Me 3, after a year of reading slashdot I had had enough of Jon Katz and created an account for the sole purpouse of removing his crap from my front page.
I've just ordered a similarly specced PC laptop (Compal FL90) to replace my ageing Vaio.
Our laptop is our living room computer, doesn't take much room, easily stowed under the sofa when we have guests and accessible. My GF doesn't touch the desktop PC but whenever I want to do some gaming, even if it's just a game of Sam&Max I have to go hide in the office.
So now I'll be able to play games when my GF is watching yet another reality show and still be in the same room.
Come to think of it, maybe that isn't the best idea I've ever had...
I was given one of these as a replacement car when mine was being serviced. I took it out on the motorway round Brussels and while it's a lot like driving a hair dryer it is suprisingly comfortable. I wouldn't want to do any long motorway trips in one though, but then that really isn't what the designers intended either. I'd have preferred a manual gearbox (smart forfour is the only smart with this as an option) but that won't be an issue in the US.
One thing I noticed is nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, can stand being overtaken by one of these.
There was a spate of this in Belgium a few years ago which led to them not loading the machines anymore on weekends (the robberies were always done on weekned nights) VERY annoying.
One good thing that came about from this was the supermarkets changed their policies on getting cash back at the till.
Automatic weapons in games never seem to overheat.
I've seen this in at least one FPS game. I'm fairly sure it was in "Return to Castle Wolvenstein" where the machine gun's display had a bar indicating how hot it was getting and would stop working when it reached the maximum.
I'm starting to think Nintendo might have bet on this happening.
Giving open source delevopers and game-spy enough to work with to develop numerous solutions for online play. Natural selection means the best performing solution should prevail.
All this means there's online play for those (appaently few) people interested in it without Ninty having to invest a single yen.
It occurs to me that the 30 seconds or so an ad lasts isn't the ideal medium for selling games.
People like gamespot, ign, penny-arcade and the myriad of smaller more specialised sites are the only people I go to when looking to buy a game. Because they either give me the article+screenshots+video clips I need to make my mind up or they give me the opinion of people who's opinion I've learned to trust.
30 seconds of eye candy just isn't ever going to convince me to part with 60.
Thanks for the heads-up on that, I've got it on pre-order at amazon uk now.
Speaking of which, the recomendations system at amazon hasn't been wrong as far as books are concerned for me so it might be a good way of keeping track of the adventure games being released nowadays.
Call tourist information on +32 2 279.22.11 or e-mail them at info@brusselstourism.be . Make sure to let them know you need accomodation near ULB where it's being held.
I'm sure a lot of people with much better technical knowledge than I will be raising some very valid points here. My question is, will you be reporting back these to your managers? Will AMI be taking these points into consideration or is this just a temporary public relations excercise towards the geek comminity.
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If you're custom building an ubuntu machine you might as well install XBMC on it and have done with the streaming completely.
Me 3, after a year of reading slashdot I had had enough of Jon Katz and created an account for the sole purpouse of removing his crap from my front page.
I've just ordered a similarly specced PC laptop (Compal FL90) to replace my ageing Vaio.
Our laptop is our living room computer, doesn't take much room, easily stowed under the sofa when we have guests and accessible. My GF doesn't touch the desktop PC but whenever I want to do some gaming, even if it's just a game of Sam&Max I have to go hide in the office.
So now I'll be able to play games when my GF is watching yet another reality show and still be in the same room.
Come to think of it, maybe that isn't the best idea I've ever had...
a buffered analgesic
pocket fluff
a thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is
The small form factor Playstation was also called PSX. Confused yet?
You're thinking of pirates bay, not suprnova.
they basically didn't have a contract lawyer at the time, they didn't really know what they were doing.
Recently a new guy joined the team, who left PWC to sort out their business plan, so they're doing a lot better at that kind of thing.
I was given one of these as a replacement car when mine was being serviced.
I took it out on the motorway round Brussels and while it's a lot like driving a hair dryer it is suprisingly comfortable.
I wouldn't want to do any long motorway trips in one though, but then that really isn't what the designers intended either.
I'd have preferred a manual gearbox (smart forfour is the only smart with this as an option) but that won't be an issue in the US.
One thing I noticed is nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, can stand being overtaken by one of these.
You're right.
And what's more Nintendo agrees with you
There was a spate of this in Belgium a few years ago which led to them not loading the machines anymore on weekends (the robberies were always done on weekned nights) VERY annoying.
One good thing that came about from this was the supermarkets changed their policies on getting cash back at the till.
It's true because it was on the local BBC London news last night (31st of March).
As well as that AFAIK BBC news don't go in for Arpil fools jokes.
I would suggest you take a look at the engines used by the "underground" adventure game writers.
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Adventuregamers.com recently ran a feature showcasing some of the best of these
The engines used are amongst others
AGS and SLUDGE
I think these are the kind of things you're talking about, rather than SCUMMVM which as the name implies is a VM, not a dev kit.
- Automatic weapons in games never seem to overheat.
I've seen this in at least one FPS game. I'm fairly sure it was in "Return to Castle Wolvenstein" where the machine gun's display had a bar indicating how hot it was getting and would stop working when it reached the maximum.Don't hope, the emails addresses are a few posts up from yours. Write!
Uh-oh, sounds like someone has a case of the mondays!
Uhm no, adventure games were spawned from text adventures, which have been around almost as long as computers.
I'm starting to think Nintendo might have bet on this happening.
Giving open source delevopers and game-spy enough to work with to develop numerous solutions for online play. Natural selection means the best performing solution should prevail.
All this means there's online play for those (appaently few) people interested in it without Ninty having to invest a single yen.
It occurs to me that the 30 seconds or so an ad lasts isn't the ideal medium for selling games.
People like gamespot, ign, penny-arcade and the myriad of smaller more specialised sites are the only people I go to when looking to buy a game. Because they either give me the article+screenshots+video clips I need to make my mind up or they give me the opinion of people who's opinion I've learned to trust.
30 seconds of eye candy just isn't ever going to convince me to part with 60.
Waring, parent is a link to tubgirl.
you forgot the Radio4 theme, but you can be forgiven for this as it's broadcast at some ungodly time in the morning.
It's a medley of old regional tunes which I beleive was originally intended to be used by engineers to check calibration before broadcast started.
Thanks for the heads-up on that, I've got it on pre-order at amazon uk now.
Speaking of which, the recomendations system at amazon hasn't been wrong as far as books are concerned for me so it might be a good way of keeping track of the adventure games being released nowadays.
You mean like the US courts did to Dmitry Skylarov?
Call tourist information on +32 2 279.22.11 or e-mail them at info@brusselstourism.be . Make sure to let them know you need accomodation near ULB where it's being held.
it's 2 slots wide because of the massive cooling system it needs, Nvidia have said they'll be releasing a normal card with a lower clockspeed later.
It does however mean you lose a PCI slot, which is just stupid.
I'm sure a lot of people with much better technical knowledge than I will be raising some very valid points here. My question is, will you be reporting back these to your managers? Will AMI be taking these points into consideration or is this just a temporary public relations excercise towards the geek comminity.