This game sounds like a combination of several types of games that I love. However, what sounds great on paper doesn't necessarily translate into a good final product. Any screenshots anybody? Is this vapor or are we really going to see a unique game on the PC for once, as opposed to yet another tactical first person shooter?
Nautilus is still slow and crashes all the time. Hell, the file alteration monitor is also _still_ broken. Save a file to your desktop and it doesn't show up without a manual refresh of the desktop. Evolution is notorious for sucking up hundreds of megs of RAM and slow performance... it also locks up every now and then. Oh and I love how the terminal has had the same damn bug for years now! In a maximized window, scrolling can cause the text to become unreadable.
However, the biggest pain in Gnome has got to be Nautilus. It has always been and continues to be slow, buggy, crash proned, and a memory hog. Don't even get me started on the "spatial mode" crap, which is forced down our throats.
Why not tax talking? What about taxing downloading between two computers on a LAN? What is considered "downloading"? Technically one router on the internet is downloading data from another router, all the time. Is that going to be taxed?
I am waiting for an LCD or OLED touch screen display that can provide tactile feedback. Idealy, it would be nice to be able to dynamically define in software that certain parts of the screen are raised. Then the programmer could implement real buttons that could be graphically depicted and physically raised so that fingers could feel them. Once pressed, the software could even temporarily eliminate the raise level to give full tactile feedback of a button press.
Only then would touch-screen only interface be a good idea for a phone, IMO.
Uhhh, Atari invented the concept of a console gaming system with 3rd party developed games sold on ROM cartridges... something Nintendo later copied. Your post is nothing more than pure Nintendo fanboyism.
You said it yourself. The GBA's screen can get larger without increasing the size of the overall system. Sure it is not a huge increase, but it would significant when the screen is so small. The GBA SP has horrible sound and yes, it would be possible and important to improve it.
Furthermore, improved processing does not necessarily necessitate new controls or 3D. Do all of the digitally controlled 2D games become not fun for some reason? Even with 3D graphics, a good control scheme can be accomlpished with a digital-direction pad.
If the resultant system is much larger than a GBA SP or has far worse battery life, then it isn't very portable at all... and hence is a failure as a portable system.
1. Install Firefox. 2. Enable popup blocking 3. Install Adblock 4. Install filter rule set for Adblock.
Every now and then, Adblock lets an ad through, but you can just right-click it and select "block ad", which augments your filter rule set. Now a real killer feature for Adblock would be for it to somehow filter ad indirection pages, i.e. you go to a page but are indirected through a page with a giant ad. Currently that page will look mostly empty because Adblock blocks the giant banner, but maybe Adblock could be improved to auto-skip to the next page... which should be easy to find because it is the redirect URL.
If slashdot disappears, people will just go back to talking about nerdy things on Usenet. Just because they will read slashdot doesn't mean they will care much of they read the same stuff, but on Usenet.
The bigger, better SP that you speak of, however, would simply be a PSP
Uhhh, no. I said that the same size, weight, and battery life of the SP should stay, with improvements in screen size, speakers, and processing. The PSP is significantly larger, heavier, and has terrible 1-2 hour battery life. The Gameboy Advance SP's battery life is around 15-20 hours. One has acceptable battery life, the other has unacceptable battery life.
Seriously, what am I supposed to see? I am running Firefox and popup blocking and adblock... so I don't see any ads, if that is what you were referring to.
Actually, Nintendo's Gameboy line has had many would-be challengers:
1. Atari Lynx 2. Turbo Express 3. Sega Game Gear 4. Sega Nomad 5. Wonderswan 6. Neogeo Pocket...and a few more I am forgetting about at the moment. However, I think Nintendo has strayed too far from the pack with the DS. The double-screen thing is lame and most games don't use it for anything worthwhile. Typically it is used for horrible huds or even worse, one screen is useful and the other could be completely forgotten. The DS screams Virtual Boy 2... Nintendo's biggest failure.
It would have been more wise for Nintendo to refine the GBA SP. Keep the same size and battery life, but increase the processing power, screen size, add stereo speakers, and built-in wireless.
Instead Nintendo made something big and heavy with tons of wasted space and a wasted screen.
The characters were balanced. In time trial Kong and Bowser are the best. In match and GP, the Mario bros are the best. In battle it is a toss up between the Mario Bros and the little guys: koopa and toad... though I have seen really good battle players use the princess/yoshi... but I am not convinced.
Why the hell did Redhat adopt yum as standard as opposed to apt? Apt was in widespread use since Redhat 8 and 9 via great sites like FreshRPMs. I continued to use apt for RPM with FC1, FC2, and now Fedora Core 3... but for some reason Fedora is trying to push yum onto me?
What is wrong with apt? It is used on far more distros than yum. It is faster than yum, has more repositories, and has more GUI frontends.
yum is a perfect example of what I do not like about Fedora... that and Gnome.
Ok let me take a serious shot here. YUM sucks and apt (for deb or for RPM is better). I have no idea why Redhat chose to use YUM when APT for RPM was already in wide use for Redhat 8, 9, FC1, etc. APT also has a handful of useful GUI frontends, I prefer Synaptic, but there are others. YUM on the other hand is slower, lacks a frontend (last time I checked at least), and has many other disadvantages mainly being that it is less widespread than YUM. APT is standard on every single Debian based distro and there are tons of them.
If Redhat really wanted to make Linux more unified, they should have chosen and stuck with APT for RPM as the standard repository manager.
I guess I am mostly refering to battle mode. The sequals made it far too easy to get combo hits on your opponents because they let you pick up multiple attack weapons at a time. The original battle mode required you to attack your opponent when you had the ability to quickly pick up an item (or two if the one you pickup sucks) and then attack with that.
The items you get in racing was greatly influenced in the sequal games by your position in the race. So even in match races, little racing was done, and it was more about staying a very close second so that you could get a good item and use it at the last second. The problem is your opponent will try to do the same thing... and the entire race degenerates into nothing.
The original Super Mario Kart for the SNES was the best of the series. It was down hill after that. The entire game became newbiefied. The graphics and sound improved, sure, but the gameplay got allot worse.
They regularly call for the mass extermination of Muslims, ethnic cleansing of the USA, etc. That includes racism, as well as a slew of other bad stuff.
I will believe it when I see it. AI is a field known to be big on promises and little on delivery. Periodically the field of AI gets hyped up, only to let everybody down. The entire field borders on being full of cranks.
You have got to be kidding me. Do you know anything about he current state of vision recognition? A picture containing a large red car and a large woman in a red dress are nearly identical to a computer. Facial recognition is easily defeated if the target people just slightly turn their face to the side or down or up.
Even voice recognition is still pretty bad. Say something with an accent, and you can forget about proper recognition, unless you spend huge effort tweaking the recognizer for each different accent and then tell it the accent you are using before hand.
Just imagine if a "game reviewer" spent 50 hours playing Chess when it was first released hundreds of years ago. I bet these professional "game reviewers" would have bagged the game as simple, shallow, and boring... with a need for improved graphics and sound. The truth is that some games can only be properly reviewed after playing them for an extremely long time. The way Chess was played changed over the years. Similarly for many other video games.
The way people play Pacman for example, is very different from they way it was played when it was first released because people realized you could memorize the movement patterns: hence the gameplay turned out to be not as good as people originally thought.
Similarly for multiplayer games like Quakeworld, where it took months for people to figure out basic rocket jumping and then years to completely figure out other types of trick movement such as strafe jumping, bunny hopping, accel running, forward rocket jumping, etc. The game is played almost completely differently than then. Now acrobatic skills as well as map skills are the big determining factor in who wins, as opposed to just good aim.
I could go on and on. Some games just keep getting better, the more you learn how to play them, like Chess and Quakeworld. Other games become decidedly shallow, like Pacman.
Good games, and by that I mean games that aren't like crappy movies that you need to press buttons to keep advancing the plot, can't be reviewed as if they were 50 hour movies. A real review would be made after at least several months of playing the game constantly. Of course, you can usually recognize a real stinker within a few minutes of playing: buggy, incomplete, etc.
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This game sounds like a combination of several types of games that I love. However, what sounds great on paper doesn't necessarily translate into a good final product. Any screenshots anybody? Is this vapor or are we really going to see a unique game on the PC for once, as opposed to yet another tactical first person shooter?
Nautilus is still slow and crashes all the time. Hell, the file alteration monitor is also _still_ broken. Save a file to your desktop and it doesn't show up without a manual refresh of the desktop. Evolution is notorious for sucking up hundreds of megs of RAM and slow performance... it also locks up every now and then. Oh and I love how the terminal has had the same damn bug for years now! In a maximized window, scrolling can cause the text to become unreadable.
However, the biggest pain in Gnome has got to be Nautilus. It has always been and continues to be slow, buggy, crash proned, and a memory hog. Don't even get me started on the "spatial mode" crap, which is forced down our throats.
Why not tax talking?
What about taxing downloading between two computers on a LAN?
What is considered "downloading"? Technically one router on the internet is downloading data from another router, all the time. Is that going to be taxed?
Why would you care what language the program is written in. Assuming it runs efficiently on your system, shouldn't that be all that matters?
I am waiting for an LCD or OLED touch screen display that can provide tactile feedback. Idealy, it would be nice to be able to dynamically define in software that certain parts of the screen are raised. Then the programmer could implement real buttons that could be graphically depicted and physically raised so that fingers could feel them. Once pressed, the software could even temporarily eliminate the raise level to give full tactile feedback of a button press.
Only then would touch-screen only interface be a good idea for a phone, IMO.
Uhhh, Atari invented the concept of a console gaming system with 3rd party developed games sold on ROM cartridges... something Nintendo later copied. Your post is nothing more than pure Nintendo fanboyism.
You said it yourself. The GBA's screen can get larger without increasing the size of the overall system. Sure it is not a huge increase, but it would significant when the screen is so small. The GBA SP has horrible sound and yes, it would be possible and important to improve it.
Furthermore, improved processing does not necessarily necessitate new controls or 3D. Do all of the digitally controlled 2D games become not fun for some reason? Even with 3D graphics, a good control scheme can be accomlpished with a digital-direction pad.
If the resultant system is much larger than a GBA SP or has far worse battery life, then it isn't very portable at all... and hence is a failure as a portable system.
1. Install Firefox.
2. Enable popup blocking
3. Install Adblock
4. Install filter rule set for Adblock.
Every now and then, Adblock lets an ad through, but you can just right-click it and select "block ad", which augments your filter rule set. Now a real killer feature for Adblock would be for it to somehow filter ad indirection pages, i.e. you go to a page but are indirected through a page with a giant ad. Currently that page will look mostly empty because Adblock blocks the giant banner, but maybe Adblock could be improved to auto-skip to the next page... which should be easy to find because it is the redirect URL.
If slashdot disappears, people will just go back to talking about nerdy things on Usenet. Just because they will read slashdot doesn't mean they will care much of they read the same stuff, but on Usenet.
Uhhh, no. I said that the same size, weight, and battery life of the SP should stay, with improvements in screen size, speakers, and processing. The PSP is significantly larger, heavier, and has terrible 1-2 hour battery life. The Gameboy Advance SP's battery life is around 15-20 hours. One has acceptable battery life, the other has unacceptable battery life.
Seriously, what am I supposed to see? I am running Firefox and popup blocking and adblock... so I don't see any ads, if that is what you were referring to.
Actually, Nintendo's Gameboy line has had many would-be challengers:
...and a few more I am forgetting about at the moment. However, I think Nintendo has strayed too far from the pack with the DS. The double-screen thing is lame and most games don't use it for anything worthwhile. Typically it is used for horrible huds or even worse, one screen is useful and the other could be completely forgotten. The DS screams Virtual Boy 2... Nintendo's biggest failure.
1. Atari Lynx
2. Turbo Express
3. Sega Game Gear
4. Sega Nomad
5. Wonderswan
6. Neogeo Pocket
It would have been more wise for Nintendo to refine the GBA SP. Keep the same size and battery life, but increase the processing power, screen size, add stereo speakers, and built-in wireless.
Instead Nintendo made something big and heavy with tons of wasted space and a wasted screen.
Yes and WMDs are in Iraq, Sadaam was involved in 911, and Bush is fiscally responsible.
The characters were balanced. In time trial Kong and Bowser are the best. In match and GP, the Mario bros are the best. In battle it is a toss up between the Mario Bros and the little guys: koopa and toad... though I have seen really good battle players use the princess/yoshi... but I am not convinced.
Why the hell did Redhat adopt yum as standard as opposed to apt? Apt was in widespread use since Redhat 8 and 9 via great sites like FreshRPMs. I continued to use apt for RPM with FC1, FC2, and now Fedora Core 3... but for some reason Fedora is trying to push yum onto me?
What is wrong with apt? It is used on far more distros than yum. It is faster than yum, has more repositories, and has more GUI frontends.
yum is a perfect example of what I do not like about Fedora... that and Gnome.
Ok let me take a serious shot here. YUM sucks and apt (for deb or for RPM is better). I have no idea why Redhat chose to use YUM when APT for RPM was already in wide use for Redhat 8, 9, FC1, etc. APT also has a handful of useful GUI frontends, I prefer Synaptic, but there are others. YUM on the other hand is slower, lacks a frontend (last time I checked at least), and has many other disadvantages mainly being that it is less widespread than YUM. APT is standard on every single Debian based distro and there are tons of them.
If Redhat really wanted to make Linux more unified, they should have chosen and stuck with APT for RPM as the standard repository manager.
I guess I am mostly refering to battle mode. The sequals made it far too easy to get combo hits on your opponents because they let you pick up multiple attack weapons at a time. The original battle mode required you to attack your opponent when you had the ability to quickly pick up an item (or two if the one you pickup sucks) and then attack with that.
The items you get in racing was greatly influenced in the sequal games by your position in the race. So even in match races, little racing was done, and it was more about staying a very close second so that you could get a good item and use it at the last second. The problem is your opponent will try to do the same thing... and the entire race degenerates into nothing.
The original Super Mario Kart for the SNES was the best of the series. It was down hill after that. The entire game became newbiefied. The graphics and sound improved, sure, but the gameplay got allot worse.
The original NES is about 1/2 the size of an Xbox and a small fraction of its weight. So, no, I am sorry, but the Xbox is a fat and heavy console.
They regularly call for the mass extermination of Muslims, ethnic cleansing of the USA, etc. That includes racism, as well as a slew of other bad stuff.
Doesn't work for me either.
I will believe it when I see it. AI is a field known to be big on promises and little on delivery. Periodically the field of AI gets hyped up, only to let everybody down. The entire field borders on being full of cranks.
You have got to be kidding me. Do you know anything about he current state of vision recognition? A picture containing a large red car and a large woman in a red dress are nearly identical to a computer. Facial recognition is easily defeated if the target people just slightly turn their face to the side or down or up.
Even voice recognition is still pretty bad. Say something with an accent, and you can forget about proper recognition, unless you spend huge effort tweaking the recognizer for each different accent and then tell it the accent you are using before hand.
Commercial DVRs do not automatically remove commercials.
Just imagine if a "game reviewer" spent 50 hours playing Chess when it was first released hundreds of years ago. I bet these professional "game reviewers" would have bagged the game as simple, shallow, and boring... with a need for improved graphics and sound. The truth is that some games can only be properly reviewed after playing them for an extremely long time. The way Chess was played changed over the years. Similarly for many other video games.
The way people play Pacman for example, is very different from they way it was played when it was first released because people realized you could memorize the movement patterns: hence the gameplay turned out to be not as good as people originally thought.
Similarly for multiplayer games like Quakeworld, where it took months for people to figure out basic rocket jumping and then years to completely figure out other types of trick movement such as strafe jumping, bunny hopping, accel running, forward rocket jumping, etc. The game is played almost completely differently than then. Now acrobatic skills as well as map skills are the big determining factor in who wins, as opposed to just good aim.
I could go on and on. Some games just keep getting better, the more you learn how to play them, like Chess and Quakeworld. Other games become decidedly shallow, like Pacman.
Good games, and by that I mean games that aren't like crappy movies that you need to press buttons to keep advancing the plot, can't be reviewed as if they were 50 hour movies. A real review would be made after at least several months of playing the game constantly. Of course, you can usually recognize a real stinker within a few minutes of playing: buggy, incomplete, etc.