True as this may be, I'm going to be watching the next generation of game console with great interest; my reason being that fancier graphics just may not cut it this time round.
If Sony want developers to make full use of their graphics pushing potential, they're going to have to provide some kick arse dev tools. It's already taking teams of 40 people 12 to 36 months to produce games that use the current generation's graphical ability, so ramping that up is just going to increase dev costs.
The next generation could, and I'm hoping here, come down to gameplay and innovation, rather than eye candy, but who knows?
Wow, a WWII based FPS/mod, haven't seen that before.
I don't mean to trivialise the project, but can't these people come up with something original? There's been hundreds of wars with guns, pick something different for a change!
What about the war of 1812 between Canada and the US? I'd be interested in playing that. Or make something up, an original story based around Sweden invading Tonga or something.
Well, it does look like a GameCube, like a glowing white hot GameCube.
Get Mame, Snes9x, and emulators for ~10 other game consoles, plus the latest PC games on there, and you have the ultimate gaming box, sans current home consoles.
It wouldn't look out of place in a living room either.
The DS also has Bluetooth wireless communication to connect with other units within range for cordless competition. DS has separate slots for current Game Boy Advance cartridges and new, smaller DS game cards.
Backwards compatible and built in wireless? Where do I sign up for a pre order?
They should also mandate that all gas pumps should be switched to the Liter instead of the Gallon.
And at the same time, avoid pissing off the rest of the metric world by spelling litre properly. I know "liter" is an accepted way of spelling litre, but it just looks wrong IMHO.
I thought that the rest of the world was supposed to force the U.S. into Metric.
No it didn't work, but the rest of the world cares not for the backwards, stone-age measurement systems used by the US. Instead of persisting, we just point and laugh when the US talks of feet and inches.
The US won't be the world's super power forever, once they're second or third for a half century, I'm sure they'll make efforts to fall into line.
So you're saying, in Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" joke laughs at you? Or is it that you laugh at "Soviet Russia" joke in Soviet Russia? Now I'm confused.
The fact of the matter is that 3D doesn't translate easily to the small dimensions of handheld units. The screen size mixed with the limitations of battery life, portable computational power and reasonalbe price point make 3D handheld gaming a prospect best fitting for future generations.
After all, the PSP is going to cost several hundred dollars, which going by current speculation, could nab you a GBA, DS(or GC) and a game or two by the time it comes out. I know what I'd prefer.
Wouldn't want to leave any solid evidence of it's existence, would it?
If your precious little god wasn't so elusive, you may have me convinced, but the shear lack of solid physical evidence will do nothing but reinforce my atheist position.
Looks like the church has spent 2 thousand years writing out a bunch of crap and having people believe them (oh, and killing a whole bunch of people too). Oh well.
Yes, it's impossible. Obviously. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Yet many christians are not willing to accept concepts that are truly based in reality, are not far fetched, have scientific fact you can confirm by going out and observing youself without relying on a book filled with fanciful fairy tales.
There's geological evidence of water in the Precambrian (~550 million years ago - 4.5 billion years ago). The meteor activity in this eon was quite high (meteors are chucks of rock that enter the atmosphere, while asteriods are non-planetary object floating about in space). And during earth's consolidation 4.5 billion years ago, it was constantly bombarded with meteors.
There were no animals with skeletons or hard shells in the precambrian, and certainly no people.
In order for there to be a layer of water above the earth (an aquatosphere if you will), the pressure of the material below the water would have to be greater than that of the water in order to keep it there (like the ocean floor does at the moment, keeping water from sinking to the core of the Earth).
If your bible memory is correct, then the Earth formed with no consideration to the basic laws of physics, which it did.
Consider this, it's an oldy, but one I have never had answered by a religous person without resorting to the tried and frustratingly irritating "god works in mysterious ways" line (which I will consider as an admission of defeat if used);
The existance of evil and suffering proves that god is either:
1.) All powerful
OR
2.) All loving
Surely and all loving, all powerful god wouldn't tollerate suffering or evil. It's not a matter of thinking like a god, it's a simple logic question. Which is it?
Just to start off, I'm currently doing a degree in geology, with an interest in tectonics. I am about to do a lot of guess work with the numbers we have to deal with, so if a biblically knowledgable person would like to correct me anywhere, feel free.
If all the ice in the world melted, the sea level would rise by about 70 meters. That leaves ~2400 meters wanting for the seabed, if this boat was only half way up the mountain (assuming the parent got that height right, and 2,500 meters isn't that high)
Let's assume this shortfall was made up by plate techtonics. I haven't read the bible, but I'm assuming they're dealing with a relatively short time frame here, since the Noah story was supposed to have taken place. Let's give them a good chuck of time, say 7200 years to keep things nice a mathematically simple.
So, to give plate techtonics the credit, the Ararat area would therefore have to be moving 33cm a year, or 1mm every single day for the last 7200 years, vertically.
Continental drift occurs at, on average, at the same speed your fingernails grow, or ~5-10cm a year. Now three time the average would be something special, but three times the yearly average purely vertically would have geo physicists very interested, esspecially considering the Arabian plate is esitmated to have an average tectonic movement of around 4cm per year (this is largely horizontal movement, remember).
OK, so let's give a little give and say the 4cm/y was purely vertical over the last 7200 years, that's 288 meters, leaving us still 2,112 meters short of the sea level, even if all the ice had melted.
So, tectonics would have had to have being working overtime and a half to have made up for this shortfall.
Let's think about this from the perspective of the geological record. From observation by many different people around the world of sedimentary strata, from gas sample taken from ice cores along with many other observations, it is agreed in the scientific community that sea level was about 6 meters higher ~8,000 years ago.
Now, truth is that ~8,000 years ago (7600 to be a little more precise), there were huge floods, as the weather was very unstable, but the flooding that occured certainly didn't cover the Earth (there'd be some wicked Quaternary formations if it did), which leads me to thinking that the story of Noah's ark should be taken more in terms of a fishing tale (thiiiiiiis big), rather than an accurate record of a historical event.
Besides, need we get into the debate about exactly how big that arc would have to have been in order to contain two of every species on earth? Or that for a gentically viable population, you need around 10-20 breeding pairs (according to a genetics scientist friend of mine). Or that reforesting the Earth would have taken hundreds of thousands, if not million of years. Or that the bible has been rewritten, translated and modified many, many times (but let's not go there)
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If you want a movie with more betrayals of science per frame than any other, watch "The Core". The concept is utterly shameful.
A ship made of Unobtainium (granted, they joke about this in the film), drills to the center of the Earth so it can let off nuclear explosions to restart the outer core spinning, thus restoring the Earth's magnetosphere.
On the way to the outer core, the ship encounters a geode the size of a small moon and giant diamonds, all while ignoring the fact that the upper mantle in effectively solid, and at the pressures and temperature encountered at the depth they're at, a nuclear explosion isn't going to do squat.
The mere fact they send a manned probe down is laughable.
Now I know it's just a movie, and having some geology knowledge, I must admit it was a laugh a minute, but it took it's self far too seriously to be given credit, never mind a character being employed to "hack the internet" and stop all documents with certain keywords moving about.
If it were done in the style of Starship troopers, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but as is, bleh.
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If Sony want developers to make full use of their graphics pushing potential, they're going to have to provide some kick arse dev tools. It's already taking teams of 40 people 12 to 36 months to produce games that use the current generation's graphical ability, so ramping that up is just going to increase dev costs.
The next generation could, and I'm hoping here, come down to gameplay and innovation, rather than eye candy, but who knows?
Nah bro, it's sweet. We've got heaps of bandwidth.
I don't mean to trivialise the project, but can't these people come up with something original? There's been hundreds of wars with guns, pick something different for a change!
What about the war of 1812 between Canada and the US? I'd be interested in playing that. Or make something up, an original story based around Sweden invading Tonga or something.
Well, it does look like a GameCube, like a glowing white hot GameCube.
Get Mame, Snes9x, and emulators for ~10 other game consoles, plus the latest PC games on there, and you have the ultimate gaming box, sans current home consoles.
It wouldn't look out of place in a living room either.
What are you on about? Select an object, click it again, and rotate. Sodi Podi is fanstastic at rotation.
Yet here you are, posting on Slashdot.
Why would any self respecting gamer choose to use an Xbox controller over the perfect, tried and true mouse/keyboard combo when playing a FPS?
The DS also has Bluetooth wireless communication to connect with other units within range for cordless competition. DS has separate slots for current Game Boy Advance cartridges and new, smaller DS game cards.
Backwards compatible and built in wireless? Where do I sign up for a pre order?
Honestly, it doesn't look too dissimilar to the GBA SP, and that's one of the best selling consoles of all time.
And at the same time, avoid pissing off the rest of the metric world by spelling litre properly. I know "liter" is an accepted way of spelling litre, but it just looks wrong IMHO.
No it didn't work, but the rest of the world cares not for the backwards, stone-age measurement systems used by the US. Instead of persisting, we just point and laugh when the US talks of feet and inches.
The US won't be the world's super power forever, once they're second or third for a half century, I'm sure they'll make efforts to fall into line.
So you're saying, in Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" joke laughs at you? Or is it that you laugh at "Soviet Russia" joke in Soviet Russia? Now I'm confused.
Really, really damn hard. And not that rewarding.
A rewarding, difficult game is Ikaruga. But you'd have to like that sort of stuff in the first place :)
The fact of the matter is that 3D doesn't translate easily to the small dimensions of handheld units. The screen size mixed with the limitations of battery life, portable computational power and reasonalbe price point make 3D handheld gaming a prospect best fitting for future generations.
After all, the PSP is going to cost several hundred dollars, which going by current speculation, could nab you a GBA, DS(or GC) and a game or two by the time it comes out. I know what I'd prefer.
If your precious little god wasn't so elusive, you may have me convinced, but the shear lack of solid physical evidence will do nothing but reinforce my atheist position.
Looks like the church has spent 2 thousand years writing out a bunch of crap and having people believe them (oh, and killing a whole bunch of people too). Oh well.
You seem fairly sure about that.
That's a bold claim. Are you sure?
None of the prophecies have been proven false
It's amazing how interpetation with 20/20 hindsight can't be disproven.
The hypocrisy packed into this sentence has to be a world record. Your links ammused me.
Yet many christians are not willing to accept concepts that are truly based in reality, are not far fetched, have scientific fact you can confirm by going out and observing youself without relying on a book filled with fanciful fairy tales.
As a human with the ability to use basic logic, I'm appalled with your assumption that because someone wrote something down, it has to be true.
There's geological evidence of water in the Precambrian (~550 million years ago - 4.5 billion years ago). The meteor activity in this eon was quite high (meteors are chucks of rock that enter the atmosphere, while asteriods are non-planetary object floating about in space). And during earth's consolidation 4.5 billion years ago, it was constantly bombarded with meteors.
There were no animals with skeletons or hard shells in the precambrian, and certainly no people.
In order for there to be a layer of water above the earth (an aquatosphere if you will), the pressure of the material below the water would have to be greater than that of the water in order to keep it there (like the ocean floor does at the moment, keeping water from sinking to the core of the Earth).
If your bible memory is correct, then the Earth formed with no consideration to the basic laws of physics, which it did.
Consider this, it's an oldy, but one I have never had answered by a religous person without resorting to the tried and frustratingly irritating "god works in mysterious ways" line (which I will consider as an admission of defeat if used);
The existance of evil and suffering proves that god is either:
1.) All powerful
OR
2.) All loving
Surely and all loving, all powerful god wouldn't tollerate suffering or evil. It's not a matter of thinking like a god, it's a simple logic question. Which is it?
If all the ice in the world melted, the sea level would rise by about 70 meters. That leaves ~2400 meters wanting for the seabed, if this boat was only half way up the mountain (assuming the parent got that height right, and 2,500 meters isn't that high)
Let's assume this shortfall was made up by plate techtonics. I haven't read the bible, but I'm assuming they're dealing with a relatively short time frame here, since the Noah story was supposed to have taken place. Let's give them a good chuck of time, say 7200 years to keep things nice a mathematically simple.
So, to give plate techtonics the credit, the Ararat area would therefore have to be moving 33cm a year, or 1mm every single day for the last 7200 years, vertically.
Continental drift occurs at, on average, at the same speed your fingernails grow, or ~5-10cm a year. Now three time the average would be something special, but three times the yearly average purely vertically would have geo physicists very interested, esspecially considering the Arabian plate is esitmated to have an average tectonic movement of around 4cm per year (this is largely horizontal movement, remember).
OK, so let's give a little give and say the 4cm/y was purely vertical over the last 7200 years, that's 288 meters, leaving us still 2,112 meters short of the sea level, even if all the ice had melted.
So, tectonics would have had to have being working overtime and a half to have made up for this shortfall.
Let's think about this from the perspective of the geological record. From observation by many different people around the world of sedimentary strata, from gas sample taken from ice cores along with many other observations, it is agreed in the scientific community that sea level was about 6 meters higher ~8,000 years ago.
Now, truth is that ~8,000 years ago (7600 to be a little more precise), there were huge floods, as the weather was very unstable, but the flooding that occured certainly didn't cover the Earth (there'd be some wicked Quaternary formations if it did), which leads me to thinking that the story of Noah's ark should be taken more in terms of a fishing tale (thiiiiiiis big), rather than an accurate record of a historical event.
Besides, need we get into the debate about exactly how big that arc would have to have been in order to contain two of every species on earth? Or that for a gentically viable population, you need around 10-20 breeding pairs (according to a genetics scientist friend of mine). Or that reforesting the Earth would have taken hundreds of thousands, if not million of years. Or that the bible has been rewritten, translated and modified many, many times (but let's not go there) .
A ship made of Unobtainium (granted, they joke about this in the film), drills to the center of the Earth so it can let off nuclear explosions to restart the outer core spinning, thus restoring the Earth's magnetosphere.
On the way to the outer core, the ship encounters a geode the size of a small moon and giant diamonds, all while ignoring the fact that the upper mantle in effectively solid, and at the pressures and temperature encountered at the depth they're at, a nuclear explosion isn't going to do squat.
The mere fact they send a manned probe down is laughable.
Now I know it's just a movie, and having some geology knowledge, I must admit it was a laugh a minute, but it took it's self far too seriously to be given credit, never mind a character being employed to "hack the internet" and stop all documents with certain keywords moving about.
If it were done in the style of Starship troopers, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but as is, bleh.