Having an add on optical drive would work out really well. It would put Microsoft up there with Sega and the highly succesful SegaCD. Expandablity in consoles has always been a great selling point, which is now doubt why the most exapandable console every made, the Dreamcast, was so succesful and put Sega on top as a console manufacture.
On the other hand, like you said it's a good bet that no game within the next 2 years will use that extra Bluray space for anything other than "HI Def FMV". I mean It has held up that no one has been able to use more the 640k of memory or need more than 1.44 megs of disk space. The chances that a game company will ever use the full space and power of the environment they get to work in is totally laughable.
Another even closer example is cassette tapes, many people had huge collections when the switch to CD's was made...
Bah, the only tapes we had (but boy were there a lot) when I was young were bootlegs of concerts. Actually my parent's still have them along with a nearly non overlapping selection of CDs. Usually from when the car ate a tape. Now if the RIAA could somehow figure out how to get car audio equipment to occasionally eat a CD for no reason, then they'd be set... well the people who make CD-Rs would be set, I don't know any smart people who use the original CDs in the car. The only person I do know that does that has had his car broken into on a [relatively] large number (>10) of occasions and all his CDs stolen.
You beat me to the core of my definition, computer literate should mean you can follow tech support over the phone without having to ask things like "Where's the any key" and "How do I double click" It should be basic hardware recognition (this is my mouse, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun) and basic GUI conventions (Menus, left/right/double clicking, icons) [basically anything that shows up on both windows and mac [if someone isn't computer literate there a very small chance it'll be anything beyond either]. ] They do also need to know a few good practices like save/backup often (like checking your oil was covered in driver's ed) and the basic interweb scams should be covered now too.
Eventually there's going to be a leak of the device keys, like what happened to CSS, and encrypytion of all previous AACS discs are defeated. Although future AACS discs can ban these leaked device keys, a new set of device keys will be leaked.
And the loverly golden apple there will be getting the PS3's device keys out of it's magic box, and seeing if anyone has the balls to ban that.
Aside from that it's just a gyro that detects pitch, it does not track relative position. I don't see how just tilting a PS2 controller around is going to make a difference in sales. This is a last minute half assed hack and it shows.
Unfortunately, it's got roll pitch yaw and accelerometers for X Y and Z axis. [Link blatently stolen from earlier post]
OMG, I've impersonated a best buy employee before!!! I should turn myself in now
yeah, at one point our work uniforms also consisted of blue polos and khakis. Our company logo also happened to be a very yellowy-orange, but was not the same size or shape as the BB logo.
In the process of going in to buy a router on the way home from work, I managed to get asked where things were 5 or 6 times in the 15 minutes I was there.
For this to work, unfortunately it would have to go inside.
Good news, It's a suppository!
You can't get an MRI once you've been tagged, so the nipple ring would be an improvement in the case you want a MRI for some critical thing instead of it having to be cut out of your arm.
The problem with mounting the lasers on the ground is that they will not be in a line of site to anywhere near the area a mobile plane flying 4 or 5 ( probably much higher ) miles up will have a line of site to.
You could of course build a giant tower 20miles high on top of a mountain but that would also be a very expensive and tricky to engineer and would also be prime target number 1 in the event of any conflict.
I doubt you'd ever have line of sight on anything "Half a world away" anyway.
GPS or something along those capabilities would not even come close to the resolution required for this type of thing, to say nothing of a moving target, a moving source, and a moving relay.
Pshaw, (Ooo... 3 points for using that word on a wednsday) GPS has plenty or resolution for that. The problem is you just need a Laser beam 5 meters in diameter. that should solve all the problems of the moving target source and what-not as well.
My problem is, why do these lasers need to be in planes when they are supposed to be able to hit something half a world away? Wouldn't it be easier to mount them on the surface with access to even more energy that would be available on a jet?
Or is Dubya trying to get as close as possible to the space based lasers daddy wanted without having to go through all the trouble of diverting funding from his trip to Mars.
I say change the game so it can only be played as a victim. I.e. the one avoiding getting car jacked. It is the same exciting scenario and might actually teach empathy instead of desensitizing the player to the pain he/she is creating (albiet, to virtual people in a virtual world).
Wait? Play as the victim?
So I've got to drive around [mostly] obeying traffic laws up until the point where my car is randomly chosen to have me pulled out of the car, and possibly beaten/shot/run over [or all three for those of us who wantwed to be sure the old lady wouldn't get up and take her car back]
And to make this even more realistic (dull), let's use real world statistics on auto theft and murder to generate our random events. Of course so we don't desensitize any youngsters and fool them into thinking they can have their ribs broken with a baseball bat get shot with a rocket launcher and then run over only to come out of the hospital a few minutes later the game would have to not just end when you die, but completely disable itself on the PC or put a flag on the memory card so it can't start again. (unless you buy the reincarnation enabled version.)
Flaming plasma death
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Now the post explodes.
A proper haiku Also mentions the weather or the seasons, dude.
Had you a day job I would tell you as a friend Not to give it up
Yes, I realize That's from Ozy and Millie. But if you're gonna steal, steal from the best, right? And since when has Flaming plasma death not been a weather condition? such a boring little planet
Perhaps these semi-annual reviews could be complemented by reviews over a longer term, reviews that look at both the work of the employee under review as well as the ramifications it has had.
Or perhaps they should have Annual Semi reviews in which the employee is put in the middle of a large walled in parking lot and everyone who has counted as a false positive is given a semi and immunity for anything they do for an hour while there.
That way you'll have more ethical employees, or at least faster ones.
For a second I thought you said Austrian Beaches.... I'd pity those sharks, for now Hanz and Franz are going to pump *clap* them up. Wait, then we'd be facing some sort of pumped-up, muscley shark that can probably run around on dry land with their massive muscles... So long as they don't get ninja training, because we don't want them to flip out. Then we'd all need some Shark Repellant Bat-Spray (I had to think where the bat went in there, because would you realy want to repel the Bat-Sharks?)
Not to sound disrespectful, but have you considered that it just might be "all in your head"?
Just ask the aliens to move your locator-tag to a non-cranial location the next time they abduct you. As long as you tell them that it's interfereing with your wireless devices they'll gladly move it.
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's a bit like being the most civilized monkey in the zoo...
Wait a tick... are you trying to be sarcastic?
Bah, the only tapes we had (but boy were there a lot) when I was young were bootlegs of concerts. Actually my parent's still have them along with a nearly non overlapping selection of CDs. Usually from when the car ate a tape. Now if the RIAA could somehow figure out how to get car audio equipment to occasionally eat a CD for no reason, then they'd be set... well the people who make CD-Rs would be set, I don't know any smart people who use the original CDs in the car. The only person I do know that does that has had his car broken into on a [relatively] large number (>10) of occasions and all his CDs stolen.
I think I rambled
EITHER
but what about those poor colorblind souls that just want to listen to their damn hippie... errr... DRM'd music?
OR
Yes we should use a color coded system ranging from 640nm to 645nm to denote just how difficult the crack is
I can't decide...
This is the century of the fruit bat man, learn to multitask
If you look at hardcore porn with slashdot posting in a small window on the left, turn to page 13
Yes I do, and No I don't. I simply choose to define "The Bad People" differently that the government wants me to.
You beat me to the core of my definition, computer literate should mean you can follow tech support over the phone without having to ask things like "Where's the any key" and "How do I double click"
It should be basic hardware recognition (this is my mouse, this is my gun. This is for fighting, this is for fun) and basic GUI conventions (Menus, left/right/double clicking, icons) [basically anything that shows up on both windows and mac [if someone isn't computer literate there a very small chance it'll be anything beyond either]. ]
They do also need to know a few good practices like save/backup often (like checking your oil was covered in driver's ed)
and the basic interweb scams should be covered now too.
And the loverly golden apple there will be getting the PS3's device keys out of it's magic box, and seeing if anyone has the balls to ban that.
Unfortunately, it's got roll pitch yaw and accelerometers for X Y and Z axis. [Link blatently stolen from earlier post]
OMG, I've impersonated a best buy employee before!!! I should turn myself in now
yeah, at one point our work uniforms also consisted of blue polos and khakis. Our company logo also happened to be a very yellowy-orange, but was not the same size or shape as the BB logo.
In the process of going in to buy a router on the way home from work, I managed to get asked where things were 5 or 6 times in the 15 minutes I was there.
Good news, It's a suppository!
You can't get an MRI once you've been tagged, so the nipple ring would be an improvement in the case you want a MRI for some critical thing instead of it having to be cut out of your arm.
Geez, thanks for the spoiler warning.
Next thing you know, you're gonna tell us the monkey dies at the end of King Kong
I doubt you'd ever have line of sight on anything "Half a world away" anyway.
Yes, but there was a story a while back, The World's oceans are now 70% Shark Free
so that's only covering what? 21% of the planet
Pshaw, (Ooo... 3 points for using that word on a wednsday)
GPS has plenty or resolution for that. The problem is you just need a Laser beam 5 meters in diameter. that should solve all the problems of the moving target source and what-not as well.
My problem is, why do these lasers need to be in planes when they are supposed to be able to hit something half a world away? Wouldn't it be easier to mount them on the surface with access to even more energy that would be available on a jet?
Or is Dubya trying to get as close as possible to the space based lasers daddy wanted without having to go through all the trouble of diverting funding from his trip to Mars.
Wait?
Play as the victim?
So I've got to drive around [mostly] obeying traffic laws up until the point where my car is randomly chosen to have me pulled out of the car, and possibly beaten/shot/run over [or all three for those of us who wantwed to be sure the old lady wouldn't get up and take her car back]
And to make this even more realistic (dull), let's use real world statistics on auto theft and murder to generate our random events.
Of course so we don't desensitize any youngsters and fool them into thinking they can have their ribs broken with a baseball bat get shot with a rocket launcher and then run over only to come out of the hospital a few minutes later the game would have to not just end when you die, but completely disable itself on the PC or put a flag on the memory card so it can't start again. (unless you buy the reincarnation enabled version.)
Had you a day job
I would tell you as a friend
Not to give it up
Yes, I realize That's from Ozy and Millie.
But if you're gonna steal, steal from the best, right?
And since when has Flaming plasma death not been a weather condition? such a boring little planet
The Germans really like David Hasselhoff.
Brilliant!
Or perhaps they should have Annual Semi reviews in which the employee is put in the middle of a large walled in parking lot and everyone who has counted as a false positive is given a semi and immunity for anything they do for an hour while there.
That way you'll have more ethical employees, or at least faster ones.
I Call dibs on "Method for preventing the passage of legislation through sustained verbalization" via the internet
Or would that be patenting Slashdot?
Err... you're not supposed to do that?
For a second I thought you said Austrian Beaches....
I'd pity those sharks, for now Hanz and Franz are going to pump *clap* them up.
Wait, then we'd be facing some sort of pumped-up, muscley shark that can probably run around on dry land with their massive muscles...
So long as they don't get ninja training, because we don't want them to flip out.
Then we'd all need some Shark Repellant Bat-Spray (I had to think where the bat went in there, because would you realy want to repel the Bat-Sharks?)
What are these ocean things you speak of?
They've got something to do with beaches, right?
Just ask the aliens to move your locator-tag to a non-cranial location the next time they abduct you. As long as you tell them that it's interfereing with your wireless devices they'll gladly move it.