There is another press conference coming in NY between 9am-11am EST. It isn't know at this time what they are announcing. It is believed that the GBA SP will be announced for the US (since this conference is being held by NOA). Hopefully we hear more than just about GBASP (though I can't wait to buy one of um!)
No...your math is correct, but I would like to know what internet service provider you have that offers you more than 1.5Mbps (or about 192KBps as you evaluated). My current provider offers 512Kbps down and 128Kbps up be default (I am going to start paying more and get 1Mbps down and 512Kbps up). so 1.5Mbps down is GREAT for $17 per month. And then I would like to know what T1's you have been using that offer up 1.5MBps? Cause none of the ones I have ever dealt with do;)
This is far from being a snide remark. He was mearly saying that there is a story on LA Times...but since it requires registration, it isn't worth creating the link. They are simply saying go to LA Times web site, register, login and have fun that way.
Okay. I love linux. I love having the source available to many different partsof my OS and of many of my applications. BUT I AM ALSO A REALIST. We will never get to a point where everything is Open Source. People do need to protect the their IP some times. People have a perfect right to close source their poject if that is what they decided to do. I am very happy that Nvidia is supporting Linux. I love their drivers. Quake 3 Arena and UT2K3 run really fast. All my little opengl apps I using to learn runs flawlessly. Continue the great work Nvidia...close source your drive if you want or if you are required to by other agreements. Please stop whinning everyone, be glad we are getting good solid support!
Famitsu is the for most video game magazine in JPN (and many would say the world). They have four reviews score games on a 1-10 scale and total that for the final score. The perfect score is a 40 in their scale (I really hope you could have figured that out without my telling you). Famitsu has been doing this since 1993 and has only given out FOUR 40's in their time. One of them was to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time....another was given in just the last week to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Miyamato has 50% of the perfect scores given out by them. Every title he has even fully produced has always gotten their highest esteem. Why is this? Because he greats games that are epic. He creates games that are revolutionary. But most imporantly he creates games that are just plain fun to play. Doesn't matter if you are 10 years old or if you are 100 years old. I am a 21 year old gamer and bought my Cube mostly because of him. Glad I did because there are so many great games not by him as well;)
Hopefully this will be a lesson to many gaming companies...hopefully they will release they should support and use API's/toolkits that are supported on many platforms. You can do this without taking any kind of feature hit. There are so many great tools for that support Linux/MacOS/Windows. Here is a list...and this list is in no way complete:
1) OpenGL: 2D and 3D graphics
2) SDL: 2D graphics, 3D rendering context's, sound, input management and more;)
3) OpenAL: 3D positional audio or just stereo too!
With these three you can basically create any game you like
The falling out between Square and Nintendo was based more on Nintendo's not going with a CD format (they want CG's) and that Nintendo basically said they could have done a better job with Super Mario RPG than Square did. Just thought I would mention those points.
What does this mean for Sony's control over Squaresoft? They had a 20% stack in the company but now their stack should be much smaller (since Enix is worth more as a company they don't even have 10% I would assume). Does this basically nullify the pseudo exclusive rights that Sony has on Square? Does this mean we will finally see more development for other platforms from Square/Enix (for my lovely Gamecube please)? I think the options are very interesting!
I had this kind of a thing happen with my domain acbay.net. I was using the term bay to mean a body of water and eBay threatened to take me to court over it! I wasn't doing anything with online auctions. I just didn't want people to have to type www.animalcrossingbay.net....that is just too long! This is crazy...legal departments suck!
Metroid Prime doesn't use this feature at all. It uses the GBA->GCN link cable if you have Metroid Fusion for the GBA. If you beet Fusion and link it to Prime you can play the original Metroid on your GCN. If you beat Prime and link with Fusion you can play Prime in the Fusion outfit. This actually won't be possible with this new add-on since you will already have the GBA Emulator GOD in the GCN.
I figured I should make sense of this post before some newbie actually believed it
If you are new to linux and want a clean desktop to get you started select one of the following:
1) Redhat 8.0
2) Mandrake 9.whatever
3) Suse (what number are they to?)
If you are a bit more seasoned and want to play a bit more try these:
1) Redhat 8.0
2) Debian
If you are a wizard and want real control:
1) Redhat 8.0
2) Slackware
3) Gentoo
These are all my opinion...disagree if you like, but I am right in my little world:)
I was also under the impression that every Xbox had a unique ID associated with it. If this is the case (and please correct me if I am wrong) MS would have no problem at all telling if you were trying to re-register on your Xbox again and say "Stop you money theif!"
The real issue with this service is that they haven't set the yearly rate yet. Next year this service could be 20 dollars a month if MS so desired...we don't know. The other sad point is that they aren't stopping 3rd parties from charging over and above the normal Live fee for their games. Example: Sega has announced they will charge for PSO on Live...so this could get really pricy!
I saw the Sprint ad again and was confused since it was on a Samsung phone;) I might just have to do this. Since I have played the crap outta SMB and SMB2 on my Gamecube!
I saw Star Wars IMAX on Saturday and didn't know until the end of the movie that they had removed the scenes. I seriously thought I had lost my mind after the library scene with Obi Wan was missing. Then after the dumb scene in Naboo was missing (the CG sucked) I thought I had fallen asleep or something! It made me crazy until I found out what happened!
Well...now the Sprint cell phone commericial that I saw with Sega's Super Monkey Ball makes sense. I can't wait to get this. I need more games to ignore my work with!
Why are these linux distrobutions doing this? It seems every day we hear about another linux distro including some form of Wine to allow people to keep using license encumbered bad software (mostly MS Office). I am thankful that Redhat has not done this (I run Redhat 8.0) but has instead chosen to include OpenOffice.org a great office suite that I have had no problem importing and exporting (rather complicated stuff even) from Office97-XP formats. Please, all of you that happen to head up some linux distro....DON'T DO THIS!!! Support the better open standard!
This wasn't just MS. Sony and Nintendo where in on this as well. You will note they are rid of all mod chips and all backup utilities for the GBA (good thing I got my flash cart before this happened). So when you include two other companies that are next door you get some more weight being thrown around.
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· Score: 4, Interesting
This device seems like it would have very limited uses. When I am using my computer for work and play I normally don't have my left hand dedicated to my mouse (like right now, I am typing with it). It is nice to just lay my hand right on top of the mouse and be ready to go. With this I would actually have to pick it up and that would take just a second longer, but it would be enough to irritate I think. Any application where you use your hand exculsivly for your mouse (or 90% of the time atleast) might be a use for this, but then there is a question of control. Do I get fine precision with this new airborne mouse? I have to think I wouldn't...but I don't honestly know.
These have been around for quite some time. I have had to install both the Frontpage 2000 and the new Frontpage XP (I think that is ext 5.0) on a linux box running apache. The interesting thing to note is that Ready to Run ported these as well. Seems like Microsoft likes them for their porting for crappy software. The FP extentions really suck to install, they required you to give apache greater privledges then it deserves over certain directories...but what do we know...I am sure Microsoft has a good reason for make FP seem like a huge security hole!
Sure didn't stop them from sending me a cease and desist over acbay.net!
I think they need to have their legal department look into more valuable things like these Fraud auctions...not my site that has nothing to do with them!
The problems where around 9am CST and last until atleast around 10am CST. The problems were also affecting another one of our employees that uses Cox Cable Internet from DC.
I can verify this issue. I work for a company out of the DC area and our data lines are provided by UUNet. I live in Kansas though and do all my work via SSH to the servers in DC. This morning my SSH sessions would randomly seem to hang. After a bit of investigation I started noticing it was taking like 600ms per hop once I got to the UUNet network. So that is North-East there.
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WOW!!! A whole million? That doesn't even put it in the top five for n64 games. Zelda: OoT sold more than 7 million untils in under seven months! Mario 64 topped the 10 million mark and Mario card hit something like 8-9 million. 1 million is nothing when you are talking about supposedly system moving games. Rares highest selling game for the N64 was diddy kong racing...which was just mario kart with dk characters...wow...that was original of them!
First and foremost, we will NEVER see a DK game on the Xbox. DK is owned wholey by Nintendo. The same goes for Star Fox. Nintendo owns these franchises and will never let them go. As for anyother game by Rare, all their recent games have been floops. There games since Goldeneye have been: DK64, Jet Force Gemini, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Perfect Dark. While some will say each of these games where great none of them sold well. Goldeneye eye was Rare's last great title. The fact that their newest game (Star Fox Adventure) took them this long (even starting as an n64 projected called Dinosaur Planet) should only tell people how bad they have gotten. They have had Cube dev kits longer than most any second party that Nintendo has and it took them this long to make a 20 hour game. Have fun with Microsoft Rare, you surely aren't needed by Nintendo and soon the Xbox crowd will get used to your massive delays and lack of strong selling titles.
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There is another press conference coming in NY between 9am-11am EST. It isn't know at this time what they are announcing. It is believed that the GBA SP will be announced for the US (since this conference is being held by NOA). Hopefully we hear more than just about GBASP (though I can't wait to buy one of um!)
No...your math is correct, but I would like to know what internet service provider you have that offers you more than 1.5Mbps (or about 192KBps as you evaluated). My current provider offers 512Kbps down and 128Kbps up be default (I am going to start paying more and get 1Mbps down and 512Kbps up). so 1.5Mbps down is GREAT for $17 per month. And then I would like to know what T1's you have been using that offer up 1.5MBps? Cause none of the ones I have ever dealt with do ;)
This is far from being a snide remark. He was mearly saying that there is a story on LA Times...but since it requires registration, it isn't worth creating the link. They are simply saying go to LA Times web site, register, login and have fun that way.
Okay. I love linux. I love having the source available to many different partsof my OS and of many of my applications. BUT I AM ALSO A REALIST. We will never get to a point where everything is Open Source. People do need to protect the their IP some times. People have a perfect right to close source their poject if that is what they decided to do. I am very happy that Nvidia is supporting Linux. I love their drivers. Quake 3 Arena and UT2K3 run really fast. All my little opengl apps I using to learn runs flawlessly. Continue the great work Nvidia...close source your drive if you want or if you are required to by other agreements. Please stop whinning everyone, be glad we are getting good solid support!
Famitsu is the for most video game magazine in JPN (and many would say the world). They have four reviews score games on a 1-10 scale and total that for the final score. The perfect score is a 40 in their scale (I really hope you could have figured that out without my telling you). Famitsu has been doing this since 1993 and has only given out FOUR 40's in their time. One of them was to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time....another was given in just the last week to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Miyamato has 50% of the perfect scores given out by them. Every title he has even fully produced has always gotten their highest esteem. Why is this? Because he greats games that are epic. He creates games that are revolutionary. But most imporantly he creates games that are just plain fun to play. Doesn't matter if you are 10 years old or if you are 100 years old. I am a 21 year old gamer and bought my Cube mostly because of him. Glad I did because there are so many great games not by him as well ;)
Hopefully this will be a lesson to many gaming companies...hopefully they will release they should support and use API's/toolkits that are supported on many platforms. You can do this without taking any kind of feature hit. There are so many great tools for that support Linux/MacOS/Windows. Here is a list...and this list is in no way complete: 1) OpenGL: 2D and 3D graphics 2) SDL: 2D graphics, 3D rendering context's, sound, input management and more ;)
3) OpenAL: 3D positional audio or just stereo too!
With these three you can basically create any game you like
The falling out between Square and Nintendo was based more on Nintendo's not going with a CD format (they want CG's) and that Nintendo basically said they could have done a better job with Super Mario RPG than Square did. Just thought I would mention those points.
What does this mean for Sony's control over Squaresoft? They had a 20% stack in the company but now their stack should be much smaller (since Enix is worth more as a company they don't even have 10% I would assume). Does this basically nullify the pseudo exclusive rights that Sony has on Square? Does this mean we will finally see more development for other platforms from Square/Enix (for my lovely Gamecube please)? I think the options are very interesting!
I had this kind of a thing happen with my domain acbay.net. I was using the term bay to mean a body of water and eBay threatened to take me to court over it! I wasn't doing anything with online auctions. I just didn't want people to have to type www.animalcrossingbay.net....that is just too long! This is crazy...legal departments suck!
Metroid Prime doesn't use this feature at all. It uses the GBA->GCN link cable if you have Metroid Fusion for the GBA. If you beet Fusion and link it to Prime you can play the original Metroid on your GCN. If you beat Prime and link with Fusion you can play Prime in the Fusion outfit. This actually won't be possible with this new add-on since you will already have the GBA Emulator GOD in the GCN.
I figured I should make sense of this post before some newbie actually believed it If you are new to linux and want a clean desktop to get you started select one of the following: 1) Redhat 8.0 2) Mandrake 9.whatever 3) Suse (what number are they to?) If you are a bit more seasoned and want to play a bit more try these: 1) Redhat 8.0 2) Debian If you are a wizard and want real control: 1) Redhat 8.0 2) Slackware 3) Gentoo These are all my opinion...disagree if you like, but I am right in my little world :)
I was also under the impression that every Xbox had a unique ID associated with it. If this is the case (and please correct me if I am wrong) MS would have no problem at all telling if you were trying to re-register on your Xbox again and say "Stop you money theif!"
The real issue with this service is that they haven't set the yearly rate yet. Next year this service could be 20 dollars a month if MS so desired...we don't know. The other sad point is that they aren't stopping 3rd parties from charging over and above the normal Live fee for their games. Example: Sega has announced they will charge for PSO on Live...so this could get really pricy!
I saw the Sprint ad again and was confused since it was on a Samsung phone ;) I might just have to do this. Since I have played the crap outta SMB and SMB2 on my Gamecube!
I saw Star Wars IMAX on Saturday and didn't know until the end of the movie that they had removed the scenes. I seriously thought I had lost my mind after the library scene with Obi Wan was missing. Then after the dumb scene in Naboo was missing (the CG sucked) I thought I had fallen asleep or something! It made me crazy until I found out what happened!
Well...now the Sprint cell phone commericial that I saw with Sega's Super Monkey Ball makes sense. I can't wait to get this. I need more games to ignore my work with!
Why are these linux distrobutions doing this? It seems every day we hear about another linux distro including some form of Wine to allow people to keep using license encumbered bad software (mostly MS Office). I am thankful that Redhat has not done this (I run Redhat 8.0) but has instead chosen to include OpenOffice.org a great office suite that I have had no problem importing and exporting (rather complicated stuff even) from Office97-XP formats. Please, all of you that happen to head up some linux distro....DON'T DO THIS!!! Support the better open standard!
This wasn't just MS. Sony and Nintendo where in on this as well. You will note they are rid of all mod chips and all backup utilities for the GBA (good thing I got my flash cart before this happened). So when you include two other companies that are next door you get some more weight being thrown around.
This device seems like it would have very limited uses. When I am using my computer for work and play I normally don't have my left hand dedicated to my mouse (like right now, I am typing with it). It is nice to just lay my hand right on top of the mouse and be ready to go. With this I would actually have to pick it up and that would take just a second longer, but it would be enough to irritate I think. Any application where you use your hand exculsivly for your mouse (or 90% of the time atleast) might be a use for this, but then there is a question of control. Do I get fine precision with this new airborne mouse? I have to think I wouldn't...but I don't honestly know.
These have been around for quite some time. I have had to install both the Frontpage 2000 and the new Frontpage XP (I think that is ext 5.0) on a linux box running apache. The interesting thing to note is that Ready to Run ported these as well. Seems like Microsoft likes them for their porting for crappy software. The FP extentions really suck to install, they required you to give apache greater privledges then it deserves over certain directories...but what do we know...I am sure Microsoft has a good reason for make FP seem like a huge security hole!
Sure didn't stop them from sending me a cease and desist over acbay.net! I think they need to have their legal department look into more valuable things like these Fraud auctions...not my site that has nothing to do with them!
The problems where around 9am CST and last until atleast around 10am CST. The problems were also affecting another one of our employees that uses Cox Cable Internet from DC.
I can verify this issue. I work for a company out of the DC area and our data lines are provided by UUNet. I live in Kansas though and do all my work via SSH to the servers in DC. This morning my SSH sessions would randomly seem to hang. After a bit of investigation I started noticing it was taking like 600ms per hop once I got to the UUNet network. So that is North-East there.
WOW!!! A whole million? That doesn't even put it in the top five for n64 games. Zelda: OoT sold more than 7 million untils in under seven months! Mario 64 topped the 10 million mark and Mario card hit something like 8-9 million. 1 million is nothing when you are talking about supposedly system moving games. Rares highest selling game for the N64 was diddy kong racing...which was just mario kart with dk characters...wow...that was original of them!
First and foremost, we will NEVER see a DK game on the Xbox. DK is owned wholey by Nintendo. The same goes for Star Fox. Nintendo owns these franchises and will never let them go. As for anyother game by Rare, all their recent games have been floops. There games since Goldeneye have been: DK64, Jet Force Gemini, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Perfect Dark. While some will say each of these games where great none of them sold well. Goldeneye eye was Rare's last great title. The fact that their newest game (Star Fox Adventure) took them this long (even starting as an n64 projected called Dinosaur Planet) should only tell people how bad they have gotten. They have had Cube dev kits longer than most any second party that Nintendo has and it took them this long to make a 20 hour game. Have fun with Microsoft Rare, you surely aren't needed by Nintendo and soon the Xbox crowd will get used to your massive delays and lack of strong selling titles.