I've been to E3 four or five times. This year I went as a freelance writer. I was most interested in mobile technology and massively-multiplayer games in Asia, since the awesome asskicking alien sequel games are more of a sure thing, and I'm still trying to learn about new stuff.
The best stuff I saw was in Kentia Hall, the night market underbelly of the high-profile action upstairs. I wrote about it here, with photos:
Japanese Low and High Tech Toilets Reviewed
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Best High-Tech Toilet?
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· Score: 2, Funny
Japan has both very high-end, high-tech toilets, and low-end squat-over-a-hole-in-the-floor toilets as well. I've had a chance to use both, and I posted some reviews, with pictures!
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/toilets/
About the electric toilets, the basic feature that's quite common, even without the spray, etc, is a heated toilet seat. Which makes a lot of sense and makes for great comfort first thing on a winter morning. There are a lot of heated toilet seats without all the gadgetry here, and when I visit home and my buttocks shiver when I sit I appreciate these devices. Of course it's all superfluous, nothing totally necessary, just like toilet paper, right? You can always use one of your hands and then wash it afterwards. But as long as you're going to go for comfort, you might as well have heated toilet seats as well as toilet paper.
Justin Hall here, I did try to register fuck.com in 1994 and I met reistance at all channels, until I finally spoke with Jon Postel on the phone to get an ultimate no. I couldn't get much of a reason out of him until I met him in person at the Rand Corporation, and he told me that if he let me have fuck.com, he might lose his power to distribute domains. I didn't have much of an arguement against that, because I didn't see why he should be personally responsible for the domain name registration, and he wasn't talking about it.
Since I did attempt to register it early, perhaps I could fight to lay claim to it these days. It certainly would be fun to have! Right now I'm trying to pay my bills, play computer games, and make sweet love to my woman, so if I get all that done, maybe I'll call up a lawyer.
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The best stuff I saw was in Kentia Hall, the night market underbelly of the high-profile action upstairs. I wrote about it here, with photos:
E303: Kentia - Where Gamers Fear to Tread
It's good to hear that some gamers are having a good time in the Sims Online - other user reviews have been less excited about the experience.
Here's a short piece about the fallout in reaction to this most-touted game release: Sims Online: Be a PAYtester?
Japan has both very high-end, high-tech toilets, and low-end squat-over-a-hole-in-the-floor toilets as well. I've had a chance to use both, and I posted some reviews, with pictures!
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/toilets/
About the electric toilets, the basic feature that's quite common, even without the spray, etc, is a heated toilet seat. Which makes a lot of sense and makes for great comfort first thing on a winter morning. There are a lot of heated toilet seats without all the gadgetry here, and when I visit home and my buttocks shiver when I sit I appreciate these devices. Of course it's all superfluous, nothing totally necessary, just like toilet paper, right? You can always use one of your hands and then wash it afterwards. But as long as you're going to go for comfort, you might as well have heated toilet seats as well as toilet paper.
Since I did attempt to register it early, perhaps I could fight to lay claim to it these days. It certainly would be fun to have! Right now I'm trying to pay my bills, play computer games, and make sweet love to my woman, so if I get all that done, maybe I'll call up a lawyer.
I wrote up the quest here:
http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html