First off, I've played every incarnation of GB, minus the Game Boy Light.(That's the one everyone talks about having the light. Looks like a Game Boy Pocket, but with a Indiglo backlight.) Yes, I had the enormous Game Boy, the dieting Game Boy Pocket, and the excellent Game boy Color. I loved every one of them, and that's why I'm so excited.
Like I said, I have watched and experienced first-hand the evolution of GB, and from this, I know that the GBA is going to kick @$$. These have always been very good systems, combined with a large library of games and decent cost (but everyone's said that) that it's no surprise to me that it's hung around this long.
To refute what many people are saying, the back light isn't a big issue. I admit, it would be nice to have a back back light you could turn on and off without loss of battery power, but something like that would suck up batteries like people eat popcorn. However, Nyko makes a exceptional light, The Worm Light. I have had one for may GBC for about 1 1/2 years, and they are very good, as they are cheap, durable, and don't consume much battery power.
So, the Age of GB ruling the handhelds, IMHO, is still going strong.
This is a absolutely *HORRIBLE* idea. All this will do is condition people to used to 24/7/365 monitoring of their actions by The Government. Is that what we want? To say to our kids, "Screw what you say, we don't trust you at all, even in a controlled environment. Now let the doctor put the chip in your ass so we can see what you do all the time."
All this does is remove MORE responsibility. Children (to a point) SHOULD be given responsibility. Otherwise, how will they learn it? This is simply a invasion of privacy, put under the guise of "Help" and "Protection".
BTW, all of those who just think it'll make a parent's job easier are not looking towards what it could be used for. Besides, how come the majority of people today are not complete Rocket-Toting Crazy Bastards? In past generations, we didn't have this. Society isn't the hell the proponents of this make it out to be. This is very much anti-privacy BS. Damn, I hope this gets smacked down.
This is not likely to happen for several reasons, but one that came to my mind was the Game Boy Advance. I follow the Games Industry, and especially Nintendo quite closely, and Nintendo has been working on making the GBA compatible with the GameCube, like having games transfer data back and forth, and stuff like that. Now, we know that GBA is all systems go, considering the facts that it's already out in Japan, and The Almighty North American Release is only a month and some days away. (June 11th, I'll be in line:) Now, the GC is coming out this fall, last I heard. They most likely wouldn't just cancel it this close to release, that would be the equivalent of dropping a large weight on their foot. They've put alot of effort into developing and marketing it, and canceling now would be worse then just releasing it now and building up the critics support later. They already have a tremendous amount of support, and alot of people are looking forward to it.
Summary: IMHO, This doesn't affect GameCube at all.
However, you have to be in a area with a interest in retro gaming (or lots of geeks...:). You can get (used) games often times at garage sales or flea markets; new games, usually, are rarer, and you really have to either be lucky, or go to eBay or something like that. Also, some advice, (not requested, I know) Funcoland doesn't follow this.....don't screw your customers. *ahem* I had some bad economic experiences with them. (warning, ramblings continue) Also, put up a website. (but you probably know that already) Alot of people would LOVE a reliable retro gaming site. (I know this gamer would:)
This is definately good news, and that's what we need for once. It also demonstrates, quite well, how quickly a open development can evolve to sustain itself. Yes, I'm well aware neither of these are open-source, but I mean non-corporate development, in that sense. This is a major blow against the RIAA and it's cronies because they're using a law that they pushed against them. *sniff*, what is that? irony? justice? Yup, and hopefully this sort of thing will continue, even if a few are lost. Napster, I knew thee well, but a new generation is coming to usurp your place. Really, though, I think not many people are going to pay for the service, especially if they put alot of the "Copyright Protection" on it. I, for one, will not be using Nappy once they start charging, as it seems to be a money sink.
This might get me modded down, but are there any swapping services that use peer-to-peer instead of central servers? I ask because a open-source, peer-to-peer service would be *VERY* hard to shut down.
1. Have your CD sales went DOWN? (Not just because of market fluctuation, but a steady decrease that's indicitive of less people buying CDs)
2. How does this effect overseas? (e.g. Not USA. It seems that this sort of thing is a legal grey area, caused by the difficulty of different legal systems)
The first one I would personally like to go to court and ask them. It seems that this is the entire point of the suit, yet not once have I hard of actual facts and *gasp* research that points to that. I, and many people that I know, are more likely to buy CDs if we can hear some stuff from it.
Yeah, and the US also 'knew' that we would have moon bases by now. They also 'knew' that computers would never get any smaller. I personally think that it's sad that in the US at least, technology is pushed by military...I know that's not entirely true, but often in history the civilians got the stuff after the military. It would be good for commercial space travel, which is sad that to get this we have to be at 'war' with another nation. We need to create peace on Earth before we can ever hope to reach the stars.
A good game, that not many people have played is Chu Chu Rocket, for the Sega DreamCast. It's part strategy, part puzzle, multiplayer (four players), and part reflexes. There is a online version here. It's in Japanese, but you can play it. It's quite a good game, and not many people have even heard of it.
If I setup a ISP, I'm going to supply my local library with Internet access. This is ridiculous.
What happened to free speech? Wasn't this country founded on the ideals of freedom of speech and tolerance? A lot of people don't want this, unfortuntely, the people who do are in the positions of power to make it happen...when did elected officials stop being the servents of the people, and start representing only one interest, their own? These representitives are supposed to work with the people, to help them get their voices heard, and represent them and their interests in government. If they can't do that, get rid of them, and have a true democracy...if something doesn't work, why keep it? (I know that there are those who DO represent the people, but I'd guess that they're in the minority, considering what I've been seeing.) Back to the main point, filtering, in a public forum, where people who can't afford to have access to the Internet, will just create more of this "Digital Divide", this rift between those who have access to infomation, and those who don't. That's exactly what this country DOESN'T need. We need to help those people who can't afford it, help them get it, because the Internet is the portal to the world.
However, how can you SEE a black hole? It absorbs all the light and matter near it. That's the evidence. If you see light and matter being drawn
towards a dark spot in space, what do you think? That it's being drawn towards a white-hot neutron
star? Hell no, you think, "This is interesting, let me call my colleauges to see what they think." This sort of thing has long been suspected to be evidence for a black hole, and it looks like they're right. By the way, physical and chemical laws that you say should be applicable everywhere, have you heard about something called Quantum Theory? The world of the
atom, and smaller, is bizzare. To give a example, a photon traveling through time and space, will turn into a electron, emit the electrons anti-particle, the positron; go back in time, pick up a positron, and turn back into a photon. This has to do with Quantum Electro-Dynamics, pioneered by Richard Feynman.
Obviously, you don't often see something just go *pop* and travel back in time? That's what's happening on a quantum level all the time. Look! it just happened several thousand times!
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First off, I've played every incarnation of GB, minus the Game Boy Light.(That's the one everyone talks about having the light. Looks like a Game Boy Pocket, but with a Indiglo backlight.) Yes, I had the enormous Game Boy, the dieting Game Boy Pocket, and the excellent Game boy Color. I loved every one of them, and that's why I'm so excited.
Like I said, I have watched and experienced first-hand the evolution of GB, and from this, I know that the GBA is going to kick @$$. These have always been very good systems, combined with a large library of games and decent cost (but everyone's said that) that it's no surprise to me that it's hung around this long.
To refute what many people are saying, the back light isn't a big issue. I admit, it would be nice to have a back back light you could turn on and off without loss of battery power, but something like that would suck up batteries like people eat popcorn. However, Nyko makes a exceptional light, The Worm Light. I have had one for may GBC for about 1 1/2 years, and they are very good, as they are cheap, durable, and don't consume much battery power.
So, the Age of GB ruling the handhelds, IMHO, is still going strong.
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This is a absolutely *HORRIBLE* idea. All this will do is condition people to used to 24/7/365 monitoring of their actions by The Government. Is that what we want? To say to our kids, "Screw what you say, we don't trust you at all, even in a controlled environment. Now let the doctor put the chip in your ass so we can see what you do all the time."
All this does is remove MORE responsibility. Children (to a point) SHOULD be given responsibility. Otherwise, how will they learn it? This is simply a invasion of privacy, put under the guise of "Help" and "Protection".
BTW, all of those who just think it'll make a parent's job easier are not looking towards what it could be used for. Besides, how come the majority of people today are not complete Rocket-Toting Crazy Bastards? In past generations, we didn't have this. Society isn't the hell the proponents of this make it out to be. This is very much anti-privacy BS. Damn, I hope this gets smacked down.
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This is not likely to happen for several reasons, but one that came to my mind was the Game Boy Advance. I follow the Games Industry, and especially Nintendo quite closely, and Nintendo has been working on making the GBA compatible with the GameCube, like having games transfer data back and forth, and stuff like that. Now, we know that GBA is all systems go, considering the facts that it's already out in Japan, and The Almighty North American Release is only a month and some days away. (June 11th, I'll be in line :) Now, the GC is coming out this fall, last I heard. They most likely wouldn't just cancel it this close to release, that would be the equivalent of dropping a large weight on their foot. They've put alot of effort into developing and marketing it, and canceling now would be worse then just releasing it now and building up the critics support later. They already have a tremendous amount of support, and alot of people are looking forward to it.
Summary: IMHO, This doesn't affect GameCube at all.
However, you have to be in a area with a interest in retro gaming (or lots of geeks...:). You can get (used) games often times at garage sales or flea markets; new games, usually, are rarer, and you really have to either be lucky, or go to eBay or something like that. Also, some advice, (not requested, I know) Funcoland doesn't follow this.....don't screw your customers. *ahem* I had some bad economic experiences with them. (warning, ramblings continue) Also, put up a website. (but you probably know that already) Alot of people would LOVE a reliable retro gaming site. (I know this gamer would :)
This is definately good news, and that's what we need for once. It also demonstrates, quite well, how quickly a open development can evolve to sustain itself. Yes, I'm well aware neither of these are open-source, but I mean non-corporate development, in that sense. This is a major blow against the RIAA and it's cronies because they're using a law that they pushed against them. *sniff*, what is that? irony? justice? Yup, and hopefully this sort of thing will continue, even if a few are lost. Napster, I knew thee well, but a new generation is coming to usurp your place. Really, though, I think not many people are going to pay for the service, especially if they put alot of the "Copyright Protection" on it. I, for one, will not be using Nappy once they start charging, as it seems to be a money sink. This might get me modded down, but are there any swapping services that use peer-to-peer instead of central servers? I ask because a open-source, peer-to-peer service would be *VERY* hard to shut down.
I have two questions I would like to ask:
1. Have your CD sales went DOWN? (Not just because of market fluctuation, but a steady decrease that's indicitive of less people buying CDs)
2. How does this effect overseas? (e.g. Not USA. It seems that this sort of thing is a legal grey area, caused by the difficulty of different legal systems)
The first one I would personally like to go to court and ask them. It seems that this is the entire point of the suit, yet not once have I hard of actual facts and *gasp* research that points to that. I, and many people that I know, are more likely to buy CDs if we can hear some stuff from it.
Yeah, and the US also 'knew' that we would have moon bases by now. They also 'knew' that computers would never get any smaller. I personally think that it's sad that in the US at least, technology is pushed by military...I know that's not entirely true, but often in history the civilians got the stuff after the military. It would be good for commercial space travel, which is sad that to get this we have to be at 'war' with another nation. We need to create peace on Earth before we can ever hope to reach the stars.
A good game, that not many people have played is Chu Chu Rocket, for the Sega DreamCast. It's part strategy, part puzzle, multiplayer (four players), and part reflexes. There is a online version here. It's in Japanese, but you can play it. It's quite a good game, and not many people have even heard of it.
If I setup a ISP, I'm going to supply my local library with Internet access. This is ridiculous. What happened to free speech? Wasn't this country founded on the ideals of freedom of speech and tolerance? A lot of people don't want this, unfortuntely, the people who do are in the positions of power to make it happen...when did elected officials stop being the servents of the people, and start representing only one interest, their own? These representitives are supposed to work with the people, to help them get their voices heard, and represent them and their interests in government. If they can't do that, get rid of them, and have a true democracy...if something doesn't work, why keep it? (I know that there are those who DO represent the people, but I'd guess that they're in the minority, considering what I've been seeing.) Back to the main point, filtering, in a public forum, where people who can't afford to have access to the Internet, will just create more of this "Digital Divide", this rift between those who have access to infomation, and those who don't. That's exactly what this country DOESN'T need. We need to help those people who can't afford it, help them get it, because the Internet is the portal to the world.
However, how can you SEE a black hole? It absorbs all the light and matter near it. That's the evidence. If you see light and matter being drawn towards a dark spot in space, what do you think? That it's being drawn towards a white-hot neutron star? Hell no, you think, "This is interesting, let me call my colleauges to see what they think." This sort of thing has long been suspected to be evidence for a black hole, and it looks like they're right. By the way, physical and chemical laws that you say should be applicable everywhere, have you heard about something called Quantum Theory? The world of the atom, and smaller, is bizzare. To give a example, a photon traveling through time and space, will turn into a electron, emit the electrons anti-particle, the positron; go back in time, pick up a positron, and turn back into a photon. This has to do with Quantum Electro-Dynamics, pioneered by Richard Feynman. Obviously, you don't often see something just go *pop* and travel back in time? That's what's happening on a quantum level all the time. Look! it just happened several thousand times!