Actually, yes they did. Metal Gear Solid, for instance, used the vibration of the controller to bring the user more into the game.
There was a torture segment of the game, where you character was under electric shock from the bad guys. They would torture you a little while, and then dump you in a prison cell. If you called your spy bosses (in particular, the medical officer on your team. The bad guys didn't take your communication device), they would stimulate your muscles using nanomachines, to help you resist the torture. During the "stimulation" part, the game told you to hold the controller against your arm.
It had the effect of being a poor man's massage, given as part of the game. Not genius, but a good idea.
Norton Ghost practically revolves around a bootable floppy. If you manage large numbers of computers on Windows, ghost is a must.
If there were a reliable, easy to write/re-write alternative available on all PC's, the floppy could be killed. It has unfortunately become our lowest common denominator for bootable media. We aren't likely to see the last of it for some time.
Your article describes my experience with the 60GXP exactly.
I had the same horrible sound, got the same data loss. RMA'd the drive, and got one back with a Servicable Used Part sticker on it. It is now making the same noises (less than a week after returning), and I'm loosing data on it, just like last time.
I haven't RMA'd it again because it took over a month for the drive to come back, and I don't want to go through that again.
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Actually, yes they did. Metal Gear Solid, for instance, used the vibration of the controller to bring the user more into the game.
There was a torture segment of the game, where you character was under electric shock from the bad guys. They would torture you a little while, and then dump you in a prison cell. If you called your spy bosses (in particular, the medical officer on your team. The bad guys didn't take your communication device), they would stimulate your muscles using nanomachines, to help you resist the torture. During the "stimulation" part, the game told you to hold the controller against your arm.
It had the effect of being a poor man's massage, given as part of the game. Not genius, but a good idea.
Norton Ghost practically revolves around a bootable floppy. If you manage large numbers of computers on Windows, ghost is a must.
If there were a reliable, easy to write/re-write alternative available on all PC's, the floppy could be killed. It has unfortunately become our lowest common denominator for bootable media. We aren't likely to see the last of it for some time.
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Your article describes my experience with the 60GXP exactly.
I had the same horrible sound, got the same data loss. RMA'd the drive, and got one back with a Servicable Used Part sticker on it. It is now making the same noises (less than a week after returning), and I'm loosing data on it, just like last time.
I haven't RMA'd it again because it took over a month for the drive to come back, and I don't want to go through that again.
Now I don't know what to do.