There are many rendering problems with/. on my build of Firebird (0.7, Xfree 4.3), but I believe this has more to do with the fact that/.'s html is a hack on a hack on a hack.
When they decide to bite the bullet and switch away from a table based layout to a CSS based one, rendering problems will disappear for everyone who's bothered updating their browser in the last 2 years.
What I want is content providers like Cartoon Network to sell me single episodes, or entire series of TV shows over the web.
I would be MORE than willing to part with a couple of bucks an episode if CT could let me download every Samurai Jack episode, or every ATHF episode in a format I can either watch on my PC, via my PC, or have the option to burn to a CD or DVD to watch with my DVD player.
Hear that content providers? As Samurai Jack currently stands, I'm willing to give you $100 right here and now. But alas, you seemingly don't want my money.
I'd get a DDR machine a lose 40 pounds, just like all the DDR fanatics claim to have done.
I've played DDR, and I like it. Havin gone in-house, as it were, would be fantastic. I've even considered building a proper metal base and plugging it into a PS2, but that's something to think about if I ever have money AND free time.
...Kids dont mind playing games w/ cartoony graphics, so the 100 device is perfect for them.. many adults want realism in their games, so they can go the sony route...
I must disagree with this. As an adult who's played games through a good 80-85% of my life, I must say that realistic graphics are the least of my concerns. It would, in fact, be more accurate to say I don't give much weight at all to the graphics in handhelds.
Warioware Inc is a perfect example. The graphics are, for lack of a better word, terrible, but does anyone complain? No, because it is quite possibly the most frantic, fun game to ever grace a handheld.
You can keep your realistic graphics, the only thing I care about is having fun on the go.
What about making a replica finger or eye that looks and feels like the real thing? Rest assured, if there's money to be made from creating such material, any technological shortcomings will be dealt with by the criminal world.
And what about classical hacking using the binary data your biometric details will eventually become once scanned?
Biometrics may sound futuristic and secure, but unlike a password or card, you can't replace your fingerprints or retina with a few keystokes, or have the bank send you a new one.
My favourites:
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Golden Sun 1 & 2
Advance Wars 1 & 2
And not forgetting, quite possibly the most fun handheld game ever: Wario Ware Inc. Minigame Mania.
And there's some goodies coming out soon too, like Sword of Mana. Also, give Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga a look, it's a fantastic game but not for everyone.
Damn straight. And you know as well as I do; everyone in Wellington knows at least 2 people that worked on the film.
The streets here in Wellington are closed for almost two days so we can have a parade of all things. I'll just make sure I take my LOTR DVDs in the hope of getting them signed by someone important (then, EBAY!) and a camera for boasting purposes. This will be, after all, the first and last time this kind of thing happens in Wellington, I'm sure.
On the subjct of the design: "Very cool -- looks like something straight out of 'Minority Report.". - It actually looks like the unicycle bike out that Leila of the Anime flick Vampire Hunter D, rides. Infact, almost exactly.
Look. The premiere is on the 1st of December in Wellington. According to New Zealand media and a few people I know who work in and around Weta, PJ has wanted to make small changes to parts of the movie, but it's too late, as New Line is taking it in sections to be printed.
That was the buzz two weeks ago, so if you think a petition has a shit show of changing something that's already happened, you are badly out of luck.
What surprises me is the fact that Christopher Lee is having such a hissy fit over the whole thing. "<whineyVoice>Uh, since they cut my scene I'm not going to the premiere anymore! Ngya!</whineyVoice> Grow up, you ancient old man!
I am a huge Nintendo fan. I would probably be considered a fanboy by some.
I really want a Zodiac, and I really want it to do well. This thing is what the N-Gage should have been. With a cellphone added in, in a well designed, non-taco way, and the ability to run Linux, this thing would be the ultimate convergence device with a reasonable amount of power to boot.
Mind you, with all that said, I would quite like a GP32 too, if just for the ability to home brew hand held games out of the box.
For those of you out there not as informed on Nintendo's history as other's, and wonder why WOTC would be concerned with secrets getting to Nintendo of all people, well.
Nintendo has been making card games, trading cards and board games since 1902, and they've produced them ever since. Tading cards for the American market, Japanese market, the lot.
If you're keen on reading up about this deceptively old company, checkany of these out.
Nah. The best notes I've come across, and I'm not being biased as I've used notes in lots of countries, is our very own New Zealand notes.
Made from plastic, but designed to feel like paper, they are practically unforgable. They have transparent windows, water marks, textured areas, the whole shibang. If you ever manage to get hold of one, you'll realise just how impossible a task making a replica would be.
Just from the link above, here's the security features of our notes (all of which I think are rather cool):
1. Each polymer note has two transparent windows. One of the transparent windows is oval-shaped and sloping and has the denomination numerals embossed in it. The other clear window is in the shape of a curved fern leaf.
2. There is a fern immediately above the clear fern-shaped window. When you hold the note to the light, the fern should match perfectly with another fern on the other side.
3. You should easily be able to see a shadow image of the Queen when you hold the note to the light.
4. Each note has an individual serial number printed horizontally and vertically.
5. Polymer notes have raised printing, which stands up on the surface and can be felt when you run your fingers over it.
6. Tiny micro-printed letters "RBNZ" should be visible with a magnifying glass.
7. Under an ultraviolet light, the polymer note appears dull. Most commercial papers used in forgeries will glow under an ultraviolet light. However, polymer notes contain special inks, which make particular features glow under an ultraviolet light. For example, the front of each genuine note has a fluorescent patch showing the denomination numerals, which can only be seen under an ultraviolet light.
As an actual diabetic I must say that a glucose meter in a PDA or game console is really my killer app. Should someone out there be looking to sell me a $1000 peice of equipment I want the following things: Ability to play GBA games, surf the net, test my blood glucose, open my front door and call/text my friends all from the same device no bigger than a Palm M100.
I know blood glucose is an extreme niche for geek toys, but the more projects like this, the better in my opinion. At least until they come up with a reasonable cure.
I'm actually surprised no one did anything like this for the Handspring Springboard format (although, I must admit, I was considering hacking a spare glucose meter up and making on emyself at one point)
And check this out, direct from the Apple Powerbook website, RE the backlit keyboard:
"The 15-inch PowerBook features a fiber optic backlit keyboard that's right out of the future.".
So not only is it advertising (well, i don't really mind, because it's interesting stuff), but it's false advertising!
That's not the most worrying part though, the ATI chip's features have the heading "Sizzling graphics processor". Let's just hope that's marketing babble and not an indication of the expected temperature.
I am a big Nintendo fan. The reason I have great admiration for Nintendo and give them a large amount of money every year is because they produce vastly superior, quality products, giving me a good experience for the money I hand over.
Eidos produce nothing but crap in-house. Sure they have some worth-while third parties who publish through them (Free Radical being the good people who worked at Rare and produced GoldenEye), but all the same, for the most part, the GameCube and all it's happy users will be much better off without the crap mongoring crap monkeys that are Eidos pushing their crap onto us.
Sorry Eidos, but Tomb Raider isn't big, or good anymore, so no one cares what you think.
Actually, the man behind the whole venture is a New Zealander. We've had this story all over the news tonight. Here's an article from stuff.co.nz claiming it was us all along.
I know this is an actual crime, and people have been wronged, but I couldn't help but laugh right the way through reading that article.
Quotes of particular note:
"Mr Gvodinsky said: "I am disgusted, disgraced, ashamed, immensely angry, lost and helpless.
"
Um, get a grip?
"And what is this 'Famicom'?""
I just inivisage a Dr Evil scene with the whole inverted commas sign going on here. It's hilarious that they're all left wondering what the meaning of this myterious word "Famicom" could be.
"Even Greenpeace admits that no complete scientific study of the toxicity of nanomaterials has been yet been performed."
Wow! Greenpeace said that!? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm convinced. Greenpeace being such a noble and trustworthy source of things that are true. </sarcasm>
I'm sure they're right in this case, but citing Greenpeace's opinion as the be all and end all of an argument is just stupid, IMHO.
I thought I had something wrong with my newly rebuilt mail server, but it turns out the 4 spam messages I'm getting each day are all that's left after that bastard stopped his servers.
Today was the first day in over 5 years I've actually recieved more real e-mail than spam, and I have my fellow countrymen and geeks to thank for it.
So, to paraphrase Homer Simpson: "To New Zealand; the cause of, and solution to, most of the net's spam".
But what you seem to forget that both Sony and Microsoft are different type of companies. They can afford to loose a console race. Can nintendo? It wouldn't be the first time a game company goes bust because it lost out in the console wars. History has generally shown you don't get a second chance.
History also shows that you get two generations of being on top, then it's all over. But I don't see anyone forcasting the PlayStation's demise because of this.
Nintendo has billions of dollars (5 or 6, I believe) in reserves. They can afford losing another couple of races, especially with their in-house franchises (mainly Pokemon), bringing so much cash in.
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When they decide to bite the bullet and switch away from a table based layout to a CSS based one, rendering problems will disappear for everyone who's bothered updating their browser in the last 2 years.
I would be MORE than willing to part with a couple of bucks an episode if CT could let me download every Samurai Jack episode, or every ATHF episode in a format I can either watch on my PC, via my PC, or have the option to burn to a CD or DVD to watch with my DVD player.
Hear that content providers? As Samurai Jack currently stands, I'm willing to give you $100 right here and now. But alas, you seemingly don't want my money.
I'd get a DDR machine a lose 40 pounds, just like all the DDR fanatics claim to have done. I've played DDR, and I like it. Havin gone in-house, as it were, would be fantastic. I've even considered building a proper metal base and plugging it into a PS2, but that's something to think about if I ever have money AND free time.
Would it feel like half your body was falling away, or does the body auto-correct such things?
A splitting headache, indeed.
I must disagree with this. As an adult who's played games through a good 80-85% of my life, I must say that realistic graphics are the least of my concerns. It would, in fact, be more accurate to say I don't give much weight at all to the graphics in handhelds.
Warioware Inc is a perfect example. The graphics are, for lack of a better word, terrible, but does anyone complain? No, because it is quite possibly the most frantic, fun game to ever grace a handheld.
You can keep your realistic graphics, the only thing I care about is having fun on the go.
And what about classical hacking using the binary data your biometric details will eventually become once scanned?
Biometrics may sound futuristic and secure, but unlike a password or card, you can't replace your fingerprints or retina with a few keystokes, or have the bank send you a new one.
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Golden Sun 1 & 2
Advance Wars 1 & 2
And not forgetting, quite possibly the most fun handheld game ever: Wario Ware Inc. Minigame Mania.
And there's some goodies coming out soon too, like Sword of Mana. Also, give Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga a look, it's a fantastic game but not for everyone.
The streets here in Wellington are closed for almost two days so we can have a parade of all things. I'll just make sure I take my LOTR DVDs in the hope of getting them signed by someone important (then, EBAY!) and a camera for boasting purposes. This will be, after all, the first and last time this kind of thing happens in Wellington, I'm sure.
On the subjct of the design: "Very cool -- looks like something straight out of 'Minority Report.". - It actually looks like the unicycle bike out that Leila of the Anime flick Vampire Hunter D, rides. Infact, almost exactly.
That was the buzz two weeks ago, so if you think a petition has a shit show of changing something that's already happened, you are badly out of luck.
What surprises me is the fact that Christopher Lee is having such a hissy fit over the whole thing. "<whineyVoice>Uh, since they cut my scene I'm not going to the premiere anymore! Ngya!</whineyVoice> Grow up, you ancient old man!
Or even features as mundane as full CSS compliancy and PNG transparency. I'm sure the innovative wonders will never cease from the IE camp.
I'm just wondering since your opinion seems to be somewhat askew from everyone else's.
I really want a Zodiac, and I really want it to do well. This thing is what the N-Gage should have been. With a cellphone added in, in a well designed, non-taco way, and the ability to run Linux, this thing would be the ultimate convergence device with a reasonable amount of power to boot.
Mind you, with all that said, I would quite like a GP32 too, if just for the ability to home brew hand held games out of the box.
Nintendo has been making card games, trading cards and board games since 1902, and they've produced them ever since. Tading cards for the American market, Japanese market, the lot.
If you're keen on reading up about this deceptively old company, check any of these out.
Made from plastic, but designed to feel like paper, they are practically unforgable. They have transparent windows, water marks, textured areas, the whole shibang. If you ever manage to get hold of one, you'll realise just how impossible a task making a replica would be.
Just from the link above, here's the security features of our notes (all of which I think are rather cool):
1. Each polymer note has two transparent windows. One of the transparent windows is oval-shaped and sloping and has the denomination numerals embossed in it. The other clear window is in the shape of a curved fern leaf.
2. There is a fern immediately above the clear fern-shaped window. When you hold the note to the light, the fern should match perfectly with another fern on the other side.
3. You should easily be able to see a shadow image of the Queen when you hold the note to the light.
4. Each note has an individual serial number printed horizontally and vertically.
5. Polymer notes have raised printing, which stands up on the surface and can be felt when you run your fingers over it.
6. Tiny micro-printed letters "RBNZ" should be visible with a magnifying glass.
7. Under an ultraviolet light, the polymer note appears dull. Most commercial papers used in forgeries will glow under an ultraviolet light. However, polymer notes contain special inks, which make particular features glow under an ultraviolet light. For example, the front of each genuine note has a fluorescent patch showing the denomination numerals, which can only be seen under an ultraviolet light.
Just make sure that the third time you get to it, that you have the manual at hand in order to look up keywords once you'd doned the grass skirt.
I know blood glucose is an extreme niche for geek toys, but the more projects like this, the better in my opinion. At least until they come up with a reasonable cure.
I'm actually surprised no one did anything like this for the Handspring Springboard format (although, I must admit, I was considering hacking a spare glucose meter up and making on emyself at one point)
That aside, the Zodiac looks like one mean piece of machinery. Pity I can't afford one at the moment.
"The 15-inch PowerBook features a fiber optic backlit keyboard that's right out of the future.".
So not only is it advertising (well, i don't really mind, because it's interesting stuff), but it's false advertising!
That's not the most worrying part though, the ATI chip's features have the heading "Sizzling graphics processor". Let's just hope that's marketing babble and not an indication of the expected temperature.
Eidos produce nothing but crap in-house. Sure they have some worth-while third parties who publish through them (Free Radical being the good people who worked at Rare and produced GoldenEye), but all the same, for the most part, the GameCube and all it's happy users will be much better off without the crap mongoring crap monkeys that are Eidos pushing their crap onto us.
Sorry Eidos, but Tomb Raider isn't big, or good anymore, so no one cares what you think.
Actually, the man behind the whole venture is a New Zealander. We've had this story all over the news tonight. Here's an article from stuff.co.nz claiming it was us all along.
Quotes of particular note:
"Mr Gvodinsky said: "I am disgusted, disgraced, ashamed, immensely angry, lost and helpless. "
Um, get a grip?
"And what is this 'Famicom'?""
I just inivisage a Dr Evil scene with the whole inverted commas sign going on here. It's hilarious that they're all left wondering what the meaning of this myterious word "Famicom" could be.
Wow! Greenpeace said that!? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm convinced. Greenpeace being such a noble and trustworthy source of things that are true. </sarcasm>
I'm sure they're right in this case, but citing Greenpeace's opinion as the be all and end all of an argument is just stupid, IMHO.
Today was the first day in over 5 years I've actually recieved more real e-mail than spam, and I have my fellow countrymen and geeks to thank for it.
So, to paraphrase Homer Simpson: "To New Zealand; the cause of, and solution to, most of the net's spam".
History also shows that you get two generations of being on top, then it's all over. But I don't see anyone forcasting the PlayStation's demise because of this.
Nintendo has billions of dollars (5 or 6, I believe) in reserves. They can afford losing another couple of races, especially with their in-house franchises (mainly Pokemon), bringing so much cash in.