>Sony sell's PS1 games from their store.
>You can download them, play them on your PS3...
What??? Do it the easy way by buying games from the PS1 download store to run them in your PS3 as opposed to running your old PS1 CDs through an emulator in Linux in the PS3? (and thus not buy something you already own twice)
*** *cue nerd police*
***
"We're very sorry to inform you sir, but your geek license just got revoked!"
Now we can finally see the day when they'll have good games running in the Playstation 3!!!
...by playing Playstation 1 games in it via a Linux Playstation Emulator!
http://www.epsxe.com/
http://www.pcsx.net/
:D
*nerdgasm*
... ...
And then to see just how macho the Cell processor is, we can run Virtual Box in the PS3 then run Win Vista within Virtual Box within Ubuntu within the PS3!
Because this is news for nerds and and STUFF THAT MATTERS! And dude, nothing matters more than NINJAS! These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet! This site is awesome!
Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.cx is now down.
it is now.cz;P
Man, these whippersnappers these days and their rickrolling... back in our day we got goatse'd!
then we had to walk 10 miles uphill in the snow to get to the forest so we could get firewood so we could make some boilingto pour into our eyes after seeing that image...
The problem with Oblivion was that they only had a handful of voice actors that voiced tons of characters over and over again, which made for a horrible experience. Uncanny Valley much?
Also, one thing I missed from Morrowind was that in Morrowind, EVERY SINGLE NPC had their individual unique name, even the bandit NPCs and you really felt it when you killed one of them because they'd no longer respawn anymore and the world was robbed of an INDIVIDUAL.
In that sense, playing Oblivion was jarring because of the generic respawning bandit NPCs you had to fight over and over again which became a really tiresome chore.
I second the motion about Ultima VII. Black Gate for me is still the best sandbox game, ever.
The problem is that there aren't too many of them to choose from, and what's available is mostly meh.
What's worse is that a LOT of the critically acclaimed games which had excellent stories ended up flopping which is really really sad (eg Anachronox, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Psychonauts, etc) and has made story less of a priority for publishers.
My one big complaint about The Longest Journey: man, it was THE LONGEST journey. That game is *LONG*. Towards the end, I was just all like "Man, when is this game going to end? I just want to see the ending!", and playing started becoming something of a chore.
It's really great that Mr. Tornquist came up with a sequel, and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series since this is a decent adventure game franchise.
One thing that was really dumb about TLJ 2:Dreamfall was that the game & story were basically for kids (except for that implied "love scene" that added nothing to the story), and yet Ragnar Tornquist included profanity in the dialogue, which was totally out of place:-/
It was an okay game w/ great designs & atmosphere, but the story was just so-so. Voices were also terrible, which detracted from the great atmosphere.
I hope they get better voice actors next time tho, like Half-Life 2 caliber stuff:)
Actually, turning it off is horrible for the battery. With the newer phones, the startup/boot sequence when you turn the phone on eats a significant chunk of battery power.
Entering the mall, turning your phone off, then turning your phone on again when you leave the mall may leave you with 1 bar less of battery power.
Having had to reboot my phone a few times while out on the road, this has been a frustrating experience when there's no handy wall socket around.
I live in the tropics, and for some bizarre reason, this colony of red ants that have taken residence at our place have started making beelines for my PCs
At one point I was wondering why some keys in my keyboard stopped responding when I found the damn ants had eaten the rubber linings under the keys!
I've now had to resort to drawing circles of protection around my electronics with insecticide chalk to keep the damn critters out...
Moreover, Flash "runs almost everywhere" on browsers, and that's the core strength of Flash. Javascript is a hell of a headache to get running cross-platform with the aftermath browser wars and different JScript/Javascript implementations.
With the increasing number of Flex developers and Flash developers switching over to AS3 and the Flash 9 AVM2 engine, you sir, are talking out of your ass.
Check out all those flash sites that use papervision3d, a 3D software renderer for Flash. That's all Flash 9 AS3.
Picking up is not no one. There's a lot of demand for Flex developers right now (output = Flash 9 AVM2) and it's growing as an alternative to AJAX because AJAX eats a crapload of bandwidth since the Javascript code and XML aren't compressed. Moreover, your front-end code is visible in AJAX.
I use my smartphone in with the free Mobipocket Reader software installed as eBook reader software and am more than happy with it.
My ebook reader being my celphone means I just lug it around everywhere I go, fits in my pocket fine, no hassle.
The resolution's fine too, at 240x320 pixels, it's not much different from the old 80x24-character displays on monochrome monitors in the 80's. Some might say the display's a little small, but it's perfectly fine with me, helps the little critter fit in my pocket better.
With tons of books from Project Gutenberg and whatever else sources you can find on the net, them's a lot of books on one handy little device
The heck with these eBook reader-only gadgets. Maximize your smartphones, guys! Very handy for waiting in lines, etc.
You mean for *visually-impaired* people to use the web. (have difficulty reading small fonts or are blind and need screen readers)
Most users are fine, thank you.
Don't forget that a significant chunk of the Wii games that are pretty popular are just 3D implementations of games that would be just as fun in 2D (I'm talking about the casual mini-games)
Also, AFAIK, console manufacturers receive quite a chunk of revenue in development licenses by 3rd party developers. Flash developers would by bypassing these toll fees to develop on the Wii...
Yep, a fast and up to date Flash Player on the Wii would be extremely, extremely cool:)
This is because Java provides a horrible user experience for the stuff that Flash does now.
Primarily the fact that your browser freezes when the JRE starts loading up and everything stops responding until it has fully loaded.
In terms of site usability experience, that's quite a big turnoff.
Moreover, Flash is really king for front-end applications. Java is really more for developers. It's just really so much easier deploying and building art & multimedia assets through flash than in Java (the vector engine kicks ass for some low-bandwidth apps. Flash bloat is due to poor author opimization, not because of flash per se.)
Finally, coding in flash is so much easier and faster than in Java. less wordy.
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NVIDIAVIA would be one hell of an ugly name!
It makes that monstrosity Macradobia look like Scarlett Johansson by comparison!
>Sony sell's PS1 games from their store.
>You can download them, play them on your PS3...
What??? Do it the easy way by buying games from the PS1 download store to run them in your PS3 as opposed to running your old PS1 CDs through an emulator in Linux in the PS3? (and thus not buy something you already own twice)
***
*cue nerd police*
***
"We're very sorry to inform you sir, but your geek license just got revoked!"
Now we can finally see the day when they'll have good games running in the Playstation 3!!!
...by playing Playstation 1 games in it via a Linux Playstation Emulator!
http://www.epsxe.com/
http://www.pcsx.net/
:D
*nerdgasm*
...
...
And then to see just how macho the Cell processor is, we can run Virtual Box in the PS3 then run Win Vista within Virtual Box within Ubuntu within the PS3!
let's see how macho you are now, Cell processor!
YO MOMMA!
cuz yo mommma so fat, she got two smaller mommas orbiting around her!
I, for one, welcome our new Jack Thompson-disbarring overlords!
No it's not!
Because this is news for nerds and and STUFF THAT MATTERS! And dude, nothing matters more than NINJAS! These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet! This site is awesome!
Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.cx is now down. it is now .cz ;P
Man, these whippersnappers these days and their rickrolling... back in our day we got goatse'd!
then we had to walk 10 miles uphill in the snow to get to the forest so we could get firewood so we could make some boilingto pour into our eyes after seeing that image...
The problem with Oblivion was that they only had a handful of voice actors that voiced tons of characters over and over again, which made for a horrible experience. Uncanny Valley much?
Also, one thing I missed from Morrowind was that in Morrowind, EVERY SINGLE NPC had their individual unique name, even the bandit NPCs and you really felt it when you killed one of them because they'd no longer respawn anymore and the world was robbed of an INDIVIDUAL.
In that sense, playing Oblivion was jarring because of the generic respawning bandit NPCs you had to fight over and over again which became a really tiresome chore.
I second the motion about Ultima VII. Black Gate for me is still the best sandbox game, ever.
The problem is that there aren't too many of them to choose from, and what's available is mostly meh.
What's worse is that a LOT of the critically acclaimed games which had excellent stories ended up flopping which is really really sad (eg Anachronox, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Psychonauts, etc) and has made story less of a priority for publishers.
My one big complaint about The Longest Journey: man, it was THE LONGEST journey. That game is *LONG*. Towards the end, I was just all like "Man, when is this game going to end? I just want to see the ending!", and playing started becoming something of a chore.
It's really great that Mr. Tornquist came up with a sequel, and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series since this is a decent adventure game franchise.
One thing that was really dumb about TLJ 2:Dreamfall was that the game & story were basically for kids (except for that implied "love scene" that added nothing to the story), and yet Ragnar Tornquist included profanity in the dialogue, which was totally out of place :-/
It was an okay game w/ great designs & atmosphere, but the story was just so-so. Voices were also terrible, which detracted from the great atmosphere.
I hope they get better voice actors next time tho, like Half-Life 2 caliber stuff :)
No way man!!!
;)
Pringles cans rule!!!
They make excellent cheap Darth Vader voice modulators!
Try speaking into an empty one with your best James Earl Jones impression to do a Darth Vader.
Makes for an excellent party trick
Hmmm... I wonder what flavoer Dr. Baur was buried in...
Flash has had auto-update since version 8 and up.
Once Adobe's fixed up the patch, they just have to command all players to update themselves to the latest fixed version.
wow. talk about slow news.
This articles is waaay back from May 28, 2006.
Hayden Christensen's been *shudder* attached to play the lead of Neuromancer. DO NOT WANT!
Actually, turning it off is horrible for the battery. With the newer phones, the startup/boot sequence when you turn the phone on eats a significant chunk of battery power.
Entering the mall, turning your phone off, then turning your phone on again when you leave the mall may leave you with 1 bar less of battery power.
Having had to reboot my phone a few times while out on the road, this has been a frustrating experience when there's no handy wall socket around.
Video files are expected to be large and thus won't arouse too much suspicion if you hide your data in them.
Just append bigg-ish data in binary format to highly compressed mpeg files.
That'll keep allow 'em to play in media players, thus avoiding suspicion.
Just remember at what index/byte point you appened it so you can snip out the "header" mpeg file.
I live in the tropics, and for some bizarre reason, this colony of red ants that have taken residence at our place have started making beelines for my PCs
At one point I was wondering why some keys in my keyboard stopped responding when I found the damn ants had eaten the rubber linings under the keys!
I've now had to resort to drawing circles of protection around my electronics with insecticide chalk to keep the damn critters out...
You have sound and frame-based animation. I don't think Javascript will replae that.
Good luck having non-programmer designers trying to do what they can do in Flash in Javascript.
Moreover, Flash "runs almost everywhere" on browsers, and that's the core strength of Flash. Javascript is a hell of a headache to get running cross-platform with the aftermath browser wars and different JScript/Javascript implementations.
That's bull.
With the increasing number of Flex developers and Flash developers switching over to AS3 and the Flash 9 AVM2 engine, you sir, are talking out of your ass.
Check out all those flash sites that use papervision3d, a 3D software renderer for Flash. That's all Flash 9 AS3.
Picking up is not no one. There's a lot of demand for Flex developers right now (output = Flash 9 AVM2) and it's growing as an alternative to AJAX because AJAX eats a crapload of bandwidth since the Javascript code and XML aren't compressed. Moreover, your front-end code is visible in AJAX.
I use my smartphone in with the free Mobipocket Reader software installed as eBook reader software and am more than happy with it.
My ebook reader being my celphone means I just lug it around everywhere I go, fits in my pocket fine, no hassle.
The resolution's fine too, at 240x320 pixels, it's not much different from the old 80x24-character displays on monochrome monitors in the 80's. Some might say the display's a little small, but it's perfectly fine with me, helps the little critter fit in my pocket better.
With tons of books from Project Gutenberg and whatever else sources you can find on the net, them's a lot of books on one handy little device
The heck with these eBook reader-only gadgets. Maximize your smartphones, guys! Very handy for waiting in lines, etc.
You mean for *visually-impaired* people to use the web. (have difficulty reading small fonts or are blind and need screen readers) Most users are fine, thank you.
Don't forget that a significant chunk of the Wii games that are pretty popular are just 3D implementations of games that would be just as fun in 2D (I'm talking about the casual mini-games)
Also, AFAIK, console manufacturers receive quite a chunk of revenue in development licenses by 3rd party developers. Flash developers would by bypassing these toll fees to develop on the Wii...
Yep, a fast and up to date Flash Player on the Wii would be extremely, extremely cool :)
A large contributing factor to MS Dominance in the desktop because of piracy.
Piracy is actually pretty beneficial to MS because a very huge user base (areas where piracy is rampant) get used to and locked in to windows.
This is because Java provides a horrible user experience for the stuff that Flash does now.
Primarily the fact that your browser freezes when the JRE starts loading up and everything stops responding until it has fully loaded.
In terms of site usability experience, that's quite a big turnoff.
Moreover, Flash is really king for front-end applications. Java is really more for developers. It's just really so much easier deploying and building art & multimedia assets through flash than in Java (the vector engine kicks ass for some low-bandwidth apps. Flash bloat is due to poor author opimization, not because of flash per se.)
Finally, coding in flash is so much easier and faster than in Java. less wordy.