With child obesity on the rise, we're now scaring them with the idea that that baseball through Old Man Peterson's window is going to cost them several thousand dollars. They'll never leave the house. I'm not a kid, but I am a klutz.
Also, these windows would have to be ridiculously insulated. I mean insulated electrically and from changes in temperature. It wouldn't be any good for there to be condensation on your screen (for picture quality) and without proper electrical insulation, that could mean a nasty shock (ugh..) for some homeowners.
or like we think of animals, it's worth is more important than our own. I can't wait until it tries to test out some kind of computer bug inside us to cure or a new type of Lancombe coolant that won't irritate it's tubes (so the lawyerbots won't sue it).
Often surveys will knock out answers too far outside of the mean as people who took the survey as a joke. I imagine we would fall into those categories that are eliminated because they're considered (by non/.'ers) too high to be factual.
Darl: Linux stole our stuff! Novell: Where's your proof? Darl: They did it, I saw 'em! Novell: Where, show me... Darl: It's over there! [Novell turns around while Darl bolts out of the room]
I was installing their new OS's from burned CD's, legal licenses, but using a burned copy of Windows 2000. No installer pops up unless you boot from CD.
I actually helped two people switch from 98 this week. They both started over the phone almost identically.
Friend(s): I can't make a boot disk, it doesn't recognize the drive anymore. Me: You have to go into the BIOS, change the boot order and pop in a cd. Friend(s): The what-os? Me: I'm on my way.
These aren't dumb people, but I installed their OS's and now they think they can't handle it on their parents' computers. I do like impressing people with simple things though, like showing my nephew a yo-yo for the first time.
ApeXtreme player is just one of many possible players
That is a key point actually, if they _do_ make money off of this, then gaming companies will want to gear some product toward their stuff. Catch 22 though, because in making money, they'll attract copycats and standardization goes all to hell.
No doubt they'll want to surround this sucker in DMCA hoopla, but making quick and easy swappable components for this thing could really help sell it. You'll still be upgrading your system (nullifying my original point), but make it easy enough that people who know little about hardware could handle it. That way, companies could gear toward component set X (similar to what you mentioned before) and the users wouldn't have to shell out for a completely new console.
Sounds like a plan, you got a couple mill in Venture Capital lying around?
My concept of it is that game companies who want to support this will make a less whiz-bang copy of their games for the system. Yeah, the graphics won't be as good, but at least you'd be able to play them to some degree. I think the fact that there're still legacy servers out there for any of the older multiplayer games will attest to some degree of marketability for this concept.
to stop hearing about that Phantom console and all of its associated vaporocity.
In seriousness though, if this ApeXtreme makes it so I don't have to blow all my money updating to that latest graphic FUBAR 5000XZ chip every time a new game comes out, it's definitely worth checking out. Especially if it's real, unlike the Phantom.
The Eye Class sees it, and decides (rightfully) that it has crude graphics, and rejects it, and the system flops (a la N-Gage).
N-Gage also required you to remove the battery to put in a memory card. I think I have aspects of all of your gaming classes, but I also belong to the Lazy Class and this is a pain. Also, I don't have a lot of money to be spending on gaming (or enough cleverness to devise a class title for it). I certainly can't put out a lot of money for another cell phone and mediocre game system, when I could keep my current phone and grab a $100 GBA (3D be damned).
/* offtopic I think that a large part of the genius of Nintendo is keeping the price low. People will wax on forever about the death of Nintendo, but if I have a hundred bucks to throw around, I can grab a couple games for my PS2, XBOX, or grab a *new console*. Even writing the word "new console" is sweet. */
I think the phone companies are working from a position of weakness. Making a whiz-bang chip to make 3d apps for a cell phone, keeping the nice features of the phone, and pushing the concept of keeping the system small isn't going to work right now. What one of these great braintrusts should do is call up Nintendo and say, "Hey, can we throw a (simple) phone in your GBA?"
What that game really needed was a way to adapt to your attention span. When he would launch into one of those speeches about the rain on the pavement and how it made him feel, I wanted to shoot my Playstation.
Who do they think they're reaching with this site? Your average PHB has no idea what these words mean. Anyone in a position of power who knows what these systems are obviously had a reason for going open in the first place. Not to mention the cost of migrating to an M$ system from an open one. I think they're trying to piss off some open source people and stir up a little FUD for ye ol' stock price.
how many games I play with mood enhancing music, I'll never forget that like 3 tone midi that played when there was a man on in NES RBI Baseball. It was the same note played four times/verse and like an octave higher each verse. My cousin and I would just sit there and sing
man on the base man on the base man on the base MAN ON THE BASE!!! (repeat until man leaves base)
It's probably late enough in the posting that this will get buried, but I have always had problems with wires. Even back in the "laxer" days of airport security, they don't like to see lots of wires in a carry-on. If you have any wires, disconnect and twist tie them so they're obviously not doing anything. Just a quick tip on how to avoid a little potential hassle.
to pick on Taco, but I just wanted to share that my RSS aggregator prompted me as to whether these were the same item and it should ignore one. A nice chuckle for a boring Tuesday morning.
and they clarify: "Final Fantasy Anthology includes Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI (originally released in North America as Final Fantasy III), while Final Fantasy Chronicles contains Final Fantasy IV (originally released in North America as Final Fantasy II) and Chrono Trigger."
I'm more confused than ever... I'm going to create my own language, so that they can translate all these buggers in order and I won't have to put up with this. Until new games come out at least...
in an unholy union Sony and Microsoft paid some guys to jack the systems so they wouldn't have to fix them or pay to get them shipped back. Or maybe the warehouse is just saying they're broken so they won't look like complete morons.
"Starbuck was a womanizing, cigar-smoking guy," explains SciFi.com general manager Craig Engler. "Now, she's a man-izing, cigar-smoking bundle of trouble."
Yeah, all he did was have sex and smoke cigars, that's why his character was so great... Not to mention "bundle of trouble" popping up highly on my oh-crap-o-meter for plucky obnoxious characters.
Only time will tell how well adding hot chicks who can't act to dead TV series' will work out. I thought (and please don't flame me for this) SciFi did a pretty good job with Dune though, but they didn't try to make Paul a woman.
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With child obesity on the rise, we're now scaring them with the idea that that baseball through Old Man Peterson's window is going to cost them several thousand dollars. They'll never leave the house. I'm not a kid, but I am a klutz.
Also, these windows would have to be ridiculously insulated. I mean insulated electrically and from changes in temperature. It wouldn't be any good for there to be condensation on your screen (for picture quality) and without proper electrical insulation, that could mean a nasty shock (ugh..) for some homeowners.
or like we think of animals, it's worth is more important than our own. I can't wait until it tries to test out some kind of computer bug inside us to cure or a new type of Lancombe coolant that won't irritate it's tubes (so the lawyerbots won't sue it).
Often surveys will knock out answers too far outside of the mean as people who took the survey as a joke. I imagine we would fall into those categories that are eliminated because they're considered (by non /.'ers) too high to be factual.
Any rumors out there on what the new device is?
My company recently blocked most gaming-related sites, so I can't check it out myself.
Not-so-obligatory paraphrased Mr. Show quote:
We have the technology! The time is now! Children are our future! We will blow up the Sun!
Darl: Linux stole our stuff!
Novell: Where's your proof?
Darl: They did it, I saw 'em!
Novell: Where, show me...
Darl: It's over there!
[Novell turns around while Darl bolts out of the room]
Hilariously enough, it's a site talking about Metallica right now. I'm so torn...
litigious bastards
I was installing their new OS's from burned CD's, legal licenses, but using a burned copy of Windows 2000. No installer pops up unless you boot from CD.
I actually helped two people switch from 98 this week. They both started over the phone almost identically.
Friend(s): I can't make a boot disk, it doesn't recognize the drive anymore.
Me: You have to go into the BIOS, change the boot order and pop in a cd.
Friend(s): The what-os?
Me: I'm on my way.
These aren't dumb people, but I installed their OS's and now they think they can't handle it on their parents' computers. I do like impressing people with simple things though, like showing my nephew a yo-yo for the first time.
the game will see players assuming the role of Henry Townsend, who has become trapped in his cursed apartment.
Back in college, unable to find my glasses, the morning after we had 200 partiers crammed into my tiny place with the toilets broken and overflowing
ApeXtreme player is just one of many possible players
That is a key point actually, if they _do_ make money off of this, then gaming companies will want to gear some product toward their stuff. Catch 22 though, because in making money, they'll attract copycats and standardization goes all to hell.
No doubt they'll want to surround this sucker in DMCA hoopla, but making quick and easy swappable components for this thing could really help sell it. You'll still be upgrading your system (nullifying my original point), but make it easy enough that people who know little about hardware could handle it. That way, companies could gear toward component set X (similar to what you mentioned before) and the users wouldn't have to shell out for a completely new console.
Sounds like a plan, you got a couple mill in Venture Capital lying around?
My concept of it is that game companies who want to support this will make a less whiz-bang copy of their games for the system. Yeah, the graphics won't be as good, but at least you'd be able to play them to some degree. I think the fact that there're still legacy servers out there for any of the older multiplayer games will attest to some degree of marketability for this concept.
to stop hearing about that Phantom console and all of its associated vaporocity.
In seriousness though, if this ApeXtreme makes it so I don't have to blow all my money updating to that latest graphic FUBAR 5000XZ chip every time a new game comes out, it's definitely worth checking out. Especially if it's real, unlike the Phantom.
The Eye Class sees it, and decides (rightfully) that it has crude graphics, and rejects it, and the system flops (a la N-Gage).
/* offtopic
N-Gage also required you to remove the battery to put in a memory card. I think I have aspects of all of your gaming classes, but I also belong to the Lazy Class and this is a pain. Also, I don't have a lot of money to be spending on gaming (or enough cleverness to devise a class title for it). I certainly can't put out a lot of money for another cell phone and mediocre game system, when I could keep my current phone and grab a $100 GBA (3D be damned).
I think that a large part of the genius of Nintendo is keeping the price low. People will wax on forever about the death of Nintendo, but if I have a hundred bucks to throw around, I can grab a couple games for my PS2, XBOX, or grab a *new console*. Even writing the word "new console" is sweet.
*/
I think the phone companies are working from a position of weakness. Making a whiz-bang chip to make 3d apps for a cell phone, keeping the nice features of the phone, and pushing the concept of keeping the system small isn't going to work right now. What one of these great braintrusts should do is call up Nintendo and say, "Hey, can we throw a (simple) phone in your GBA?"
What that game really needed was a way to adapt to your attention span. When he would launch into one of those speeches about the rain on the pavement and how it made him feel, I wanted to shoot my Playstation.
Who do they think they're reaching with this site?
Your average PHB has no idea what these words mean. Anyone in a position of power who knows what these systems are obviously had a reason for going open in the first place. Not to mention the cost of migrating to an M$ system from an open one. I think they're trying to piss off some open source people and stir up a little FUD for ye ol' stock price.
how many games I play with mood enhancing music, I'll never forget that like 3 tone midi that played when there was a man on in NES RBI Baseball. It was the same note played four times/verse and like an octave higher each verse. My cousin and I would just sit there and sing
man on the base
man on the base
man on the base
MAN ON THE BASE!!!
(repeat until man leaves base)
It's probably late enough in the posting that this will get buried, but I have always had problems with wires. Even back in the "laxer" days of airport security, they don't like to see lots of wires in a carry-on. If you have any wires, disconnect and twist tie them so they're obviously not doing anything. Just a quick tip on how to avoid a little potential hassle.
Ahh, but the Nazi's have a lot to do with the Netherlands...
Your refusal to buy Justin Timberlake CD's has been noted. Please save us some time and handcuff yourself before we get there.
- Die Nationale Sozialist... ich meine... RIAA
to pick on Taco, but I just wanted to share that my RSS aggregator prompted me as to whether these were the same item and it should ignore one. A nice chuckle for a boring Tuesday morning.
and they clarify: "Final Fantasy Anthology includes Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI (originally released in North America as Final Fantasy III), while Final Fantasy Chronicles contains Final Fantasy IV (originally released in North America as Final Fantasy II) and Chrono Trigger."
I'm more confused than ever... I'm going to create my own language, so that they can translate all these buggers in order and I won't have to put up with this. Until new games come out at least...
in an unholy union Sony and Microsoft paid some guys to jack the systems so they wouldn't have to fix them or pay to get them shipped back. Or maybe the warehouse is just saying they're broken so they won't look like complete morons.
It's generalizations that could lead to disaster:
"Starbuck was a womanizing, cigar-smoking guy," explains SciFi.com general manager Craig Engler. "Now, she's a man-izing, cigar-smoking bundle of trouble."
Yeah, all he did was have sex and smoke cigars, that's why his character was so great... Not to mention "bundle of trouble" popping up highly on my oh-crap-o-meter for plucky obnoxious characters.
Only time will tell how well adding hot chicks who can't act to dead TV series' will work out. I thought (and please don't flame me for this) SciFi did a pretty good job with Dune though, but they didn't try to make Paul a woman.