would then start to listen to you again. But you carried out what you were supposed to do, all be it by having someone else bring me my pop, so maybe you've reached the end of your task, so the goget function is ended, and so I'm now the only function in the call stack, theoretically. hth and please correct me if I mix anything up On 8/30/2014 10:39 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Nicol, Quite simply put the call stack also known as the control stack or simply the stack is the way your memory is structured. Computer programs push the address for a function or a variable onto the stack, stacking them up like blocks, and when a function returns it pulls the address off the stack and hands control over to that memory address. Its a complicated subject and I know of know way to discuss this in layman terms without using a lot of technical terminology likely to be unfamiliar to you. In any case a game or any program can have far more than 10,000 functions imbedded in the program. The issue is not how many functions you have, but how many are being piled onto the stack at any given time and are actively being used. I know of no one who actually has literally 10,000 functions running all at once. Most will return freeing up the stack so unless someone is purposely trying to create a major memory leak or is utterly incompetent that won't likely happen. However, in the event you used up the entire stack available to you would get what is known as a stack overflow. In short you run out of available memory addresses to store information and
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Actually, I'm glad that such protective gear exists. It exists for a reason. Use it as directed and you probably won't have a problem. I would not stick my hand into a 500 degree oven when wearing mitts that claim that they will protect your hand up to 500 degrees merely to see if their claim is valid. Doing so is just! plain! stupid!! But knowing that I can do so gives a bit of assurance, and I won't fear doing so. If you were to wear a glove that claimed that it can protect you from a 100,000 volt charge of electricity, would you honestly, purposely, grab onto a wire carrying 100,000 volts just to see if their claim is correct?? If you do so, you just might get what you were stupid enough to ask for. But as for cell phone cases, the better the protection, the better. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Desiree Oudinot turtlepowe...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last It doesn't help that things like the Lifeproof case for the IPhone exist, either. That just encourages people to see how much abuse their phones can take, just to see if the case actually lives up to its name. I think the testing involved having phones being run over by cars. I wouldn't be surprised if similar gear now exists for laptops and other electronics. On 9/4/14, john jpcarnemo...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to testify to the fact that babying your hardware will not necessarily make it last longer. As with any piece of computer technology, do a little research and you'll see plenty of stories from people who have had gear break almost instantly, and just as many stories of people whose same equipment has lasted decades under heavy abuse. Just because you baby your gear doesn't mean it won't up and fail on you some random day; in fact, if you abuse your gear a bit (like major data centers do with their hard drives) you'll find out early if you've got a solid piece of hardware or not. I'm not saying you should throw your laptop off a building, but at least if you end up crashing into something with it and everything fails, you'll find out quickly that you got a lemon. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. -- Desiree --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
I think that you've misinterpreted my initial statement. I wasn't saying that you should abuse your equipment simply for the sake of abusing it. I was saying that its pointless (and possibly harmful) to 100% baby it. This is especially true in the case of hard drives, which were our initial subject matter. If you purchase a disk, you have no way of telling whether or not you've bought a device which is actually solidly built, or a disk which has manufacturer defects and thus will ware out substantially faster and fail well before most other disks will. By babying this equipment, treating it as carefully as you possibly can, you meerely increase the chances that, should the disk have defects, when it does fail, you will have important information on it (such as your game product keys). If you don't hesitate to be a bit rough on your equipment, when those manufacturer defects send everything sky high, you're more likely to be able to recover easily, because the equipment failed very early on, as opposed to seeming to be functional and giving you time to have mission-critical information stored on it. As you pointed out, I'm not exactly light on my hardware. As a result, I'm pretty much certain that all my current equipment is solid and will last me quite a while, because its already taken plenty of abuse and is still working as well as the day I got it. This isn't a guarantee, but at least I know I don't have an untested device with important information on it. -- From: Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 10:14 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last Actually, I'm glad that such protective gear exists. It exists for a reason. Use it as directed and you probably won't have a problem. I would not stick my hand into a 500 degree oven when wearing mitts that claim that they will protect your hand up to 500 degrees merely to see if their claim is valid. Doing so is just! plain! stupid!! But knowing that I can do so gives a bit of assurance, and I won't fear doing so. If you were to wear a glove that claimed that it can protect you from a 100,000 volt charge of electricity, would you honestly, purposely, grab onto a wire carrying 100,000 volts just to see if their claim is correct?? If you do so, you just might get what you were stupid enough to ask for. But as for cell phone cases, the better the protection, the better. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Actually John I sort of see your point here sinse it is rather too easy to miss understand the workings of a new peace of equipment. My first seegate external drive had an inherent problem with the power lead. It was one of those plugs that slots together with the attachment for the correct country's pin arrangement. However I'd not seen plugs like this before, most things I'd bought had solid power leads manufactured for the usual Uk 3 pin adapter, (we have an extra earth wire in the Uk for electrical safety which many other countries don't). However I couldn't get this dam lead to work properly at all, indeed I had to bind the two bits of it together with some elastic, which needed repeated adjusting. I just assumed it was bad design, sinse I'd never seen a plug like that one. it failed completely two years later in 2012. Luckily I didn't lose anything sinse the external drive was my backup drive and my desktop computer was okay, however I wasn't keen on getting a drive with a similar design. When however I talked this over with my nice local computer shop they actually said that no, those slot in plugs shouldn't malfunction like that and I'd in fact been working with a dodgy drive for two years, and they stated See gate were a very reliable make (or at least should be). Sinse I trust their opinion, and sinse I wanted a new external drive asap, I did in fact buy a second (larger), See gate drive to act as my backup, which i am still using (actually I'll be doing another backup this evening with that drive). I had supposed that what was effective a faulty model of power lead that I should've sent back, was just a quirk of bad design, which manifestly wasn't a good thing, so yes, I do see your point in trying to be as familiar as possible with equipment, especially important things like backup harddrives. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Wow john thanks. You make me feel better. Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling my headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working. I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying: Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you. Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working. Your e-mail makes me feel much better. Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john Sent: 05 September 2014 06:19 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last I think that you've misinterpreted my initial statement. I wasn't saying that you should abuse your equipment simply for the sake of abusing it. I was saying that its pointless (and possibly harmful) to 100% baby it. This is especially true in the case of hard drives, which were our initial subject matter. If you purchase a disk, you have no way of telling whether or not you've bought a device which is actually solidly built, or a disk which has manufacturer defects and thus will ware out substantially faster and fail well before most other disks will. By babying this equipment, treating it as carefully as you possibly can, you meerely increase the chances that, should the disk have defects, when it does fail, you will have important information on it (such as your game product keys). If you don't hesitate to be a bit rough on your equipment, when those manufacturer defects send everything sky high, you're more likely to be able to recover easily, because the equipment failed very early on, as opposed to seeming to be functional and giving you time to have mission-critical information stored on it. As you pointed out, I'm not exactly light on my hardware. As a result, I'm pretty much certain that all my current equipment is solid and will last me quite a while, because its already taken plenty of abuse and is still working as well as the day I got it. This isn't a guarantee, but at least I know I don't have an untested device with important information on it. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Problem with Mushclient
Hi, since the MushZ package is made for playing Alter Aeon speciffically, I just installed a clean version of Mushclient to be able to play other muds with it. I installed the exact same version which MushZ uses, 4.84. Now I of course want to have the Mushreader plugin in there, so NVDA will read the mud output to me. But after adding the plugin and trying to open a world or create a new one, I get a scripting error. Error number: 0 Event:Run-time error Description: [string Plugin]:268: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. stack traceback: [C]: in function 'assert' [string Plugin]:268: in function [string Plugin]:267 Called by:Function/Sub: OnPluginInstall called by Plugin MushReader Reason: Executing plugin MushReader sub OnPluginInstall The German part in the error message states that the requested plugin could not be found, but it's right there in the plugins folder. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the normal Mushclient in the same location where MushZ is installed, and MushZ works just fine for me. So, any ideas why the mushreader refuses to work? Any help will be greatly appreciated, since I want to get back into other muds besides Alter Aeon again. Thanks and best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Problem with Mushclient
I would suggest that rather than installing a new copy of mushclient, you simply create a new world with the same client used for mush-z. Mush-z is simply a world created and distributed along with a copy of mushclient; the client is not modified in any way, and is perfectly suited for playing other muds. Further, you'll probably find it easier to get everything configured if you use the client that came with mush-z, because it may already have some of the paths set up for you. -- From: Sarah Haake ti...@gmx.net Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 8:24 PM To: Audyssey gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Problem with Mushclient Hi, since the MushZ package is made for playing Alter Aeon speciffically, I just installed a clean version of Mushclient to be able to play other muds with it. I installed the exact same version which MushZ uses, 4.84. Now I of course want to have the Mushreader plugin in there, so NVDA will read the mud output to me. But after adding the plugin and trying to open a world or create a new one, I get a scripting error. Error number: 0 Event:Run-time error Description: [string Plugin]:268: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. stack traceback: [C]: in function 'assert' [string Plugin]:268: in function [string Plugin]:267 Called by:Function/Sub: OnPluginInstall called by Plugin MushReader Reason: Executing plugin MushReader sub OnPluginInstall The German part in the error message states that the requested plugin could not be found, but it's right there in the plugins folder. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. I installed the normal Mushclient in the same location where MushZ is installed, and MushZ works just fine for me. So, any ideas why the mushreader refuses to work? Any help will be greatly appreciated, since I want to get back into other muds besides Alter Aeon again. Thanks and best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Don't even get me started on headphones... a pair every three or four months... That teacher sounds like... quite a stellar person... I bet that attitude of compassion and understanding's going to take them far. -- From: Nicol nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 6:53 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last Wow john thanks. You make me feel better. Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling my headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working. I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying: Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you. Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working. Your e-mail makes me feel much better. Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Hi Nicol, I can definitely identify with that situation. I have always had to use headphones with various equipment, and since I often used them more than most people they would wear out or break faster than they should. Everyone including my parents, teachers, and my ex-wife would blame me for being too rough on them. It often wasn't being rough on them but just over use that killed them. On average headphones would last about three months before I had to replace them. They just were not made to be used several hours of the day every day of the week. Cheers! On 9/5/14, Nicol nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net wrote: Wow john thanks. You make me feel better. Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling my headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working. I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying: Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you. Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working. Your e-mail makes me feel much better. Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
This is one reason why these days I decided to pay serious money for headphones sinse not only does this provide better quality but generally if you fork out for something better from a good make they'll last longer, or such is my experience anyway. I now have just two sets of headphones, my set of sanheisa ear buds which cost me thirty pounds and lastanywhere between one or two years, but go with me everywere for my laptop or Iphone, and my very serious sanheisa ones which cost me close to 200 pounds, but lasted literally 8 years and are about as good sound quality wise as you will find. Indeed I recently had to replace these, (and in fact the headphones themselves till work it's just one of the pins in the frame that has snapped and they could probably be repared with the correct parts), with a set of sanheisa momentums which were again 250 pounds but I fully well expect to still be using them in at least 2020, even more so sinse the momentums come with a rather nice custom case , and the sound is even better quality than my previous sanheisas. I admit i'm something of a sticler for sound,but there you go. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Testing a new product for durability, on purpose, is pointless because they have already been tested before you buy them. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Nicol nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last Wow john thanks. You make me feel better. Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling my headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working. I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying: Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you. Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working. Your e-mail makes me feel much better. Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john Sent: 05 September 2014 06:19 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last I think that you've misinterpreted my initial statement. I wasn't saying that you should abuse your equipment simply for the sake of abusing it. I was saying that its pointless (and possibly harmful) to 100% baby it. This is especially true in the case of hard drives, which were our initial subject matter. If you purchase a disk, you have no way of telling whether or not you've bought a device which is actually solidly built, or a disk which has manufacturer defects and thus will ware out substantially faster and fail well before most other disks will. By babying this equipment, treating it as carefully as you possibly can, you meerely increase the chances that, should the disk have defects, when it does fail, you will have important information on it (such as your game product keys). If you don't hesitate to be a bit rough on your equipment, when those manufacturer defects send everything sky high, you're more likely to be able to recover easily, because the equipment failed very early on, as opposed to seeming to be functional and giving you time to have mission-critical information stored on it. As you pointed out, I'm not exactly light on my hardware. As a result, I'm pretty much certain that all my current equipment is solid and will last me quite a while, because its already taken plenty of abuse and is still working as well as the day I got it. This isn't a guarantee, but at least I know I don't have an untested device with important information on it. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Hi Charles, I'd hold that wire with no gloves at all if the amperage were really really really low! *snark* Sorry, just had to! Smiles, Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Sep 5, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: Actually, I'm glad that such protective gear exists. It exists for a reason. Use it as directed and you probably won't have a problem. I would not stick my hand into a 500 degree oven when wearing mitts that claim that they will protect your hand up to 500 degrees merely to see if their claim is valid. Doing so is just! plain! stupid!! But knowing that I can do so gives a bit of assurance, and I won't fear doing so. If you were to wear a glove that claimed that it can protect you from a 100,000 volt charge of electricity, would you honestly, purposely, grab onto a wire carrying 100,000 volts just to see if their claim is correct?? If you do so, you just might get what you were stupid enough to ask for. But as for cell phone cases, the better the protection, the better. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Desiree Oudinot turtlepowe...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last It doesn't help that things like the Lifeproof case for the IPhone exist, either. That just encourages people to see how much abuse their phones can take, just to see if the case actually lives up to its name. I think the testing involved having phones being run over by cars. I wouldn't be surprised if similar gear now exists for laptops and other electronics. On 9/4/14, john jpcarnemo...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to testify to the fact that babying your hardware will not necessarily make it last longer. As with any piece of computer technology, do a little research and you'll see plenty of stories from people who have had gear break almost instantly, and just as many stories of people whose same equipment has lasted decades under heavy abuse. Just because you baby your gear doesn't mean it won't up and fail on you some random day; in fact, if you abuse your gear a bit (like major data centers do with their hard drives) you'll find out early if you've got a solid piece of hardware or not. I'm not saying you should throw your laptop off a building, but at least if you end up crashing into something with it and everything fails, you'll find out quickly that you got a lemon. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. -- Desiree --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
