I just want to see arena matches between gangs of these suckers. Robot wars indeed!
Why? It would be like aerial combat has pretty much always been: whoever comes in from the right angle, and fires first, wins.
'Robot Wars' et al. are interesting because they disallow such weapons, and force the 'bots to fight hand-to-hand (so to speak), where differences in the robots' designs and the controllers' skills is actually of consequence.
It's only a "problem" for DS owners who've managed to dig up old (and likely more poorly shielded) televisions, with rabbit ears, and then play with the DS two inches away from the antenna. Hardly something the FCC would be concerned about.
Even then, I'm still skeptical about the claims that the noise seen on the television screen at all resembles the contents of the DS screens -- anyone skilled at signal processing care to speculate on that? The DS' two screens both have a resolution of 256x192 pixels.
Ahh, yes, I didn't even think about that. I was tempted to add "supposing they can get the rights" to my message, but didn't think it added anything, but you bring up an interesting point. Although, I believe the Mozilla Foundation is now throughly divorced from Netscape/AOL, so it's hard to say if the suits at AOL/WB would view Firefox promotion as having any specific benefit for them.
DURING SEASON 2, when Doctor Crusher was away at Starfleet Medical, who was responsible for making sure that Wes went to bed on time and ate his vegetables?
Tidal generators are well-established as having very significant effects on both the silt and the whole general ecology of whatever area of water they're blocking off
...as well as original "Star Wars" games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year. This game will take the (real-time strategy) genre in a new direction and will balance gameplay between the hard-core gamers who buy these games and the broader audience that's familiar with the "Star Wars" brand.
...Because you know the first two unplayable attempts at this were sooo successful. Or has it been three? No, don't tell me, I'm happier not knowing.
It was right around the time those games were made when things began to go terribly wrong. Just plain bad games started filtering through and getting released.
Then, with Phantom Menace came a shift in focus to almost exclusively franchise games -- most of which seemed ill-thought-out, and not especially fun.
The most recent change has been towards outsourcing most of the development of their games and focusing on their role as a publisher. This has had mixed but better results.
It's my understanding that most of the people involved in LucasArts' classics are either long-gone, or have left following the most recent wave of cancellations of non-Star Wars games.
Moore pointed out the dominant position achieved by Nintendo in handheld gaming devices and said Sony's decision to enter the space would be "like developing your own little operating system and saying, 'Well, I'm going to challenge Windows.' "
A quick look at the list just goes to support how in today's market, FLOPS are essentially free while the real concerns for not-embarassingly-parallel problems are memory latency, bandwidth, and energy.
It's worth pointing out that Future Shop, as a chain, is now owned by Best Buy, although they are still run as seperate (though very very similar businesses). One critical difference is that unlike Best Buy -- which likes to advertise that its staff is entirely non-commission -- most Future Shop staff are very dependent on commission.
The DS is being released at the $150 mark (just like the acclaimed GBA and GBA SP), and has a battery life that's reported to be equivalent to or just slightly shorter than that of the SP.
It has a large and growing library of games stretching back to the original GameBoy
No, it doesn't; The DS is backwards compatible with only GBA games, not older GB or GBC. Furthermore, its compatibility with GBA games is limited to single-player and does not support any form of linking with non-DS games.
Well, as others have indicated, Derek Smart has a bit of a history of... saying things on forums. He talks a lot but, well, very few people have ever played his games, and even fewer are brave enough to admit it. For years, he claimed to have a Ph.D.; this was proven to be a lie.
It reached the point, long ago, where saying the name "Derek Smart" in an online forum was it's own punchline. It's also rumored that saying his name three times within a thread will cause him to appear and flame everyone in forum into oblivion... this has actually happened on many occasions.
So, you can understand if people tend to assume that he's not the best person to take over a fondly remembered game series... add to that his threats to shut down an otherwise worthwhile open source emulation project and the bias shown here on slashdot is quite understandable.
There's the slightest bit of story in that the emulator uses a GPLed library to handle save states; the company showed some savviness regarding such matters by not including this in what they released. Of course, for their purposes, it wouldn't make sense for them to include save state features anyway...
But, you are correct. There is no real story beyond the indignation expressed by uninvolved and irrelevant fanboys.
Actually, Soul Calibur II does have such a system in place. Many other fighters probably do too. But the "absolute minimum" damage of moves is still a significant proportion of the typical value.
Of course! They can call it evics, where commands have the same names as vi commands... except you have hit both colon AND escape while holding down all the keys in the command name at once. Plus a couple function keys, just for good measure.
Control was about 8 bazillion times easier in SMB3, for one thing, so even though more stuff was thrown at you, it was easier to avoid.
Definitely. The hardest Mario game, without a doubt, is SMB2j ("Lost Levels" in North America), which combined the sluggish controls of SMB1 with obstacles that DEMANDED pixel-perfect precision. That's a game where you don't play, you learn the rhythm of a level and perform it.
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'Robot Wars' et al. are interesting because they disallow such weapons, and force the 'bots to fight hand-to-hand (so to speak), where differences in the robots' designs and the controllers' skills is actually of consequence.
It's only a "problem" for DS owners who've managed to dig up old (and likely more poorly shielded) televisions, with rabbit ears, and then play with the DS two inches away from the antenna. Hardly something the FCC would be concerned about.
Even then, I'm still skeptical about the claims that the noise seen on the television screen at all resembles the contents of the DS screens -- anyone skilled at signal processing care to speculate on that? The DS' two screens both have a resolution of 256x192 pixels.
Ahh, yes, I didn't even think about that. I was tempted to add "supposing they can get the rights" to my message, but didn't think it added anything, but you bring up an interesting point. Although, I believe the Mozilla Foundation is now throughly divorced from Netscape/AOL, so it's hard to say if the suits at AOL/WB would view Firefox promotion as having any specific benefit for them.
If Spread Firefox ever gets around to a TV commercial, I think we have the script for it right here.
DURING SEASON 2, when Doctor Crusher was away at Starfleet Medical, who was responsible for making sure that Wes went to bed on time and ate his vegetables?
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The Westacular Wes
Agreed. Someone, please, please tell me that the grandparent was a troll.
Tidal generators are well-established as having very significant effects on both the silt and the whole general ecology of whatever area of water they're blocking off
It was right around the time those games were made when things began to go terribly wrong. Just plain bad games started filtering through and getting released.
Then, with Phantom Menace came a shift in focus to almost exclusively franchise games -- most of which seemed ill-thought-out, and not especially fun.
The most recent change has been towards outsourcing most of the development of their games and focusing on their role as a publisher. This has had mixed but better results.
It's my understanding that most of the people involved in LucasArts' classics are either long-gone, or have left following the most recent wave of cancellations of non-Star Wars games.
A quick look at the list just goes to support how in today's market, FLOPS are essentially free while the real concerns for not-embarassingly-parallel problems are memory latency, bandwidth, and energy.
It's worth pointing out that Future Shop, as a chain, is now owned by Best Buy, although they are still run as seperate (though very very similar businesses). One critical difference is that unlike Best Buy -- which likes to advertise that its staff is entirely non-commission -- most Future Shop staff are very dependent on commission.
Yeah, but have you felt how hot those little routers get? That can't be electrically safe.
The DS is being released at the $150 mark (just like the acclaimed GBA and GBA SP), and has a battery life that's reported to be equivalent to or just slightly shorter than that of the SP.
It has a large and growing library of games stretching back to the original GameBoy
No, it doesn't; The DS is backwards compatible with only GBA games, not older GB or GBC. Furthermore, its compatibility with GBA games is limited to single-player and does not support any form of linking with non-DS games.
The final boss will, of course, be Boat.
The game will be unbeatable, and they will not even bother putting in an ending.
Why? Simple: You can't beat Boat.
Well, as others have indicated, Derek Smart has a bit of a history of ... saying things on forums. He talks a lot but, well, very few people have ever played his games, and even fewer are brave enough to admit it. For years, he claimed to have a Ph.D.; this was proven to be a lie.
It reached the point, long ago, where saying the name "Derek Smart" in an online forum was it's own punchline. It's also rumored that saying his name three times within a thread will cause him to appear and flame everyone in forum into oblivion... this has actually happened on many occasions.
So, you can understand if people tend to assume that he's not the best person to take over a fondly remembered game series... add to that his threats to shut down an otherwise worthwhile open source emulation project and the bias shown here on slashdot is quite understandable.
There's the slightest bit of story in that the emulator uses a GPLed library to handle save states; the company showed some savviness regarding such matters by not including this in what they released. Of course, for their purposes, it wouldn't make sense for them to include save state features anyway...
But, you are correct. There is no real story beyond the indignation expressed by uninvolved and irrelevant fanboys.
Atari vastly overproducing a bad game? That's unpossible!
Actually, Soul Calibur II does have such a system in place. Many other fighters probably do too. But the "absolute minimum" damage of moves is still a significant proportion of the typical value.
Hmmm... must not have worked this time.
It's like perl, only older, and back in the day was the de facto choice to perl-ish type tasks on mainframes, OS/2, and the Amiga.
Of course! They can call it evics, where commands have the same names as vi commands... except you have hit both colon AND escape while holding down all the keys in the command name at once. Plus a couple function keys, just for good measure.
Control was about 8 bazillion times easier in SMB3, for one thing, so even though more stuff was thrown at you, it was easier to avoid.
Definitely. The hardest Mario game, without a doubt, is SMB2j ("Lost Levels" in North America), which combined the sluggish controls of SMB1 with obstacles that DEMANDED pixel-perfect precision. That's a game where you don't play, you learn the rhythm of a level and perform it.