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The machine I bought has controls on 3 sides... on the short sides for old school games where players took turns (and sat opposite each other), and on the long side, two sets of controls for two player games where both players play at once (and some of the old games like Moon Patrol that are in landscape mode, not portrait).
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:envy:
My biggest gripe (other than the hours spent tinkering, which is fun really, is that being an upright portrait configuration, it doesn't really play horizontal games that well.
And I really like Moon Patrol !
The original machine was a vertical scroller - I still have the original Jamma board somewhere. I'd love to buy another with a horizontal monitor (the cabinet itself will take either in principal)
sounds like yours gives you not only the best of both worlds, but also the ability to sit down, and somewhere to put your beer !
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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That's why it took me so long to find the machine I wanted... I love Moon Patrol, but I also love Galaga and Gyrus and some of the other portrait games...
I did see a stand up machine in my travels that came with a rotatable screen - undo four screws and relocate the screen landscape/portrait and switch to that mode of games... you wouldn't want to do it every day, but once a month or so that would work... maybe something like that would work for you also?
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I did look at one time at rotating my screen; the cabinet supports either orientation but those monitors are HEAVY! (and my DIY skills non existent)
ONe day(!) I might buy another and build it landscape - jsut so I can have two identical machines with my own selection of games - but I'm more likely to sellmine and buy one like you have - sacrifice the range of games for usability so I can spend more time playing and less tinkering!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Hi, currently i am using SSD hard 120 GB for my windows (i wonder why ) and 2TB normal sata 3 hard. I am thinking of adding more 3 TBs just for fun. My Downloads partition has only 61GB free left :/. I think that the perfect game pc has to have atleast on of These. The more the merrier  . The rest doesn't matter (oh you can add some RAM for lets say 8 GB or 16 GB)
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Big fast Multi-Cpu, Muilti-core, Multi Threaded
Multi Titan GPU SLI
Max out on RAM
RAM Cache
Multi-SSD Mirrored Striped sets Raid Configuration
Mortgage required to buy....
Failing that, I'll stick with what I've got (built myself) for the time being -> Major Component Upgrades with a twist, benchmarks and all![^]
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Mine's about as old and I'm planning to build a new box to correspond with Win 8.1's release.
I7-4770k (If you're not overclocking, get the non-K version for better virtualization support)
$200ish ASUS or other premium brand mobo
4x8GB DDR3-2133 or 2400
GTX 770 GPU - don't want to go for the 780 when TSMC is doing a process shrink next year that should ~double performance.
1 TB SSD - Debating Crucial M500 or Samsung 840 EVO. The latter is faster but has only just hit the market; the former has been out since this spring.
Ridiculously huge and expensive water cooling friendly case[^] - I want a 3x140 radiator since I suspect in a year or two when I get a 4k monitor I'll need dual GPUs to game on it; and my inability to break the all-flat-horizontal-surfaces-are-tables habit means I can't use a model from elsewhere at half the cost because they all have top venting radiators I'd end up blocking.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How to Spot Comet ISON in the Early Morning Sky[^]
Apparently only those 10-inch and up need apply at the moment, but hopefully that will improve (and hopefully it will be naked eye visible later this year as well).
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TTFN - Kent
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8 inch reflector with 1000 mm focal length.
Bung on a 9mm lens and a barlow and you can image ISON.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apparently only those 10-inch and up need apply
:snigger:
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I was hoping (and expecting) someone to get that.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Apparently only those 10-inch and up need apply at the moment, but hopefully that will improve (and hopefully it will be naked eye visible later this year as well).
FTFY.
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Hi,
we, the Software Engineering Group at Trier University (Germany), are currently
conducting a survey on the use of sketches and diagrams in software
development. We want to gain deeper insights into the work of software practitioners
(developers, testers, architects, etc.) to call attention to their
actual work practices, which we think is rarely done in academic research.
It is difficult for us to reach software practitioners, therefore I post my call for participation here.
Our short online survey (5-10 minutes) is available here:
http://www.st.uni-trier.de/survey/
We can also discuss how and why you create and use sketches and diagrams when developing software in this thread.
Thanks in advance for your participation!
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How much do we get paid for participating in the study?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Damn: I already did it.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sorry, we cannot pay the participants. But I kindly ask you to participate for the sake of research 
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Well, OK, maybe just this once. But don't be asking all the time!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ok, I promise you that this is the only call for participation I post here 
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Now, having done the survey, and assuming this will result in a paper, would you be kind enough to send me a copy when you're finished?
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Thanks for your interest in our research. If you like to, you can send an email to s.baltes@uni-trier.de, then I'll reply to that mail as soon as the paper is finished.
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I use them to invite girls up to my apartment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There is a very, very tall coconut tree and there are 4 animals, a Tiger, an Elephant, a Giraffe, and a Squirrel, who pass by. They decide to compete to see who is the fastest to get an apple off the tree.
Who do you think will win?
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Is that a non-migratory African apple, or a European coconut?
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