If you're going to try to spell out the full URL, it would sound like: Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash dot dot org slash.
Perhaps "Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash slash dot dot org". You lost the slash from slashdot and does anyone ever read out that last slash, or is that the missing third from a normal editing error??
Maybe some in-game problems WOULD require burger-flipping, introverted nerd skills. While others would require folks with leadership skills. Maybe boss battles would require both:) It's an exciting concept, and brings a whole new meaning to "the game of life"
Unfortunately the loot tables suck, the final boss' only contains: +5 Shirt of "I killed the Pointy Haired Boss, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt" +1 Two Handed Sword (I mean it's a sword with two hands) [requires level 42 Monk] 15 x Crystal Water +2 Life Sentence for 2nd degree murder. 1 x TPS report, without cover sheet.
Even better would be if the same deal could go over with the Wii. Now that would be an interesting comparison!
umm... the currency converter here converted 150 uk pounds to 267.80 US Dollars... would you really want to make a $267 down payment on a consol that everyone is expecting to cost $250 at most?
That makes me wonder... how will the sensor determine the bounds of the TV that the remote is aiming at? Will it look up somehow to see where light is emiting from the TV somehow? Or will there be general assumptions about the size and aspect ratio of the screen?
Perhaps there will be a calibration on setting the system up... but they have to expect either the TV or the sensor to be moved occasionally. Any manual calibration can be expected to suffer from accuracy problems, I'd expect - especially if game makers somehow assume a screen aspect ratio when making their games. Games with relativistic controls wouldn't be so bad... but anything with precision involved would start to feel sloppy when anything changed.
I hope the relationship between screen and controller are more dynamic and automatic than just sensing the remote. Regardless, I imagine I can quickly get used to whatever it is, and the game makers will compensate as needed - I'd just like it to be as close to a precise 3-d mouse as possible without having to wave the controller too out of proportion to the actual screen.
Ha, something I have a little experience with... first let's take old NES era light gun games, pull the trigger, the screen flashes white. some of the older arcade shooters use something similar, but can get away with much shorter flashes and the gun interprets that. Now the more modern ones, mostly SEGA ones where I work have a series of IR LEDs located at the edges of the screen (5 top 5 bottom usually) that are strobed in series. I'm pretty sure it measures the intensity of each LED to determine the position of the gun, and covering even one will make it think it's pointing off screen (a common problem in cold weather when people just thrown their coats on top of the game when they play it) I'm assuming the sensor bar they keep talking about will function slightly similarly to the later. You will probably want to calibrate it anytime you drastically change the relative distance from the TV because it starts to make a difference when you double the distance [i.e standing 5 feet away, or sitting 10 away on the couch with your buddies playing Mario Part-wii]
1) Damn, "incentivize" is an annoying word. 2) The incentive to build high-capacity networks is the profit you will get when customers subscribe to your service.
1) I question whether incentivize is actually a word 2) How dare you imply they should have to spend money to make money, It's their gods given right to have large groups of people pay them money
3) Yes, GM needs incentivised automobile production for their alternative fuel vehicles
I think an even better analogy (only because it deals with moving a lot of data) would be the MPAA, do they need movie sales incentivized.... oh wait
Yes, and it takes absolutely no talent to steal parts from common household gadgets and pout them together into something with a function unrelated to any of the original items (that would be using samples to create new music)
Feh, after I went back in time and invented "middle C" 2703 years ago I've never seen a damn cent from all the people who sample it and all the derivitive works.
Oh, and if you realy want to someone to be "admired for their actual talent for creating something new and musical at the same time." perhaps you should find people who had to invent their own instruments (and musical notation system and scale, oh and they should probably make up their own language, wouldn't want them using words that other people have ever used) rather than use guitars and pianos and drums, because those are just analog versions of sampleing with very old technology.
So "inadvertedly pushing yourself away from the space station" means that you can't possibly be moving slower than the top speed a jet pack would push you with?
No because by the time the person with the jetpack reaches the point you were at when they started you'll have moved further off, and when they get to that point, you'll be further off still... and so on and so on.... unless you rub cheetah blood on the jet pack, but do they realy ever not take cheetah blood to space?
anyway, i was going for the funny of both futurama and cheetah's blood... and the fact that Bender without any form of propultion should have been easy to catch up to in the planet express ship, except the PE ship seems to obey the anime physics law of "constant thrust = constant velocity" of course it's not even the ship moving, it was revealed that the ship remains stationary and the engines move then entire universe...
But then shouldn't they have killed you? Something's fishy....
He was just an intern. He didn't have a license to kill.
Don't be silly, interns can only get their Learner's Permit To Kill and then they can only kill when accompanied by a Liscenced killer over the age of 18.
We all know the problem with selling the XBox or 360 in japan, it's because us americans have such large... controllers. They've just got controller envy.
Has your cabinet seen real arcade use since you've got it, or is it just for your personal use?
Having worked with arcade machines that see real use, you'd be amazed the crap that happens to these machines. The way some people abuse the controls, you'd think Donkey Kong raped their mom.
Yeah, it doesn't matter how much the machine weighs when people spill their drink on/in it, or when someone thinks it's cute to just bash on the buttons or kick the coin door because you can't read the damn bright orange sticker that says 2 tokens, switch bodies wear out, joysticks lose springyness, gear shifters wear down the rubber bits that make the shift positions feel firm, Potentiometers wear down (and gods forbid that any of your games use the same type damnit), Guns don't get put back in the game's holster and machines get hit people suck. People let their 6 year olds loose in an arcade and they can do things that are physically impossible to the machines. I've had soda on the controller interface on our DDR Pads, to get to that you have to take off 2 plates. Then it's a half inch or better up from the bottom under 2 those seperate plates that both curve down at the edges (the soda would have to run up the bottom side of the bottom plate to have gotten where it was on the board) I found a whole rubber squeeky toy in our Ms. Pacman once that I still haven't figured out.
What I think really killed the arcade industry was operators that had Mr Crabs or Scrooge Mc Duck as operators.
I can't remember how many times I went into an arcade, plopped a token/quarter in the slot only to find that a button was broken, or a joystick and or steering wheel was loose. When i'd go to the operator asking for a refund, it was always met with some fat guy smelling like he hadn't showered in a week pointing at a sign that said, "Play at your own risk, no refunds!"
Yes, our store is a multiple entertainment thing, so we have go-karts and laser-tag and golf as well as the arcade to draw people in. But the boss is always reluctant to get new games (at least when there are new games to get) and since we are tageting a younger audince the majority of our games have to be the stupid little ones where you don't realy do anything and it spits out tickets. It's rather unfortunate that that is where the majority of the coins go (usually 2/3 to 4/5 of the total weekly pull when they make up slightly more than 50% of the machines) but they have a tendency to over price (4 token, they tried to do Initial D for 6 when it came out) the new video games and complain to me when something doesn't preform well it's first few weeks, when it should have the new-factor boosting it's earnings. Then they wonder why it starts earning better when I cut the price in half (it's not listed on the spreadsheet they look at.) If I were in charge of it, I would totally reverse that and have an Introductory Time (like a month so I have a reasonable set of data to work with) where it's only 1 token per play to gauge exactly what the machine can attract and adjust the price accordingly.
Oh and as that guy-who-smells-like-he-hasn't-showered-all-week (i do shower, but that's a cool job title) I try my best to keep machines working, and we do have regulars for most of our games that know you either tell me if I'm working and if I'm not already working on something [I'm working for Scrooge and he'll understaff us for everything] I grab my tool bag and take care of it in less than 15 minutes if it's not something that requires taking the machine completely apart at peak hours, or ordering something (then i have to wait on 2nd day air and someone remembering that a box came in).
[No actual money values listed as our tokens have an average value of $.20, you get more for changing larger denominations (from.25 to.17 but my math comes our different from theirs since I don't want to remember Stat&Prob class)]
Some sort of Smash Brothers for arcade would be great.. why only 2 people? Let's make it 4! or more! all connected! or 8 for car racing.
I'd love having a Smash Bros machine in the arcade where I work. Heck, did they have an arcade version of Powerstone, that one was crazy fun. Back when they hired me, we had a game called War: Final Assault (or something similar) that was an FPS that used seperate LANed together cabinets for each player. And to reduce the problem of Screen-lookers we didn't have them set up right next to each other, but we couldn't get them spread too far apart (we actually clustered our games according to genre back then) it was a fun little bugger to play and occasionally we'd end up staying after close for 2 or 3 hours just shooting eachother. oh, and 8 player racers has been done. I think it's Sega's Daytona II that you see most often like that and, if I remember right, they're got a fibre connection for some reason (do they realy need to transmit that much data?)
It is quite possible the teen snuck out without her parents knowledge- not hard to do, teens have lied about where they are going since the dawn of time. But even this is an assumption; she may just have terrible parents. And greedy ones too, apparently, given their choice of Myspace as a target.
From TFA:
In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19.
So, he was allowed to pick her up from school? aside from her parents not keeping track of the kid, isn't the school partially responsible for letting Joe McRandom pick up a student?
now from the Myspace Terms & Conditions
Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL MYSPACE.COM BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF MYSPACE.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, MYSPACE.COM'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO MYSPACE.COM FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
She agreed to this by having a myspace account. And while rape isn't good, it can't realy be more than indirect or consequential?
Can MySpace sues the parents for neglegence? Perhaps to the tune of.... THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS!
All in all it gives a nice insight into why Vista will be late, from a different perspective. Oh, and Slashdot gets mentioned too;-).
So they admit that Vista is late because their programmers were too busy bashing the PS3, reading TFA and generating FUD on slashdot? Realy people, I'd expect management to delegate that to the suits in PR or Marketing
Er... it's called a fan... I was at least hoping for something more high-tech, like Peltiers and stuff:)
Geez I was at least hoping he'd use the water cooling stuff, strap one (or more) of those to your core and you'd almost keep cool... except for the extra weight of the power supply you have to carry around. Oh and just to make it look cool, put custom heat fins on it and mount them on shoulder pads, then add your neons and some thumpin speakers to attach to your iPodling. Note: i don't know any of the names for the water cooling stuff because I've never had to use it *shame*
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
This just in, the HDMI spec will be upgraded again, and will now be using all that extra usless color space for encryption. Also this version of HDMI will also not be compatable with any earlier version (at either end of the cable) to prevent the pirating of the signal
We slashdotters are no different. We're fanatical about being anti-fanatical:)
Slashdotters not fanatical? You must be new here...
no, he said we were anti-fanatical, that's where you're so not fanatical that you've come out the other side of being a non-fanatic. and you'll notice that when you bring a fanatic and a slashdotter into direct contact there is usually a very large explosion. Which is why I always theorized about the weaponization of slashdot and the US government sending it's readers into the middle east. we'd be like suicide bombers only without the need for carrying around all that extra explosives.
Slashdot Mirror
Matt.... [dramatic pause] Day... mon!
Perhaps "Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash slash dot dot org". You lost the slash from slashdot and does anyone ever read out that last slash, or is that the missing third from a normal editing error??
Unfortunately the loot tables suck, the final boss' only contains:
+5 Shirt of "I killed the Pointy Haired Boss, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt"
+1 Two Handed Sword (I mean it's a sword with two hands) [requires level 42 Monk]
15 x Crystal Water
+2 Life Sentence for 2nd degree murder.
1 x TPS report, without cover sheet.
umm... the currency converter here converted 150 uk pounds to 267.80 US Dollars... would you really want to make a $267 down payment on a consol that everyone is expecting to cost $250 at most?
Heh, you said remotely
Ha, something I have a little experience with...
first let's take old NES era light gun games, pull the trigger, the screen flashes white. some of the older arcade shooters use something similar, but can get away with much shorter flashes and the gun interprets that. Now the more modern ones, mostly SEGA ones where I work have a series of IR LEDs located at the edges of the screen (5 top 5 bottom usually) that are strobed in series. I'm pretty sure it measures the intensity of each LED to determine the position of the gun, and covering even one will make it think it's pointing off screen (a common problem in cold weather when people just thrown their coats on top of the game when they play it) I'm assuming the sensor bar they keep talking about will function slightly similarly to the later. You will probably want to calibrate it anytime you drastically change the relative distance from the TV because it starts to make a difference when you double the distance [i.e standing 5 feet away, or sitting 10 away on the couch with your buddies playing Mario Part-wii]
but... but my certificate of authenticiy says that it is "proof of license" right on it.
if it isn't, can we get them for providing false documentation or something?
1) I question whether incentivize is actually a word
2) How dare you imply they should have to spend money to make money, It's their gods given right to have large groups of people pay them money
3) Yes, GM needs incentivised automobile production for their alternative fuel vehicles
I think an even better analogy (only because it deals with moving a lot of data) would be the MPAA, do they need movie sales incentivized.... oh wait
Yes, and it takes absolutely no talent to steal parts from common household gadgets and pout them together into something with a function unrelated to any of the original items (that would be using samples to create new music)
Feh, after I went back in time and invented "middle C" 2703 years ago I've never seen a damn cent from all the people who sample it and all the derivitive works.
Oh, and if you realy want to someone to be "admired for their actual talent for creating something new and musical at the same time." perhaps you should find people who had to invent their own instruments (and musical notation system and scale, oh and they should probably make up their own language, wouldn't want them using words that other people have ever used) rather than use guitars and pianos and drums, because those are just analog versions of sampleing with very old technology.
No because by the time the person with the jetpack reaches the point you were at when they started you'll have moved further off, and when they get to that point, you'll be further off still... and so on and so on.... unless you rub cheetah blood on the jet pack, but do they realy ever not take cheetah blood to space?
anyway, i was going for the funny of both futurama and cheetah's blood... and the fact that Bender without any form of propultion should have been easy to catch up to in the planet express ship, except the PE ship seems to obey the anime physics law of "constant thrust = constant velocity" of course it's not even the ship moving, it was revealed that the ship remains stationary and the engines move then entire universe...
Don't be silly, interns can only get their Learner's Permit To Kill
and then they can only kill when accompanied by a Liscenced killer over the age of 18.
Leela: But we were already going top speed when we fired him.
Fry: So we can never catch up? Not even if we rub the engines with cheetah blood?
We all know the problem with selling the XBox or 360 in japan, it's because us americans have such large... controllers.
They've just got controller envy.
I welcome our new chinpokomon overlords
Yeah, it doesn't matter how much the machine weighs when people spill their drink on/in it, or when someone thinks it's cute to just bash on the buttons or kick the coin door because you can't read the damn bright orange sticker that says 2 tokens, switch bodies wear out, joysticks lose springyness, gear shifters wear down the rubber bits that make the shift positions feel firm, Potentiometers wear down (and gods forbid that any of your games use the same type damnit), Guns don't get put back in the game's holster and machines get hit people suck. People let their 6 year olds loose in an arcade and they can do things that are physically impossible to the machines. I've had soda on the controller interface on our DDR Pads, to get to that you have to take off 2 plates. Then it's a half inch or better up from the bottom under 2 those seperate plates that both curve down at the edges (the soda would have to run up the bottom side of the bottom plate to have gotten where it was on the board) I found a whole rubber squeeky toy in our Ms. Pacman once that I still haven't figured out.
Yes, our store is a multiple entertainment thing, so we have go-karts and laser-tag and golf as well as the arcade to draw people in. But the boss is always reluctant to get new games (at least when there are new games to get) and since we are tageting a younger audince the majority of our games have to be the stupid little ones where you don't realy do anything and it spits out tickets. It's rather unfortunate that that is where the majority of the coins go (usually 2/3 to 4/5 of the total weekly pull when they make up slightly more than 50% of the machines) but they have a tendency to over price (4 token, they tried to do Initial D for 6 when it came out) the new video games and complain to me when something doesn't preform well it's first few weeks, when it should have the new-factor boosting it's earnings. Then they wonder why it starts earning better when I cut the price in half (it's not listed on the spreadsheet they look at.) If I were in charge of it, I would totally reverse that and have an Introductory Time (like a month so I have a reasonable set of data to work with) where it's only 1 token per play to gauge exactly what the machine can attract and adjust the price accordingly.
Oh and as that guy-who-smells-like-he-hasn't-showered-all-week (i do shower, but that's a cool job title) I try my best to keep machines working, and we do have regulars for most of our games that know you either tell me if I'm working and if I'm not already working on something [I'm working for Scrooge and he'll understaff us for everything] I grab my tool bag and take care of it in less than 15 minutes if it's not something that requires taking the machine completely apart at peak hours, or ordering something (then i have to wait on 2nd day air and someone remembering that a box came in).
[No actual money values listed as our tokens have an average value of $.20, you get more for changing larger denominations (from
I'd love having a Smash Bros machine in the arcade where I work. Heck, did they have an arcade version of Powerstone, that one was crazy fun. Back when they hired me, we had a game called War: Final Assault (or something similar) that was an FPS that used seperate LANed together cabinets for each player. And to reduce the problem of Screen-lookers we didn't have them set up right next to each other, but we couldn't get them spread too far apart (we actually clustered our games according to genre back then) it was a fun little bugger to play and occasionally we'd end up staying after close for 2 or 3 hours just shooting eachother.
oh, and 8 player racers has been done. I think it's Sega's Daytona II that you see most often like that and, if I remember right, they're got a fibre connection for some reason (do they realy need to transmit that much data?)
of course it will be very secure, didn't you see it was being made open source?
From TFA:
So, he was allowed to pick her up from school?
aside from her parents not keeping track of the kid, isn't the school partially responsible for letting Joe McRandom pick up a student?
now from the Myspace Terms & Conditions
She agreed to this by having a myspace account. And while rape isn't good, it can't realy be more than indirect or consequential?
Can MySpace sues the parents for neglegence? Perhaps to the tune of.... THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS!
I cant't decide which responce to use, so
A) In Soviet Russia, Fascist Tycoon acquires you.
and
B) OMG, someone needs to make a game like this
BTW is my browser odd or can we nest blockquotes now?
I agree completely, If I remember my childhood telephone games correctly, that information has to be 100% factual purple monkey dishwasher.
And then we beat them with the paddles?
So they admit that Vista is late because their programmers were too busy bashing the PS3, reading TFA and generating FUD on slashdot?
Realy people, I'd expect management to delegate that to the suits in PR or Marketing
Geez I was at least hoping he'd use the water cooling stuff, strap one (or more) of those to your core and you'd almost keep cool... except for the extra weight of the power supply you have to carry around.
Oh and just to make it look cool, put custom heat fins on it and mount them on shoulder pads, then add your neons and some thumpin speakers to attach to your iPodling.
Note: i don't know any of the names for the water cooling stuff because I've never had to use it *shame*
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
This just in, the HDMI spec will be upgraded again, and will now be using all that extra usless color space for encryption.
Also this version of HDMI will also not be compatable with any earlier version (at either end of the cable) to prevent the pirating of the signal
no, he said we were anti-fanatical, that's where you're so not fanatical that you've come out the other side of being a non-fanatic. and you'll notice that when you bring a fanatic and a slashdotter into direct contact there is usually a very large explosion. Which is why I always theorized about the weaponization of slashdot and the US government sending it's readers into the middle east. we'd be like suicide bombers only without the need for carrying around all that extra explosives.