I dont recall the specifics, but wasn't there another case a while back involving whether it was child pornography when it was a drawing of a child (ie completely fabricated)? This would be the closest thing to a precedent I can think of.
Now that the consoles are getting upgradeable, with downloadable content, upgradeable hard drives, etc. you can upgrade quite a bit of the console, to keep up with the ever increasing game needs. And where in the recent cycles consoles became outdated largely as new game storage media became available, and games required more and more data, now the consoles have the ability to store the game, in part or in whole, on its own hard drive.
The only thing I see that might replace the current consoles soon would be a modular system that could fully upgrade memory, video hardware, control devices, etc.
I dont know wbout the iPhone, But for its phoneless cousin, Id like to see it retain its GPS and Microphone capabilities. There are tones of fantastic apps that dont work because they dont have the GPS antenna or audio mic that the iPhone version has. Also decent file transfer. I had to buy a wireless router and a third party app just to get non-itunes related files on my itouch. If they dont get some of this basic functionality, they are going to loose to Blackberry pretty fast
Who decided that the playstation gets the gold on this one?? This has been an issue for as long as game controllers had been around. Id think Nintendo deserves the credit, being the longest lasting console maker. Hell, I remember wearing the finish off my gold N64 controller trying to get the mythic 24th code on Goldeneye. Could barely hold a pen as school for a while after that.
I fun one I hear about once was an assignment to make a perpetual motion machine. the challenge was to make a machine that would move for as long as possible. The class would see how close to perpetual motion they could get; how long each of their machines can keep going after being set loose. Its simple, measurable, and generates a huge range of creativity. You'll have to limit the rules in a very legalese fashion, banning chemical energy is a good start.
It definitely seems like a strategy game in real-time. But Im not sure it has any of the other characteristics typically associated with an RTS, notably any sort of production to pace the game.
They say its only 20-30 seconds in security, until you realize that Bin Laden reminds you of you buddy's Moses costume last from Halloween when he kept drunkenly telling all the women to "part their legs like the Red Sea". Suddenly your subliminal responses swing the wrong direction and you end up being held in more traditional interrogation for hours to months in some dark hole halfway to Hell.
The "If we can't find them nobody can" defense? Come on, a properly motivated industrial mogul could do it, requiring the intervention of a single MI6 operative to avert planetary destruction.
I have to agree. But even more, I would like to see more cooperative multiplayer in games. So many games have a primary "campaign" mode, the standard game itself with all the effort in large scale maps and objectives and such, but when it comes time for the multiplayer option, it a purely competitive arena style thing, where large differences in skill/familiarity with the game ruin the fun for the noob that gets incessantly poned or for the expert that cant get anyone to play out of past frustration. Some games have accomplished this very well (Halo, Gears of War to name a few), but I haven't seen it much outside of the First Person Shooter genre.
What I wouldn't give for a truly cooperative Real Time Strategy game. And not just a basic alliance, which usually just means a non-aggression and map-sharing pact. But imagine for a moment full resource and control sharing. At that point you can differentiate roles and responsibilities. One person to manage resource and production while the other leads the military defense/expansion. Imagine Spore Space Stage if you could have one empire, with one player as the Minister of War, another as Minister of Commerce, and a third as Minister of Colonization. Or even a good military type, but were you can organize a hierarchical military system, with your infantry, munitions, and strike team special forces. The complexity players have achieved in tactics of WoW raiding or Call of Duty, etc. prove that given the freedom to do so, players will plan, cooperate and organize well beyond what you may anticipate.
They forced this new interface on me a few months ago as a "beta" saying they were trying out a few new features. But despite repeated requests they would not change it back to the old system, or let me remove the side menu.
The problem with it is that the whole point of the canvas idea is an object based interface, but they then force a menu system on top of it, unnecessarily wasting space, and reneging on the entire point. Unless you have a truly huge amount of crap on your page, there is no need for that extra chunk of navigation.
My only hope is that now that they've pissed off a larger chunk of their user base, maybe they will listen and let us disable the damn thing. My voice alone wasn't enough. Which begs the question of why they bother to beta at all if they don't listen to the people.
Its a Conspiracy! The FBI has been scamming millions out of Americans to pay for the robotic technology that keeps Cheney's mechanical heart beating. Now the US economy cant handle it and they've outsourced to China, so they call it a Sting Operation.
Is is that the DHS following me?? *Pulls brim of tinfoil lined ballcap down and attempts to fade into the crowd*
Its called the "Dark Side" because it is never visible from Earth, a blind spot, and any radio signals or other communication from craft or satellite goes "Dark" when it crosses that horizon.
Oh, and The Floyd called it that, so you got a problem with it, just shut up, pop in Wizard of Oz, and get you Pink on.
We're talking more than Conservation here, we're talking Relativity. When you get relativity involved there's potentially more energy in the average toenail than in some bombs.
Oh, and the LHC doesn't need to destroy the universe to destroy our little planet, and it doesn't need to destroy the planet to destroy all life on it. Not saying it will or trying to peddle MREs, just pointing out the fragility of an ecosystem.
At that size it can only be Supergate poised to bring a crusade of pseudo-christian alien overlords to enslave and annihilate all who will not bow down!
Perhaps its a bright object that is moving behind some large, previously unknown Dark Matter objects floating out there between galaxies. They say there is more of the Dark side than Light out there (Insert Star Wars pun here).
Most modern Fighting Games have this in them: Its the achievement to unlock new costumes. The ones for the men will often have new weapon designs and maybe some armor changes.
But for the women, its all bout the Inverse Armor Law. They are the ones that get the thong fighting costumes or the dress that grants the player a panty-shot every time she does a high kick.
Slashdot Mirror
I dont recall the specifics, but wasn't there another case a while back involving whether it was child pornography when it was a drawing of a child (ie completely fabricated)? This would be the closest thing to a precedent I can think of.
Where exactly did he get his numbers? I wonder?
Now that the consoles are getting upgradeable, with downloadable content, upgradeable hard drives, etc. you can upgrade quite a bit of the console, to keep up with the ever increasing game needs. And where in the recent cycles consoles became outdated largely as new game storage media became available, and games required more and more data, now the consoles have the ability to store the game, in part or in whole, on its own hard drive.
The only thing I see that might replace the current consoles soon would be a modular system that could fully upgrade memory, video hardware, control devices, etc.
I dont know wbout the iPhone, But for its phoneless cousin, Id like to see it retain its GPS and Microphone capabilities. There are tones of fantastic apps that dont work because they dont have the GPS antenna or audio mic that the iPhone version has. Also decent file transfer. I had to buy a wireless router and a third party app just to get non-itunes related files on my itouch. If they dont get some of this basic functionality, they are going to loose to Blackberry pretty fast
Who decided that the playstation gets the gold on this one?? This has been an issue for as long as game controllers had been around. Id think Nintendo deserves the credit, being the longest lasting console maker. Hell, I remember wearing the finish off my gold N64 controller trying to get the mythic 24th code on Goldeneye. Could barely hold a pen as school for a while after that.
I fun one I hear about once was an assignment to make a perpetual motion machine. the challenge was to make a machine that would move for as long as possible. The class would see how close to perpetual motion they could get; how long each of their machines can keep going after being set loose. Its simple, measurable, and generates a huge range of creativity. You'll have to limit the rules in a very legalese fashion, banning chemical energy is a good start.
It definitely seems like a strategy game in real-time. But Im not sure it has any of the other characteristics typically associated with an RTS, notably any sort of production to pace the game.
They say its only 20-30 seconds in security, until you realize that Bin Laden reminds you of you buddy's Moses costume last from Halloween when he kept drunkenly telling all the women to "part their legs like the Red Sea". Suddenly your subliminal responses swing the wrong direction and you end up being held in more traditional interrogation for hours to months in some dark hole halfway to Hell.
The "If we can't find them nobody can" defense? Come on, a properly motivated industrial mogul could do it, requiring the intervention of a single MI6 operative to avert planetary destruction.
I have to agree. But even more, I would like to see more cooperative multiplayer in games. So many games have a primary "campaign" mode, the standard game itself with all the effort in large scale maps and objectives and such, but when it comes time for the multiplayer option, it a purely competitive arena style thing, where large differences in skill/familiarity with the game ruin the fun for the noob that gets incessantly poned or for the expert that cant get anyone to play out of past frustration. Some games have accomplished this very well (Halo, Gears of War to name a few), but I haven't seen it much outside of the First Person Shooter genre.
What I wouldn't give for a truly cooperative Real Time Strategy game. And not just a basic alliance, which usually just means a non-aggression and map-sharing pact. But imagine for a moment full resource and control sharing. At that point you can differentiate roles and responsibilities. One person to manage resource and production while the other leads the military defense/expansion. Imagine Spore Space Stage if you could have one empire, with one player as the Minister of War, another as Minister of Commerce, and a third as Minister of Colonization. Or even a good military type, but were you can organize a hierarchical military system, with your infantry, munitions, and strike team special forces. The complexity players have achieved in tactics of WoW raiding or Call of Duty, etc. prove that given the freedom to do so, players will plan, cooperate and organize well beyond what you may anticipate.
They forced this new interface on me a few months ago as a "beta" saying they were trying out a few new features. But despite repeated requests they would not change it back to the old system, or let me remove the side menu.
The problem with it is that the whole point of the canvas idea is an object based interface, but they then force a menu system on top of it, unnecessarily wasting space, and reneging on the entire point. Unless you have a truly huge amount of crap on your page, there is no need for that extra chunk of navigation.
My only hope is that now that they've pissed off a larger chunk of their user base, maybe they will listen and let us disable the damn thing. My voice alone wasn't enough. Which begs the question of why they bother to beta at all if they don't listen to the people.
Its a Conspiracy! The FBI has been scamming millions out of Americans to pay for the robotic technology that keeps Cheney's mechanical heart beating. Now the US economy cant handle it and they've outsourced to China, so they call it a Sting Operation.
Is is that the DHS following me?? *Pulls brim of tinfoil lined ballcap down and attempts to fade into the crowd*
Its called the "Dark Side" because it is never visible from Earth, a blind spot, and any radio signals or other communication from craft or satellite goes "Dark" when it crosses that horizon.
Oh, and The Floyd called it that, so you got a problem with it, just shut up, pop in Wizard of Oz, and get you Pink on.
I guess he couldn't find the 2,5000 people to count on fingers and toes...
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21044/53/ Microsoft has responded with their side.
A friend of mine in North Carolina has the same problem. He lives on Yellow Brick Rd.
"Bosenova!"
...
"Chevy Nova?"
Name that Quote from 1990. Ill give you a hint, He was always the smart one...
We're talking more than Conservation here, we're talking Relativity. When you get relativity involved there's potentially more energy in the average toenail than in some bombs.
Oh, and the LHC doesn't need to destroy the universe to destroy our little planet, and it doesn't need to destroy the planet to destroy all life on it. Not saying it will or trying to peddle MREs, just pointing out the fragility of an ecosystem.
Lord of the Flies reference.
My guess is that the first collision will take place this winter while it's supposedly shut down.
THEY don't want all the publicity when they start it up.
THEY want to control whatever powerful new technologies may come out of it.
THEY killed Elvis and Emilia Earhart, and hide the secret to cold fusion and the low-fat cheeseburger.
If your High School had its own robotics team, maybe you'd have gotten the funding at Age 12 as too
In that case, I'm going with scissors. Sorry, the outcome is now indeterminate...
That only works on 'Paper'...
At that size it can only be Supergate poised to bring a crusade of pseudo-christian alien overlords to enslave and annihilate all who will not bow down!
Quick, Call MacGuyver!!!
Perhaps its a bright object that is moving behind some large, previously unknown Dark Matter objects floating out there between galaxies. They say there is more of the Dark side than Light out there (Insert Star Wars pun here).
Most modern Fighting Games have this in them: Its the achievement to unlock new costumes. The ones for the men will often have new weapon designs and maybe some armor changes.
But for the women, its all bout the Inverse Armor Law. They are the ones that get the thong fighting costumes or the dress that grants the player a panty-shot every time she does a high kick.