It's worth bearing in mind that most games outlets in the UK had been taking PSP preorders for 6 months or more, making the number of units sold a whole lot less impressive. Also, just about nowhere were selling unbundled PSPs, so the game sales figures are also less impressive - how many people buying a PSP ended up with a game they didn't actually want?
If a crime happens somewhere close to where you are, and you match the vauge description given by witnesses to that crime? Then you are guilty.
A few years ago I took part in a study on identification via CCTV at Stirling University (this study was later used in a Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary on the subject). The results showed time and again that there is an enormous risk of mis-identification from CCTV footage. The quality of even the best CCTV just isn't good enough to get a clear image of a suspect. Considering that CCTV evidence in Britain is such strong evidence, this is enormously dangerous.
More than that, the BBC will almost certainly handle this in the same way that they've handled existing BBC Broadband streams - access will only be available to customers of a (long) list of UK ISPs, who also peer the content. It works very well for the BBC and ISPs alike - the BBC can avoid crippling bandwidth costs, and can't be accused of using public money to provide TV to the world at large, while pretty much every UK ISP can boast about their "massive selection of broadband content".
On the Mac side, you can use Salling Clicker in conjunction with your bluetooth phone or PDA. Salling Clicker has iTunes remote functionality, including playlist support, browse/find by artist, album, genre, etc.
Probably has something to do with it. Bam Thwok is exclusive to iTMS, and got a mention in nearly all of the iTunes launch coverage. Considering that the Pixies are currently touring Europe, I'm sure that drove plenty of sales. I for one bought Bam Thwok on iTMS launch day.
iTunes does not, repeat does not, leave your music where it was when you import it. It re-arranges song locations based on Author - not too big a deal unless you have a lot of compilations. A friend of my found his compliation CDs split into multiple directories based on author
You can turn that off (Preferences > Advanced > Keep music folder organized). And iTunes handles compilation albums better than any other mp3 app I've ever seen. As long as the "compilation" checkbox is ticked in the ID3 panel. Which it will be if the info has been pulled from CDDB.
.. the stupidest fucking thing I've heard in a long, long while.
How many "gung-ho" millionaires have the means to send people to the Moon? And "represent humanity", my ass. They represent the 0.000001% of humanity who care to fritter away obscene amounts of money on vanity projects, rather than, say, feeding the starving.
Most standards-advocates (myself included) would love to use 'font-size: small', or percentages, or ems to size text relative to users font preferences.
The problem is, support for these relative values are still too broken in IE6 and Opera (Opera is better though) for us to use them. Much as we'd like to, we can't be truly accessibility and standards-driven when the most popular browser on the web gets is wrong.
Theres only really 2 options open just now - use px as the font unit, or don't size at all. Most developers/designers aren't quite Zen enough to not size the text at all, as the default text size in most browsers is fucking ugly.
Yep, it is definitely visiting Edinburgh once it finishes at the Barbican in September. Its supported by National Galleries Scotland, and apparently its going to be at the National Gallery on the Mound, although that seems like an odd venue to me.
The early arcade machines constantly broke down. But credit was due to the exhibition staff, as they immediately broke the cabs open to get them up and running again.
I was pleased to see a section devoted to game sounds and music, as thats an area which is often overlooked. They had Rez set up on a big screen with even bigger sound, Space Channel 5, listening posts so you could listen to all the old C64 hits, and a very cool commisioned 3-player game called Ping which produced some amazing sounds.
I thought it was a little odd that I didn't see a Neo-Geo anywhere (although its possible that I missed it), but it was nice to see the Vectrex sitting proudly next to the PDP-1, running Space War!. It was also heartening to see that the new-generation of consoles didn't overwhelm the exhibition. The X-box in particular was pretty much non-existent - just 2 boxes relegated into corners, with DOA3 and Amped. Makes sense - whatever your opinions of Xbox, it hasnt made any impact on the history of videogames, at least not as much as GameCube, which put on a strong show (Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Super Smash Brothers Melee).
I was a bit puzzled as to why the FPS genre was completely ignored however. No Doom, no Quake, no Half-Life. And no mention of online games, despite there being a section specifically devoted to multiplayer gaming.
On the whole though, its well worth the £11. Its a joy to wander round checking out Sensible Soccer, Tempest, Flashback, Pong, Breakout, Super Msrio Kart, all the games you love.
Make sure you have enough time though. You could easily spend an entire day there - I only had a couple of hours, so I'm going to have to go back, probably when it visits Edinburgh later in the year.
We've got a couple of these in our office, that someone brough back from Tokyo.
They're so much fun its just silly. Incredibly detailed too - we've got different suspension kits, bodytypes and drift tyres, so we can do powerslides around the desks. Amazing little things. Fast as hell too.
Why are they so hard to get hold of in the UK? I'd gladly buy a raft of these.
WaSP (the webstandards project) certainly do not propose that everybody should upgrade to the latest 'bleeding edge' browser.
Their stance is that we should develop pages that conform to the W3C recommendations, and degrade gracefully for older browsers, enabling sites to be viewable in any device, be it Netscape 1, Lynx, or IE7. The WaSP came about from the (natural) frustration of trying to make sites look and function the same in Netscape 4.x and IE5+. Netscape 4 is a piece of shit, and murdering pages with knee-deep tables and no kind of semantic structure whatsoever is the only way to make complex designs look identical between IE5+ and Netscape 4.
Hence the web standards project - don't block anybody from viewing the site - but don't kill yourself trying to get pixel-perfect design in both browsers at once, and certainly don't build a page multiple times to satisfy Netscape 4.x. Use XHTML and CSS-2, and ruthlessly seperate structure from content. Your site will then work beautifully in any site imaginable, will be accessible to screenreaders for the partially sighted/blind, and other non-traditional devices.
WaSP got a lot of flack for the "To Hell With Bad Browsers" article, but people simply misunderstood it. The whole point was that Netscape isn't a modern browser, has an unusable DOM, doesnt support CSS, and is generally fucking awful. So it should be treated as a v3-era browser, or a text reader/Lynx. Sites can still be accessible, but if you want the pretty design and DOM-1 functionality, use a browser that can handle it. Which doesnt just mean IE - Netscape 6/Mozilla is the most advanced browser available, Konqueror and Opera do a damn good job, and OmniWeb is coming on strong. iCab and Netscape 4, however, suck big ones.
I'm a relatively well-read person. I'm an English Lit. graduate, so I've read a pretty wide range of literature.
But, I've never read Lord Of The Rings. Why? Because, despite being aware of the trilogy being part of the popular canon of literature and its academia heritage, when I grew up all the Tolkien fans I came across wore Metallica T-shirts, long greasy hair, severe acne, and played AD&D, and never got laid. For me, and a lot of people I know, it got wrapped up in that kind of "scene". Seeing people who would evidently die virgins, wearing tie-die T-shirts, and going to Glastonbury festival to survey the leylines being the biggest fans of Tolkien didnt exactly endear me to his work.
I did however read The Hobbit when I was 11, and remember enjoying it. I'm interested in both the book and the film of LOTR.
But, the fans? The people who really go for Middle Earth? Holy shit. They make hardcore Trekkies look like desirable people.
I'll probably get modded as a troll for this, but the fact remains - a lot of people steered clear of Tolkien because of the D&D, Orc and prog-rock connotations it (probably unfairly) carried with it.
Yeah, I remember reading that they're going to continue the story on for every song on Discovery, then release a DVD of the whole thing back to back.
Well, I'll be buying it. I love Daft Punk.
For anyone hankering after their earlier sound, or wanting to understand the connection between the Daft Punk who did Da Funk and the Daft Punk who did One More Time - get Alive, Daft Punk Live 1997. All will become clear.
I work for a Web Design firm, that is miraculously making money. When I joined, they had a spare PC and a spare G4 (as they'd just bought a new Quicksilver G4 for video work) - so I got my pick...
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It's worth bearing in mind that most games outlets in the UK had been taking PSP preorders for 6 months or more, making the number of units sold a whole lot less impressive. Also, just about nowhere were selling unbundled PSPs, so the game sales figures are also less impressive - how many people buying a PSP ended up with a game they didn't actually want?
Are us lowly Old-Worlders going to be allowed to buy it this time?
I think you'll find that's Ringo, singing to John's children.
If a crime happens somewhere close to where you are, and you match the vauge description given by witnesses to that crime? Then you are guilty.
A few years ago I took part in a study on identification via CCTV at Stirling University (this study was later used in a Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary on the subject). The results showed time and again that there is an enormous risk of mis-identification from CCTV footage. The quality of even the best CCTV just isn't good enough to get a clear image of a suspect. Considering that CCTV evidence in Britain is such strong evidence, this is enormously dangerous.
More than that, the BBC will almost certainly handle this in the same way that they've handled existing BBC Broadband streams - access will only be available to customers of a (long) list of UK ISPs, who also peer the content. It works very well for the BBC and ISPs alike - the BBC can avoid crippling bandwidth costs, and can't be accused of using public money to provide TV to the world at large, while pretty much every UK ISP can boast about their "massive selection of broadband content".
On the Mac side, you can use Salling Clicker in conjunction with your bluetooth phone or PDA. Salling Clicker has iTunes remote functionality, including playlist support, browse/find by artist, album, genre, etc.
Probably has something to do with it. Bam Thwok is exclusive to iTMS, and got a mention in nearly all of the iTunes launch coverage. Considering that the Pixies are currently touring Europe, I'm sure that drove plenty of sales. I for one bought Bam Thwok on iTMS launch day.
iTunes does not, repeat does not, leave your music where it was when you import it. It re-arranges song locations based on Author - not too big a deal unless you have a lot of compilations. A friend of my found his compliation CDs split into multiple directories based on author
You can turn that off (Preferences > Advanced > Keep music folder organized). And iTunes handles compilation albums better than any other mp3 app I've ever seen. As long as the "compilation" checkbox is ticked in the ID3 panel. Which it will be if the info has been pulled from CDDB.
Sir, your grammar is atrocious. 'Shown', surely.
.. the stupidest fucking thing I've heard in a long, long while.
How many "gung-ho" millionaires have the means to send people to the Moon? And "represent humanity", my ass. They represent the 0.000001% of humanity who care to fritter away obscene amounts of money on vanity projects, rather than, say, feeding the starving.
Slashdot is just cunt and pasting press releases, and posting them as stories now?
Lame.
"PC of tomorrow", indeed.
It's not its, its it's.
If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, at least get it right.
Most standards-advocates (myself included) would love to use 'font-size: small', or percentages, or ems to size text relative to users font preferences.
The problem is, support for these relative values are still too broken in IE6 and Opera (Opera is better though) for us to use them. Much as we'd like to, we can't be truly accessibility and standards-driven when the most popular browser on the web gets is wrong.
Theres only really 2 options open just now - use px as the font unit, or don't size at all. Most developers/designers aren't quite Zen enough to not size the text at all, as the default text size in most browsers is fucking ugly.
Which brings us neatly to....
toothpaste for dinner
Yep, it is definitely visiting Edinburgh once it finishes at the Barbican in September. Its supported by National Galleries Scotland, and apparently its going to be at the National Gallery on the Mound, although that seems like an odd venue to me.
Actually, Elite is there, on the NES.
There is a BBC Micro in the exhibition, but its just behind a glass case, not actually playing anything.
And thoroughly enjoyed myself.
The early arcade machines constantly broke down. But credit was due to the exhibition staff, as they immediately broke the cabs open to get them up and running again.
I was pleased to see a section devoted to game sounds and music, as thats an area which is often overlooked. They had Rez set up on a big screen with even bigger sound, Space Channel 5, listening posts so you could listen to all the old C64 hits, and a very cool commisioned 3-player game called Ping which produced some amazing sounds.
I thought it was a little odd that I didn't see a Neo-Geo anywhere (although its possible that I missed it), but it was nice to see the Vectrex sitting proudly next to the PDP-1, running Space War!. It was also heartening to see that the new-generation of consoles didn't overwhelm the exhibition. The X-box in particular was pretty much non-existent - just 2 boxes relegated into corners, with DOA3 and Amped. Makes sense - whatever your opinions of Xbox, it hasnt made any impact on the history of videogames, at least not as much as GameCube, which put on a strong show (Super Monkey Ball, Pikmin, Super Smash Brothers Melee).
I was a bit puzzled as to why the FPS genre was completely ignored however. No Doom, no Quake, no Half-Life. And no mention of online games, despite there being a section specifically devoted to multiplayer gaming.
On the whole though, its well worth the £11. Its a joy to wander round checking out Sensible Soccer, Tempest, Flashback, Pong, Breakout, Super Msrio Kart, all the games you love.
Make sure you have enough time though. You could easily spend an entire day there - I only had a couple of hours, so I'm going to have to go back, probably when it visits Edinburgh later in the year.
We've got a couple of these in our office, that someone brough back from Tokyo.
They're so much fun its just silly. Incredibly detailed too - we've got different suspension kits, bodytypes and drift tyres, so we can do powerslides around the desks. Amazing little things. Fast as hell too.
Why are they so hard to get hold of in the UK? I'd gladly buy a raft of these.
WaSP (the webstandards project) certainly do not propose that everybody should upgrade to the latest 'bleeding edge' browser.
Their stance is that we should develop pages that conform to the W3C recommendations, and degrade gracefully for older browsers, enabling sites to be viewable in any device, be it Netscape 1, Lynx, or IE7. The WaSP came about from the (natural) frustration of trying to make sites look and function the same in Netscape 4.x and IE5+. Netscape 4 is a piece of shit, and murdering pages with knee-deep tables and no kind of semantic structure whatsoever is the only way to make complex designs look identical between IE5+ and Netscape 4.
Hence the web standards project - don't block anybody from viewing the site - but don't kill yourself trying to get pixel-perfect design in both browsers at once, and certainly don't build a page multiple times to satisfy Netscape 4.x. Use XHTML and CSS-2, and ruthlessly seperate structure from content. Your site will then work beautifully in any site imaginable, will be accessible to screenreaders for the partially sighted/blind, and other non-traditional devices.
WaSP got a lot of flack for the "To Hell With Bad Browsers" article, but people simply misunderstood it. The whole point was that Netscape isn't a modern browser, has an unusable DOM, doesnt support CSS, and is generally fucking awful. So it should be treated as a v3-era browser, or a text reader/Lynx. Sites can still be accessible, but if you want the pretty design and DOM-1 functionality, use a browser that can handle it. Which doesnt just mean IE - Netscape 6/Mozilla is the most advanced browser available, Konqueror and Opera do a damn good job, and OmniWeb is coming on strong. iCab and Netscape 4, however, suck big ones.
Any word on one?
The reason we play so much Unreal in the office is 'cos there are PC, Linux and mac versions - everyone gets to play.
I've never said this before, but.....
MOD PARENT UP.
I'm a relatively well-read person. I'm an English Lit. graduate, so I've read a pretty wide range of literature.
But, I've never read Lord Of The Rings. Why? Because, despite being aware of the trilogy being part of the popular canon of literature and its academia heritage, when I grew up all the Tolkien fans I came across wore Metallica T-shirts, long greasy hair, severe acne, and played AD&D, and never got laid. For me, and a lot of people I know, it got wrapped up in that kind of "scene". Seeing people who would evidently die virgins, wearing tie-die T-shirts, and going to Glastonbury festival to survey the leylines being the biggest fans of Tolkien didnt exactly endear me to his work.
I did however read The Hobbit when I was 11, and remember enjoying it. I'm interested in both the book and the film of LOTR.
But, the fans? The people who really go for Middle Earth? Holy shit. They make hardcore Trekkies look like desirable people.
I'll probably get modded as a troll for this, but the fact remains - a lot of people steered clear of Tolkien because of the D&D, Orc and prog-rock connotations it (probably unfairly) carried with it.
When are you going to hook up a cameo as Ash in Buffy? Seems like a natural place to resurrect Ash for a one-off. And it'd be damn funny too.
Give the fans what they want Bruce!
Yeah, I remember reading that they're going to continue the story on for every song on Discovery, then release a DVD of the whole thing back to back.
Well, I'll be buying it. I love Daft Punk.
For anyone hankering after their earlier sound, or wanting to understand the connection between the Daft Punk who did Da Funk and the Daft Punk who did One More Time - get Alive, Daft Punk Live 1997. All will become clear.
yeah, Macromedia are doing a pretty poor job of supporting X so far...
My biggest gripe is the lack of a Shockwave plugin. Thats just plain dumb.
Off-Topic, but what the hell......
I work for a Web Design firm, that is miraculously making money. When I joined, they had a spare PC and a spare G4 (as they'd just bought a new Quicksilver G4 for video work) - so I got my pick...