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thryllkill writes "Yahoo is reporting a new Sony plan to implement a telephone that can talk to a Play Station 2. Of course it pushing the idea of training characters for games on the run, but wasn't this already tried with the VMU? ."
with GPS for my lost penis bird.
can I call in the first post while playing GTA?
Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."
All reports indicate that we have a booming economy right now, but few understand why this is so. I hate to disappoint my friends on the radical left, but it has nothing to do with Bonnie and Clyde Clinton or the Democratic Party, or with any other party for that matter. What Im about to say is tantamount to blasphemy in this politically correct day and age; yet truth is truth. How long are we going to pretend that origins play no role in our world, the origins of the inventions, science, technology, and economics of the world in which we live?
Our present economic boom is due to the revolution in electronics and computer technology. But saying this is not enough, for these things didnt just spring into existence by themselves. They have traceable origins. And all of our "booms," throughout history, have the same origins as this one. Its no mystery. Just look at the list of names in your history books, and their national origins.
The great majority of "booms" past and present have been brought about by the genius and inventiveness of that most "despicable" of genders, the dreaded white male, or, to be exact, by specific, individual white males. This is not to discredit the many contributions coming from non-whites, but fact is fact. Our most important and consequential inventions have come almost exclusively from white males.
Curse me, or all white males, if you wish, that changes nothing. But if you call me a liar, youll have to come up with the proof that Im wrong. Remember, I didnt say there were no important contributions by non-whites; I said the overwhelming majority. Of course, I know about such things as the Chinese and gunpowder, but they didnt take it much beyond firecrackers and pyrotechnics. And I know about the pyramids and masonry of South America and the zero of the Arabs.
Would we have atomic physics and electricity if it hadnt been for the ancient Greek philosophers who, for example, had the idea that all matter consists of tiny atoms? Aristotle (5th century, B.C., 25th century pre P.C.) used electric charges to treat gout! Archimedes perceived the center of gravity of solids, cylinders, and spheres. From the basic discoveries of Greek civilization it went to the Romans and after the fall of Rome, it passed to later Europeans who expanded on this scientific knowledge. In modern times these ideas were developed by such Europeans as Volta, Ampere, Watts, Bell, Edison, and Einstein, who provided the basis for most of the technical wonders of today. All of them dreaded white males.
Maybe you got your enlightenment from one of the Ivy-League institutions of dis-education. Maybe they taught you that its all the result of white racism and oppression. That every time a potential Einstein, Edison, or Ford popped up in the Third World, a White hit-squad would swoop down and eliminate him before he had a chance to prove himself. Or maybe their schools refused to teach him in the Ebonics of his day. Or maybe they didnt have proper daycare facilities. Or maybe our would-be innovator came from a "dysfunctional family."
But the facts tell us that many of the great men pursued their genius at great personal risk--like the astronomer Galileo, who proved that the earth revolves around the sun. He and other men of genius and courage refused to be suppressed even if it meant their lives. They would permit no race, gender, group or class to keep them from their pursuit of truth and excellence whatever the cost.
If you eliminate, suppress, or debase the while male, you kill the goose that laid the golden egg. If you ace him out with "affirmative" action, exile him from the family, teach him that hes a blight on mankind, then bon voyage to our society. We will devolve into a turd-world cesspool. Where has there ever before in history been a group of human beings who have brought about the likes of the Magna Carta, the US Constitution, and the countless life-saving and life- improving inventions that we now enjoy?
Now it is certainly true that China did lead the world in technology and commercial inventiveness about 1,000 years ago. They had great coal-mining operations, gunpowder, six-masted sailing ships, and intense commercial enterprise. But it all collapsed because the elites, the long-nailed Mandarins, centralized control--1,000 years before Mao--and crushed the expansion and inventions.
Does this mean we should sit back and let ourselves be governed by someone just because hes a white male? Of course, it doesnt. It means simply that we shouldnt suppress anyone, including white males. Let our God-given gifts run free in a free and just society, free from the oppression and tyranny of social engineers. If anyone has gifts beyond our own, be he a white male or other, be grateful. Maybe we have gifts that in some small way can contribute something of value as well. One way or another, were all in the same boat. Few of us have truly outstanding gifts. And most of us have to humbly accept that there are others around who are more gifted than we are. In a democratic society its not for Big Brother to decide who shall thrive and who shall struggle in the hive.
Wah. Wah. Cry wah. Fuck you commie. You leftish shit. Lets make the doors out of paper to let the burgulars in, give a big hug and try to kiss and make friends lalalalalal.
This thread is making me sick, and all the commie leftist biased shit going on makes me even more sick.
There are those few people here which have said some conservative sense to these leftists that would teach gay love to young boys for the sake of diversity.
No one holds a gun to your head to eat that fuckin' McDonalds. NO ONE. These third world saps suck up American culture because they are busy chopping clitorises off of women, suppressing ethnic minority groups though genocide or some other bull shit.
People are way to young and don't read much history. Ask Tibet how it likes China's takeover. Ask the Chinks how they like the Japs when they killed 100,000's during the occupation of Manchuria. Ask any of the down trodden eastern Europeans how it felt to have the long spear of the Soviet Ramrod up their asses during the cold war days? How bout a nice day in a GOULAG? How about making bomb shelters in Iraq near legit military targets to get "bad lefty communist like Christiana AMAPOUR to report civvie deaths even though Hussein is at fault?" How about starving Iraqi "children" aka terrorists in training starving to death because their leader is spending upwards ot 50B/year in WMD research. How about Canada and France selling No. Ko. reactor parts, great fuckin friends we have. How about getting the death penalty in Singapore for smoking a joint? How about giving the Middle East nations the oil fields back (after we built huge oil platforms for them, because the tent dwelling cretins were too fucking retarded
FUCK TIHS ANTI AMERICAN shit. all the foreigners who get here legally stay for a fucking damn good reason. And I welcome you, so long as you pay taxes do what you fuckin want.
This is historically unfounded. We get over our vices and inconsistencies fast here. USA makes mistakes, but the Sudanese still have slavery, we don't. We got over slavery damn quick compared to the rest of the world. We came a long way on suffrage (the right to vote to all the bleeding heart commies who have yet to pay much into the system yet). We may not be perfect yet, but shit, its far from shit. very far.
I hate the commie shit socialists who want the least common denominator for everyone.
FUCK YOU. Id rather nuke your ass and suck up some nice radiation I paid for that share my home with you fucking lazy un-working vermin.
I'll never worry about losing the cure for cancer by nuking dumps like Iraq, because these defunct shithead countries will never make one.
There is so much trash going around on this thread, it makes me laugh. Pseudo educated suppressed homosexuals (not that homosexuality is bad, but suppressing it, geeze you liberal fucks should spread the cheeks and get it done with, you spit your wad a lot harder when the person fucking your ass has a towel on his head) eructating puerile shit.
I'm glad we are planning to make it possible to put me into bondage. I would rather die than be in bondage to these shitty subversive chinks or commies or morally bankrupt suppressive shitass Islamic Towelheads.
We have said for 40 years plus, you do it, you think about it, and you are gone. the red button gets pressed, the red telephone gets slammed on the receiver.
The Japs did well surrendering to us. They are the second or third largest economy in the World, jeeze, the USA really sucks to surrender to , huh? You tools need to think - you really think the US didn't do them a favor by burning down that house? They made off with our car industry for Christ's sake, and boy, I do love driving my Japanese car - its great. And I fucking paid it off in 9 months, $33,000 bucks. And not, its not public property, you cant have a ride, fuck off , its mine I PAID FOR IT. None of this commie shit.
John Walker scume floating around Marin. Bezerkelyite fuckers with Barney Telletubbie view of the world scumballing their shit subversive agenda.
I must say, piss on John Asscraft for being a fascist shit. I may hate you leftist fuck commies, but this right wing fascist shit sucks too.
Really, really. What is going on? There are circles of power, some leaning left, some leaning right, some existing for themselves. They divide the people of the world, always focusing on what makes us different! Are you a fag or not? Are you black or white? Are you left or right? Are you a fat fuck? You know what I dont give a shit what you are, and thats still my fucking car. The circles of power want us to fight amongst ourselves while the prance off with all the fucking money and power.
Everyone wants a nice Japanese import car, real medical care (not socialized shit, like that shit in the UK where if you reach a certain age you entitlement to care is GONE, like if you get dialysis, hit age 65, they PULL THE FUCKING PLUG, because they are commie shits), they want halfway decent schools, freedom to think etc. We got all that here. I live it. You fall on your face here because you are lazy, not a caste system.
Tactical nukes are appropriate, and we had the finger on the button the last 50 years, we just want to remind the world, hey, have a wet dream, and well have a coupla kilotons of force to save us some money.
Appeasing Hitler landed Neville Chamberlain in the historical doghouse, and it took Winston Churchill to show the world the right way. To quote Churchill, "'Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others,'"
All high and mighty EU, they armed these fucking countries. Half the Islamic nations shit came from French military hardware, roundly supplemented by the zipper heads. The I hear some leftist shit in this thread quote MAO the DUNG on the US being the "paper tiger". HAH. Nice life expectancy in China there, Mao Tse Dung. Nice going, harvesting organs from political prisoners for the highest bidders and government dignitaries.
Commies say big business is evil. Hah. The "Evil" Big Business: Doesn't exist like you think it does. I am in a small business. My small business was created from money from big business to innovate new technology to stop Internet DDOS attacks. The innovation would be a B2B service for medium and small businesses. I get my health care, dental, paid vacation and education subsidy either directly or indirectly from Big "Evil?" Business. One could way to make things work better would be to give outright tax credits to companies doing good things in their communities, like building schools or repairing roads or bridges. I'm sure HP could negotiate a better price for the "NEW BAY AREA BRIDGE" than the cabal of stupid idiots running Oakland and San Francisco. Now that I think of HP, I think of a huge company that has built several hospitals and given BILLIONS of dollars in charity through the "David and Lucille Packard Foundation" - established 1964. General Electric was run by a bottom-to-top rags-to-riches engin
Point: Be angry at the media for sucking, be angry at the government for wasting your money. Unless we get a western version of Mohandas Gandhi, be angry with every single Congressman, Senator whatever else. They step on your heads everyday.
Time to go read about some new scientific discoveries or new information about open source software or something interesting. Politics suck.
God I love those Krauts too. The fucking purified leftovers from the National Socialist party. Fuck you krauts. You started two god damn world wars. This Eurotarded Eurotrash Union is a suck bag quagmire of shit.
And these Towelheads and their newfound love for Palestine. Keep in mind these Palestinian vagrants have been booted out of every ISLAMIC nation they try to infect. They are hooligan vagrants , and if you replaced Israel with lets say, a pro Towel regime like France, they would be next on hit list of all the adjacent Arab nations. No one wants to pay for these tent toting Neanderthalic holdovers from the 3rd century. May as well kill them. We wont have to in the long run, the morally bankrupt Islamic nations will mop them up for us when they have expired their usefulness to their twisted cause.
And everyone blames DUBYA, like one person runs the fucking country. Meanwhile, the Congress and Senate make all the fuckin laws, the only power W gets is a big fat Veto. There isnt much the legislative branch can't override. DYBYA has an big administration, so of it is typical Right wing special interest trash, some of it is true blue pro the future of America. Shit, these people have to have some notion of self preservation. Every single Bush family relative isnt surviving WWIII, fuck, I'd be willing to be that 90% of everyone in that administration's extended families would be dead as doornails if there was an all out nuclear conflict. No one wants an extended nuclear conflict, but I would pay front row admission to see bin Towelheads skin get baked off by a tactical nuke dropped off by a Predator or some shit. You dont eve have to aim.
The geopolitical situation in the world is not solely exacerbated by the US. It is bullshit to think that this country control the world's direction. People want what we have and arent willing to adopt our ways. We get what we want by worshipping our own dollar, more than POWER or RELIGION. Its only natural cretins dont catch on to this and feel like trying to defeat us "imperialists." Hey, quick secret you fuckers who hate us - STOP BUYING AND SELLING SHIT TO US, STOP USING OUR CURRENCY. I would be willing to bet that most of the world printed US currency isnt even in the US. Out of many one, e plurbus unum. Printed on the fucking money. I dont buy trickle down doesnt work either, our success trickles down. People think we should have the upper hand after we invent all this shit and create a venue for success because they are failures in life and have to resort to communism or socialism to make up for the fact they need Viagra to get it up, another American invention.
I love how America is seen as this pretty glass castle, and the rest of the serfs plowing the fields for a fair wage all start tossing rocks because they or their culture or their family failed to give the intellectual tools to succeed. Yeah, thats our fault.
I dont think an Islamic person will ever set foot off this planet, because anything not of the planet or Mecca or any aliens are probably UNCLEAN, UNHOLY and vile, and they MUST BEND to ALLAHS will. I cant believe people still believe in this superstitious bullshit.
Hey lefty, youll get extra credit for your shit clas at Berkelely - its called the SUNDANESE CULTURAL CLASS, 101, learn to carve a girls clitoris off! 4 CREDITS!
Bread gets moldy, turns to black.
Lots of things turn dark, moldy and brown with age.
Your kitchen floor was white at some point but you slovenly self had created a swampy quagmire of festering shit.
Black or darkness is an archetype for ignorance in literature, because in the very early days, darkness of the night was a preclusion of the world that was known.
White light is the presence of all the colors in the spectrum, black is the absence of all color.
Your tird-world ape nations have a lot to learn from the crackers. Us whiteys. Us honkies. Us stupid and intellectually inferior (being very facetious here) crackers.
We can cure you. We can. We can dilute your Arab stupidity, we can breed out your nigger sickle cells, we can wane your Asiatic elitism, we can eliminate your Pakistani desire to sell carpets and stink like body odor. We can probably not ever fix the lazy spics and mulattos of the south Americas, but maybe. We have to fuck your women. Let us come in droves and cure you of the animal genes that are mixed in there. Given that you apparently have a cerebral cortex, the animal nigger genes must be recessive.
We can help. Help me help you. Find your wife, and let me knock her up.
Islam is Death, Death to Islam.
Could you jiggle this to make VoIP work?
so this is where all the R&D money is going.
I'm sure that Sony's PS2 version is much better, but I'll pass.
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Hey, kid... wanna touch my "kernel patch"?
-- Alan Cox
That's bloody scary. I'm sure this is exactly the thing my gamer addict friends need to help them kick the habit. um..no.
What with mobile gaming, instant messaging, and various other communication devices a veritable electronic culture is right on the horizon - it seems a bit like the navi-obsessed youth in Lain. The question is if it's better, worse, or somewhere to the side.
but wasn't this already tried with the VMU?
Don't forget the Sony PocketStation which came out at about the same time as the Dreamcast with its VMU. It plugged into the memory port of the PS1. It was never sold in the US, but the US version of Final Fantasy VIII had support for it (documented in the manual, even.)
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Yes, it is that ridiculous.
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Will it help me beat parts of level where i'm stuck or tell me where that power up is?
Q: What is big and blue and sits on my front porch?
A: my nigger and I'l paint him any color I want.
For instance. Surfing the web, reading/writing your emails, and checking the news is simply annoying to do from a cell phone. Sure, its handy when you dont otherwise have access to computers and such, but the interface just sucks. Reading 5 words per page of a news article is simply not practical.
Now they will add a whole bunch of new features and that will mean the user will have to traverse a bigger more complicated menu system. What percentage of the users will actually USE those new fancy features? This just looks like feature bloat to me. Sort of how Microsoft does it.
"How do we get them to drop their old cellphones/software and upgrade to new cellphones/software in order to generate new revenue?" Answer: "Put in a whole new set of features that and hype them up the best you can!"
- Tempestdata
Sony is going to be the next microsoft. Watch out, people.
I keep mine chained up out by the cotton fields. No use in scaring the neighbors by having a big ol' King Kong out front.
The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
Nothing makes me harder than the thought of my lips wrapped around a pulsating cock, awaiting that one second when it will explode with semen, flooding my throat and nostrils until I choke.
-CmdrTaco
I Like to suck dick
I suck it all day long
I like to suck dick
Nothing like a great big wong.
I like to suck dick
I'll do it till the day I croak
Just don't ask me to swallow.
Cause I'll probably choke
-CowboyNeal
Dude, your phone just killed my Level 26 Dwarf Assassin. AGAIN.
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CmdrTaco was new to the slashdot compound. He had just recently come out as gay even though he had known at some level that he was a flaming homo his entire life. CmdrTaco had discovered a website called slashdot that helped him come out, and eventually he came to be a part of the crew of Slashdot janitors living in the Slashdot compound.
CmdrTaco had heard CowboiKneel and Homos talking about Tyrone. They didn't say much in the way of useful information. All they would tell CmdrTaco was that Tyrone visited the Slashdot compound every other week on Friday. Then they would just smile.
CmdrTaco wondered with anticipation about Tyrone, but would have to wait a week to meet him.
The next Friday Tyrone visited the Slashdot compound. CmdrTaco nearly fainted when he saw Tyrone. Tyrone was huge (nearly 6 feet 6 inches tall), black, and incredibly muscular. This was in direct contrast to CmdrTaco who was short at 5 feet 3 inches tall, white, and incredibly thin. Tyrone saw CmdrTaco and said in his deep voice, "Fresh meat. I want to take him first."
CmdrTaco was both nervous and excited as he and Tyrone went to his room in the Slashdot compound. When they got there Tyrone closed the door and locked it. Tyrone then picked up and threw CmdrTaco on the bed. Tyrone then proceeded to all manner of homosexual acts against CmdrTaco's small body. Tyrone made CmdrTaco suck his dick. He would also make CmdrTaco take his dick up CmdrTaco's ass. Since Tyrone had a big black dick, CmdrTaco cried out in pain. Eventually, CmdrTaco fell unconcious.
The next day CmdrTaco woke up with bruises all over his body, with every part of his body in pain. The rest of the Slashdot janitors were in a similar state. CmdrTaco couldn't wait for Tyrone to come visit again.
Sounds kinda.. eh.
This sounds like the dreamcast's VMU more than sony's. That was the best way to get your VMU stolen... have a game on it and play it in class (You can't take it! It contains roughly 64 hours of my life!) Now a phone? I'm gonna guess that the sony phone plan won't be as kind as others. What happens if you get a phone call while running the vmu mini-prog? Does Snake curse out your caller?
Cmdrtaco wuz fresh t' da damn slashdot compound. He had plum recent-like come
out as gay even though he had known at some kinda' level dat he wuz some
flamin' homo wassups entire life. Cmdrtaco had discovered some website called
slashdot dat helped him come out, an' eventual-like he came t' be some part o'
da damn crew o' Slashdot janitors livin' in da Slashdot compound.
Cmdrtaco had heard Cowboikneel an' Homos rappin' about Tyrone. They didn't say
much in da way o' useful 4-1-1. All they would tell Cmdrtaco wuz dat Tyrone
visited da damn Slashdot compound every otha' week on Friday. Den they would
plum smile.
Cmdrtaco haid-scratched wit' anticipashun about Tyrone, but would got'ta wait
some week t' meet him.
Da next Friday Tyrone visited da damn Slashdot compound. Cmdrtaco near-like
fainted when he spotted Tyrone. Tyrone wuz huge (down low, near-like 6 feet 6
inches tall), ebony, an' incredibly musculah'. Dis wuz in direct contrast t'
Cmdrtaco who wuz short at 5 feet 3 inches tall, pale, an' incredibly thin.
Tyrone spotted Cmdrtaco an' said in wassups deep voice, "Fresh meat. I wanna
snatch him fust."
Cmdrtaco wuz bot' nervous an' 'escited as he an' Tyrone went t' wassups room in
da Slashdot compound. When they gots dair Tyrone closed da damn do' an' locked
it. Word. Tyrone den picked down an' threw Cmdrtaco on da bed. Tyrone den
proceeded t'all manna' o' homosexual acts against Cmdrtaco's little-ass body.
Tyrone made Cmdrtaco suck wassups wood. He would also make Cmdrtaco snatch
wassups wood down Cmdrtaco's ass. Since Tyrone had some big-ass ebony wood,
Cmdrtaco cried out in pain. Eventual-like, Cmdrtaco fell unconcious.
Da next day Cmdrtaco woke down wit' bruises all ova' wassups body, wit' every
part o' wassups body in pain. Da rest o' da damn Slashdot janitors wuz in some
similah' state. Cmdrtaco couldn't wait 4 Tyrone t' come visit again.
People are going to buy a phone for a particular purpose, whether it's to take pictures, or listen to music, or whatever. That's a fact that you have to remember.
Or maybe they're buying the phones to, oh I don't know, call people?! Perish the thought.
I give up. The way this content synergy thing is going, my kitchen blender's probably gonna have a Sony-branded web browser and pop-up ads in another 10 years. Hope they've got open source margaritas by then... *sigh*
I think its just an excuse to let us flirt with the hot characters. Or, one would hope/dream.
Yet another signature that refers to itself. The irony and humor is dead.
Think of the possibilities -- I'm sure that 1-900-lara-croft will be popular!
:-(
Of course, the downside is that now you can be telemarketed from deep within that gaming zone
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You've got to forget all the acronyms... GPRS is just an enabler. With WAP, and decent security, and digital rights management, I could, say, have a service to subscribe to get messages for all the goals my football team makes. I could get an MMS with a picture or a video clip sent to me.
Forget all the acronyms? I can't even extricate the meaning of this paragraph through them.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
...provided true game-enhancing functionality is included. Of course to get this, games would have to be initially designed with such products in mind to truely reach their potential. An example might be "universal characters" in a distributed MUD or MMORPG, where instead of the monolithic games we see today, users can move their character(s) between nodes (cities? nations?) of vast, distributed games, nodes built by individuals or small groups of individuals.
Where do the phones come in? Easy to move your character(s) at a moments notice, do some skill/spell botting whilst on the bus/toilet/meeting table, etc. Could also make it easy to take your character to your friends house/PS2 for a session. With net connected systems, the phones could allow for certain gaming aspects to be done remotely, in game chatting for example (MUDs beat the hell outta IRC for in-context chatting environments.)
Just some thoughts.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
Rock! Now I can train my Nokia snakes into uber-monsters to summon into FFOnline!
You make it sound like the VMU was a failure, but it was really too soon to tell whether the VMU would succeed or fail if it wasn't for the Dreamcast's failure in general.
ahem...
Depends on application availability.
... hi bingo
So what? It's a phone with a built-in Pocketstation/VMU-type device, with the additional bonus that you can use it talk to your games. It's just a jumble of traditional accessories (VMU & microphone) integrated into a phone that will likely be prohibitively expensive for gamers who don't need new phones. They also mention customizing phones with Jennifer Lopez digital goodies like ringtones, photos, and website bookmarks (or something like that), which tells me that they're just hyping this thing up to anybody who's interested in any of Sony's other products (PS2, J.Lo, they're all just Sony products to tie-in). Some of the latter paragraphs in the article add up to almost exactly that, quite blatantly.
I don't foresee many game developers chasing this idea down to include in their games, at least, not in ways that can't also be played by using a standard Pocketstation and mic (read: using a physical interface like USB). I doubt remote PS2 access is even being considered for these things; what game developer would ever want to tackle the issue of allowing your PS2 to act as a dial-up or web server for your low-res, low-bandwidth phone any way? Rather, I see some Sony Ericsson execs trying to tie the popularity of the Sony PS2 with their new phone line (bad pun not intended), and that's it.
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It is still the dark of night.
Hey guys, I'm having trouble with my beta copy of Star Wars Galaxies(PS2). When I boot with the Lunix kit, I'm getting an error that says:
/dev/bb
Not found:
But I have the ethernet card config'd properly. Can anyone help?
Also, you were duped into reading this post. Lunis is for fags. FreeBSD rocks your socks. As an aside, I had your sister last night. In the pooper too!
The PC version of FFVIII had the "missing" pocketstation feature of the Chocobo game. It was a seperate app that you could open up, aside from the actual game.
"Oh, what Bill?... Oh, I wasn't supposed to tell them that? Sorry."
I design user interfaces for a free network management application,
The comparison between VMU and this thing is totally absurd. the VMU was made mainly so you could have a separate screen while playing the game (i.e., picking plays in NFL2K series, stats for NBA2K series). when you unplugged the VMU, it couldn't "talk" to the DC. in addition, you couldn't play the game just on the VMU (there were separate, simple games on it).
if the smartphone works as advertised, you could essentially play parts of the game with the phone. i can make trades in Madden while i'm in class! it's would be like a PDA for the PS2 and sync whenever you connect. awesome idea.
Sorry. I actually like those commercials.
No, really, I do.
With just a $300 dollar PS2, a $90 dollar phone adapter, $20 month for Sony's special ISP, I can talk to someone over the Internet! Im going to go sell my cell phone right now!
Ha! Phone sex on a PS2... I think lil johnny will definitely want one of these for christmas!
"I swear mom, it was just a game..."
Me: Please tell me where the secret door is.
PS2: If it was up your ass you would know exactly where it is.
Come on, what is the point?
Me and the bros were just discussing this in front of the hardware store after the 104 threw us out of the CVS parking lot. I said, "How cool would it be to have a phone talk to your PS2?" and Enzo said, "Yeah man, that would be the shit, but we don't even have enough money to buy a TV because all we do is hang out on Fresh Pond 24/7/365!" but then Louie said, "Well, we could make a bunch of cash with this crapflood..."
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(2) CONTRACT FOR THE TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE (TAM) OF THE VARIOUS REFINERIES IN THE COUNTRY.
(3) THE CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE TANKS FOR PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (DEPOTS).
Amounting to the tune of US$255.3Million but was over invoiced to US$290Million. And we deliberately approved these payments and all contractors have been paid with these projects executed and since commissioned leaving the sum of US$34.7m floating in the escrow account of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ready to be paid for the technical services of item number 2 as stated above. Before digressing further I would want you to know that our Civil Service code of conduct forbids us from owning foreign companies or operating foreign accounts while in Government service hence we are contacting you to be part of this transaction.
We intend to use you as a front to get the over invoiced amount of US$34.7Million out of the Government coffers to a designated account by you. Not regarding your field of specialization (investment) you are going to forward us with any company name that we will claim executed the technical services in the turn around maintenance of the refineries mentioned above. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen days of commencement after the receipt of a positive response from you. You are going to get 25% of the fund by posing as the beneficiary of this fund while my colleagues and I will get 70% to ourselves with which we wish to invest in Agriculture and Mechanized Farming in conjunction with you and 5% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for all expenses incurred locally and internationally during the realisation of this transaction, including telephone bills, as a matter of fact you are expected to take a sincere inventory of your telephone bills.
It is imperative to let you know that I am also a project engineer with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C).
Despite researches carried out to verify and ascertain your personality we can only move ahead if you can further assure us of your transparenthonesty,diligency and promise to help and treat this proposal with utmost confidentiality. We are men of proven integrity in our various fields who have put in 22 - 30years in the Civil Service of our country, we are therefore averse to having our image and career dented. That is why we should acknowledge the fact that confidentiality is the key to the smooth conclusion of this risk free transaction.
Awaiting your earliest positive response.
Best regards and remain blessed.
DR LOUIS KALU
--Mad propz to the homies cruisin the CVS parking lot.
I tried out one of those Pikachu tamagotchi things a while back, but it's an awfully useless thing to have clipped to your belt. My keyring is so full of keys that nothing plastic survives on it for very long. I carry around a TRGpro, so if someone wants me to play their game anywhere it better damn well work on a grayscale Palm with OS 3. And quite frankly, a little PalmOS app that could read and interact with a save game from a standard flash card (CF for me, MMC/SD for most other new Palm owners) wouldn't be too hard to write. Oh, that's right, none of the games consoles use standard flash RAM...
Hey, it's been a month since I posted a reply and funny, the site "claims" that it had been 14 seconds since I made a reply? Funny, cause I used a naughty word...yep a naughty word. IF you Taco commanders don't like naughty words then be a man about it and say so and none of these lies about how I'm sending too many posts. It happens EVERY TIME. Pathetic!
Oh great, now I can be in the middle of a meeting with clients when my Tamagotchi will phone me and let me know it's hungry and wants food.
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To all of you complaining about having to carry *another* item, or saying that "it's been done before"... Are you telling me that your VMU or PocketStation could make phone calls, store phone numbers, and have semi-PDA functionality?
The whole point of this product is that you *won't* be carrying anything extra, as the gaming feature will be enabled on your mobile phone. Additionally, because they claim that you'll most likely use the USB cable to synchronize your data, you won't have to have your phone plugged into your PS2 when playing with the PS2.
However, it's not without major snags. If it's going to sell, then Sony has to make it a "must-buy" product for everyone. So... while a mobile phone with gaming functions may work for adults and teenagers, what about kids? I'm guessing not too many parents want their 6-year-old to have a mobile phone just so s/he can play games, then turn around and overuse the mobile phone and run up the bill...
So... then what? Sony would have to make a non-mobile phone version of this portable gaming unit for young kids. Unfortunately, though, once Sony starts selling *just* the gaming unit for $100 or so, then all the people who already have phones won't have incentive to spend $300 on a gaming-phone when $100 will buy them the game, and they can keep their current mobile phone.
So... make the gaming/training ability not too complicated or meaningful, in efforts to lower the cost? Then people won't carry it around...
I've seen consumer spending habits for mobile phones in the last 10 years, and while I'm no expert, I think it's safe to say that very few people are willing to dish out $200-$300 on a new phone when they have a perfectly working one...
We shall see...
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This sounds like a plan to keep up with Nintendo's GameCube to Game Boy Advance adaptor. Same idea, just different device.
Who's using PS/2 anymore? Everyone is using USB. Even Linux supports USB now.
That's right, this is bound to fail, but not for the reasons you're guessing. Let me start at the beginning:
In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud discusses the various levels of abstraction in comic art. How abstract a character is has a great deal of influence on how the character is perceived. Charlie Brown is Charlie Brown because of how he is drawn as much as because of his personality. If Charlie Brown were drawn by Gary Larson, of The Far Side, or acted by Mike Meyers, it just won't feel like Charlie Brown.
If you're with me so far, then it's not too terribly large a step to say that video game characters don't translate well across levels of abstraction either. The semi-realistic Lara-croft would not feel like the same character if presented as a pudgy Mario-esque character. Of course, over franchises, characters do evolve, this is a tricky process, often involving the redefinition of a character. Donkey Kong, for example, is an entirely different character in Donkey Kong Country than in the original Donkey Kong.
There is yet another aspect of abstraction with games. That is, the gameplay itself can be more or less abstract. Ultimately, players have no problem with a 8-bit Mario who can jump 8 times his own height, and doubles in size when touching a mushroom, but in a 3d third-person shooter, this would seem quite out of place.
So, ultimately, my point is that games that go back and forth from 128-bit near-photo-realistic graphics and advanced simulation to 128x128 pixel monochrome display with menu-based simple game mechanics will ultimately not be terribly compelling. This is more true for games whose characters, settings, and mechanics are more technologically advanced and more realistic. It would be like watching a movie with your favorite actors, and then when you're out of the house, getting to see a cartoon version with simplified plot and dialog. Not that there's anything wrong with either form, it's just that they do not mesh well together.
There are games for which this system would work perfectly well (Pokemon coming to mind), but as the industry will not rally around the niche created by this phone, the number of games who will take good advantage of this technology will be severly limited, for good or ill.
ben.c
IIRC, Sony previously mentioned it wasn't about to enter the whole portable gaming domain with a portable Sony system to rival Nintendo's GameBoy series. They always said that cellphones and palms-devices would be where people will be playing portable games in the future.
Nintendo is totally unchallenged in the portable gaming area right now. Maybe it's just feature bloat in cellphones now... but I think Nintendo should be watching this very closely.
This will have little to no impact on the gaing industry. There is one simple reason. For game add-ons, they MUST be standard equipment that everyone who purchases the system will have. Otherwise game companies won't invest the money to support it. Here is an example using made up numbers for illustrative purposes:
Microsoft's (boo, hiss, etc - moving on) xbox features a built in hard drive. All developers can use its capabilities. Mainly this means drive caching and too a lesser degree wma audio. Sony is going to release a hard drive add on soon. I expect very little to come of it. Game companies will be forced to support the PS2 hard drive and user with no hard drive OR just pretend that nobody has the hard drive. Which path do you think is cheaper? In addition, how will game makers know if their game's target market are purchasers of the hard drive? Most likely Sony will only have sales data. ie Sony knows they have sold 1 million PS2s and 250,000 hard drive units. They do not know if it is teen FPS gamers buying the hard drives or the RPG players. Meanwhile Microsoft has sold 500,000 xboxes and therfore 500,000 hard drives. Bassed on this, I expect xbox developers to unanimously support the hard drive and hardly any PS2 developers to support it.
How's this for a comparison:
Sega's dreamcast had a built in 56k modem. Towards the end of it life, sega realeased a broadband adapter. Hardly any games supported it. Yes I do recognize that the system was on its last leg but I don't think that changes anything.
Anyway, Sony is adding a feature to its phone that they can tout and have press releases about. Will developers support it? A resounding no.
IANAGP -I am not a game programmer - just a player.
PS2 RPG developers are considering a new character class, the "Mobilius". Members of this new powerful class can utilize up to 8 3G gadgets, though the character in most cases dies from brain cancer before reaching the 30th level. Can use efficient light magic like "Instant Interracial Porn Video Feed" and "Direct-to-Brain Anime Download". The ultimate dark magic is ".Net Armageddon", which destroys the opponents' non-proprietary information sources, and makes them pathetic license fee paying slaves.
my phone lets me talk to people.
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I love how slashdot can take one obscure sentence from an article with a much larger scope and make a headline out of it.
F******* LOUDER! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! --Ozzy Osbourne
Since Sony was seriously talking about making the Playstation the center of your entertainment unit, how long before you can simply call up your PS2 and tell it to record a TV program for you?
Of course, this might mean you might also start getting calls from the PS2...
Imagine having to tell your boss you have to go home to finish MGS3, because if you don't, the villian in the game will start deleting your MP3 collection.
The p800 is an exceedingly cool device. I got a chance to play with one last week and it will rock your socks clean off. J2ME and MIDP Java applety things are a main bonus but the whole way it's put thogether, the kick ass UI and the quality Symbian operating system underneath it all is very exciting.
The OS is the same as that in the Nokia 92XX series and their 7650 camera phone.
This is exceedingly exciting.
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