Just a correction, an M rating is for 17 and older. AO (Adults Only) rating is the 18+ rating.
GTA:SA was rated M. If the hacked material would have been in game from the begining it would have gotten an AO rating (and subsiquently not sold many places). I believe the issues on the table are more about if R* knew this was in the code when they released it, whether they should have told the ERSB about it if they knew and whether the ERSB should even rate something based on material that isn't playable without hacking the software. Lots of weird legal questions there.
What? I visted Orlando in March and they had signs up all over downtown and the Lake Eola area that said free Wifi. If I could find out about it in the 2 days I was there, surely you should have been able to notice the same.
From the article: With far too few exceptions, this is a group that just days ago was smugly debunking, dismantling, and railing against the notion of Intel processors in their Macs, only now to squirm and slither out explanations that provide justifications to the contrary.
I see the Reality Distortion Field has worked once again.;)
Some would say whoever makes the most money is more successful.
Then Nintendo is still pretty successful. It made more profit than Sony did during the 32/64 bit gen, and it's not far away from Sony in profits this gen (given how far behind it is in market share). Nintendo is a profit master, always have been.
I'm a little scared by this given its a Windows only thing ATM. Pages viewed pertaining to computers will tend to be very Windows centric (even more than they really are) given the fact that you can't run this on a Mac or Linux box.
It reminds me of an old script you could add to your website way back when that would do stats for you (and the company aggrigated all the data), but the application to do this was Windows only. Usually a person making thier own site hits it quite a bit, and this artificially inflated the rankings of how many people online use IE.
If they're going to use it to increase relavance, it'd be nice if they included the entire computer universe.
There are more rogues than any other single class, as they are vastly overpowered for levelling and moreover singularly designed for wholesale murder
And for every person who says nerf rogues, someone else will say nerf shaman, nerf priests, nerf paladins. Everyone thinks every class is overpowered, when the fact is you're either a good player or you're not.
While the honor system MIGHT curb the rampant "problem" that is ganking (I don't see it as a problem, it's a pvp server, I deal with it) I think it will definitely escalate the desire for Horde and Alliance to kill each other, and make it more difficult to complete quests in contested areas.
That's the entire point. If you're not 60, be prepared to be ganked early and often. The entire game is now PVP, especially since Battlegrounds isn't in the game yet. If you need to level up yet, good luck, it just became 1000x harder.
In a way, that's the way the game is supposed to be. The Alliance and Horde are at war. It is your JOB to kill the opposition when you see them. The patch creates incentive for people to do so, where they really weren't before.
It also encourages grouping, which is supposed to be an integral part of MMO's anyway. Expect to see large groups wandering around from place to place, for protection, or for raids. The world will be very different from here on out, be prepared.
Because then you'd have kids going to school in the dark. As soon as one is hit by a car that's the end of that.
I used to get off the bus going home when it was dark out in Dec. Nobody ever raised a fuss about that. This isn't much different. It just moves it to the morning pick up.
I still see no problem w/ year round DST. Having it be light out later is always better.
"But can anyone tell me how I can map f9 to the middle mouse button? Whenever I try, it just pops Expose open instead."
Change Expose to use something other than F9 (say F1 for now), then map F9 to your middle mouse button, and then go back and set Expose to be F9. Voila, you're done.
In the Japanese version there is "download play" with a single cart (so only one person needs to have the game and the rest of the people download a copy to their DS to play along in multi-play). Whereas with the US version each player needs their own copy of the game to join into a multi-play session.
The Japanese version also includes Dristone Mode, which isn't in the US version either (it's a modified version of single player with slightly different rules). Given that DS games are region-free, if anyone is seriously interested in the game, it might be better to import it.
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I did a similar thing many years ago, and created a sort of collage of glitch art with game ROMs. Instead of taking pictures of corrupt ROMs I took pictures of arcade games boot up sequences, usually during the ROM flush. A lot of old arcade games had this and it gave the weirdest looking garbage on screen before the game would load the title screen. I went through hundreds of games in MAME to find some good ones. Most of the backgrounds were black, so I made black transparent in all of them an then layered them on top of each other randomly. You can see the results here:
Just click the page to get a new ROM boot collage. I also have a version that annimates randomly and alternating intervals which gives a nice psychodelic effect, but is a bit slow to do online.
Google isn't copying the full-text of an article. At most, its the headline and a paragraph...most of the time it is the headline and a sentence.
This strikes me as very similar to a TV guide you buy in a store or get in the Sunday paper. Think about it, it's simply a list of TV shows with a short description of them and what time they're on, not unlike a news link with a short description of what it is. Surely if a TV guide can make money, Google News can too. Anyone know the laws surrounding that?
Both EB and Gamestop's online stores had preorders available for the game, Gamestop being the first to do so (which is where I preordered from). They most certainly had a small shipment as Gamestop.com sold out on the day of release.
I don't really fault retailers that much, since this is a budget title, and most of the fever over the game has been decidedly word of mouth as there hasn't been a big promotional campaign for the title.
With that said, this is one of the most unique and fresh titles I've played in years. You'd do yourself a huge favor to get it...if you can find a copy.
We used to do this as kids, with two VCR's and a mic. One VCR would play Star Wars, the other would tape the video output, and record the sound from the mic instead of the movie. We'd adlib the whole movie like this, just making up lines as we went. Still have the tapes actualy.
This is the first online music store that I will seriously consider. (and actually the first that I _can_ consider since I'm a linux user.
That's not entirely true. You can buy from Bleep.com, and it's basically the same thing. Non-DRM 192kps MP3s. You just have to like their selection (mostly electronic music on Warp Records). It's been up for a while now, and you pay per song (or album), not a monthly fee (which I prefer).
It seems the website knows what system I'm running, as they offer for me to download the OS X version of Firefox, yet the screenshot of it to the right shows the Windows version. It'd be nice if they tailored this page to me a bit more and showed a screenshot with OS X chrome.
You have to realize that Nintendo, being a Japanese company, is getting hit hard by cell phone providers in Japan. Gaming on phones in Japan has become a big thing, much bigger than it is here in the states. I can see why Nintendo would want a slice of that pie, given the downward trend in Japanese console gaming as of late. It's a smart move.
FWIW, the April NPD disagrees with you. It was over 100k:
Xbox - 297,351 units PlayStation 2 - 188,669 units
And it's fairly obvious you're talking out your ass in regards to PS3 dev kits. They're working on them inside Sony. Nobody has one. They're not done yet.
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Just a correction, an M rating is for 17 and older. AO (Adults Only) rating is the 18+ rating.
GTA:SA was rated M. If the hacked material would have been in game from the begining it would have gotten an AO rating (and subsiquently not sold many places). I believe the issues on the table are more about if R* knew this was in the code when they released it, whether they should have told the ERSB about it if they knew and whether the ERSB should even rate something based on material that isn't playable without hacking the software. Lots of weird legal questions there.
I've never heard of this
What? I visted Orlando in March and they had signs up all over downtown and the Lake Eola area that said free Wifi. If I could find out about it in the 2 days I was there, surely you should have been able to notice the same.
From the article:
;)
With far too few exceptions, this is a group that just days ago was smugly debunking, dismantling, and railing against the notion of Intel processors in their Macs, only now to squirm and slither out explanations that provide justifications to the contrary.
I see the Reality Distortion Field has worked once again.
Bleep?
http://bleep.com
Looks like I'm also addicted to brushing my teeth and eating breakfast, based on that criteria.
Some would say whoever makes the most money is more successful.
Then Nintendo is still pretty successful. It made more profit than Sony did during the 32/64 bit gen, and it's not far away from Sony in profits this gen (given how far behind it is in market share). Nintendo is a profit master, always have been.
I'm a little scared by this given its a Windows only thing ATM. Pages viewed pertaining to computers will tend to be very Windows centric (even more than they really are) given the fact that you can't run this on a Mac or Linux box.
It reminds me of an old script you could add to your website way back when that would do stats for you (and the company aggrigated all the data), but the application to do this was Windows only. Usually a person making thier own site hits it quite a bit, and this artificially inflated the rankings of how many people online use IE.
If they're going to use it to increase relavance, it'd be nice if they included the entire computer universe.
There are more rogues than any other single class, as they are vastly overpowered for levelling and moreover singularly designed for wholesale murder
And for every person who says nerf rogues, someone else will say nerf shaman, nerf priests, nerf paladins. Everyone thinks every class is overpowered, when the fact is you're either a good player or you're not.
While the honor system MIGHT curb the rampant "problem" that is ganking (I don't see it as a problem, it's a pvp server, I deal with it) I think it will definitely escalate the desire for Horde and Alliance to kill each other, and make it more difficult to complete quests in contested areas.
That's the entire point. If you're not 60, be prepared to be ganked early and often. The entire game is now PVP, especially since Battlegrounds isn't in the game yet. If you need to level up yet, good luck, it just became 1000x harder.
In a way, that's the way the game is supposed to be. The Alliance and Horde are at war. It is your JOB to kill the opposition when you see them. The patch creates incentive for people to do so, where they really weren't before.
It also encourages grouping, which is supposed to be an integral part of MMO's anyway. Expect to see large groups wandering around from place to place, for protection, or for raids. The world will be very different from here on out, be prepared.
Because then you'd have kids going to school in the dark. As soon as one is hit by a car that's the end of that.
I used to get off the bus going home when it was dark out in Dec. Nobody ever raised a fuss about that. This isn't much different. It just moves it to the morning pick up.
I still see no problem w/ year round DST. Having it be light out later is always better.
the DS didnt sold out in any store here or in Japan that I know of
Then you're not paying attention. There were stores where the DS sold out.
yes the PSP has more sales than the DS
Actually no, it doesn't.
Nintendo for better or worse is releasing a new handheld by the end of this year.
Again, they're not. I have no idea where you've come up with this stuff, but you're blatently wrong. Honestly, who modded this "interesting"?
"But can anyone tell me how I can map f9 to the middle mouse button? Whenever I try, it just pops Expose open instead."
Change Expose to use something other than F9 (say F1 for now), then map F9 to your middle mouse button, and then go back and set Expose to be F9. Voila, you're done.
Associated Press says a 38-year-old was arrested in Hong Kong for uploading Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality via a BitTorrent client.
He should have been arrested for his taste in movies.
In the Japanese version there is "download play" with a single cart (so only one person needs to have the game and the rest of the people download a copy to their DS to play along in multi-play). Whereas with the US version each player needs their own copy of the game to join into a multi-play session.
The Japanese version also includes Dristone Mode, which isn't in the US version either (it's a modified version of single player with slightly different rules). Given that DS games are region-free, if anyone is seriously interested in the game, it might be better to import it.
In a word, no.
Notice the foot next to this article?
"It's funny. Laugh."
I did a similar thing many years ago, and created a sort of collage of glitch art with game ROMs. Instead of taking pictures of corrupt ROMs I took pictures of arcade games boot up sequences, usually during the ROM flush. A lot of old arcade games had this and it gave the weirdest looking garbage on screen before the game would load the title screen. I went through hundreds of games in MAME to find some good ones. Most of the backgrounds were black, so I made black transparent in all of them an then layered them on top of each other randomly. You can see the results here:
http://ax.assembler.org
Just click the page to get a new ROM boot collage. I also have a version that annimates randomly and alternating intervals which gives a nice psychodelic effect, but is a bit slow to do online.
Google isn't copying the full-text of an article. At most, its the headline and a paragraph...most of the time it is the headline and a sentence.
This strikes me as very similar to a TV guide you buy in a store or get in the Sunday paper. Think about it, it's simply a list of TV shows with a short description of them and what time they're on, not unlike a news link with a short description of what it is. Surely if a TV guide can make money, Google News can too. Anyone know the laws surrounding that?
Both EB and Gamestop's online stores had preorders available for the game, Gamestop being the first to do so (which is where I preordered from). They most certainly had a small shipment as Gamestop.com sold out on the day of release.
I don't really fault retailers that much, since this is a budget title, and most of the fever over the game has been decidedly word of mouth as there hasn't been a big promotional campaign for the title.
With that said, this is one of the most unique and fresh titles I've played in years. You'd do yourself a huge favor to get it...if you can find a copy.
We used to do this as kids, with two VCR's and a mic. One VCR would play Star Wars, the other would tape the video output, and record the sound from the mic instead of the movie. We'd adlib the whole movie like this, just making up lines as we went. Still have the tapes actualy.
Can I have my cease and desist Mr. Lucas?
This is the first online music store that I will seriously consider. (and actually the first that I _can_ consider since I'm a linux user.
That's not entirely true. You can buy from Bleep.com, and it's basically the same thing. Non-DRM 192kps MP3s. You just have to like their selection (mostly electronic music on Warp Records). It's been up for a while now, and you pay per song (or album), not a monthly fee (which I prefer).
It seems the website knows what system I'm running, as they offer for me to download the OS X version of Firefox, yet the screenshot of it to the right shows the Windows version. It'd be nice if they tailored this page to me a bit more and showed a screenshot with OS X chrome.
You have to realize that Nintendo, being a Japanese company, is getting hit hard by cell phone providers in Japan. Gaming on phones in Japan has become a big thing, much bigger than it is here in the states. I can see why Nintendo would want a slice of that pie, given the downward trend in Japanese console gaming as of late. It's a smart move.
Somehow I think that if Apple had reverse engineered Real Audio and added it into Quicktime, Real would be singing a different tune (no pun intended).
FWIW, the April NPD disagrees with you. It was over 100k:
Xbox - 297,351 units
PlayStation 2 - 188,669 units
And it's fairly obvious you're talking out your ass in regards to PS3 dev kits. They're working on them inside Sony. Nobody has one. They're not done yet.