George Lucas opened that studio in the late 80s/ early 90s I believe. It's created some wonderful games. Maniac Mansion has got to be one of my all time favorites.
Shigiru Miyamoto got his start as an art director designing art for video game cabinets. He wasn't a coder at all. And do you think he's kept up with technology enough that he could sit down and contribute code to Wind Waker? I doubt it.
But he's a great Producer / Director. He knows how to make a game. I think that Woo could really contribute something to the gaming world. And Sega is a great match.
Does this automaticly mean his games won't suck? Nope. But I think he's got a better shot at being able to design games than someone happened to be a wonderful coder, but isn't known for being a creative artist, like say, Larry Wall (just for an example).
It's not just the ability to play for 10 hours continously. It's things like the ability to leave for a weekend, and not have to recharge. Things like not going through batteries as frequently. That's one thing I don't like about the GBA SP by the way, the proprietary battery. I like the ability to go to 7-11 and buy AAs, or pop in more of the rechargables I already have.
As for 3D, yeah, some hardware 3D would be nice, but there's a true (software, I believe) 3D engine for the GBA already. Wing Commander: Prophecy already uses it.
But honestly, I'd rather see more 2D style games on consoles before 3D on handhelds. Just because we can do 3D now doesn't mean we should stop doing side scrollers and 2D games! They're still fun!
There's a very good reason for that. The hardware in the Nomad may have been almost as good as the GBS, but it was nowhere NEAR as effecient.
Just like all the other handhelds in the 80s and early 90s were color, but the origional gameboy was monochrome, the technology was available, but it wasn't ready to play for hours and hours on 2 to 4 AA batteries.
Nintendo has always aimed for not the best they could do, but the best they could do and deliver more than just a novelty experience.
In my opinion, it's worked. Otherwise why would the Gameboy have come out on top time and time again?
While I do agre with you, I'd just like to point out that these patterns exist in humans too.
Wars have been fought based on these same "patterns". For instance, we know that the enemy trains to do X, and that if we respond with Y, he will counter with Z. Officers and Generals train and try to learn all they can about potential opponents for this very reason.
I know that if I bring up the subject of cars with certain friends of mine, they'll go on and on about them. And I already know what they'll say. These are patterns. Pets loves imports that I hate, Matt loves classic cars and distrusts modern technology, Justin loves Chevys, but always seems to be drawn back to Fords.
I think that much of what has been said thus far is correct, but vastly oversimplified.
it's not really a stigma since we all do it, but having it called attention to like that is embarrassing.
I hope you're not insinuating that we all like to look at child porn. Because if that's what you're saying, I think you neet to take a serious reality check and I urge you to please seek some help.
Hopefully, that's not what you ment. If that's the case, I apolagize, but that's the only thing I could make out of the way you worded your post.
Not often any more. Many ISPs these days intentionally DON'T keep these kinds of logs so they can avoid getting these kinds of subpoenas. The way they see it, it costs them time and money. By not keeping the records, they can just say "sorry, we'd love to help, but we just don't have the info you need".
I can't speak for all ISPs, but I've delt with at 2 that I know of that have this policy for this very reason.
Yeah, and I hear that you can download ANYTHING as long as you only keep it for 24 hours. So as long as you download it, keep it for 23 hours, and then delete it and download it again, you never have to pay for software! Ever!
Aggreed. Pushrods aren't dead. That's why the LS1 Family (Small Gen III Chevy small block V8s) was designed from a white sheet of paper. The engineers were allowed to do whatever they wanted for the new power plant introduced in the 1997 'vette. GM's only directive was that it remain a 5.7L V8 (for herritage / marketing purposes) After looking at Quad overhard cam engines, Rotary engines, and every thing under the sun, they settled on a (admitidly radicly diffrent from the last generation) V8 Pushrod design.
Not only are the numbers that turbod gave accurate, but the concensus in the automotive community has been since 1997 that the LS1 could have put out 500 HP / Ft-Lbs stock from day one. GM's just been choaking the engine on purpose so that they can up the power every year and sell more cars. Now, LS1 and LS6 aren't the only engines in the family. The Gen III SB is in all manner of GM (5.3Ls, 6.0L LQ4 & LQ9, 4.8Ls, etc) trucks now too, and is still impressive. Great platform.
Actually, the Viper is a 8.3L V10. The last generation I believe was an 8.0L V10 (don't quote me on the displacement there). That's why I've never liked the viper. The Vette is a much... well, better, nicer, all around cooler sports car for $20,000 less (Fully loaded Vette Z06 vs base model Viper), and what's the performance diffrence? Like.1 seconds, and.05g. Sure the Vette has less power, but with the $20,000 I saver, I'll bolt on a vortech supercharger, maybe some better springs, and call it a day (and still be $12,000 or so under the cost of the viper).
The only thing the Viper has is rarity. It's a bit unique. But IMHO, it's not a good kind of unique, like say, a Ferrari Modena 360 (a work of fucking art.
Hell, I'd rather have a Mustang, an MR2, or any of a hundred cars before the Viper. I guess my point is that it's performance is unimpressive compared to the cars around it. The vett does almost the same performance with 5.7L, why does the Viper need 8.3? It's a waste of good engineering talent.
I hate to say this, but I think what ever app was used to create the PNG is just broken. The PNG is just as visible to me in Mozilla (worse, actually). I'm running WinXP. I use Paint Shop Pro for my graphics, instead of Photoshop.When I open the existing files in PSP, they match the background of the HTML page, and PSP even reports that the hex values are 555577.
But when I create a NEW file from PSP using the same color (555577), and insert it into HTML, it just works. In both IE and Mozilla. Very strange. This sounds more like a problem with Photoshop than IE or PNG, but I think it's clear that something, somewhere is very worng here. But I don't think it's something that can't be fixed by just checking to make sure things work in the real world.
IE doesn't support PNGs properly, but it's just missing some of the more advanced features. As a replacement for GIFs, IE supports PNGs fine, they just don't support things like Alpha Channels or 16 bit transparencies (thought 256 color transparencies seem to work fine, so it's no loss over GIFs).
Yeah, there's bits of the standard IE doesn't support, which sucks, but with the exception of animation, there's nothing GIFs can do in IE that PNGs can't.
Agreed. According to Human Rights Watch the numbers of civilian dead couldn't have exceeded 2500 to 3000. Probably much lower.
The allies admits to two strikes that killed civilians. One was a technical failure on a British RAF smart bomb that hit a market instead of a nearby bridge. Since it was a technical malfunction, and the target was legitimate no blame was assigned.
The other was an intelligence failure. An air attack on the Al-Firdus command and control bunker. It was thought to be a legitimate target. A military command and control bunker. But for reasons that as far as I know are still unknown today, there were civilians in it. Several hundred of them were killed. General Chuck Horner, the Allied Air Component Commander during the gulf war (in other words he ran the entire Air War) talks about the incident in the book he coauthored with Tom Clancy Every Man A Tiger. He goes on to say that they should have asked harder questions. It had a low enough priority that it wasn't hit until the Air War was nearly 4 weeks old. He argues that if it was that low a priority, then did they really need to hit it? He makes good arguments for *why* the mistake was made, and he admits that it was a combination of factors including an allied intel failure that led to the tragedy.
Look, nobody likes war. But sometimes it's necessary to end ongoing suffering. I hardly agree with Bush on anything. I question his motives. But I do think Hussein has had this coming. He's a tyrant, and there are more parallels between him and Hitler than most people realize. The Allies in the Gulf War took more precautions to prevent civilian casualties than any other force in any other war in history. And they were largely successful. The technology of smart bombs allows us to do that. This isn't WWII or Vietnam. There's no REASON to carpet bomb and endanger civilians. And it's just plain wrong. I hope that this war ends quickly and that casualties are kept to an absolute minimum. The Iraqi people have certain human rights. And they're not getting them living under the rule of Hussein.
I don't agree with Bush's motives. But the liberation of Iraqi people is just the right thing to do! How can we be against that?
They say the U.S. "can't be the world's police force". Maybe. But I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. It's like walking by someone who's drowning in a river and saying "I can't be the river's lifeguard". Are you responsible for saving the person? No. But I think that you're morally obligated to do everything in your power to help. I see no reason that this logic shouldn't scale up to nations. If there is suffering and one nation can help to end the suffering, they *should* take action. Using military force, economic aid, disaster relief personnel, whatever. But sort of like a Hippocratic oath, it's important that whatever actions are taken not cause more suffering than they eliminate.
General William Tecumseh Sherman said "War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace." (thanks to Wyatt Earp (1029) for the quote). It's true. That's the only legitimate reason to go to war. And hopefully that's what we'll get with as little loss of life as possible.
I only wish that our current President hadn't botched things so badly that we have virtually *no* international support. Other Presidents would have acted differently. G.H.W. Bush understood the importance of building a coalition. Clinton certainly had his finger on the pulse of the international scene and he was a competent diplomat. Reagan liked to act unilaterally, but he wasn't a bat-shit crazy cowboy when he did so. Carter would have found a diplomatic solution, or at least he would have put so much effort into finding one that nobody would ever be able to question the legitimacy of going to war. I just think that this is embarassing. Hussein definitely needs to go, but I wish there were someone else to do it other than a G.W. Bush.
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Sure, when you put it like that, it sounds silly. Stupid even.
It was under the chicken coop.
Hmm... just noticed this bit from the web site:
Although Tiger Hill only supervises the products and projects it is associated with, we are adamant about their quality and service to our fans.
So I guess that answers that question.
Does it really matter?
Ever heard of LucasFilm Games / Lucas Arts?
George Lucas opened that studio in the late 80s/ early 90s I believe. It's created some wonderful games. Maniac Mansion has got to be one of my all time favorites.
Shigiru Miyamoto got his start as an art director designing art for video game cabinets. He wasn't a coder at all. And do you think he's kept up with technology enough that he could sit down and contribute code to Wind Waker? I doubt it.
But he's a great Producer / Director. He knows how to make a game. I think that Woo could really contribute something to the gaming world. And Sega is a great match.
Does this automaticly mean his games won't suck? Nope. But I think he's got a better shot at being able to design games than someone happened to be a wonderful coder, but isn't known for being a creative artist, like say, Larry Wall (just for an example).
It's not just the ability to play for 10 hours continously. It's things like the ability to leave for a weekend, and not have to recharge. Things like not going through batteries as frequently. That's one thing I don't like about the GBA SP by the way, the proprietary battery. I like the ability to go to 7-11 and buy AAs, or pop in more of the rechargables I already have.
As for 3D, yeah, some hardware 3D would be nice, but there's a true (software, I believe) 3D engine for the GBA already. Wing Commander: Prophecy already uses it.
But honestly, I'd rather see more 2D style games on consoles before 3D on handhelds. Just because we can do 3D now doesn't mean we should stop doing side scrollers and 2D games! They're still fun!
There's a very good reason for that. The hardware in the Nomad may have been almost as good as the GBS, but it was nowhere NEAR as effecient.
Just like all the other handhelds in the 80s and early 90s were color, but the origional gameboy was monochrome, the technology was available, but it wasn't ready to play for hours and hours on 2 to 4 AA batteries.
Nintendo has always aimed for not the best they could do, but the best they could do and deliver more than just a novelty experience.
In my opinion, it's worked. Otherwise why would the Gameboy have come out on top time and time again?
I just did. The gamecube disc spun clockwise each time I observed it.
However, I have no idea what direction a DVD spins as I've never seen a DVD player that wasn't tray load, or front feed (like a car's CD player).
Um, he said Metroid II. You even quoted it.
While I do agre with you, I'd just like to point out that these patterns exist in humans too.
Wars have been fought based on these same "patterns". For instance, we know that the enemy trains to do X, and that if we respond with Y, he will counter with Z. Officers and Generals train and try to learn all they can about potential opponents for this very reason.
I know that if I bring up the subject of cars with certain friends of mine, they'll go on and on about them. And I already know what they'll say. These are patterns. Pets loves imports that I hate, Matt loves classic cars and distrusts modern technology, Justin loves Chevys, but always seems to be drawn back to Fords.
I think that much of what has been said thus far is correct, but vastly oversimplified.
Yes. Ikaruga is an excelent game. I highly recomend it. Best galaga style shooter since R-Type.
The release date says May 2003.
Hmmm...
According to Nintendo's web site, there will be a Grand Theft Auto 3 coming out.
BUT FOR THE GBA!!!
Very interesting.
Duke Nukem Forever was cancelled for the cube. (You must enable popups to hit "yes I realy realy want to see this page" to view this page).
If anyone has any info, I'd still like to know exactly why. Will Nintendo's next platform be out by the time DNF comes out? ( ;
That would help more if people would stop writing articles that read like:
"There's an article on CNN about a new sequel to the popular PC game Half-Life by Valve Software (and published by Sierra Entertainment. I'm sure all of Slashdot will be glad to hear this news. GamePro also has an article. The White House had no comment.
From a quick google search:
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http://www.ox.compsoc.net/cgi-bin/safeperl/flend/
I'm 23. *My* life isn't complete without the weekly email.
Anyone who finds anonymous disagreement more satisfying than communication and sharing of ideas deserves what they get.
Um... not that I agree with the practice of modding down when one disagrees, but what might that be?
What do you mean "deserves what they get"?
it's not really a stigma since we all do it, but having it called attention to like that is embarrassing.
I hope you're not insinuating that we all like to look at child porn. Because if that's what you're saying, I think you neet to take a serious reality check and I urge you to please seek some help.
Hopefully, that's not what you ment. If that's the case, I apolagize, but that's the only thing I could make out of the way you worded your post.
Not often any more. Many ISPs these days intentionally DON'T keep these kinds of logs so they can avoid getting these kinds of subpoenas. The way they see it, it costs them time and money. By not keeping the records, they can just say "sorry, we'd love to help, but we just don't have the info you need".
I can't speak for all ISPs, but I've delt with at 2 that I know of that have this policy for this very reason.
Huh?
Yeah, and I hear that you can download ANYTHING as long as you only keep it for 24 hours. So as long as you download it, keep it for 23 hours, and then delete it and download it again, you never have to pay for software! Ever!
Aggreed. Pushrods aren't dead. That's why the LS1 Family (Small Gen III Chevy small block V8s) was designed from a white sheet of paper. The engineers were allowed to do whatever they wanted for the new power plant introduced in the 1997 'vette. GM's only directive was that it remain a 5.7L V8 (for herritage / marketing purposes) After looking at Quad overhard cam engines, Rotary engines, and every thing under the sun, they settled on a (admitidly radicly diffrent from the last generation) V8 Pushrod design.
Not only are the numbers that turbod gave accurate, but the concensus in the automotive community has been since 1997 that the LS1 could have put out 500 HP / Ft-Lbs stock from day one. GM's just been choaking the engine on purpose so that they can up the power every year and sell more cars. Now, LS1 and LS6 aren't the only engines in the family. The Gen III SB is in all manner of GM (5.3Ls, 6.0L LQ4 & LQ9, 4.8Ls, etc) trucks now too, and is still impressive. Great platform.
Actually, the Viper is a 8.3L V10. The last generation I believe was an 8.0L V10 (don't quote me on the displacement there). That's why I've never liked the viper. The Vette is a much... well, better, nicer, all around cooler sports car for $20,000 less (Fully loaded Vette Z06 vs base model Viper), and what's the performance diffrence? Like .1 seconds, and .05g. Sure the Vette has less power, but with the $20,000 I saver, I'll bolt on a vortech supercharger, maybe some better springs, and call it a day (and still be $12,000 or so under the cost of the viper).
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The only thing the Viper has is rarity. It's a bit unique. But IMHO, it's not a good kind of unique, like say, a Ferrari Modena 360 (a work of fucking art
Hell, I'd rather have a Mustang, an MR2, or any of a hundred cars before the Viper. I guess my point is that it's performance is unimpressive compared to the cars around it. The vett does almost the same performance with 5.7L, why does the Viper need 8.3? It's a waste of good engineering talent.
I hate to say this, but I think what ever app was used to create the PNG is just broken. The PNG is just as visible to me in Mozilla (worse, actually). I'm running WinXP. I use Paint Shop Pro for my graphics, instead of Photoshop.When I open the existing files in PSP, they match the background of the HTML page, and PSP even reports that the hex values are 555577.
But when I create a NEW file from PSP using the same color (555577), and insert it into HTML, it just works. In both IE and Mozilla. Very strange. This sounds more like a problem with Photoshop than IE or PNG, but I think it's clear that something, somewhere is very worng here. But I don't think it's something that can't be fixed by just checking to make sure things work in the real world.
If you'd like to see an example, click here.
IE doesn't support PNGs properly, but it's just missing some of the more advanced features. As a replacement for GIFs, IE supports PNGs fine, they just don't support things like Alpha Channels or 16 bit transparencies (thought 256 color transparencies seem to work fine, so it's no loss over GIFs).
Yeah, there's bits of the standard IE doesn't support, which sucks, but with the exception of animation, there's nothing GIFs can do in IE that PNGs can't.
Agreed. According to Human Rights Watch the numbers of civilian dead couldn't have exceeded 2500 to 3000. Probably much lower.
The allies admits to two strikes that killed civilians. One was a technical failure on a British RAF smart bomb that hit a market instead of a nearby bridge. Since it was a technical malfunction, and the target was legitimate no blame was assigned.
The other was an intelligence failure. An air attack on the Al-Firdus command and control bunker. It was thought to be a legitimate target. A military command and control bunker. But for reasons that as far as I know are still unknown today, there were civilians in it. Several hundred of them were killed. General Chuck Horner, the Allied Air Component Commander during the gulf war (in other words he ran the entire Air War) talks about the incident in the book he coauthored with Tom Clancy Every Man A Tiger. He goes on to say that they should have asked harder questions. It had a low enough priority that it wasn't hit until the Air War was nearly 4 weeks old. He argues that if it was that low a priority, then did they really need to hit it? He makes good arguments for *why* the mistake was made, and he admits that it was a combination of factors including an allied intel failure that led to the tragedy.
Look, nobody likes war. But sometimes it's necessary to end ongoing suffering. I hardly agree with Bush on anything. I question his motives. But I do think Hussein has had this coming. He's a tyrant, and there are more parallels between him and Hitler than most people realize. The Allies in the Gulf War took more precautions to prevent civilian casualties than any other force in any other war in history. And they were largely successful. The technology of smart bombs allows us to do that. This isn't WWII or Vietnam. There's no REASON to carpet bomb and endanger civilians. And it's just plain wrong. I hope that this war ends quickly and that casualties are kept to an absolute minimum. The Iraqi people have certain human rights. And they're not getting them living under the rule of Hussein.
I don't agree with Bush's motives. But the liberation of Iraqi people is just the right thing to do! How can we be against that?
They say the U.S. "can't be the world's police force". Maybe. But I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. It's like walking by someone who's drowning in a river and saying "I can't be the river's lifeguard". Are you responsible for saving the person? No. But I think that you're morally obligated to do everything in your power to help. I see no reason that this logic shouldn't scale up to nations. If there is suffering and one nation can help to end the suffering, they *should* take action. Using military force, economic aid, disaster relief personnel, whatever. But sort of like a Hippocratic oath, it's important that whatever actions are taken not cause more suffering than they eliminate.
General William Tecumseh Sherman said "War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace." (thanks to Wyatt Earp (1029) for the quote). It's true. That's the only legitimate reason to go to war. And hopefully that's what we'll get with as little loss of life as possible.
I only wish that our current President hadn't botched things so badly that we have virtually *no* international support. Other Presidents would have acted differently. G.H.W. Bush understood the importance of building a coalition. Clinton certainly had his finger on the pulse of the international scene and he was a competent diplomat. Reagan liked to act unilaterally, but he wasn't a bat-shit crazy cowboy when he did so. Carter would have found a diplomatic solution, or at least he would have put so much effort into finding one that nobody would ever be able to question the legitimacy of going to war. I just think that this is embarassing. Hussein definitely needs to go, but I wish there were someone else to do it other than a G.W. Bush.