I've been an active and curious internet user since WAIS and Gopher were the tools of choice, maybe I haven't "seen it all", but I've tried to. Sooo with that in mind...
Can somebody please explain to me what sets blogging apart from Geocities "Meet my Dog, check my favorite links" pages.. multiplied by a million screaming ME TOO posts and cross links? Everyone with their own personal sad little version of Fark??
This is not a troll. I get that out of 10 million blogs a few will be thoroughly engrossing, but still I obviously don't get the blogging thing, so I'm seriously asking to be smacked with a clue-by-four regarding blogs. What's the big draw? What do they accomplish for most people? A good place for blogging newbies?
ugh. So it's going to be slower. just like every other game out there.
Yep. Sounds like it. Check out my sig. U2XMP goes the *opposite* direction it seems. Hell ya jumping all over, it's like kung fu with guns and rockets, not to mention it's CTF with resource mgmt. But there's a price, the learning curve is almost vertical. But so worth it if you can stand being a n00b for months.
The big Catch-22 is that game developers need to keep growing their market share and attracting new players. The more they do to attract new players the more the highly skilled players get short-changed.
I'd like 3 modes in all these games, New, Regular, and Expert. With corresponding boxes to check on clients and servers. Tweak the gameplay accordingly.
If my favorite game of all time (U2:XMP) had a New mode maybe it wouldn't be so overshadowed by UT, which is IMO (apologies to fans) just a simple frag fest in comparison.
I have NetGear's 108Mbps Wireless G "Turbo". It works wonders. And yes it reaches farther than any reasonable person would want to run a cord. To the edges of my 1 acre yard actually if you count a 60% signal, which works fine.
That's not the point though. If distance were the only issue then your TV remote might as well be wired. How lame would that be?
I, for one, can't quite imagine how are they going to stop neutrinos from entering that space...
Simple. They'll just repolarize the quantum invariance field and then bombard it with a tachyon pulse. This creates a standing wave of Heisenberg Flux, which is the only way to be certain the hole is empty.
Step 1: Take a browser that appeals to tech minded people who don't use the default IE and provide enhancement and "integration" of plug-ins that are already available to said tech-minded people.
Step 2: Keep looking desperately for that "must have" widget that will appeal to "mainstream" Firefox users.
Step 3:
They're going to either charge for the browser or put ads in it or collect user info for money?
Step 4: Profit???
I hope they're smarter than I am because this "business model" sounds hopeless to me.
After much research and a little bit of wasted money - I totally agree with you.
Except when it comes to headphones. A good set of Sennheisers with a little headphone amp is amazing. Compared to Sony MDRs or whatever is at Best Buy the difference goes beyond great sound to listening comfort. Not talking about the fit of the headgear here but that ugly jacked-in feeling and headache you can get after an hour or more of listening to cheap cans. Just thought I'd chime in and say the headphone-o-philes are right. Although they still have that dumbass 2000 dollar audiophile crap, the 200 crap from Sennheiser and Grado is worth every penny if you spend a lot of time with headphones on.
>Opponents worry about what happens when a UWB transmitter is near one of their devices (yes, it can interfere with GPS)
This is such a great example of the pot calling the kettle black. GPS interferes with everything! It interferes with speakers and wireless connections of all kinds. When I receive a call in my home office on my cell phone - my PC speakers buzz like fog horns, my cordless house phone starts searching for its base, my baby monitor receiver goes crazy, and if I stand close enough my 802.11g laptop gets signal degradation.
I enjoy GPS on my phone sure, but I feel like a walking Batman jamming device as well.
Those opponents to UWB must think GPS is the new supremacy of the airwaves. "Everything bow to GPS, or else we're opposed to it" ??
> What MS is counting on is that consumers will believe that somehow, even though they don't have an HDTV, the HD capabilities of the X-Box 2 will make it display a higher quality picture on their regular TV.
I disagree. What MS is counting on is that in a few short years, maybe as soon as 2 years, you'll have to look for old non-HD TV's when you go to buy.
HD gaming and programming will fuel HDTV purchases, and HDTV purchases will fuel HD game purchases, etc etc.
It's a zeitgeist.. right now most non-HD TV owners don't know what they're missing. That will change quite soon.
TFA bemoaning the sporadic HD support in current generation consoles, bringing up PC gaming, etc. seems like it is just trolling for an excuse to pick on MS.
Yes HD is the future of TV, so of course it's the future of console gaming. And console gamers everywhere will joyously welcome all the HD gaming to come.
Your definition of popular is very different than mine.
The game Trivial Pursuit has sold over 70 million copies. Making it 2 orders of magnitude more popular than slashdot. Everyone you know has played it. I can only think of one person I know who has ever played Everquest, even for a minute.
There are now several contenders in the online gaming arena. Electronic Arts (EA) has a clear lead with run-away hits like Ultima Online, The Sims and several popular sports titles. (Kessler 2004) Ultima Online has sold 1.5 million copies and boasts an average of 100,000 players online at a time. Electronic Arts isn't alone, Sony's EverQuest (EQ) has earned high acclaim as a competing MMORPG with 400,000 units sold...
Microsoft's recent release of Halo 2 was heralded as the largest first-day sales of an entertainment title ever with 125 million units sold. (ign.com 2004)
At 400,000 units sold Everquest may be a popular MMORPG, but it is not a popular "game or hobby". Halo 2 was pretty popular. But still not as popular as say billiards, darts, golfing, or cooking.
According to a normalized definition of Popular, television was the only good example you gave. Man that's depressing.
> Questions remain as to the amount of interest these non-combat games generate
If these games are to be popular past the "gee whiz, check it out!" phase, they need to let the player decide how much or how little time is appropriate.
No game or hobby that requires dozens of hours per week to achieve and kind of success is ever very popular. Life is too full things to do.
On an offtopic note: Is there a SF writer out there who is more right-wing than OSC? Seriously, I'm trying to think of one.
Like sands through the hourglass so go the chips on our dies.
Thus, in order to birth a silcon sea change we need to get down to the granular level with the design schema.
No, but you can patent the "method and system" by which you put them together, as the patent states.
Like patenting a particular design for a toolbox.
Still the USPTO once again does more harm that good. I'm sure MS would have the patent for "a device for manually entering strings of text and sympols into another electronic device" (aka keyboard) if they could. GROAN
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I'd like to hear them ask the RIAA for funding.
I've been an active and curious internet user since WAIS and Gopher were the tools of choice, maybe I haven't "seen it all", but I've tried to. Sooo with that in mind...
Can somebody please explain to me what sets blogging apart from Geocities "Meet my Dog, check my favorite links" pages.. multiplied by a million screaming ME TOO posts and cross links? Everyone with their own personal sad little version of Fark??
This is not a troll. I get that out of 10 million blogs a few will be thoroughly engrossing, but still I obviously don't get the blogging thing, so I'm seriously asking to be smacked with a clue-by-four regarding blogs. What's the big draw? What do they accomplish for most people? A good place for blogging newbies?
Swing away please. Thanks.
I didn't overclock my P4 2.8 to 3.0 for bragging rights. I did it because it's the same chip as a 3.0 and runs rock solid stable that way.
The way I see it, I didn't overclock a 2.8, I underpaid for a 3.0. And yes it does make a difference. That's why they sell both.
"Please insert your Prius into the original location from which the software was installed."
ugh. So it's going to be slower. just like every other game out there.
Yep. Sounds like it. Check out my sig. U2XMP goes the *opposite* direction it seems. Hell ya jumping all over, it's like kung fu with guns and rockets, not to mention it's CTF with resource mgmt. But there's a price, the learning curve is almost vertical. But so worth it if you can stand being a n00b for months.
The big Catch-22 is that game developers need to keep growing their market share and attracting new players. The more they do to attract new players the more the highly skilled players get short-changed.
I'd like 3 modes in all these games, New, Regular, and Expert. With corresponding boxes to check on clients and servers. Tweak the gameplay accordingly.
If my favorite game of all time (U2:XMP) had a New mode maybe it wouldn't be so overshadowed by UT, which is IMO (apologies to fans) just a simple frag fest in comparison.
Stereo imaging?
Is that like "Hi-Fi"?
PFFFFT! Call me when you've got 7.1 Surround THX imaging!
I have NetGear's 108Mbps Wireless G "Turbo". It works wonders. And yes it reaches farther than any reasonable person would want to run a cord. To the edges of my 1 acre yard actually if you count a 60% signal, which works fine.
That's not the point though. If distance were the only issue then your TV remote might as well be wired. How lame would that be?
Actually it's hoopy and/or frood. Froopy was never actually used in the HH books. Note it says 'derived' in the linked definition.
You may commence eating your towel.
I, for one, can't quite imagine how are they going to stop neutrinos from entering that space...
Simple. They'll just repolarize the quantum invariance field and then bombard it with a tachyon pulse. This creates a standing wave of Heisenberg Flux, which is the only way to be certain the hole is empty.
Replace "girlfriend" with "grandma" and they might have something.
* I know I'm forgetting some things...
AC won't fry the living sh*t out of you like DC. You have a far better chance of living through an AC electrocution.
So they're going to
Step 1: Take a browser that appeals to tech minded people who don't use the default IE and provide enhancement and "integration" of plug-ins that are already available to said tech-minded people.
Step 2: Keep looking desperately for that "must have" widget that will appeal to "mainstream" Firefox users.
Step 3: They're going to either charge for the browser or put ads in it or collect user info for money?
Step 4: Profit???
I hope they're smarter than I am because this "business model" sounds hopeless to me.
> "Audiophiles are idiots"
After much research and a little bit of wasted money - I totally agree with you.
Except when it comes to headphones. A good set of Sennheisers with a little headphone amp is amazing. Compared to Sony MDRs or whatever is at Best Buy the difference goes beyond great sound to listening comfort. Not talking about the fit of the headgear here but that ugly jacked-in feeling and headache you can get after an hour or more of listening to cheap cans. Just thought I'd chime in and say the headphone-o-philes are right. Although they still have that dumbass 2000 dollar audiophile crap, the 200 crap from Sennheiser and Grado is worth every penny if you spend a lot of time with headphones on.
Doh. um GMS / GPS. yeah. Note to self: do not post when exhausted.
>Opponents worry about what happens when a UWB transmitter is near one of their devices (yes, it can interfere with GPS)
This is such a great example of the pot calling the kettle black. GPS interferes with everything! It interferes with speakers and wireless connections of all kinds. When I receive a call in my home office on my cell phone - my PC speakers buzz like fog horns, my cordless house phone starts searching for its base, my baby monitor receiver goes crazy, and if I stand close enough my 802.11g laptop gets signal degradation.
I enjoy GPS on my phone sure, but I feel like a walking Batman jamming device as well.
Those opponents to UWB must think GPS is the new supremacy of the airwaves. "Everything bow to GPS, or else we're opposed to it" ??
> What MS is counting on is that consumers will believe that somehow, even though they don't have an HDTV, the HD capabilities of the X-Box 2 will make it display a higher quality picture on their regular TV.
I disagree. What MS is counting on is that in a few short years, maybe as soon as 2 years, you'll have to look for old non-HD TV's when you go to buy.
HD gaming and programming will fuel HDTV purchases, and HDTV purchases will fuel HD game purchases, etc etc.
It's a zeitgeist.. right now most non-HD TV owners don't know what they're missing. That will change quite soon.
For console gaming, yes.
Next article please.
TFA bemoaning the sporadic HD support in current generation consoles, bringing up PC gaming, etc. seems like it is just trolling for an excuse to pick on MS. Yes HD is the future of TV, so of course it's the future of console gaming. And console gamers everywhere will joyously welcome all the HD gaming to come.
What's the point of this article anyway?
Psychopath's are usually considered evil:
Portrait of a corporate psychopath
One thing listed was " glorification of violence".
Wouldn't that mean web sites and game servers for half the games out there could be considered illegal?
Reasonable laws quickly become unreasonable when they're written too vaguely.
> They'd also like the OS to scan for "illicit" material and phone the law if you do, and to have a mandatory remote shutdown of your box
It's already in development.
Codenamed 'Microsoft Totalitarian 2007'.
The game Trivial Pursuit has sold over 70 million copies. Making it 2 orders of magnitude more popular than slashdot. Everyone you know has played it. I can only think of one person I know who has ever played Everquest, even for a minute.
From here: [clicky] At 400,000 units sold Everquest may be a popular MMORPG, but it is not a popular "game or hobby". Halo 2 was pretty popular. But still not as popular as say billiards, darts, golfing, or cooking.
According to a normalized definition of Popular, television was the only good example you gave.
Man that's depressing.
> Questions remain as to the amount of interest these non-combat games generate
If these games are to be popular past the "gee whiz, check it out!" phase, they need to let the player decide how much or how little time is appropriate.
No game or hobby that requires dozens of hours per week to achieve and kind of success is ever very popular. Life is too full things to do.
On an offtopic note: Is there a SF writer out there who is more right-wing than OSC?
Seriously, I'm trying to think of one.
Like sands through the hourglass so go the chips on our dies. Thus, in order to birth a silcon sea change we need to get down to the granular level with the design schema.
You can patent putting similar tools together?
No, but you can patent the "method and system" by which you put them together, as the patent states.
Like patenting a particular design for a toolbox.
Still the USPTO once again does more harm that good. I'm sure MS would have the patent for "a device for manually entering strings of text and sympols into another electronic device" (aka keyboard) if they could. GROAN
Auto-hide:
Anything that give me more screen real estate and hides things I'm not looking at anyway is a Very Good Thing.
I didn't spring for the bigger monitor just to fit more clutter.