Rocket fits perfectly into the obscure category, but it has a lot going for it, including being the first game produced by Sucker Punch (who went on to produce the outstanding Sly Cooper series), and being one of the first console games to sport a true and convincing physics engine.
It's one of those titles that was not only a fun game, but also a fun environment to run around in and interact with.
After a thorough scrubbing, the new title of this scientific discovery reads: "Two million acres of old growth tropical forest discovered; available to the highest timber-industry bidder."
With 7 DS titles set to go or having gone platinum (having sold over 1 million copies) in Japan, I seriously doubt that flash carts are the reason for high DS console sales. See http://game-science.com/news/001285.php
In a story about a union standing up for its employees, I was kind of expecting to read more "if he doesn't like it, he can quit his job, divorce his wife, abandon his kids, divorce himself from civilization and live in a shack! It's free enterprise, mofo!" comments.
Or do those only appear when discussing tech industry workers?
I had one built out of a cardboard box and Sharpie markers. Well, I think it was a Sharpie. It might have been one of those markers that they say smells like grapes.
Based on your argument, couldn't you just pull out your ubiquitous laptop and play emulators as well?
Likely a hell of a lot speedier than on the PSP (unless you run the clock at full speed and turn off some of the sounds and turn on some frameskip. And god only knows what that's doing to a system so fragile that people are already being forced to buy replacements due to everyday use).
Just the other day I was going through my web site traffic logs, and I found several thousand people visiting my site and eating up my data transfer allotment - get this - without my permission!
They were *hitting* my web site! That has to be illegal somehow.
I think this is the most obvious application of the technology. Few people are going to want to sit and watch a 2-hour movie on a portable device, but damned if they don't wow all their friends when they show them the purdy screen that plays video (witness the PSP).
I think the real "killer app" here is if Apple were to come out with a video ipod that interfaces with built-in apps like iMovie, so that people can carry around their own home movies as well as downloaded video content, and make it as easy as iTunes.
How many of you have or have seen baby photos on an iPod photo?
Moreover, it cost less and allowed us to spend more of the allotted budget on making the frame structure more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
I was going to comment on how close they came to this goal, but then based on some of the case mods I've seen, the torn-label Poland Spring bottles and electrical tape contraption does seem to come pretty close to a geek's idea of eye-candy.
Now if only they had spent a little more to line the insides of the plastic bottles with blue neon...
Wouldn't it be so much easier for y'all to just admit that God made everything, and that Jesus is shootin' around up there like the Silver Surfer, pickin' up all the broken bits?;)
I wonder if the reason that some groups are upset over this is because they see it (particularly things like the killing of the human-brained mice) as a "backdoor" way to justify abortion, by blurring the boundaries as to what a human is through scientific means?
(I mean, a lot of the funamentalists view just about anything as an attack on their beliefs anyhow, going as far as to extrapolate rampant bestiality from gay marriage. And they seem to have a general distrust of science in general...)
I'd second this - if you are thinking of your end-user at all, Flash video is one of the best options in that your end user will not need to know what player/codec they have installed, the player penetration in most cases is higher than the "big 3" video players, and the file size/quality ratio is pretty good.
Not to mention - if you are making an entertainment site promoting a rising sports star, you can do a lot more as far as incorporating video into your page designs (rather than launching a player) than you could with other formats.
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Rocket fits perfectly into the obscure category, but it has a lot going for it, including being the first game produced by Sucker Punch (who went on to produce the outstanding Sly Cooper series), and being one of the first console games to sport a true and convincing physics engine.
It's one of those titles that was not only a fun game, but also a fun environment to run around in and interact with.
After a thorough scrubbing, the new title of this scientific discovery reads:
"Two million acres of old growth tropical forest discovered; available to the highest timber-industry bidder."
By buying and listening to gangsta rap?
No, I think those are the instructions for how to make it rain bacon.
You know, the emo kids wearing "Know your Roots" t-shirts with game consoles older than they are?
With 7 DS titles set to go or having gone platinum (having sold over 1 million copies) in Japan, I seriously doubt that flash carts are the reason for high DS console sales. See http://game-science.com/news/001285.php
In a story about a union standing up for its employees, I was kind of expecting to read more "if he doesn't like it, he can quit his job, divorce his wife, abandon his kids, divorce himself from civilization and live in a shack! It's free enterprise, mofo!" comments.
Or do those only appear when discussing tech industry workers?
I had one built out of a cardboard box and Sharpie markers. Well, I think it was a Sharpie. It might have been one of those markers that they say smells like grapes.
I hear they patched the gap with a "Real astronauts do it by hand" bumper sticker.
Based on your argument, couldn't you just pull out your ubiquitous laptop and play emulators as well?
Likely a hell of a lot speedier than on the PSP
(unless you run the clock at full speed and turn off some of the sounds and turn on some frameskip. And god only knows what that's doing to a system so fragile that people are already being forced to buy replacements due to everyday use).
From the focus group comments file:
"There 'aint no Vista, and there 'aint no View and there certainly 'aint no Vista of no View."
Just the other day I was going through my web site traffic logs, and I found several thousand people visiting my site and eating up my data transfer allotment - get this - without my permission!
They were *hitting* my web site! That has to be illegal somehow.
Damned hackers.
Grainy Porn, Porn, Porn, Skateboarding Video shot on a Super-8, Porn, Porn, Video of someone's cat, Porn with someone's cat, Porn, Porn...
Ugh. I can't imagine what scenarios will occur when the same people who can't tell a penis from a pipe bomb get an eyefull of the real deal.
Oh. I was going to suggest:
POS.
I think this is the most obvious application of the technology. Few people are going to want to sit and watch a 2-hour movie on a portable device, but damned if they don't wow all their friends when they show them the purdy screen that plays video (witness the PSP).
I think the real "killer app" here is if Apple were to come out with a video ipod that interfaces with built-in apps like iMovie, so that people can carry around their own home movies as well as downloaded video content, and make it as easy as iTunes.
How many of you have or have seen baby photos on an iPod photo?
Actually, he was just hoping to impress this cute vegan hippie herbivore that hung out near the flowering plants.
Moreover, it cost less and allowed us to spend more of the allotted budget on making the frame structure more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
I was going to comment on how close they came to this goal, but then based on some of the case mods I've seen, the torn-label Poland Spring bottles and electrical tape contraption does seem to come pretty close to a geek's idea of eye-candy.
Now if only they had spent a little more to line the insides of the plastic bottles with blue neon...
Silenced? This is Slashdot. We'll be bitchng about Lucas from here to Episode XVIII.
Now, instead of "Write Your Congressman!" are we supposed to call MS Tech Support?
You can, but I doubt the Indian call center employee on the other end would have much influence over the U.S. legislative process.
Ob-Gyn? Is he that new CGI robot guy?
"Push! Push! Use the force!"
Wouldn't it be so much easier for y'all to just admit that God made everything, and that Jesus is shootin' around up there like the Silver Surfer, pickin' up all the broken bits? ;)
"Honestly, officer. Grand Theft Auto is the reason I was getting head from a hooker in the back seat of my car."
I wonder if the reason that some groups are upset over this is because they see it (particularly things like the killing of the human-brained mice) as a "backdoor" way to justify abortion, by blurring the boundaries as to what a human is through scientific means?
(I mean, a lot of the funamentalists view just about anything as an attack on their beliefs anyhow, going as far as to extrapolate rampant bestiality from gay marriage. And they seem to have a general distrust of science in general...)
I'd second this - if you are thinking of your end-user at all, Flash video is one of the best options in that your end user will not need to know what player/codec they have installed, the player penetration in most cases is higher than the "big 3" video players, and the file size/quality ratio is pretty good.
Not to mention - if you are making an entertainment site promoting a rising sports star, you can do a lot more as far as incorporating video into your page designs (rather than launching a player) than you could with other formats.