It can play back those streams as well as everything else that the Myth front end gives including queueing shows to be recorded, they just have to be actually recorded elsewhere.
The Designer series is top notch and a current favorite of mine. Sure there are some custom pieces here and there but the majority are hinges and cosmetic blocks that can be used in many interesting ways. The models are great too; I've got a T-rex by my monitor at work and a (sadly discontinued) crab sitting on my system at home.
The Technic series is still going strong from the eighties. What's not to like?
The City is like the LegoLand sets of old that you probably remember. There are a few other lines that are in the same vein but those little yellow people don't interest me as much as they did when I was a child.
And the new Factory series are designed by fans. I'm strongly recommending that you check them out.
Lego is a for profit company and will continue to manufacture what sells. Licensed products like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Dora the Explorer are making them money so they will continue to make them. They have had moderate success with their annoying Bionicle line so it is still being added to. All is not lost yet; Lego is still making some decent and interesting products, so go out and support those.
P.S. You can also get buckets of regular blocks. Think about that the next time you want to buy that Star Destroyer.
* various in-game messages regarding system events (memory unit access...
That's just downright silly. I bet Sony would never force developers to use the exact same message every time someone uses their Memory Card (8MB)(for PlayStation2) to save their game.
I'm going to make some enemies and state that Ico was an overrated game. The press loved it and couldn't stop talking about it. The problem was that it honestly wasn't that fun of a game. Most of the time you had to trudge back to rescue your companion who either couldn't keep up or was captured by shadows. It was like a "ball and chain" simulator.
Some actual underrated games would be Blast Corps, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, R-Type Final, and even Feeding Frenzy; great games that no one seems to have ever heard of. There are many others that the press have touched upon but dissapeared rather quickly: Jet Set Radio Future, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, Pikmin, Rez, Guardian Heroes, Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good and Evil, etc.
...and you are probably playing it through VLC on either a Windows or an x86 Linux system using a binary codec. There is no real working codec to play newer WMV files for PPC which would account for just about every Mac out there.
Most of the Linux users who would normally complain about an "incompatible" media format when WMVs are used remain silent because it doesn't affect them; they can play it fine.
The Zergling pet was a reward for purchasing the Collecor's Edition. Any character made from an account from the CE can have a Zergling non-combat pet.
The people who attend Blizzcon get a voucher for a Merloc non-combat pet. I haven't heard if you can get a Zergling there though.
Aren't we supposed to be doing our duty and demanding HDCP on our monitors? I mean who wants to spend $6000+ on a monitor that would not let Windows Vista display HD content on?
Personally, I would just fix that in software.;)
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I remember those "You will" commercials promising that AT&T was going to bring us all sorts of innovations that never happened. I'm going to hold this new SBC based AT&T to that.
The (Newton) Message Pad 2x00 processor was a 162MHz StrongARM 110 but the older ones were only 20MHz ARM6. Incidentally, the MP120(2.0) and the MP130 ran the newer OS (same as the 2x00) that was very capable of decent handwriting recognition unlike the original lineup. Having extensively used both a MP120(2.0) and a MP2100 I can attest to this. The 2100's only advantage was speed.
The DS has a 66MHz ARM9 and a 33MHz ARM7. Logically, unless the ARM7 is needed for some specific DS tasks you could have it doing as good of HWR as the MP120 and still have the ARM9 free for whatever other task you required.
They changed (the aforementioned) Zoisite into a woman because he originally had a homosexual relationship with one of the other generals. (Malachite)
Later in the series, they introduced Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune who had a lesbian relationship.
The US dub tried to tone that part down and also portray them as cousins, presuming that it would give a reason for their close relationship. Unfortunately it just ended up with them appearing to be lesbian cousins.
With this announcement, I thought I would go grab the PPC DVD torrent and let the/. effect help me along. I never did get the Hoary Hedgehog DVD image because there never was a working peer for it.
On the site it lists that combination DVD images have been released. I've checked, they aren't on the list. So has there been a maor spring cleaning or are they just going to release the DVD later so that I'll be stuck with 68% looking for peers...
I really do like x86 Ubuntu and I'm glad that they have a PPC distro that gets updated at the same time, but so far I can't actually test it until I can download it.
All this time I thought you were talking directly to me. My $2500 Powerbook is 1.5GHz but it is over a year old.
You're right. Apple will likely announce the last PPC Powerbooks soon. The speed boost will be slight but it won't matter. As long as the laptops keep flying off of shelves they won't worry about the mini cutting into those. What they do need to worry about is the mini cutting into iMac/eMac sales which I'm sure it has.
If you must have x86, Mini-ITX is a good option. If not, save some headaches & pick up a Mac Mini.
I'd go one step further and say that if you must have x86, wait until next year when there will be x86 based Minis. Apple pretty much owns this space right now. Heck, if you don't want to buy Apple products, then wait until after the x86 Minis come out and competitors have to either have comparible boards or substantially cut prices. It's all good.
Unlike Apple, Dell actually sells something other than digital music players.
Are you trying to troll here? Apple sells lots of things other than digital music players; it's just that their main market right now is the iPod. It may shock people to find out that Dell sells more than just inexpensive home computers but it's true. Actually Dell and Apple have very similar product lineups on their online store with the major difference that I can see is that Dell doesn't have their own software line and just resells Microsoft's.
Respondents overwhelmingly cited the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games from Square Enix as the most emotionally rich games, and the death of Aeris in Final Fantasy VII was the scene many people said made them cry.
The most emotional scene in a movie (according to respondents) was when they sent the hotshot pilot with a powerbook to fly into the UFO thus defeating the aliens in Independance Day.
C'mon people, the characters in FF7 were so unlikable and Aeris' death pissed off more gamers than saddened them. Dang, I've lost my healer... that sucks.
For me, the most emotional scene an a game was during WindWaker when Link was setting sail with the pirates. I was full of tears just watching him wave goodbye to his grandmother. That was a great role-playing experience. Tetra's comment afterwards was so well timed.
SquareEnix knows presentation. They need to work a bit on making players emotionally invest (beyond Final Fantasy Fanboys) and they really need to work on gameplay (I'm pointing fingers at the damnable Kingdom Hearts and Crystal Chronicles) but they have the potential to make some great games someday.
I use Macs too and I like most of the interface but there is one thing that this could lead to that I wouldn't mind at all.
I would love to see good old two pane Windows Explorer (circa 1998) on the Mac. it's still the best graphical file manager out there. Sadly, this will likely not happen. Even if they did bring it over, MS has been slowly moving Explorer away from the decent app that it used to be to something more like Apple's Finder.
...and quite simply, Finder blows.
(Yes, I know that there is Rage Software's Macintosh Explorer but although it tries, it just isn't there yet.
I'm afraid to think of how many of these things are going to get accidentally thrown through windows, but it sounds like a fun process of discovery to me.
I think it's going to be a fun process of discovery as well. Heck it may be a very cheap method of gaining extra Rev Wands; just wait outside the window for hyper gamers to accidentally throw them out.:)
When using the Dreamcast fishing controller, I always had a fear that my hand would slip and I would cast the whole thing into the TV. They should have a wrist strap so that if it should fly out of your hand, it doesn't go that far.
On the same note, Iwata said Nintendo had no desire to make people pay extra out of the box for the Revolution's DVD functionality, since most people already own one or more DVD players. He also reiterated that the DVD player will be built-in and not an external attachment. At E3 2005, the company confirmed that an additionally purchased dongle would activate the built-in DVD functionality.
Basically it will ship with a DVD player but need a dongle like the Xbox so Nintendo doesn't have to pay royalties on every system sold.
On a side note, I think that if any console deserved a port of Irritating Stick it would be the Revolution. Yeah, laugh now but when it actually happens...
How about DoubleFine helping with that?
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Wouldn't it be nice if Telltale could team up with DoubleFine to work on this?
FYI, DoubleFine is Tim Schafer's company that he and a few other LucasArts alumni started after leaving LA.
You can't mention the Saturn 3D controller on a nerd site without mentioning the fact that the cord is removable and it looks like the Reliant from Star Trek II.
Gah! There is nothing stopping Microsoft from releasing a version of Windows that will run on PPC Macs of today. Why is this made such a big deal with the Intel transition?
One of the reasons that I switched over to the Mac was that I was fed up with the legacy crap on the PC. I mean, It's been over 20 years; you think we could do something about that memory area between 640k and 1M. Maybe we could replace those interrupt controllers to ones that don't have to cascade off of each other.
My only hope is that what people say about the final consumer MacIntel not resembeling the dev systems is true because I certanly don't want to be funding Apple so that they can transition into a PC vendor. I'll sacrifice the nice GUI and just run Linux on an ATX PPC board.
Really, Intel has been promising an end to legacy cruft for quite some time. They now have a real chance with Apple. Let's hope they don't screw it up.
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It can play back those streams as well as everything else that the Myth front end gives including queueing shows to be recorded, they just have to be actually recorded elsewhere.
There are some great sets that Lego still makes.
The Designer series is top notch and a current favorite of mine. Sure there are some custom pieces here and there but the majority are hinges and cosmetic blocks that can be used in many interesting ways. The models are great too; I've got a T-rex by my monitor at work and a (sadly discontinued) crab sitting on my system at home.
The Technic series is still going strong from the eighties. What's not to like?
The City is like the LegoLand sets of old that you probably remember. There are a few other lines that are in the same vein but those little yellow people don't interest me as much as they did when I was a child.
And the new Factory series are designed by fans. I'm strongly recommending that you check them out.
Lego is a for profit company and will continue to manufacture what sells. Licensed products like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Dora the Explorer are making them money so they will continue to make them. They have had moderate success with their annoying Bionicle line so it is still being added to. All is not lost yet; Lego is still making some decent and interesting products, so go out and support those.
P.S. You can also get buckets of regular blocks. Think about that the next time you want to buy that Star Destroyer.
You created the Lucent logo didn't you?
* various in-game messages regarding system events (memory unit access...
That's just downright silly. I bet Sony would never force developers to use the exact same message every time someone uses their Memory Card (8MB)(for PlayStation2) to save their game.
I'm going to make some enemies and state that Ico was an overrated game. The press loved it and couldn't stop talking about it. The problem was that it honestly wasn't that fun of a game. Most of the time you had to trudge back to rescue your companion who either couldn't keep up or was captured by shadows. It was like a "ball and chain" simulator.
Some actual underrated games would be Blast Corps, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, R-Type Final, and even Feeding Frenzy; great games that no one seems to have ever heard of. There are many others that the press have touched upon but dissapeared rather quickly: Jet Set Radio Future, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, Pikmin, Rez, Guardian Heroes, Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good and Evil, etc.
...and you are probably playing it through VLC on either a Windows or an x86 Linux system using a binary codec. There is no real working codec to play newer WMV files for PPC which would account for just about every Mac out there.
Most of the Linux users who would normally complain about an "incompatible" media format when WMVs are used remain silent because it doesn't affect them; they can play it fine.
The Zergling pet was a reward for purchasing the Collecor's Edition. Any character made from an account from the CE can have a Zergling non-combat pet.
The people who attend Blizzcon get a voucher for a Merloc non-combat pet. I haven't heard if you can get a Zergling there though.
Aren't we supposed to be doing our duty and demanding HDCP on our monitors? I mean who wants to spend $6000+ on a monitor that would not let Windows Vista display HD content on?
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Personally, I would just fix that in software.
I remember those "You will" commercials promising that AT&T was going to bring us all sorts of innovations that never happened. I'm going to hold this new SBC based AT&T to that.
The (Newton) Message Pad 2x00 processor was a 162MHz StrongARM 110 but the older ones were only 20MHz ARM6. Incidentally, the MP120(2.0) and the MP130 ran the newer OS (same as the 2x00) that was very capable of decent handwriting recognition unlike the original lineup. Having extensively used both a MP120(2.0) and a MP2100 I can attest to this. The 2100's only advantage was speed.
The DS has a 66MHz ARM9 and a 33MHz ARM7. Logically, unless the ARM7 is needed for some specific DS tasks you could have it doing as good of HWR as the MP120 and still have the ARM9 free for whatever other task you required.
Links to more info about ARM Archetecture and Newton hardware.
What about this first place picture? It sure could of had its own corporate backing. I can see it now.
"It looks like you're trying to take an award winning science photograph. Would you like some help?"
They changed (the aforementioned) Zoisite into a woman because he originally had a homosexual relationship with one of the other generals. (Malachite)
Later in the series, they introduced Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune who had a lesbian relationship.
The US dub tried to tone that part down and also portray them as cousins, presuming that it would give a reason for their close relationship. Unfortunately it just ended up with them appearing to be lesbian cousins.
Original line: Such a device if patented, tested and mass produced could end up doing allot of good.
See? If it's patented then it can be alloted out as the patent holder sees fit. From the dictionary definition:
Allot: To parcel out; distribute or apportion
With this announcement, I thought I would go grab the PPC DVD torrent and let the /. effect help me along. I never did get the Hoary Hedgehog DVD image because there never was a working peer for it.
On the site it lists that combination DVD images have been released. I've checked, they aren't on the list. So has there been a maor spring cleaning or are they just going to release the DVD later so that I'll be stuck with 68% looking for peers...
I really do like x86 Ubuntu and I'm glad that they have a PPC distro that gets updated at the same time, but so far I can't actually test it until I can download it.
All this time I thought you were talking directly to me. My $2500 Powerbook is 1.5GHz but it is over a year old.
You're right. Apple will likely announce the last PPC Powerbooks soon. The speed boost will be slight but it won't matter. As long as the laptops keep flying off of shelves they won't worry about the mini cutting into those. What they do need to worry about is the mini cutting into iMac/eMac sales which I'm sure it has.
If you must have x86, Mini-ITX is a good option. If not, save some headaches & pick up a Mac Mini.
I'd go one step further and say that if you must have x86, wait until next year when there will be x86 based Minis. Apple pretty much owns this space right now. Heck, if you don't want to buy Apple products, then wait until after the x86 Minis come out and competitors have to either have comparible boards or substantially cut prices. It's all good.
Unlike Apple, Dell actually sells something other than digital music players.
Are you trying to troll here? Apple sells lots of things other than digital music players; it's just that their main market right now is the iPod. It may shock people to find out that Dell sells more than just inexpensive home computers but it's true. Actually Dell and Apple have very similar product lineups on their online store with the major difference that I can see is that Dell doesn't have their own software line and just resells Microsoft's.
Respondents overwhelmingly cited the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games from Square Enix as the most emotionally rich games, and the death of Aeris in Final Fantasy VII was the scene many people said made them cry.
The most emotional scene in a movie (according to respondents) was when they sent the hotshot pilot with a powerbook to fly into the UFO thus defeating the aliens in Independance Day.
C'mon people, the characters in FF7 were so unlikable and Aeris' death pissed off more gamers than saddened them. Dang, I've lost my healer... that sucks.
For me, the most emotional scene an a game was during WindWaker when Link was setting sail with the pirates. I was full of tears just watching him wave goodbye to his grandmother. That was a great role-playing experience. Tetra's comment afterwards was so well timed.
SquareEnix knows presentation. They need to work a bit on making players emotionally invest (beyond Final Fantasy Fanboys) and they really need to work on gameplay (I'm pointing fingers at the damnable Kingdom Hearts and Crystal Chronicles) but they have the potential to make some great games someday.
I use Macs too and I like most of the interface but there is one thing that this could lead to that I wouldn't mind at all.
...and quite simply, Finder blows.
I would love to see good old two pane Windows Explorer (circa 1998) on the Mac. it's still the best graphical file manager out there. Sadly, this will likely not happen. Even if they did bring it over, MS has been slowly moving Explorer away from the decent app that it used to be to something more like Apple's Finder.
(Yes, I know that there is Rage Software's Macintosh Explorer but although it tries, it just isn't there yet.
Drop about $50 million on the EFF.
Make sure you clarify this one as "not in the form of lawyers".
I'm afraid to think of how many of these things are going to get accidentally thrown through windows, but it sounds like a fun process of discovery to me.
:)
I think it's going to be a fun process of discovery as well. Heck it may be a very cheap method of gaining extra Rev Wands; just wait outside the window for hyper gamers to accidentally throw them out.
When using the Dreamcast fishing controller, I always had a fear that my hand would slip and I would cast the whole thing into the TV. They should have a wrist strap so that if it should fly out of your hand, it doesn't go that far.
Basically it will ship with a DVD player but need a dongle like the Xbox so Nintendo doesn't have to pay royalties on every system sold.
On a side note, I think that if any console deserved a port of Irritating Stick it would be the Revolution. Yeah, laugh now but when it actually happens...
Wouldn't it be nice if Telltale could team up with DoubleFine to work on this?
FYI, DoubleFine is Tim Schafer's company that he and a few other LucasArts alumni started after leaving LA.
You can't mention the Saturn 3D controller on a nerd site without mentioning the fact that the cord is removable and it looks like the Reliant from Star Trek II.
I feel so dirty.
Gah! There is nothing stopping Microsoft from releasing a version of Windows that will run on PPC Macs of today. Why is this made such a big deal with the Intel transition?
One of the reasons that I switched over to the Mac was that I was fed up with the legacy crap on the PC. I mean, It's been over 20 years; you think we could do something about that memory area between 640k and 1M. Maybe we could replace those interrupt controllers to ones that don't have to cascade off of each other.
My only hope is that what people say about the final consumer MacIntel not resembeling the dev systems is true because I certanly don't want to be funding Apple so that they can transition into a PC vendor. I'll sacrifice the nice GUI and just run Linux on an ATX PPC board.
Really, Intel has been promising an end to legacy cruft for quite some time. They now have a real chance with Apple. Let's hope they don't screw it up.