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Transgaming and Transitive E3 Announcement
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Breaking news today on the Transgaming website. Today they announced an alliance with the company Transitive. Here's their headline: 'Los Angeles, Ca. TransGaming Technologies, in partnership with Transitive Technologies, unveil their game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86 games to be simultaneously released onto multiple platforms. These include the Sony PlayStation 2, Apple Mac OS, set-top boxes, PDAs and wireless devices.'"
There's more info on the Transgaming Site. Since Transgaming has ported The Sims already, it's a lot easier to believe that this isn't just vapor.
It is official. Netcraft now confirming: Trolling Is Here To Stay
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community
when IDC confirmed that trolling market share has increased yet again, now up to more than
15 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states
that trolling has gained more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all
along. Trolling is becoming organized, as fittingly exemplified by firsts posts in the recent
Troll Admin comprehensive trolling test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict trolling's future. The hand writing is
on the wall: Trolling faces a promising future. In fact the future is so bright soon
Slashdot will be 100% trolls. Things are looking very good for trolls. As
many of us are already aware, trolls continues to gain market share. First posts flow like a
river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader CmdrTaco states that there are
5000 regular Slashdot posters. How many trolls
are there? Let's see. The number of non trolls versus troll posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 6 to 1. Therefore
there are about 5000/6 = 833 trolls. First posts on Slashdot are about 1/10 of the volume of other
trolls. Therefore there are about 83 regular first post attempters. A recent
article put non first post trolling at about 80 percent of the troll market.
Each troll has roughly 2 accounts for trolling. Therefore there are (833+83)*2 =
1832 troll accounts. This is consistent with the number of trolls posts.
All major surveys show that trolling has steadily increased in market share.
Trolling is very healthy and its long term survival prospects are very good. If
regular posting is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers.
Trolling continues to grow. Nothing short of a miracle could stop it at this
point in time. For all practical purposes, trolling is here to stay.
How's he anonymous if you post his email address?
Desperation is a stinky cologne
Mario 3 was awesome. "Giant World" was probably my favorite world, and the minigames were pretty cool too (those powerups sure come in handy later!) Also, it gets points in my book for including a "Mario Bros." vs. mode when you play two-player.
However, as far as sheer anticipation meeting reality goes, Mario 2 wins here. Being able to pick up shit from the ground or monsters to throw at other monsters was, IMHO, a revolutionary step unrivaled until Mario 64 came out. And I liked the slot machine game.
congrats
regards
john jones
Your mom.
Actually, I'm a karma whore ;-)
Who the fuck wants Postal Plus anyway?
Gak, wish I had mod points so I could mod your reply up.
Good points, although I'd never say never if I were you. After all, if they can design an entire virtual machine that can abstract hardware calls to different OSs, I'd imagine that they could do something similar for DirectX/OpenGL.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman