"The stock PS2 doesn't have one. "
Sure they do, it is carried on the game disk (except for the bootstrap in rom on the box) so that they can upgrade it as they go, just like on the psx.
Part of the cited cost in the $150+ millions is their new movie house and computer farm. They already have deals for more movies. I would suspect that they never intended to recover all the costs of becoming a movie house on their first film. So I believe your idea that there won't be a second movie is already hasty judgement.
Hello, You're not forcing anything on them, there is no basic right to join any channel you want. Further, disrupting networks to get around this is illegal (but on two small a scale to prosecute)
The whole point is you don't have a 'right' (although you seem to think you do) to be on my friends and my channel (EFNET or otherwise) the only difference is on DALNET you can't turn into a baby and DOS me to get channel ops.
The whole first person to create a channel is a lame argument. Start another channel, that should be the answer on EFNET or DALNET or any irc network for that matter.
"Someone coming into YOUR channel and doing things you don't like? Deal with it. It's not for you to tell everyone else on the channel that they can't listen to this person (by kicking them)."
Yes it is for you, that's the whole reason you're an op. Chances are the people there want you be kicking the people you are.
The basic difference between dalnet and efnet is my friends and I don't have to listen to you just because you downloaded a l33t newer version of some script that I don't have.
typically the servers that have this implimented have intercept DCC requests and then prompt the user to allow them to happen. It can still be done, but you open yourslef up to the same old garbage that way.
They are actually two separate pieces of hardware that join together, Kaz demonstrated just using the Modem with out the harddrive, and putting both in the PS2.
There are actually two ports on the BBA, one ethernet and one analog 56k.
Actually, the Harddrive doesn't hook into anything in the bay.(Other than sliding into the bay) The harddrive hooks into the modem/bba which hooks into that slot. At least that's the way they showed it at E3.
Twiki didn't speak english but something along the lines of beedeebeedeebeedee. Later on in the series he developed the ability to talk. Mel Blanc gave twiki his voice. Twiki's girlfriend was Tina and her 'sound' was boodeeboodeeboodee.
"Sony really shot itself in the foot by releasing a machine so impossible to program."
-It isn't impossible, they just made the basic avenue of programming the bare metal. Developers have been asking for this since the PSX was released
"Numerous companies have jumped ship because of that single fact."
-One company jumped ship. They had never done a 3d title before. Their reason is also dubious as this Penny Arcade comic so nicely points out.
Companies have been all over debunking the 'hard to develop for' FUD such as in this article.
Some more quotes:
Hideo Kojima - "It will take three years for games to make complete use of the total potential of the PS2. What's key is where to use those capabilities and what to make stand out. After some trial and error, titles with new ways of expressing things will appear. However, this is not going to happen right away."
John Riccitiello (President of EA) - "It's drop dead sexy."
George Lucas - "It's mind-boggling. What they've accomplished is just beyond comprehension, if you know anything about computers."
Trip Hawkins (President of 3D0) - "It's historic, a mass market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the same way the printing press did."
Jeronimo Barrera (Rockster Video Games) - "What usually happens with new hardware is, the people who are having a lot of trouble are the ones who are talking a lot of sh-t."
Most developer house already have created their own toolsets, some are even licensing them out to other developers, the 'hard' to program issue is a dead-issue and has been for several months now.
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That DVDs are proprietary. 'That word, I don't think it means what you think it means'
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You mean like they did with N64 in '96?
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"The stock PS2 doesn't have one. " Sure they do, it is carried on the game disk (except for the bootstrap in rom on the box) so that they can upgrade it as they go, just like on the psx.
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--To the moderator who would mark this down as OFF topic, you missed this weeks Lexx--
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Part of the cited cost in the $150+ millions is their new movie house and computer farm. They already have deals for more movies. I would suspect that they never intended to recover all the costs of becoming a movie house on their first film. So I believe your idea that there won't be a second movie is already hasty judgement.
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Yes you can, however that doesn't make me incorrect. I never said you couldn't light it, just not backlit.
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it is a limitation of the technology, hence "reflective"
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Hell he should have known that from the damn title.
The movie was awesome and it this review just made me turn on my no Katz articles setting.
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b) I see no problem with the system except a bunch of whiney people going "WAAHH!!! we can't have the channel/nick we want"
So if a person buys the house you want before you can make an offer, do you get the right to set fire to it?
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The whole point is you don't have a 'right' (although you seem to think you do) to be on my friends and my channel (EFNET or otherwise) the only difference is on DALNET you can't turn into a baby and DOS me to get channel ops.
The whole first person to create a channel is a lame argument. Start another channel, that should be the answer on EFNET or DALNET or any irc network for that matter.
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"Someone coming into YOUR channel and doing things you don't like? Deal with it. It's not for you to tell everyone else on the channel that they can't listen to this person (by kicking them)." Yes it is for you, that's the whole reason you're an op. Chances are the people there want you be kicking the people you are. The basic difference between dalnet and efnet is my friends and I don't have to listen to you just because you downloaded a l33t newer version of some script that I don't have.
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Of course the difference is you get to go make your own channel on undernet and dalnet, and kick people vs having to defend yourself on EFnet.
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...unless your a script kiddie who has to get in a pissing contest with someone else to make up for lack of large penis.
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typically the servers that have this implimented have intercept DCC requests and then prompt the user to allow them to happen. It can still be done, but you open yourslef up to the same old garbage that way.
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Nope, but you apparently didn't see the demonstration at E3 did you.
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Shown here
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There are actually two ports on the BBA, one ethernet and one analog 56k.
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Actually, the Harddrive doesn't hook into anything in the bay.(Other than sliding into the bay) The harddrive hooks into the modem/bba which hooks into that slot. At least that's the way they showed it at E3.
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Of course upon reaching the same stereotypical conclusion you have rendered yourself in the same light.
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They are the top 10 GAINING queries.
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Twiki didn't speak english but something along the lines of beedeebeedeebeedee. Later on in the series he developed the ability to talk. Mel Blanc gave twiki his voice. Twiki's girlfriend was Tina and her 'sound' was boodeeboodeeboodee.
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He did make a polite 'no comment' when someone asked him about this very subject when I saw him at Marcon a couple of years back.
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-It isn't impossible, they just made the basic avenue of programming the bare metal. Developers have been asking for this since the PSX was released
"Numerous companies have jumped ship because of that single fact."
-One company jumped ship. They had never done a 3d title before. Their reason is also dubious as this Penny Arcade comic so nicely points out.
Companies have been all over debunking the 'hard to develop for' FUD such as in this article.
Some more quotes:
Hideo Kojima - "It will take three years for games to make complete use of the total potential of the PS2. What's key is where to use those capabilities and what to make stand out. After some trial and error, titles with new ways of expressing things will appear. However, this is not going to happen right away."
John Riccitiello (President of EA) - "It's drop dead sexy."
George Lucas - "It's mind-boggling. What they've accomplished is just beyond comprehension, if you know anything about computers."
Trip Hawkins (President of 3D0) - "It's historic, a mass market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the same way the printing press did."
Jeronimo Barrera (Rockster Video Games) - "What usually happens with new hardware is, the people who are having a lot of trouble are the ones who are talking a lot of sh-t."
Most developer house already have created their own toolsets, some are even licensing them out to other developers, the 'hard' to program issue is a dead-issue and has been for several months now.
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..he specifically talks about how Nvidia will repeat this allegation with every generation.
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...now If I could just read Japanese.
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