One of the big reasons for having powerful graphics cards is to relieve some of the work-load of the CPU. With the current crop of games, graphics cards work well, but what happens when developers start putting out "virtual reality" games. I'm talking about put on a helmet, walk yourself around in a full 3-d world games. If and when games like that ever come around, powerful graphics cards will likely be needed to share the workload.
I mean, people are fully entitled to their opinions, but why on earth, when I leave the score threading down to 1, do I read nothing but just garbage, useless rambles, and elementary school antics? Has/.'s readership stooped so low that intellectual thought and conversation has taken a chair well behind what goes on now? Or is it just an overwhelming gathering of immature posters thinking this is a wonderful place to get attention?
Umm, yes?
Seriously, what's so new about trolls, off-topic posts, and flames on Slashdot? That's why the mod system is here (leaving the argument about whether moderation works or not aside).
Pitfall? Pansy game. I've been working on the Perfect Asteroids game. Yes sir, 14 years, 4 months, 6 days, 7 hours and counting. I haven't actually found the ending yet, but I'm sure that I'm very close and....What?! Where did that alien ship come from? NOOOOOOO!
Well, there was that time they had the story on the new Macs coming out. According to the article, it was supposed to be a...get this...Cube. Nobody believed it for a second. They had these lame, obviously doctored screenshots, and....
The only true Tecmo is the 2nd one to come out on NES (Super Tecmo I think). What your describing (with Bo Jackson, and not all the teams) is Tecmo Bowl. We must keep our Tecmo history straight;)
Someone had Super Tecmo up in college when I was still in the dorms, and we used to play that thing non-stop. We'd have round-robin tournaments (winner gets a free case of beer), bet on grudge matches between star players, have "challenge" matches, where your opponent got to pick your team: the works. At the risk of bragging, let's just say that yours truely was a Weist Hall legend:)
Super Tecmo was great because it was hard to dominate with one great team. Oh, sure, you could pick Buffalo or San Fransico, thinking you could run up the score, but a team like the Chiefs (Derrick Thomas) or the Steelers (Rod Woodsen), in the hands of a master, could shut down any offense. And let's not forget the fun in totally humiliating a less-skilled opponent by beating him with the Jets or Tampa Bay.
Damn, time to go fire up the 'ole emulator tonight...
I agree that gaming isn't "the single most pervasive form of culture in America", but you cannot deny that gaming has started to become mainstream. The proof for me was when CNN.com had PS2 on their front page that day in October, but there are many more signs and examples. Walk into any Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or whatever, and compare their video-game section to their magazine/book section. Drop into Barnes and Noble, and count the number of gaming-related books. People are into this stuff.
Not everyone is married and has kids, just like not everyone watches TV often or reads many books. There are a lot of people out there spending a lot of money on a lot of video games: and these people do represent a significant demographic. Don't dismiss it just because it's not what your predomitely into.
Not just the PS2, but video games in general. I'm very worried about this development; this is serious stuff. Think about what the Iraqis can learn from video games:
- how to create a plane/tank/soldier with unlimited ammunition
- a full-on frontal assualt by a lone individual will always defeat superior tactics and weaponry
- nothing says "victory" like an rapid-extending Bionic claw
- ninja's are the heart and soul of every nations defensive capabilities: defeat them, and the enemy will fall
- if you fight long and hard enough, you will eventually be faced with the leader of your enemy, who will transform into a hideous, weapon-wielding mutant of some kind. He will, however, have one key weakness you can exploit
For me, the possibility of George W. transforming into a 30-foot tall mutant with machine guns for hands is reason enough to nuke Iraq right now.
Looks like someone got spanked on the Gamespy servers last night...;)
The games are different, but that doesn't mean they're worse. I would suggest to you that it takes as much skill to become a Q3 rail-god as it takes intelligence and memorization to clear Zork, or tactical thinking to beat Civ on Emporer mode.
What I find most ironic is this: that there can be any kind of copyright question about a piece of literature that was written by an author who has been dead for over 100 years!
Yeah, I know, Adobe's trying to protect their labor, and I suppose that of Project Guetenberg and VolumeOne. Still, it speaks volumes about the state of copyrights and intellectual property in our society today.
Right now, I find myself wondering how useful color on a PDA is (for me anyway). It's definitely high on the coolness scale, but for run-of-the-mill stuff like calendar, contacts, and AvantGo, I think I'd almost rather have the greyscale.
I'm sure, though, that in another 2 years, they'll all be color anyway.
Palm I think needs some kind of update badly. Lately, Visors have been touting more and better features on the hardware front, and Microsoft's PocketPC software seems to be liked by many.
There's a lot to like about Palms, and right now my Vx is by far the best handheld I've used. A new OS (with useful features) would go a long way to keeping Palm as the dominate figure in the PDA market.
They are copyrighting their bug reports so that others can not publish them.
OMG, that has to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Jeez, I don't even know where to begin. Does this mean that I violate the DCMA if I tell you all that sometimes, Windows 98 has problems shutting down when setup with 5 or more network drives? Or that 98 scandisk sometimes fails to run when McAfee is installed?
Who do they think they're kidding? This is obviously a pathetic attempt to control the spin on the Microsoft Bug-O-The-Week(tm). Gee Microsoft, instead of worrying so much about who reports your bugs and when, why not FIX THE DAMN BUGS! Hello? Justice Department? Are you paying attention?
All right, rant over. Everytime I think this world can't get any weirder, I'm yet again proved wrong.
Actor Dan Cortese, who co-starred on the now-defunct NBC sitcom, "Veronica's Closet," is about to get lost. Really lost.
Cortese has joined the cast of "The Triangle," a TBS TV movie about friends who get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The supernatural thriller also stars "90210" veteran Luke Perry and Olivia D'Abo ("Wonder Years").
Now that's entertainment! I mean, Wow! The highly original plot! The plethora of first-rate actors! A cable channel known for it's high-quality original programming! It's got everthing!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go and subject myself to a frontal labotomy in a futile attempt to forget this information.
I agree, it's all about control. The only reason the IOC is doing this is that they don't yet have the means to control Internet broadcasting.
I promise you, even as we speak, IOC has a team of people working on securing Internet broadcasting rights to whoever pays the most money. Probably before the next Olympics, but definitely before this 10 year ban is up, the IOC will have some announcement about their new, great, exclusive deal with Company X to broadcast all events on the Internet. And all Company X had to do was pony up the money to get it.
The real question in my mind is, will anyone even care about the Olympics in 10 years? I know I won't: I didn't watch a single even this past summer, and don't plan on doing so ever again.
Are these sites coming in pre-Slashdotted now? Damn, stories been up for like 10 minutes, and already I can't hit it. Anyone lucky enough to view it care to post some relevant information?
The idea of a privacy officer sounds great, but one has to wonder what happens if the concerns of said privacy officer start to conflict with the wishes of the company? Say IBM get's a new CEO that wants to start selling the e-mail addresses of their web-store customers to other companies. Would the Privacy Officer have the power to stop this?
The example I use is rather simplistic I realize, but this is an issue that get's more complex every day. Will company privacy policies hold up against the misguided wishes of a companies CEO, board of directors, or stockholders?
If 99% of the net was taken down, you would most likely be talking a major, global catastrophe, like world-wide blackout by Magneto or something;) I find it unlikely that even the most organized of terrorists could accomplish such a feat, but I suppose anythings possible. Regardless, it's a major catastrophe.
So if 99% of the web is taken out, what's left to view? If fate has a sense of humor, a bunch of Geocity pages I suppose. But really, most sites are going to be down, so it's improbable that you could get any work or business done over the Internet under such conditions.
I couldn't get to the provided links (Slashdotted already?), so maybe I'm missing the point of the study. My question is, it's nice to know the Net will still function with 99% of it gone, but if it ever came to that, what would be the point of it being up at all?
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One of the big reasons for having powerful graphics cards is to relieve some of the work-load of the CPU. With the current crop of games, graphics cards work well, but what happens when developers start putting out "virtual reality" games. I'm talking about put on a helmet, walk yourself around in a full 3-d world games. If and when games like that ever come around, powerful graphics cards will likely be needed to share the workload.
I mean, people are fully entitled to their opinions, but why on earth, when I leave the score threading down to 1, do I read nothing but just garbage, useless rambles, and elementary school antics? Has /.'s readership stooped so low that intellectual thought and conversation has taken a chair well behind what goes on now? Or is it just an overwhelming gathering of immature posters thinking this is a wonderful place to get attention?
Umm, yes?
Seriously, what's so new about trolls, off-topic posts, and flames on Slashdot? That's why the mod system is here (leaving the argument about whether moderation works or not aside).
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You
Get the message?
Pitfall? Pansy game. I've been working on the Perfect Asteroids game. Yes sir, 14 years, 4 months, 6 days, 7 hours and counting. I haven't actually found the ending yet, but I'm sure that I'm very close and....What?! Where did that alien ship come from? NOOOOOOO!
Well, there was that time they had the story on the new Macs coming out. According to the article, it was supposed to be a...get this...Cube. Nobody believed it for a second. They had these lame, obviously doctored screenshots, and....
:)
Oh, wait. Guess that was true after all
The only true Tecmo is the 2nd one to come out on NES (Super Tecmo I think). What your describing (with Bo Jackson, and not all the teams) is Tecmo Bowl. We must keep our Tecmo history straight ;)
:)
Someone had Super Tecmo up in college when I was still in the dorms, and we used to play that thing non-stop. We'd have round-robin tournaments (winner gets a free case of beer), bet on grudge matches between star players, have "challenge" matches, where your opponent got to pick your team: the works. At the risk of bragging, let's just say that yours truely was a Weist Hall legend
Super Tecmo was great because it was hard to dominate with one great team. Oh, sure, you could pick Buffalo or San Fransico, thinking you could run up the score, but a team like the Chiefs (Derrick Thomas) or the Steelers (Rod Woodsen), in the hands of a master, could shut down any offense. And let's not forget the fun in totally humiliating a less-skilled opponent by beating him with the Jets or Tampa Bay.
Damn, time to go fire up the 'ole emulator tonight...
I agree that gaming isn't "the single most pervasive form of culture in America", but you cannot deny that gaming has started to become mainstream. The proof for me was when CNN.com had PS2 on their front page that day in October, but there are many more signs and examples. Walk into any Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or whatever, and compare their video-game section to their magazine/book section. Drop into Barnes and Noble, and count the number of gaming-related books. People are into this stuff.
Not everyone is married and has kids, just like not everyone watches TV often or reads many books. There are a lot of people out there spending a lot of money on a lot of video games: and these people do represent a significant demographic. Don't dismiss it just because it's not what your predomitely into.
Not just the PS2, but video games in general. I'm very worried about this development; this is serious stuff. Think about what the Iraqis can learn from video games:
- how to create a plane/tank/soldier with unlimited ammunition
- a full-on frontal assualt by a lone individual will always defeat superior tactics and weaponry
- nothing says "victory" like an rapid-extending Bionic claw
- ninja's are the heart and soul of every nations defensive capabilities: defeat them, and the enemy will fall
- if you fight long and hard enough, you will eventually be faced with the leader of your enemy, who will transform into a hideous, weapon-wielding mutant of some kind. He will, however, have one key weakness you can exploit
For me, the possibility of George W. transforming into a 30-foot tall mutant with machine guns for hands is reason enough to nuke Iraq right now.
Looks like someone got spanked on the Gamespy servers last night...;)
The games are different, but that doesn't mean they're worse. I would suggest to you that it takes as much skill to become a Q3 rail-god as it takes intelligence and memorization to clear Zork, or tactical thinking to beat Civ on Emporer mode.
As long as they don't act suprised when their massive "Common Sense" attack does no damage, and the enemy lawyers counter with "Court Order".
What I find most ironic is this: that there can be any kind of copyright question about a piece of literature that was written by an author who has been dead for over 100 years!
Yeah, I know, Adobe's trying to protect their labor, and I suppose that of Project Guetenberg and VolumeOne. Still, it speaks volumes about the state of copyrights and intellectual property in our society today.
Right now, I find myself wondering how useful color on a PDA is (for me anyway). It's definitely high on the coolness scale, but for run-of-the-mill stuff like calendar, contacts, and AvantGo, I think I'd almost rather have the greyscale.
I'm sure, though, that in another 2 years, they'll all be color anyway.
Palm I think needs some kind of update badly. Lately, Visors have been touting more and better features on the hardware front, and Microsoft's PocketPC software seems to be liked by many.
There's a lot to like about Palms, and right now my Vx is by far the best handheld I've used. A new OS (with useful features) would go a long way to keeping Palm as the dominate figure in the PDA market.
Dude, copy and paste. It isn't that hard either.
They are copyrighting their bug reports so that others can not publish them.
OMG, that has to be one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Jeez, I don't even know where to begin. Does this mean that I violate the DCMA if I tell you all that sometimes, Windows 98 has problems shutting down when setup with 5 or more network drives? Or that 98 scandisk sometimes fails to run when McAfee is installed?
Who do they think they're kidding? This is obviously a pathetic attempt to control the spin on the Microsoft Bug-O-The-Week(tm). Gee Microsoft, instead of worrying so much about who reports your bugs and when, why not FIX THE DAMN BUGS! Hello? Justice Department? Are you paying attention?
All right, rant over. Everytime I think this world can't get any weirder, I'm yet again proved wrong.
Why worry about Dune, when we've got this?
Actor Dan Cortese, who co-starred on the now-defunct NBC sitcom, "Veronica's Closet," is about to get lost. Really lost.
Cortese has joined the cast of "The Triangle," a TBS TV movie about friends who get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The supernatural thriller also stars "90210" veteran Luke Perry and Olivia D'Abo ("Wonder Years").
Now that's entertainment! I mean, Wow! The highly original plot! The plethora of first-rate actors! A cable channel known for it's high-quality original programming! It's got everthing!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go and subject myself to a frontal labotomy in a futile attempt to forget this information.
Well, I used to have a UserFriendly link in my .sig, but people kept complaining about slitting their wrists after clicking on it.
Can't we have one discussion about the socialogical concept of "moral panic" and cultural identification without someone quoting Goode and Ben-Yehuda?
I agree, it's all about control. The only reason the IOC is doing this is that they don't yet have the means to control Internet broadcasting.
I promise you, even as we speak, IOC has a team of people working on securing Internet broadcasting rights to whoever pays the most money. Probably before the next Olympics, but definitely before this 10 year ban is up, the IOC will have some announcement about their new, great, exclusive deal with Company X to broadcast all events on the Internet. And all Company X had to do was pony up the money to get it.
The real question in my mind is, will anyone even care about the Olympics in 10 years? I know I won't: I didn't watch a single even this past summer, and don't plan on doing so ever again.
Are these sites coming in pre-Slashdotted now? Damn, stories been up for like 10 minutes, and already I can't hit it. Anyone lucky enough to view it care to post some relevant information?
No, I can't. It's too predictable and distasteful. Wait, this is Slashdot, what the heck...
N'Sync Greatest Hits Album: "You Wanna Put It Where?"
[joke]Go easy on him. Can you really blame him for not wanting to read a Jon Katz article?[/joke]
The idea of a privacy officer sounds great, but one has to wonder what happens if the concerns of said privacy officer start to conflict with the wishes of the company? Say IBM get's a new CEO that wants to start selling the e-mail addresses of their web-store customers to other companies. Would the Privacy Officer have the power to stop this?
The example I use is rather simplistic I realize, but this is an issue that get's more complex every day. Will company privacy policies hold up against the misguided wishes of a companies CEO, board of directors, or stockholders?
Like your O.S. going to check on every write and make sure you don't do something you shouldn't. Hah!
I can think of a certain Redmond-based company who might be interested in developing an OS that did this for their own reasons...
If 99% of the net was taken down, you would most likely be talking a major, global catastrophe, like world-wide blackout by Magneto or something ;) I find it unlikely that even the most organized of terrorists could accomplish such a feat, but I suppose anythings possible. Regardless, it's a major catastrophe.
So if 99% of the web is taken out, what's left to view? If fate has a sense of humor, a bunch of Geocity pages I suppose. But really, most sites are going to be down, so it's improbable that you could get any work or business done over the Internet under such conditions.
I couldn't get to the provided links (Slashdotted already?), so maybe I'm missing the point of the study. My question is, it's nice to know the Net will still function with 99% of it gone, but if it ever came to that, what would be the point of it being up at all?