I believe the next major leap for gaming may be one of cooperation. Imagine multiple extremely different games, each speaking a common language or protocol... each with its own objective and storyline... but all interracting within a common environment. For example... Somebody playing a futuristic version of "SimCity" may be laying down the roads that someone playing a driving game is racing on. Meanwhile, that driver gets carjacked from someone playing a version of GTA. The challenge to make it all work together is enormous... but the possibilities are endless... and the concept of a game will be closer to real-life than anything anyone's ever seen outside of the real thing.
We're nowhere near this concept today... but as I see it, this would be the ultimate future of gaming.
Disclaimer: I work for TiVo, and my opinions are my own.
Is it possible to use a standalone series 1 TiVo with DirecTV? I've got an old SVR2000 TiVo, and I'm considering getting DirecTV. I'll pay the $4/month if I have to, but I've already got lifetime on this device, and I'd like to use it if I can.
$45? Yeah... It's worth that much to me. Easily. It lets me run the apps I need. $45 isn't really all that much. Heck, that's like one semi-nice dinner without wine.
Anyone else here not give a crap about self-congratulatory multi-hour commercials? Lord of the Rings was a great movie... as were a number of others that came out this year. I've just got no interest in what a select group of voters thinks about a film.
How can you possibly claim that? He wrote a script that was designed to call 911 and divert resources from actual emergencies to WebTV users. That's clearly disrupting 911 services.
I saw a story about this on 60 minutes. Among other things, they talked about how dangerous chemicals, that had been purchased in massive barrels with big warning signs on them were distributed to workers in smaller usable containers with the warning signs removed. How workers used to be exposed to chemicals with their bare hands, and they'd work without their gloves on because the chemicals would eat right through their gloves if they left them on. Interesting episode... After seeing that, this verdict is somewhat of a surprise.
In other news, Ben Affleck has invoked the DMCA in order to have himself removed from the movie "Daredevil". Affleck contended that he never agreed to be part of a movie lacking dimension or direction, and suggested that the movie was assembled of footage from his everyday life.
It always amazes me that it's the same people that scream and shout about privacy issues that come to websites like this one and continually post responses and journal entries about their stance on issues of political, corporate, and other signifigance. If you think somebody could build a profile about you based on the beer you drink, imagine the profile they could construct by piecing together every post you've ever made to websites on the Internet.
Guess what... You know that broadband bill you pay? There's a company keeping VAST logs of every hit through their servers that you make. I'd worry about that before I worried about somebody making sure there's beer on the shelf when I go shopping.
Make a folder for each movie.... inside said folder, put a VIDEO_TS directory holding the ripped content... then use PowerDVD to play the files from disk.
Is this really a problem for Slashdot? If I think about half of the shit I've submitted that got rejected, it's enough to make me not submit anything again. Sure, my submissions didn't have cool buzzwords like "video on demand", "terrabyte", and I don't own a plasma display, but they were articles whose answer wasn't the first darn response on a Google search. Subscribers... Are you getting what you paid for?
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Dumbass, It took him 18 months to finish the game.
I believe the next major leap for gaming may be one of cooperation. Imagine multiple extremely different games, each speaking a common language or protocol ... each with its own objective and storyline ... but all interracting within a common environment. For example ... Somebody playing a futuristic version of "SimCity" may be laying down the roads that someone playing a driving game is racing on. Meanwhile, that driver gets carjacked from someone playing a version of GTA. The challenge to make it all work together is enormous ... but the possibilities are endless ... and the concept of a game will be closer to real-life than anything anyone's ever seen outside of the real thing.
... but as I see it, this would be the ultimate future of gaming.
We're nowhere near this concept today
Didn't we already cover this today?
$45? Yeah ... It's worth that much to me. Easily. It lets me run the apps I need. $45 isn't really all that much. Heck, that's like one semi-nice dinner without wine.
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I was under the impression that SCO lived in its own crazy little litigious world. I always assumed their world didn't have things like AutoZone.
It's not "Merchandizing", it's "Searchandizing".
I'm still amazed some corporate sponsor didn't get their name on one of those rovers. I'd think some water company would be all over that opportunity.
What do you propose we use instead? How he smells? "He smells CRAZY today!".
Anyone else here not give a crap about self-congratulatory multi-hour commercials? Lord of the Rings was a great movie ... as were a number of others that came out this year. I've just got no interest in what a select group of voters thinks about a film.
Anyone else notice that this guy's latest blog entry talks about his dead iPod? Connect the dots....
April 1st isn't for another month guys....
I saw a story about this on 60 minutes. Among other things, they talked about how dangerous chemicals, that had been purchased in massive barrels with big warning signs on them were distributed to workers in smaller usable containers with the warning signs removed. How workers used to be exposed to chemicals with their bare hands, and they'd work without their gloves on because the chemicals would eat right through their gloves if they left them on. Interesting episode ... After seeing that, this verdict is somewhat of a surprise.
In other news, Ben Affleck has invoked the DMCA in order to have himself removed from the movie "Daredevil". Affleck contended that he never agreed to be part of a movie lacking dimension or direction, and suggested that the movie was assembled of footage from his everyday life.
It always amazes me that it's the same people that scream and shout about privacy issues that come to websites like this one and continually post responses and journal entries about their stance on issues of political, corporate, and other signifigance. If you think somebody could build a profile about you based on the beer you drink, imagine the profile they could construct by piecing together every post you've ever made to websites on the Internet.
Man, some people really need to relax.
... You know that broadband bill you pay? There's a company keeping VAST logs of every hit through their servers that you make. I'd worry about that before I worried about somebody making sure there's beer on the shelf when I go shopping.
Guess what
Make a folder for each movie .... inside said folder, put a VIDEO_TS directory holding the ripped content ... then use PowerDVD to play the files from disk.
1) Load browser
... Are you getting what you paid for?
2) Navigate to www.google.com
3) Type "Play DVD from hard disk" in pretty little box
4) Hit Enter
5) Click first link
Or just click here
Is this really a problem for Slashdot? If I think about half of the shit I've submitted that got rejected, it's enough to make me not submit anything again. Sure, my submissions didn't have cool buzzwords like "video on demand", "terrabyte", and I don't own a plasma display, but they were articles whose answer wasn't the first darn response on a Google search. Subscribers
Just choose the "Play files from hard disk" option.