If I remember correctly, Russia made a grab long long time ago at claiming the North Pole as part of if its waters. I can't remember the reasoning clearly, but it had to do with something about its continental shelf managing to stuck itself some distance off. If the bid went through, then I guess a good chunk of the Arctic is considered Russian domain.
Yes, Valve may have made games with such graphics, but realize they aren't the only ones using the Source engine. There are mods that make very good use of the engine, such as the newly released Neotokyo.
What does surprise me, is that people are letting their kids play on websites while logged in as administrator. How computer savvy do you have to be to realize this is a bad idea. Admin on their own computer, maybe. If you make them clean up their own mess and just smile when they lose their Neopet.
Speaking from personal experience, it takes quite a bit of savvy in order to figure it out. A lot of times, it takes an incident for them to figure out. A long while ago, my girlfriend 's little brother accidentally downloaded a ton of viruses and such (I never asked specifics, she was on a raging rant when she told me and didn't want to interrupt) and her parents removed admin status from both her and her brother's account (she needed admin access so she could get the programming software installed). That was after a long while of banning them until they could figure out how to make sure he didn't screw up again, of course.
Wow, it's weird how forgot about Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 and Okami, especially since I have the former and my girlfriend often talks about the latter. But yes, they are really good games.
However, what I find sad is that for every Okami and the likes out there, there's upwards of 20 or more gimmicky or worse games out there. I know a couple of kids who stopped playing with their Wii since not even they could find a decent game with all the cheap stuff that's flooding the market.
I don't think Nintendo never marketed it as such. It only said that game devs can now reach out to a broader audience, and I think that the devs have taken that suggestion too far.
As for zombie-bashing, I've heard rumors about a watered-down Dead Rising for the Wii.
While I'm no Sega/EA fanboy, I'm honestly getting sick of all the kiddie titles and messed-up ports when I pass the Wii section. My Wii is dusting right now, as the only games I ever play seriously with it are SSBB and Metroid Prime 3. From what I've seen, the "targeting family/casual/new gamer" stuff has gone overboard, with a lot of game companies getting tunnel vision in trying to get new audiences and as a result have abandoned the old.
Yeah, call it a crazy theory and call me cynical for thinking that Chinese government wants even more control over the citizens, but the exploit found allowed an attacker to remotely control any system running the software. My guess the coders need more time to "fix" that issue and implement another hole for the government to take even more control.
I won't be buying a first generation one of these, it's bound to have a tonne of bugs.
Hopefully later generations will have more.
My question is, how many bugs will it take to run that thing? I don't know how much power you'd get per bug, but I wouldn't be surprised if it really needed a ton of bugs to keep that thing up for a while.
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If I remember correctly, Russia made a grab long long time ago at claiming the North Pole as part of if its waters. I can't remember the reasoning clearly, but it had to do with something about its continental shelf managing to stuck itself some distance off. If the bid went through, then I guess a good chunk of the Arctic is considered Russian domain.
Yes, Valve may have made games with such graphics, but realize they aren't the only ones using the Source engine. There are mods that make very good use of the engine, such as the newly released Neotokyo.
What does surprise me, is that people are letting their kids play on websites while logged in as administrator. How computer savvy do you have to be to realize this is a bad idea. Admin on their own computer, maybe. If you make them clean up their own mess and just smile when they lose their Neopet.
Speaking from personal experience, it takes quite a bit of savvy in order to figure it out. A lot of times, it takes an incident for them to figure out. A long while ago, my girlfriend 's little brother accidentally downloaded a ton of viruses and such (I never asked specifics, she was on a raging rant when she told me and didn't want to interrupt) and her parents removed admin status from both her and her brother's account (she needed admin access so she could get the programming software installed). That was after a long while of banning them until they could figure out how to make sure he didn't screw up again, of course.
Wow, it's weird how forgot about Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 and Okami, especially since I have the former and my girlfriend often talks about the latter. But yes, they are really good games. However, what I find sad is that for every Okami and the likes out there, there's upwards of 20 or more gimmicky or worse games out there. I know a couple of kids who stopped playing with their Wii since not even they could find a decent game with all the cheap stuff that's flooding the market.
I don't think Nintendo never marketed it as such. It only said that game devs can now reach out to a broader audience, and I think that the devs have taken that suggestion too far. As for zombie-bashing, I've heard rumors about a watered-down Dead Rising for the Wii.
It seems more like support just fizzled. If it was strongly backed, they would have found a way to make implementation less inconvenient.
While I'm no Sega/EA fanboy, I'm honestly getting sick of all the kiddie titles and messed-up ports when I pass the Wii section. My Wii is dusting right now, as the only games I ever play seriously with it are SSBB and Metroid Prime 3. From what I've seen, the "targeting family/casual/new gamer" stuff has gone overboard, with a lot of game companies getting tunnel vision in trying to get new audiences and as a result have abandoned the old.
Yeah, call it a crazy theory and call me cynical for thinking that Chinese government wants even more control over the citizens, but the exploit found allowed an attacker to remotely control any system running the software. My guess the coders need more time to "fix" that issue and implement another hole for the government to take even more control.
I won't be buying a first generation one of these, it's bound to have a tonne of bugs.
Hopefully later generations will have more. My question is, how many bugs will it take to run that thing? I don't know how much power you'd get per bug, but I wouldn't be surprised if it really needed a ton of bugs to keep that thing up for a while.