immersion is a patent troll. Just like SCO, Microsoft has invested in companies that are suing MS competitors.
"kicking and screaming" implies Sony was wrong. They were right, and everyone who is fair knows it. Patent cases in East Texas are unfair, and microsoft has learned how to use that system to abuse. You come across like a rabid hater of all things Sony, which is of course pretty common these days. I'm sure there is plenty of legit stuff to bash sony over without kicking and screaming yourself over something like this. The PS3 just got better.
Sony fought a PR war and a court battle, and they lost both. But Sony comes out ahead in my book for fighting patent trolls. I wish all companies went out on a limb to make patent troll life harder.
Sony was fighting a patent troll. They didn't leave rumble out by choice, they left it out because a Microsoft funded Immersion was suing them for using rumble that Immersion did not create.
Sony lied that they couldn't figure out how to use rumble and motion sense because they had to put lipstick on a pig. That's lame, but it's unavoidable. You can't expect them to have actually said "yeah, it sucks... no rumble".
Now the lawsuit was settled, sony lost and Microsoft is richer... yay. And sony is the bad guy for finally getting around to rumble? Not really. Sony was too confident and goofed (as usual). But Immersion and Microsoft are the bad guys here.
That doesn't make the 360 any less of a great system (best one right now), but it's going to SUCK if MS becomes dominant. Sony dominated and it doesn't seem to have hurt Nintendo in the long run at all. Mark my words: that will not be the case if MS ever dominates this industry.
For the time being, I'm happy I waited to get extra controllers and happier still that my PS2 games will finally get rumble.
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Maybe you're being sarcastic in calling him a shill... but this review was terrible. Lair is a great game. My favorite on PS3.
It's much harder to control the dragon than if you had a stick, but that's a major plus. When you ride an animal, you can't just manipulate the analog stick, you have to lean and push, etc, and sometimes that's not super easy.
The parent post just pointed out that this review was too lazy to even spell the central character's simple name correctly, much less take any time at all to learn how to play a novel game. All games shouldn't be identical little clones of eachother, and that applies to every aspect. I am sick and tired of 'leftstick-strafe, rightstick-view'.
Lair is a terrific game for those patient and open minded enough to step away from their FPS.
motors use a ton of electricity, so I imagine either the controller uses some extremely expensive batteries or the battery life will be greatly lower.
And yeah, the fact that the PS3 doesn't charge controlelrs when off is crap crap crap. I just use the USB off my computer (which is never off), but still, what a stupid thing to lack.
keep in mind that the PS3 controller can last for several days without recharging... hell I've gone weeks in some cases.
Now that we're accustomed to that, most folks are going to be surprised and annoyed at the understandably (to me) shorter battery life that might still be decent, but not days.
Sony could reduce the size of the analog stick that moved to dpad location. I believe this would be a better controller, but aside from that I love how sony hasn't screwed much with their controller since they ripped off the SNES controller. Now, they have a real brand image that looks nice and cool.
But if it were really this much of an enhancement, why don't I see a logitech PS3 controller in this configuration? I suspect that in practice you might be right about the analog sticks needing to be symmetrical.
I would love it if the battery were user replaceable and the unit recharged, but I'd pick the PS3 controller over the wiimote any day of the week... swapping batteries is usually lamer than recharging, and the PS3 controller doesn't die if you recharge it on a regular basis.
Anyway, the parent isn't that far off from what most folks think.
You know, PC gaming isn't the hallmark of ease and reliability either.
360s have the best games. The best online content. And the worst reliability. It's also the most expensive console (this is an opinion, but I've certainly spent more on my 360 than my PS3 without counting games).
The idea that a buyer of one console is a loser because he values the games over reliability (or he made a mistake in choice) is just ludicrous. Thank God every car is not a Honda Accord. We need variety even at the expense of perfection. Your desire to see one platform destroy the others as evinced by demonizing people who have different preferences is just pathetic.
People who treat other people unfairly, hurt people, who lie, etc... are losers. People who work hard and come home to play a game they personally wanted are what makes the world fun. This weird fanboy fight thing reflects on you, not on the people enjoying their products. But for the 360 the PS3 would be crap and vice versa. But for the PS2, there would be no Wii. But for the N64 the PS1 would not have been so full of variety. You should love the fact that people are buying the 360, even if you play a different platform. Even PCs benefit a hell of a lot from console gaming.
The Nintendo is full of rehashed titles (done very well for the most part), Sony isn't full of rehashed titles but I really wish it were (GT:5 MGS:4 FFXIII will all be the best games on that system).
It's call refinement. You improve as you redo.
Re:Still dunno why all the fuss about blogs...
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The most successful blogs serve the same purpose. If you check Instapundit, you will see dozens of short posts. It's a quick way to get a bunch of stories. Daily Kos is more of a community than a blog, but similarly is a great way to get to a bunch of news stories. That's the filter hub effect Cass is complaining about.
Anyway, you probably are just annoyed at political bias rather than annoyed that blogs don't aggregate news well, as some really aim specifically to do that.
"Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. In determining the value of the property obtained, for the purposes of this section, the reasonable and fair market value shall be the test, and in determining the value of services received the contract price shall be the test. If there be no contract price, the reasonable and going wage for the service rendered shall govern. For the purposes of this section, any false or fraudulent representation or pretense made shall be treated as continuing, so as to cover any money, property or service received as a result thereof, and the complaint, information or indictment may charge that the crime was committed on any date during the particular period in question. The hiring of any additional employee or employees without advising each of them of every labor claim due and unpaid and every judgment that the employer has been unable to meet shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud."
Compare the PS2 to the 360. Which is the better system, the one that is in the average house or the one that has the best performance?
Anyway, this login is only new because I got tired of slashdot a few years ago and forgot my password. Never really got into Digg.com. But I do find tinfoil to be very useful, and appreciate the nice hat.
I guess you have to question the effectiveness of a system like that. There would be millions of false positives (and I do not think that the person would be distinctly a different color from above.
How many people can you see in these new satellite images? Because I can guarantee you there are hundreds of people walking around down there.
Perhaps there was a problem whent he system came out (I honestly just don't know).
But PS2 games usually are upscales and smoothed very well. The effect is a minimal improvement, since my TV is much better too and requires the new resolution, but it is technically a significant improvement.
But to be honest, the ability to play PS2 games is way overrated. I want next gen games. If I wanted to play new games with PS2 graphics, I could always borrow my daughter's wii (not trying to be mean, but seriously PS3 owners want Gears of War type stuff).
It's a small hassle to get your 500 gig usb HDD to Fat32, the only format that the PS3 will read, but this is a much smarter move than upgrading the internal HDD.
I can just move the drive around to other systems and use it to backup things if I really need it for that.
However, with games alone, my PS3 HDD is filling up. And I own hundreds of PS2 games, so it's possible that a massive PS3 HDD will be necessary in a few years.
DRM always makes thing work less effectively and reliably.. . and MS has not been making reliable software to begin with, so MS can be blamed if you prefer.
But, why can't Sony and other computer manufacturers test their installations with one of those genuine advantage tools? If the tool works once and then fails a year later, my point is invalid, but it seems to be that these retailers now know of a potential problem and are responsible for the stuff they install being installed correctly.
Mario and Metroid have been done already, so I usually don't bother with them. The new Metroid does look nex generation, and that's great, but it's still not what Resistance and Gears (two games I don't like) look like. Collecting stars and running from cute ghosts got old ten years ago.
And if you have a PS3, consider getting some of the great games out for it. Oblivion is great. I like Lair (though no one else does), and Warhawk is nice if you don't mind the server problems (that seemed fixed tonight). The PS3 is behind where it ought to be, but it's got more than two great games. Compared with the Wii lately, the PS3 is obviously ahead in software (which isn't saying much).
Often, that imagery is shot from an airplane, which is why the angles are much more severe. You can tilt to the angle the plane was from and it becomes obvious.
If you ever sit at a satellite uplin, you'll see that it usually can highlight changes in the data. In other words, you can see what's there that wasn't last time in a different color. As far as straigh lines go, I'm pretty sure that that would just result in a ton of junk data, and the plane is probably damaged so we don't know the exact dimensions.
Looking for changes is a better idea. But the fact is that the plane could be very far from these images and the pilot didn't activate emergency transpoders, so this is not likely to yield a healthy pilot (or anything at all).
But they do have great people who handle software for processing this stuff.
because it was inclement weather and people are tiny. Have you looked at how grainy the aircraft images are? Obviously if everything were white and you were looking for something with 1% of the area, it wouldn't show up on these images.
Even if you don't like dog fighting, I'm afraid it's still important that people be aware of the issue.
And to refuse to help a plane crash victim because you have to deal with a reseller for whom a dozen out of millions of their products upset you?
I think that's as bad as dog-fighting. Worse, really. I love animals, but in the grand scheme, dogs are shit. People are so much more important. Do you get that mad about domestic violence or boxing? Or african diamond mining? So many things that are worse than dog fighting, but I'm sure you think you're a great person because you boycott amazon's charity work.
So is Warhawk. I cannot stand that shoddy game. The gameplay is ok, but the weapons are boring, there is very little variety, and the server issues have been legion.
I love Lair. It's gorgeous, innovative, and fun. It's a but tough to get used to, but it's an awesome game that I think is far more interesting than Gears of War or Halo or Resistance.
If you were flying a dragon, you would not find a little analog stick coming out of its asshole for you to manipulate. You'd have to steer it physically, which would be a little awkward (try riding a horse). As systems get more powerful and the graphics more realistic, it's a great thing that we're seeing some control schemes that, like reality, are harder to use than a joystick.
I am convinced for once that sixaxis is actually worthwhile (though obviously a gimmic, it's cool to see it implemented nicely).
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immersion is a patent troll. Just like SCO, Microsoft has invested in companies that are suing MS competitors.
"kicking and screaming" implies Sony was wrong. They were right, and everyone who is fair knows it. Patent cases in East Texas are unfair, and microsoft has learned how to use that system to abuse. You come across like a rabid hater of all things Sony, which is of course pretty common these days. I'm sure there is plenty of legit stuff to bash sony over without kicking and screaming yourself over something like this. The PS3 just got better.
Sony fought a PR war and a court battle, and they lost both. But Sony comes out ahead in my book for fighting patent trolls. I wish all companies went out on a limb to make patent troll life harder.
Sony was fighting a patent troll. They didn't leave rumble out by choice, they left it out because a Microsoft funded Immersion was suing them for using rumble that Immersion did not create.
Sony lied that they couldn't figure out how to use rumble and motion sense because they had to put lipstick on a pig. That's lame, but it's unavoidable. You can't expect them to have actually said "yeah, it sucks... no rumble".
Now the lawsuit was settled, sony lost and Microsoft is richer... yay. And sony is the bad guy for finally getting around to rumble? Not really. Sony was too confident and goofed (as usual). But Immersion and Microsoft are the bad guys here.
That doesn't make the 360 any less of a great system (best one right now), but it's going to SUCK if MS becomes dominant. Sony dominated and it doesn't seem to have hurt Nintendo in the long run at all. Mark my words: that will not be the case if MS ever dominates this industry.
For the time being, I'm happy I waited to get extra controllers and happier still that my PS2 games will finally get rumble.
Maybe you're being sarcastic in calling him a shill... but this review was terrible. Lair is a great game. My favorite on PS3.
It's much harder to control the dragon than if you had a stick, but that's a major plus. When you ride an animal, you can't just manipulate the analog stick, you have to lean and push, etc, and sometimes that's not super easy.
The parent post just pointed out that this review was too lazy to even spell the central character's simple name correctly, much less take any time at all to learn how to play a novel game. All games shouldn't be identical little clones of eachother, and that applies to every aspect. I am sick and tired of 'leftstick-strafe, rightstick-view'.
Lair is a terrific game for those patient and open minded enough to step away from their FPS.
motors use a ton of electricity, so I imagine either the controller uses some extremely expensive batteries or the battery life will be greatly lower.
And yeah, the fact that the PS3 doesn't charge controlelrs when off is crap crap crap. I just use the USB off my computer (which is never off), but still, what a stupid thing to lack.
keep in mind that the PS3 controller can last for several days without recharging... hell I've gone weeks in some cases.
Now that we're accustomed to that, most folks are going to be surprised and annoyed at the understandably (to me) shorter battery life that might still be decent, but not days.
Sony could reduce the size of the analog stick that moved to dpad location. I believe this would be a better controller, but aside from that I love how sony hasn't screwed much with their controller since they ripped off the SNES controller. Now, they have a real brand image that looks nice and cool.
But if it were really this much of an enhancement, why don't I see a logitech PS3 controller in this configuration? I suspect that in practice you might be right about the analog sticks needing to be symmetrical.
I would love it if the battery were user replaceable and the unit recharged, but I'd pick the PS3 controller over the wiimote any day of the week... swapping batteries is usually lamer than recharging, and the PS3 controller doesn't die if you recharge it on a regular basis.
Anyway, the parent isn't that far off from what most folks think.
You know, PC gaming isn't the hallmark of ease and reliability either.
360s have the best games. The best online content. And the worst reliability. It's also the most expensive console (this is an opinion, but I've certainly spent more on my 360 than my PS3 without counting games).
The idea that a buyer of one console is a loser because he values the games over reliability (or he made a mistake in choice) is just ludicrous. Thank God every car is not a Honda Accord. We need variety even at the expense of perfection. Your desire to see one platform destroy the others as evinced by demonizing people who have different preferences is just pathetic.
People who treat other people unfairly, hurt people, who lie, etc... are losers. People who work hard and come home to play a game they personally wanted are what makes the world fun. This weird fanboy fight thing reflects on you, not on the people enjoying their products. But for the 360 the PS3 would be crap and vice versa. But for the PS2, there would be no Wii. But for the N64 the PS1 would not have been so full of variety. You should love the fact that people are buying the 360, even if you play a different platform. Even PCs benefit a hell of a lot from console gaming.
The Nintendo is full of rehashed titles (done very well for the most part), Sony isn't full of rehashed titles but I really wish it were (GT:5 MGS:4 FFXIII will all be the best games on that system).
It's call refinement. You improve as you redo.
The most successful blogs serve the same purpose. If you check Instapundit, you will see dozens of short posts. It's a quick way to get a bunch of stories. Daily Kos is more of a community than a blog, but similarly is a great way to get to a bunch of news stories. That's the filter hub effect Cass is complaining about.
Anyway, you probably are just annoyed at political bias rather than annoyed that blogs don't aggregate news well, as some really aim specifically to do that.
Fraud is one type of theft!
Here's California's definition of a thief:
"Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry,
lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall
fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or
her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or
fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of
money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures
others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character
and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby
fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or
obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. In
determining the value of the property obtained, for the purposes of
this section, the reasonable and fair market value shall be the test,
and in determining the value of services received the contract price
shall be the test. If there be no contract price, the reasonable
and going wage for the service rendered shall govern. For the
purposes of this section, any false or fraudulent representation or
pretense made shall be treated as continuing, so as to cover any
money, property or service received as a result thereof, and the
complaint, information or indictment may charge that the crime was
committed on any date during the particular period in question. The
hiring of any additional employee or employees without advising each
of them of every labor claim due and unpaid and every judgment that
the employer has been unable to meet shall be prima facie evidence of
intent to defraud."
It wasn't extremely valuable to me to begin with. XP does a better job.
It's a great analogy!
Compare the PS2 to the 360. Which is the better system, the one that is in the average house or the one that has the best performance?
Anyway, this login is only new because I got tired of slashdot a few years ago and forgot my password. Never really got into Digg.com. But I do find tinfoil to be very useful, and appreciate the nice hat.
I guess you have to question the effectiveness of a system like that. There would be millions of false positives (and I do not think that the person would be distinctly a different color from above.
How many people can you see in these new satellite images? Because I can guarantee you there are hundreds of people walking around down there.
Perhaps there was a problem whent he system came out (I honestly just don't know).
But PS2 games usually are upscales and smoothed very well. The effect is a minimal improvement, since my TV is much better too and requires the new resolution, but it is technically a significant improvement.
But to be honest, the ability to play PS2 games is way overrated. I want next gen games. If I wanted to play new games with PS2 graphics, I could always borrow my daughter's wii (not trying to be mean, but seriously PS3 owners want Gears of War type stuff).
It's a small hassle to get your 500 gig usb HDD to Fat32, the only format that the PS3 will read, but this is a much smarter move than upgrading the internal HDD.
I can just move the drive around to other systems and use it to backup things if I really need it for that.
However, with games alone, my PS3 HDD is filling up. And I own hundreds of PS2 games, so it's possible that a massive PS3 HDD will be necessary in a few years.
Me too (I am weird and just got a second PS3 - don't flame me)
You can get an HDMI cable from Amazon for about 2 dollars plus three for shipping. Just a tip.
DRM always makes thing work less effectively and reliably.. . and MS has not been making reliable software to begin with, so MS can be blamed if you prefer.
But, why can't Sony and other computer manufacturers test their installations with one of those genuine advantage tools? If the tool works once and then fails a year later, my point is invalid, but it seems to be that these retailers now know of a potential problem and are responsible for the stuff they install being installed correctly.
If you take someone's money by using a pirated copy of Windows, that's theft of money.
Taking property by knowingly exchanging a false token for that money is theft. Read the law in your state, they are all very nearly the same.
Mario and Metroid have been done already, so I usually don't bother with them. The new Metroid does look nex generation, and that's great, but it's still not what Resistance and Gears (two games I don't like) look like. Collecting stars and running from cute ghosts got old ten years ago.
And if you have a PS3, consider getting some of the great games out for it. Oblivion is great. I like Lair (though no one else does), and Warhawk is nice if you don't mind the server problems (that seemed fixed tonight). The PS3 is behind where it ought to be, but it's got more than two great games. Compared with the Wii lately, the PS3 is obviously ahead in software (which isn't saying much).
Often, that imagery is shot from an airplane, which is why the angles are much more severe. You can tilt to the angle the plane was from and it becomes obvious.
If you ever sit at a satellite uplin, you'll see that it usually can highlight changes in the data. In other words, you can see what's there that wasn't last time in a different color. As far as straigh lines go, I'm pretty sure that that would just result in a ton of junk data, and the plane is probably damaged so we don't know the exact dimensions.
Looking for changes is a better idea. But the fact is that the plane could be very far from these images and the pilot didn't activate emergency transpoders, so this is not likely to yield a healthy pilot (or anything at all).
But they do have great people who handle software for processing this stuff.
because it was inclement weather and people are tiny. Have you looked at how grainy the aircraft images are? Obviously if everything were white and you were looking for something with 1% of the area, it wouldn't show up on these images.
Even if you don't like dog fighting, I'm afraid it's still important that people be aware of the issue.
And to refuse to help a plane crash victim because you have to deal with a reseller for whom a dozen out of millions of their products upset you?
I think that's as bad as dog-fighting. Worse, really. I love animals, but in the grand scheme, dogs are shit. People are so much more important. Do you get that mad about domestic violence or boxing? Or african diamond mining? So many things that are worse than dog fighting, but I'm sure you think you're a great person because you boycott amazon's charity work.
If it's flying the dimensions are usually far bigger than would make sense...
I suppose that's less true when they are using actual satellite pictures than with overflights. This plane does look relatively undamaged.
Halo is a great example of that phenomenon.
So is Warhawk. I cannot stand that shoddy game. The gameplay is ok, but the weapons are boring, there is very little variety, and the server issues have been legion.
I love Lair. It's gorgeous, innovative, and fun. It's a but tough to get used to, but it's an awesome game that I think is far more interesting than Gears of War or Halo or Resistance.
If you were flying a dragon, you would not find a little analog stick coming out of its asshole for you to manipulate. You'd have to steer it physically, which would be a little awkward (try riding a horse). As systems get more powerful and the graphics more realistic, it's a great thing that we're seeing some control schemes that, like reality, are harder to use than a joystick.
I am convinced for once that sixaxis is actually worthwhile (though obviously a gimmic, it's cool to see it implemented nicely).
It's possible that thousands of eyes will work better.
It's also possible it will just create a flood of false positives, but it's worth getting this stuff figured out.