And WTF does gamespy mean when they say the ads sucked? I thought POP's TV spot was one of the better game ads this year!
A-freaking-men. The POP ad was absolutely awesome, particularly the 1-minute spot. I'd see it on Adult Swim, and wake up my wife because I was wanting her to see it. I'm hoping that UbiSoft releases an OST for the game, as I'd be really interested in getting it.
Funny. I've got FB 0.7 on Windows 2000 and it works fine for me. I just logged in, checked my balance, and set up a payment in the Payment Center. And my UserAgent isn't set to IE either.
Perhaps you cancelled your account a bit prematurely...
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Argh...I love it. I post a corrective post, and end up screwing up what I was correcting in it...
The CBS special airs tonight, Saturday, 1/31, at 9 PM EST.
CBS is doing a SuperBowl of commercials that will include a vote for the best commercial in history. You can watch the top 10 now and make sure that you vote at 9pm on Sunday 1/31.Today, Saturday, is 2/1, in case there's any confusion. The special airs tonight, not tomorrow.
Irony is Disney getting nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Finding Nemo...
And truthfully, while it was another exceptional movie for Pixar, I didn't find it all that entertaining. Give me Monsters Inc. or a Miyazaki movie any day.
Taiko drumming is a rather traditional thing in Japan, and it's something completely different from jam sessions in a rock band or anything like that. It'd be like trying to bring a Noh drama to the US - It's just too foreign to Americans. Donkey Konga likely stands a better chance simply because it'll be easier to identify with - Americans have seen conga drumming before.
The reason I say that it's probably not a good idea is that the probable failure of a product like this could lead to less likely chances of other music games crossing the Atlantic, like many of the fantastic Bemani games Konami puts out. A game like Beatmania or Keyboardmania is much more likely to succeed in the states, but if Taiko no Tatsujin fails, then the chances of more Bemani (outside of DDR) coming over get even smaller.
And I can only count the seconds...
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Until I see someone post the inevitable +5, Funny "Netcraft confirms:" post...
And, if you're using diet mode, don't use official steps, as it only counts correct arrows pressed. Use the default, all steps mode. If your leg moves, count it!
You're confused.
The game will only count correct steps if you're playing in "Regulation Mode", which is selectable in the Options menu. Otherwise, it'll count calories regardless of whether or not your steps are correct.
Whether or not you use official steps (as opposed to Edit Data) has nothing to do with it. I think you just got confused.
You actually lose more if you're a beginner, because you make missteps.
I also question this - it depends on your skill level. Yes, at first, you'll lose more, since everyone starts out trying to stick to the middle square, and so they shift weight and change feet a lot. However, once you've gotten good enough to do, say, Dynamite Rave on Light/Basic, you should've moved beyond that habit.
And once you've passed 5-footers, the burn rate goes even higher. Your generalization could lead someone to think that it's not ever worth it to do a Paranoia or Max300, which simply is not the case.
Now, I have no experience with the latest Ignition pads. I do know they're available at EB and Gamestop. I know they're considered the best of the soft pads. But be warned! Every soft pad has a limited lifespan. When one arrow stops working, the rest of the pad is useless.
From what I've heard, if you take out the foam inserts and replace it with another material (like an eggshell foam mat or something), they'll be much more durable. I dunno myself - I had two softpads that died quickly, spent a while in the arcade, and then just got a pair of RedOctane metal pads over Christmas after having tried them at a convention. They're built like tanks.
The big thing that nobody realizes about Amtrak is that they don't own the rails at all - Amtrak is essentially treated as third-class traffic, where freight traffic always takes priority.
Nothing like being stuck in the middle of some woods at midnight while your single-engine train is obligated to send its engine off somewhere to help move a disabled freight train that isn't actually in your way...
For anyone that doesn't recognize this, it's an adaptation of a monologue done by Brak from the Space Ghost crew on Cartoon Network. Here's the original:
One time I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week the teacher said, "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes." So I wrote a paper that said "Hello, my name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? Eek eek." I got an F. When I told my Mom about it she said "I told you never trust a monkey!" The end.
Let's not forget the Phantom...
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Infinium Labs' proposed console, the Phantom, has made a showing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as announced by the company earlier this week, but only in the form of a box which was not switched on.
The Florida-based start-up showed off a Phantom console on the Windows Embedded Device showcase stand at the event, but although the system sported a full array of connectors on the backplate, it was not powered up or demonstrated in any way.
In terms of physical design, the box is almost exactly the same as the previously seen concept art and renders, and its size belies the standard PC components from which it is built.
However, the fact that Infinium Labs did not properly demonstrate the console working is likely to add fuel to speculation that the entire project is some form of elaborate hoax or scam - even though this seems increasingly unlikely.
The presence of the Phantom on the Windows Embedded Device stand, if nothing else, proves that if Infinium Labs is a hoax, it is a hoax which has taken in Microsoft along with several other key companies in the industry.
Hoax or not, however, such a lacklustre and content free unveiling for the machine on its first public outing is unlikely to boost confidence in the device, which promises a "new way to deliver content" for the games industry, ever actually making it to the market.
Am I the only one who read the title and thought that SETI was somehow using the Sun to pull in weaker transmissions, or maybe using it to threaten some rather anti-social aliens?:P
Considering that SETI = Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, the context was rather amusing...
Radio Shack carries a dual-jack outlet - RJ45 & RJ-11 (though an RJ-11 plug will work just fine in an RJ-45 jack).
Yeah, if you want that jack to never work as an RJ-45 jack again. The plastic ends on an RJ-11 plug will damage the outermost pair of contacts on an RJ-45 jack by bending them so that they won't make contact on an RJ-45 plug anymore.
Not to mention that it's just more user-intuitive and safer to have things wired properly to begin with. The last thing you want to do is accidentally plug your Ethernet cable into a phone jack, and take a high line voltage to your network card.
Let's assume we're dealing with retinal scans. Do an intensive datapoint scan to establish the record. Field scanners are less-equipped, only capable of scanning a subset of this data (thus, they're cheaper). The subset would, of course, have to be sufficiently large to ensure uniqueness.
Now, the field scanners randomize which subset they take each time a scan is performed. That way, if someone does "kidnap" your eyeballs, they've only got a solution to one particular scan, and not the complete set. They have no way of knowing beforehand if using their newly-acquired eyeballs will meet the criteria for the next scan or not.
It'd be like having a strong 50-character password that you never forgot (just work with me), and the authentication mechanism only asks for characters 2, 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 39, and 40. Next time, it asks for a different ten characters.
An added layer of security would be for the person to provide a login credential first. In other words, the retinal scan shouldn't be *both* username and password. Let the user provide the username (or SSN or whatever), and the retinal scan will be the password.
The argument was about whether it was being emulated or simulated, and in this case, it was the latter. I remember when they yanked it.
On the other hand, it appears to be back in.
I don't use MAME32 anymore, but I did recently get an Xbox and MAMEoX 0.76b1, and it comes with Pong. Falz and Noodle basically just wrap the existing MAME cores without any modifications unless needed for compatibility/performance (see the MK2/3 debate), so I doubt they added this on their own.
Even after the death of Harry Goz (1932 - 2003),voice of Captin Murphy on Sealab 2021, the show has bounced back imo and did a good new ep.
While it is true that Harry Goz did pass away, rumors of new episodes without his voicework are exaggerated.
Williams Street had just completed work on a new season of Sealab before Harry Goz died, and so all the episodes running in this season are his final work. They aren't put together weekly.
Well, that'd be pretty hard, since the episodes that are running right now were all done before Harry Goz's death. Williams Street had just wrapped up a slew of new Sealab 2021 episodes when Harry passed away, and those episodes are what are airing now.
Brake hydraulics use master/slave cylinders. Will we also be requiring GM/Ford/Chrysler et al to change all part designations to reflect this short-sightedness?
Andyt already mentioned Samba De Amigo. Not a bad game, though it only made it through two Japanese releases and one US release on the Dreamcast, and the maracas controllers are a bit hard to find, and pricey as well. You generally only want to stick with 1st party original Sega maracas, as the others fail pretty quickly.
In addition to Samba De Amigo, we also have the following upperbody/fullbody workout games:
All of these games are made by Konami. They also make a few motion-capture sports games which you can look at on KLOV, including a mo-cap soccer game and a mo-cap golf game. It's worth noting that Konami also owns a chain of fitness centers for adults and children in Japan.
What exactly do you expect the editors around here to do, anyway? You people bitch when they post stories, and you bitch when they don't...You bitch when they don't provide pertinent details, and then you bitch when they do.
Michael just provided a counterpoint to the CNN story which was, if you actually read it, quite biased (it's CNN after all...DUH). Since nobody here reads the damn articles anyway, I think it was quite useful of him to do so. I didn't know that state laws existed mandating the Pledge in classrooms, and I'm glad he pointed that out.
This isn't some big Michael-hates-you conspiracy. Grow up.
aren't the ctrl+c/v/x a rip off from ye olde macintosh apple key+c/v/x?
Is it such a bad thing to have usage standards consistent with your competitors?
For a while, MS Office had an option you were prompted to decide on during installation which would enable WordPerfect's keyboard macros to be used in Office instead of the native Office ones. A smart idea if you're looking for people to ease into your software.
The Linux zealots should be considering this. I can't stand how every time a Linux versus Windows GUI debate comes up, someone complains about how Linux is always doing catchup, and "Why should we copy the Windows interface?" Well, if you're trying to steal market share, that's a pretty good reason. When you are the leader, then you can decide where we should go today.
GamersHell has a review of the N-Gage as well, but it's a pretty obvious shill. It reads like an advertisement, and they don't even review the gaming aspect of it, saying that it will be published in a forthcoming addition to the advert^H^H^H^H^H^Harticle.
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And WTF does gamespy mean when they say the ads sucked? I thought POP's TV spot was one of the better game ads this year!
A-freaking-men. The POP ad was absolutely awesome, particularly the 1-minute spot. I'd see it on Adult Swim, and wake up my wife because I was wanting her to see it. I'm hoping that UbiSoft releases an OST for the game, as I'd be really interested in getting it.
Funny. I've got FB 0.7 on Windows 2000 and it works fine for me. I just logged in, checked my balance, and set up a payment in the Payment Center. And my UserAgent isn't set to IE either.
Perhaps you cancelled your account a bit prematurely...
Argh...I love it. I post a corrective post, and end up screwing up what I was correcting in it...
The CBS special airs tonight, Saturday, 1/31, at 9 PM EST.
CBS is doing a SuperBowl of commercials that will include a vote for the best commercial in history. You can watch the top 10 now and make sure that you vote at 9pm on Sunday 1/31. Today, Saturday, is 2/1, in case there's any confusion. The special airs tonight, not tomorrow.
Basically, they're radiation-shielded, 20MHz PowerPC machines wirh 128Mb RAM and 256Mb of flash memory, running VxWorks.
Mb = Megabits
MB = Megabytes.
The article writes out megabytes, so MB should be used, not Mb!
Irony is Disney getting nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Finding Nemo...
And truthfully, while it was another exceptional movie for Pixar, I didn't find it all that entertaining. Give me Monsters Inc. or a Miyazaki movie any day.
Taiko drumming is a rather traditional thing in Japan, and it's something completely different from jam sessions in a rock band or anything like that. It'd be like trying to bring a Noh drama to the US - It's just too foreign to Americans. Donkey Konga likely stands a better chance simply because it'll be easier to identify with - Americans have seen conga drumming before.
The reason I say that it's probably not a good idea is that the probable failure of a product like this could lead to less likely chances of other music games crossing the Atlantic, like many of the fantastic Bemani games Konami puts out. A game like Beatmania or Keyboardmania is much more likely to succeed in the states, but if Taiko no Tatsujin fails, then the chances of more Bemani (outside of DDR) coming over get even smaller.
Until I see someone post the inevitable +5, Funny "Netcraft confirms:" post...
And, if you're using diet mode, don't use official steps, as it only counts correct arrows pressed. Use the default, all steps mode. If your leg moves, count it!
You're confused.
The game will only count correct steps if you're playing in "Regulation Mode", which is selectable in the Options menu. Otherwise, it'll count calories regardless of whether or not your steps are correct.
Whether or not you use official steps (as opposed to Edit Data) has nothing to do with it. I think you just got confused.
You actually lose more if you're a beginner, because you make missteps.
I also question this - it depends on your skill level. Yes, at first, you'll lose more, since everyone starts out trying to stick to the middle square, and so they shift weight and change feet a lot. However, once you've gotten good enough to do, say, Dynamite Rave on Light/Basic, you should've moved beyond that habit.
And once you've passed 5-footers, the burn rate goes even higher. Your generalization could lead someone to think that it's not ever worth it to do a Paranoia or Max300, which simply is not the case.
Now, I have no experience with the latest Ignition pads. I do know they're available at EB and Gamestop. I know they're considered the best of the soft pads. But be warned! Every soft pad has a limited lifespan. When one arrow stops working, the rest of the pad is useless.
From what I've heard, if you take out the foam inserts and replace it with another material (like an eggshell foam mat or something), they'll be much more durable. I dunno myself - I had two softpads that died quickly, spent a while in the arcade, and then just got a pair of RedOctane metal pads over Christmas after having tried them at a convention. They're built like tanks.
The big thing that nobody realizes about Amtrak is that they don't own the rails at all - Amtrak is essentially treated as third-class traffic, where freight traffic always takes priority.
Nothing like being stuck in the middle of some woods at midnight while your single-engine train is obligated to send its engine off somewhere to help move a disabled freight train that isn't actually in your way...
For anyone that doesn't recognize this, it's an adaptation of a monologue done by Brak from the Space Ghost crew on Cartoon Network. Here's the original:
One time I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week the teacher said, "Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes." So I wrote a paper that said "Hello, my name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? Eek eek." I got an F. When I told my Mom about it she said "I told you never trust a monkey!" The end.
From GamesIndustry.biz:
Infinium Labs' proposed console, the Phantom, has made a showing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as announced by the company earlier this week, but only in the form of a box which was not switched on.
The Florida-based start-up showed off a Phantom console on the Windows Embedded Device showcase stand at the event, but although the system sported a full array of connectors on the backplate, it was not powered up or demonstrated in any way.
In terms of physical design, the box is almost exactly the same as the previously seen concept art and renders, and its size belies the standard PC components from which it is built.
However, the fact that Infinium Labs did not properly demonstrate the console working is likely to add fuel to speculation that the entire project is some form of elaborate hoax or scam - even though this seems increasingly unlikely.
The presence of the Phantom on the Windows Embedded Device stand, if nothing else, proves that if Infinium Labs is a hoax, it is a hoax which has taken in Microsoft along with several other key companies in the industry.
Hoax or not, however, such a lacklustre and content free unveiling for the machine on its first public outing is unlikely to boost confidence in the device, which promises a "new way to deliver content" for the games industry, ever actually making it to the market.
Yay! I've been trolled! From a post I made three months ago, and by a paid subscriber, no less!
-1, Redundant.
Am I the only one who read the title and thought that SETI was somehow using the Sun to pull in weaker transmissions, or maybe using it to threaten some rather anti-social aliens? :P
Considering that SETI = Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, the context was rather amusing...
Radio Shack carries a dual-jack outlet - RJ45 & RJ-11 (though an RJ-11 plug will work just fine in an RJ-45 jack).
Yeah, if you want that jack to never work as an RJ-45 jack again. The plastic ends on an RJ-11 plug will damage the outermost pair of contacts on an RJ-45 jack by bending them so that they won't make contact on an RJ-45 plug anymore.
Not to mention that it's just more user-intuitive and safer to have things wired properly to begin with. The last thing you want to do is accidentally plug your Ethernet cable into a phone jack, and take a high line voltage to your network card.
but the BBC now reports that Bruce Simpson has been forced to shutdown by his government.
Well, there goes his uptime...
There is a way to counter this.
Let's assume we're dealing with retinal scans. Do an intensive datapoint scan to establish the record. Field scanners are less-equipped, only capable of scanning a subset of this data (thus, they're cheaper). The subset would, of course, have to be sufficiently large to ensure uniqueness.
Now, the field scanners randomize which subset they take each time a scan is performed. That way, if someone does "kidnap" your eyeballs, they've only got a solution to one particular scan, and not the complete set. They have no way of knowing beforehand if using their newly-acquired eyeballs will meet the criteria for the next scan or not.
It'd be like having a strong 50-character password that you never forgot (just work with me), and the authentication mechanism only asks for characters 2, 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 26, 34, 39, and 40. Next time, it asks for a different ten characters.
An added layer of security would be for the person to provide a login credential first. In other words, the retinal scan shouldn't be *both* username and password. Let the user provide the username (or SSN or whatever), and the retinal scan will be the password.
The argument was about whether it was being emulated or simulated, and in this case, it was the latter. I remember when they yanked it.
On the other hand, it appears to be back in.
I don't use MAME32 anymore, but I did recently get an Xbox and MAMEoX 0.76b1, and it comes with Pong. Falz and Noodle basically just wrap the existing MAME cores without any modifications unless needed for compatibility/performance (see the MK2/3 debate), so I doubt they added this on their own.
Even after the death of Harry Goz (1932 - 2003),voice of Captin Murphy on Sealab 2021, the show has bounced back imo and did a good new ep.
While it is true that Harry Goz did pass away, rumors of new episodes without his voicework are exaggerated.
Williams Street had just completed work on a new season of Sealab before Harry Goz died, and so all the episodes running in this season are his final work. They aren't put together weekly.
Well, that'd be pretty hard, since the episodes that are running right now were all done before Harry Goz's death. Williams Street had just wrapped up a slew of new Sealab 2021 episodes when Harry passed away, and those episodes are what are airing now.
Brake hydraulics use master/slave cylinders. Will we also be requiring GM/Ford/Chrysler et al to change all part designations to reflect this short-sightedness?
Andyt already mentioned Samba De Amigo. Not a bad game, though it only made it through two Japanese releases and one US release on the Dreamcast, and the maracas controllers are a bit hard to find, and pricey as well. You generally only want to stick with 1st party original Sega maracas, as the others fail pretty quickly.
In addition to Samba De Amigo, we also have the following upperbody/fullbody workout games:
Police 911
MoCap Boxing
ParaParaParadise
Dance Maniax/Dance Freaks
Tsurugi, in the US AKA "Blade Master"
Martial Beat (also by Konami, but has no KLOV listing - One arcade release, two PS2 releases - Check for it on GameFAQs)
All of these games are made by Konami. They also make a few motion-capture sports games which you can look at on KLOV, including a mo-cap soccer game and a mo-cap golf game. It's worth noting that Konami also owns a chain of fitness centers for adults and children in Japan.
Shut up.
What exactly do you expect the editors around here to do, anyway? You people bitch when they post stories, and you bitch when they don't...You bitch when they don't provide pertinent details, and then you bitch when they do.
Michael just provided a counterpoint to the CNN story which was, if you actually read it, quite biased (it's CNN after all...DUH). Since nobody here reads the damn articles anyway, I think it was quite useful of him to do so. I didn't know that state laws existed mandating the Pledge in classrooms, and I'm glad he pointed that out.
This isn't some big Michael-hates-you conspiracy. Grow up.
aren't the ctrl+c/v/x a rip off from ye olde macintosh apple key+c/v/x?
Is it such a bad thing to have usage standards consistent with your competitors?
For a while, MS Office had an option you were prompted to decide on during installation which would enable WordPerfect's keyboard macros to be used in Office instead of the native Office ones. A smart idea if you're looking for people to ease into your software.
The Linux zealots should be considering this. I can't stand how every time a Linux versus Windows GUI debate comes up, someone complains about how Linux is always doing catchup, and "Why should we copy the Windows interface?" Well, if you're trying to steal market share, that's a pretty good reason. When you are the leader, then you can decide where we should go today.
GamersHell has a review of the N-Gage as well, but it's a pretty obvious shill. It reads like an advertisement, and they don't even review the gaming aspect of it, saying that it will be published in a forthcoming addition to the advert^H^H^H^H^H^Harticle.