Hey! You know what? Yesterday I was doing some gardening in my backyard. I lifted up this rock, and Hemos crawled out from underneath all pasty-looking. He then looked at the sun, cursed at me, and ran underneath my neighbour's back porch.
Come on guys, I usually don't complain, but this is REDICULOUS. Even all the local news stations aired this story on the day it happened, and they're completely clueless towards this stuff.
Maybe Slashdot should buy that system, it would make an excellent server to mirror the sites of those poor bastards who fall victim to the slashdot effect.
Ok, let me explain something. In the life cycle of every major game console, the company almost always releases a smaller more cost-effective model near the end in an effort to sustain sales through the launch of their next gen effort.
There was the "new" NES, "new" Sega Master System, two "new" Genesis, a "new" SNES. Now there's a "new" PlayStation.
Since Sony's marketers are more interested in capturing the mainstream idiots, they decided to label this smaller PlayStation as "portable".
Now, certainly it is portable. The old PSX was portable. This one is just smaller (and cooler looking), and will have a seperate attachable LCD screen to be released several months afterwards.
So anyways, what I'm trying to say here is PS One is NOT a handheld or a true portable. Anyone who thinks that is falling right into marketing's grubby little hands.
(Now, on the other hand, I will eventually buy a PS One because it's so much cooler than PSX)
If AOL hadn't bought ICQ, this would not be a problem. Mirabilis was based in Israel, and US law does not extend there.
This is just another problem with big companies buying everything out: it brings everything under the control of all those computer illiterate white-hairs sitting around in Washington.
Any of you remember Trip Hawkins, original president of 3DO? The guy who desperately wanted to be Steve Jobs.
He predicted that every home in america would own one, and he shoved the words "interactive" and "multimedia" down everyone's throats.
3DO wasn't a bad system... it was just marketed wrong, and under the wrong market conditions. A friend of mine bought one for $700 CDN ($500 US) when it first came out, he was a bit of a nutcase, but that is not how you launch a system.
Anyways, I wonder whatever happened to good ol' Trip, he was quite a prominent figure several years ago.
I went to the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA last month. I brought my Dreamcast, one of my friends brought his imported Dreamcast, and my other friend brought his PlayStation. In the hotel we stayed in, the first thing we did was hook up our game consoles to the hotel tv. The guys from another website had their room full of consoles and accessories, almost like a mini-E3.
The PSX isn't too huge to lug around, but the new smaller one is certainly much more convenient (and nicer looking too.)
True gamers will drag their systems anywhere. If you think that's bad, last year one of the guys brought his whole PC setup (monitor, tower...)
Ok, I'd have to say that this is dead media: a few years ago at school, I was looking around the computer lab for cool ancient things, and I came across a floppy disk that had to be something like a foot square in dimention. I can't remember it's volume, but it was pitifully low.
Slashdot Mirror
(tries to picture the kind of adaptor you would need, and someone on a train playing it)
TG-16 had Splatterhouse. Cutesy?
That's funny. When I was lined up for a PS2, we all told someone who was looking for it that we were lined up for Backstreet Boys tickets.
Hey! You know what? Yesterday I was doing some gardening in my backyard. I lifted up this rock, and Hemos crawled out from underneath all pasty-looking. He then looked at the sun, cursed at me, and ran underneath my neighbour's back porch.
Come on guys, I usually don't complain, but this is REDICULOUS. Even all the local news stations aired this story on the day it happened, and they're completely clueless towards this stuff.
Maybe Slashdot should buy that system, it would make an excellent server to mirror the sites of those poor bastards who fall victim to the slashdot effect.
Personally my bets are on this for Nintendo's official announcement:
"We have no official announcement on 'Dolphin' at this time, but look, a Squirtle-shaped N64!"
(Sorry, been in this business way too many years now.)
Hey, maybe the Slashdot team is actually Canadian after all. We use all those extra U's up here too.
Ok, let me explain something. In the life cycle of every major game console, the company almost always releases a smaller more cost-effective model near the end in an effort to sustain sales through the launch of their next gen effort.
There was the "new" NES, "new" Sega Master System, two "new" Genesis, a "new" SNES. Now there's a "new" PlayStation.
Since Sony's marketers are more interested in capturing the mainstream idiots, they decided to label this smaller PlayStation as "portable".
Now, certainly it is portable. The old PSX was portable. This one is just smaller (and cooler looking), and will have a seperate attachable LCD screen to be released several months afterwards.
So anyways, what I'm trying to say here is PS One is NOT a handheld or a true portable. Anyone who thinks that is falling right into marketing's grubby little hands.
(Now, on the other hand, I will eventually buy a PS One because it's so much cooler than PSX)
... from the movie "The Yellow Submarine" is much more interesting to imagine.
The computer pictured on the back of the flyer is a Macintosh. Now, that is truly ironic.
Not only is it good for all that, but I'm one step closer to getting my Gundam :-)
If AOL hadn't bought ICQ, this would not be a problem. Mirabilis was based in Israel, and US law does not extend there.
This is just another problem with big companies buying everything out: it brings everything under the control of all those computer illiterate white-hairs sitting around in Washington.
sleet-ware
Any of you remember Trip Hawkins, original president of 3DO? The guy who desperately wanted to be Steve Jobs.
He predicted that every home in america would own one, and he shoved the words "interactive" and "multimedia" down everyone's throats.
3DO wasn't a bad system... it was just marketed wrong, and under the wrong market conditions. A friend of mine bought one for $700 CDN ($500 US) when it first came out, he was a bit of a nutcase, but that is not how you launch a system.
Anyways, I wonder whatever happened to good ol' Trip, he was quite a prominent figure several years ago.
I went to the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA last month. I brought my Dreamcast, one of my friends brought his imported Dreamcast, and my other friend brought his PlayStation. In the hotel we stayed in, the first thing we did was hook up our game consoles to the hotel tv. The guys from another website had their room full of consoles and accessories, almost like a mini-E3.
The PSX isn't too huge to lug around, but the new smaller one is certainly much more convenient (and nicer looking too.)
True gamers will drag their systems anywhere. If you think that's bad, last year one of the guys brought his whole PC setup (monitor, tower...)
Actually, a battle with Saitou would be killer.
Cool, he used Shinomori Aoshi as the opponent. It's hard to pick a cooler opponent than that. I want this game now. :)
We've slashdotted major websites
We've slashdotted a Commodore 64-based Webserver
We've slashdotted a VEGETABLE
What's next? How do you top a vegetable? Slashdotting a webserver running on an actual living brain is all I can think of...
Will this SimNet include a Sim version of Slashdot?
'twas a prototype unit
I guess I'll count Canada in with Europe this time :-)
Damn, I want one of those things as my secret interstellar base for launching invasions of planets.
I'm afraid we don't eat grits in Canada, sorry :-p
Ok, I'd have to say that this is dead media: a few years ago at school, I was looking around the computer lab for cool ancient things, and I came across a floppy disk that had to be something like a foot square in dimention. I can't remember it's volume, but it was pitifully low.
FFX and FFXI are coming out for PS2 next year. FFXI will be online-only, kinda like Everquest or something.