And if it does, could this thing be reformatted into some sort of 8-inch laptop? If so, that would be the ultimate portable retro gaming toy - just stick to StarCraft and Quake 2. Who needs a PSP?
Unfortunately, with a PC-like pointing device, it seems like the DS interface is more suitable for more sophisticated games anyways. The Metroid FPS on the DS is getting rave reviews for finally being a good way to aim instead of stupid analog sticks. I fully expect to see a glut of strategy games (maybe even we'll finally get a handheld RTS?) on the DS. The PSP, on the other hand, looks to be just a big-screen version of the same old stuff. The PSP will have the usual Playstation 2 games (now wireless and handheld) while the DS will have some real potential to explore new directions.
Of course, I say that now, but styli tend to make my hand cramp so I might not be good with the DS.
Re: Halo. They had demonstration movie footage of the PC game several years before the X-Box launch. What happened was that Microsoft bought Bungie and the game had to be re-made for X-Box. Also, many people speculate that Halo's weak spots come not from rush jobs, but from making last-second management-mandated improvements (this game is too short! Add more hallways). So, halo might not be the best example.
without even RTFA, my bet is that their top culprit is Peter Molyneux. Then again, even Bungie overpromised pretty bad with Halo back before they were X-Box devs.
I've done this myself - the temptation to talk about the features you've designed (rather than implemented) is often too great. In retrospect, put up or shut up.
Question: how hard is it to make a "throw-away" login? That is, guest logs on, does his thing, logs off, all evidence of his existence is eradicated. Such a setup should be required for public kiosks. Under Linux or Windows, either way.
Alternately, guest can make his own account with password really quickly, which will be destroyed with a month of inactivity. But that would be a frill.
Am I the only one who liked GINO? Not the movie - that sucked - but the monster itself? I thought it looked cool, moved cool, and was generally a very awesome CG critter. Too bad it was surrounded in a seriously crapful movie.
Ick - the problem is that I see office buildings in the middle of summer with all the men decked out in full battle gear and the women huddled with sweaters over their pantsuits. Ever considered how much power it takes to cool a hundred-story office building in the middle of summer, especially when much of the staff finds it too damn cold already?
Take the friggin' jacket off, and get some lighter pants. Want to look formal? Get a vest or something.
Mod AC parent up. Its a typical anti-M$ slashbot, but it makes some insightful points.
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Interesting - the problem is that there's quickly becoming a sea of similar products. Sun's JXTA is an open standard as well, and Microsoft has their own similar p2p system that they rolled out with SP2. How the hell is a dev supposed to pick which to go with? (personally I'm leaning towarsd JXTA, but i'm really at a loss).
Well, that's what I meant - just a bit of the Bob Dole twang is missing. Besides, even here in Ontario, the farm boys don't sound like the city slickers. Superman is a farm boy, and doesn't sound like one.
Full body-covering armour. Couldn't see his face. Still, he was a massive black guy from Seattle so everyone could tell that he was black inside (he sounded like it). Basically people considered him a "spiritual successor". Then they had Shaq make an awful movie of the character ("STEEL").
Other replacements from the "reign" of the supermen: a very confused electrokinetic android, a sinister cyborg, and a teenaged "clone" who was actually just a very complicated genetic-engineering program designed to make a *human* that was as similar to superman as possible. Also, a drunken bartender named Bibbo, as comic releif. And eventually, an unpowered gunwielding hero who just happened to be the real thing, slowly recovering from his "death".
IIRC, the story resulted in the annihilation of Coast City, which is what eventually caused the Green Lantern to go insane and wipe out the entire Green Lantern army.
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Actually, Lex originally had red hair - later on in the comics they brought that back when he cloned himself to fake his own death. Wouldn't mind a readheaded Lex.
And as for Lex - good to hear they're getting a solid actor. For some reason that role tends to attract the most spectacular performers (the Movie Lex and the L&C Lex were both excellent).
Dean Cain was a better Clark Kent, but Reeve will never be topped as Superman. He pretty much defined the role himself.
The only thing is that always strikes me is that Superman is a small-town Kansas boy - so why doesn't he sound like a bumpkin? The actors that play him always sound like East Coast (or LA) city folks.
The problem is that it wasn't fair about stupidity. If there should be an intelligence test for the ballot, it shouldn't have a party bias. The problem was that a retard could vote Bush, no problem, while a retard who wanted Gore might vote Buchanan.
If we're going to have challenges to fill the ballot, they should be the same challenge regardless of party.
I'm in the same boat - I turn off the TV when I have to talk to someone, as it seriously screws with my head to do otherwise. Even commercials. And yes, it really sucks in public places.
Actually, much better approach, closer to how industries do it right:
Put the ISO in charge of a spec, based on recommendations from the UN and US. They design standards and a system for local extensions to the standard. Then, once its ISO, UN puts forth a recommendation that individual nations ratify the ISO standard into law.
ISO is one of those few international organisations that I feel isn't screwed up.
Who needs 7 hours to talk about primitive fileswapping and Trade Wars? This could be good if it were a normal length, but 7 hrs sounds just phenomally dull. Then again, I'm one of those people who gets bored 5 minutes into the average "special features" section of a DVD. Only documentaries that have held my interest for more than half an hour so far were Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent".
I'm not really believing the statistics. Frequently I've called my ISP about connection issues and annoying retrys and they've given me horseshit answers about "you have spyware installed" even when my box is brand new, patched, and clean. Dell may be the same.
Its harsh, but I agree. Evolution has stopped. Undesirable traits like diabetes, lupus and other birth defects will spread further and further throughout the gene-pool as their contractors are not weeded out. Rather than risk a future of enfeebled, medicinally-dependant humans, or impose eugenics, genetic manipulation becomes the only humane solution.
And, eventually we must consider actually improving humanity. Longer lifespans, higher intellect - yes, it seems a dangerous direction, but consider how much better your life could be. Don't you want that for the future? There would be unpleasent transitions, yes. But the payoff could be worth it. Consider the problem of The Matrix and Terminator - machines could surpass us, because they can improve, and we cannot. Why not try and compete?
Hahah, did you not pay attention to the news? There were 10 million votes counted. That does not mean 10 million voters when you've a country with a slap-dashed voting infrastructure. The situation was so messy that Karzai was actually endorsing people to vote as many times as they wanted, rather than risk losing the multiple-voters' support. Voter registration slips were on the black market.
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Yeah, that one guy who says "I don't get what the big deal about the Star Wars movies was... they were fun kids movies, and so are the new ones!"
And if it does, could this thing be reformatted into some sort of 8-inch laptop? If so, that would be the ultimate portable retro gaming toy - just stick to StarCraft and Quake 2. Who needs a PSP?
Unfortunately, with a PC-like pointing device, it seems like the DS interface is more suitable for more sophisticated games anyways. The Metroid FPS on the DS is getting rave reviews for finally being a good way to aim instead of stupid analog sticks. I fully expect to see a glut of strategy games (maybe even we'll finally get a handheld RTS?) on the DS. The PSP, on the other hand, looks to be just a big-screen version of the same old stuff. The PSP will have the usual Playstation 2 games (now wireless and handheld) while the DS will have some real potential to explore new directions.
Of course, I say that now, but styli tend to make my hand cramp so I might not be good with the DS.
Re: Halo. They had demonstration movie footage of the PC game several years before the X-Box launch. What happened was that Microsoft bought Bungie and the game had to be re-made for X-Box. Also, many people speculate that Halo's weak spots come not from rush jobs, but from making last-second management-mandated improvements (this game is too short! Add more hallways). So, halo might not be the best example.
Yes, because right-wingers never banned a potentially lifesaving technology over their silly concerns.
without even RTFA, my bet is that their top culprit is Peter Molyneux. Then again, even Bungie overpromised pretty bad with Halo back before they were X-Box devs.
I've done this myself - the temptation to talk about the features you've designed (rather than implemented) is often too great. In retrospect, put up or shut up.
Question: how hard is it to make a "throw-away" login? That is, guest logs on, does his thing, logs off, all evidence of his existence is eradicated. Such a setup should be required for public kiosks. Under Linux or Windows, either way.
Alternately, guest can make his own account with password really quickly, which will be destroyed with a month of inactivity. But that would be a frill.
Am I the only one who liked GINO? Not the movie - that sucked - but the monster itself? I thought it looked cool, moved cool, and was generally a very awesome CG critter. Too bad it was surrounded in a seriously crapful movie.
Ick - the problem is that I see office buildings in the middle of summer with all the men decked out in full battle gear and the women huddled with sweaters over their pantsuits. Ever considered how much power it takes to cool a hundred-story office building in the middle of summer, especially when much of the staff finds it too damn cold already?
Take the friggin' jacket off, and get some lighter pants. Want to look formal? Get a vest or something.
Mod AC parent up. Its a typical anti-M$ slashbot, but it makes some insightful points.
Interesting - the problem is that there's quickly becoming a sea of similar products. Sun's JXTA is an open standard as well, and Microsoft has their own similar p2p system that they rolled out with SP2. How the hell is a dev supposed to pick which to go with? (personally I'm leaning towarsd JXTA, but i'm really at a loss).
Well, that's what I meant - just a bit of the Bob Dole twang is missing. Besides, even here in Ontario, the farm boys don't sound like the city slickers. Superman is a farm boy, and doesn't sound like one.
Full body-covering armour. Couldn't see his face. Still, he was a massive black guy from Seattle so everyone could tell that he was black inside (he sounded like it). Basically people considered him a "spiritual successor". Then they had Shaq make an awful movie of the character ("STEEL").
Other replacements from the "reign" of the supermen: a very confused electrokinetic android, a sinister cyborg, and a teenaged "clone" who was actually just a very complicated genetic-engineering program designed to make a *human* that was as similar to superman as possible. Also, a drunken bartender named Bibbo, as comic releif. And eventually, an unpowered gunwielding hero who just happened to be the real thing, slowly recovering from his "death".
IIRC, the story resulted in the annihilation of Coast City, which is what eventually caused the Green Lantern to go insane and wipe out the entire Green Lantern army.
Actually, Lex originally had red hair - later on in the comics they brought that back when he cloned himself to fake his own death. Wouldn't mind a readheaded Lex.
And as for Lex - good to hear they're getting a solid actor. For some reason that role tends to attract the most spectacular performers (the Movie Lex and the L&C Lex were both excellent).
Dean Cain was a better Clark Kent, but Reeve will never be topped as Superman. He pretty much defined the role himself.
The only thing is that always strikes me is that Superman is a small-town Kansas boy - so why doesn't he sound like a bumpkin? The actors that play him always sound like East Coast (or LA) city folks.
The problem is that it wasn't fair about stupidity. If there should be an intelligence test for the ballot, it shouldn't have a party bias. The problem was that a retard could vote Bush, no problem, while a retard who wanted Gore might vote Buchanan.
If we're going to have challenges to fill the ballot, they should be the same challenge regardless of party.
I'm in the same boat - I turn off the TV when I have to talk to someone, as it seriously screws with my head to do otherwise. Even commercials. And yes, it really sucks in public places.
Actually, much better approach, closer to how industries do it right:
Put the ISO in charge of a spec, based on recommendations from the UN and US. They design standards and a system for local extensions to the standard. Then, once its ISO, UN puts forth a recommendation that individual nations ratify the ISO standard into law.
ISO is one of those few international organisations that I feel isn't screwed up.
Who needs 7 hours to talk about primitive fileswapping and Trade Wars? This could be good if it were a normal length, but 7 hrs sounds just phenomally dull. Then again, I'm one of those people who gets bored 5 minutes into the average "special features" section of a DVD. Only documentaries that have held my interest for more than half an hour so far were Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent".
Re: 3 and 5.
Look into Sun's JXTA (or Microsoft's generically-named p2p counterpart). Standard p2p framework for identification and NAT traversal.
I'm not really believing the statistics. Frequently I've called my ISP about connection issues and annoying retrys and they've given me horseshit answers about "you have spyware installed" even when my box is brand new, patched, and clean. Dell may be the same.
Nope. I guessed SimEarth as well.
Good god, a Sluggy reference. Now I've seen everything
*bang*
Its harsh, but I agree. Evolution has stopped. Undesirable traits like diabetes, lupus and other birth defects will spread further and further throughout the gene-pool as their contractors are not weeded out. Rather than risk a future of enfeebled, medicinally-dependant humans, or impose eugenics, genetic manipulation becomes the only humane solution.
And, eventually we must consider actually improving humanity. Longer lifespans, higher intellect - yes, it seems a dangerous direction, but consider how much better your life could be. Don't you want that for the future? There would be unpleasent transitions, yes. But the payoff could be worth it. Consider the problem of The Matrix and Terminator - machines could surpass us, because they can improve, and we cannot. Why not try and compete?
Hahah, did you not pay attention to the news? There were 10 million votes counted. That does not mean 10 million voters when you've a country with a slap-dashed voting infrastructure. The situation was so messy that Karzai was actually endorsing people to vote as many times as they wanted, rather than risk losing the multiple-voters' support. Voter registration slips were on the black market.