Anyone remember the line about the PS2 being able to render Toy Story in real-time? I do
Thank goodness I've found you! I've been asking for a link to that quote for ages. Do you have a link to the Sony press release of conference notes where that claim was made. I need that link!
Train to understand concepts. Learn to use as many packages as you can.
If you know how a spreadhseet works you can learn the exact way to use Excel or whatever. Plus you can migrate without massive re-training.
The whole "I know package X" or "I'm trained to Level Y on suite Z" attitude is complete bullshit.
You need to teach kids to be flexible, to understand concepts. You don't hear about them being able to read a particular publisher's books. They aren't taught how to do individual Math problems. Why should they be taught a particular vendor's applications?
Speaking as an employer, I'd rather school, college and university leavers knew the processes and ideas behind using software, not just how to use on application suite.
They'd be much more trainable if they understood how software works, rather than know by rote how to get a graph out of Excel.
Wikipedia defines Virii as "frequently perceived to be founded on a misunderstanding of Latin plurals such as radii". Also the following should help.
The word virus never had a plural form in Latin. In antiquity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning. It denoted something like toxicity; venom; a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle; or poison in the abstract or general sense. Nouns denoting countable entities (e.g. book) pluralize; noncountable entities (e.g. air, mood, valor) pluralize only under special circumstances. The term virus in antiquity appears to have belonged to the latter category, hence the nonexistence of plural forms. [June 1999 issue of ASM News by the American Society for Microbiology]
Remember when Sony said the PS2 could do Toy Story in real time?
Links please? I've heard this loads, but nobody ever provides links!
I'm not saying they never said it, I remember it being said, but I can't find any links to press releases, or briefing notes where the quote is directly attributed to a Sony exec.
IANAG, but I wonder if open source will be able to create a rich online FPS game/MMORG that offers the rich world-depth of a big-budget game without the need for millions of dollars in development labor.
Well there are MUDs. Been around for a while. Most of themare low on the graphics, but are involving none the less.
Oh, you mean like how the PS2 can render Toy Story in realtime?
Where was this said? I see it quoted all the time, but can't ever find it in an online interview or briefing notes from an actual Sony exec. Links would be good.
As in speech, yes. As in beer, no. There are no TV channels that are free as in beer. Programming all costs something to make. Where the money comes from is what makes TV free as in speech.
The BBC can't be swayed by advertisers since they show no adverts.
Top Grear, the BBC's motoring program, once gave a Ford car such a lambasting that Ford UK were ordered by their US management to pull all advertising from the BBC in retaliation. Jeremy Clarkson loves to laugh at that every chance he gets.
I'd rather pay the license fee every year than see the BBC need to support its self via advertising.
You implied that I was using my anonymity to snipe at other websites without revealing that I was associated with SPOnG. I took that as an implied insult, if you didn't mean it as such, I apologise.
My post history shows that I read SPOnG and find their articles interesting enough to submit and defend. If that automatically makes me a writer for SPOnG then Zonk must work for GI, no?
And yes, Mr. Fahey is the editor of GI. You can find that out by going to his website and looking in the left hand column. You had enough drive to check my posting record to back up your assertions, why not enough curiosity to answer your own questions?
As to being paranoid, I'm not the one posting AC, are you worried that I'll be able to track down your posting record if you use a/. account?
And you are an AC, why should I have to declare any affiliation to other sites when you get to post without anybody knowing who you are? For all I know you are Rob Fahey and are insulting me to get your own back.
If the GBA2 launches this year, what are the chances of publishes launching games for both the DS and the GBA2? Slim to none, and Nintendo knows this, so license Palm OS, turn the DS into a PDA and throw your weight behind the GBA2 as the gaming platform.
Paranoid? The DS launches in Europe next Friday and there has been no public advertising in the UK yet.
Just for the record, the original, wrong, story appeard on GamesIndustry.biz first and was copied across the Internet by other websites who are impressed by GI's URL. GI has NO association with any gaming industry institutions what so ever. GI is mostly one bloke in his room re-writing press releases.
I still don't know why/. posts so many of GI's stories in the games section, they'd be better off tracking down the original press release.
SPOnG get the official ELSPA charts directly from ChartTrack, who compile them. When you see UK chart analysis on SPOnG, it's done by them, directly on the raw data.
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Thank goodness I've found you! I've been asking for a link to that quote for ages. Do you have a link to the Sony press release of conference notes where that claim was made. I need that link!
That being the very definition of "average" it's no suprise whatsoever!
Train to understand concepts. Learn to use as many packages as you can.
If you know how a spreadhseet works you can learn the exact way to use Excel or whatever. Plus you can migrate without massive re-training.
The whole "I know package X" or "I'm trained to Level Y on suite Z" attitude is complete bullshit.
You need to teach kids to be flexible, to understand concepts. You don't hear about them being able to read a particular publisher's books. They aren't taught how to do individual Math problems. Why should they be taught a particular vendor's applications?
Speaking as an employer, I'd rather school, college and university leavers knew the processes and ideas behind using software, not just how to use on application suite.
They'd be much more trainable if they understood how software works, rather than know by rote how to get a graph out of Excel.
A raving Star Wars fan-boy who used the line "the worst idea since Greedo shooting first" in one of his movies?
He may just have said if it sucked!
Cool, thanks for this, it's the closest I've seen to "the quote".
Please post a link when you say that, I've been looking for ages for a Sony quote to that effect, but can't find one.
Links please? I've heard this loads, but nobody ever provides links!
I'm not saying they never said it, I remember it being said, but I can't find any links to press releases, or briefing notes where the quote is directly attributed to a Sony exec.
Well there are MUDs. Been around for a while. Most of themare low on the graphics, but are involving none the less.
I've asked before and I'll ask again. Does anybody have links to interviews, press releases or briefing notes that contain this quote?
I've looked all over for it, and can't find it anywhere.
Just for a bit of historical perspective, SPOnG found out the new name almost a month ago.
Where was this said? I see it quoted all the time, but can't ever find it in an online interview or briefing notes from an actual Sony exec. Links would be good.
I belive that H.264 is supported on the PSP too.
Oh for crap's sake! The sensor IS aligned, it's just not centered on the button.
Have a look at This Pic from Lik-Sang. The sensor is perfectly aligned under the button pip, it's just that neither are in the centre of the button.
As in speech, yes. As in beer, no.
There are no TV channels that are free as in beer. Programming all costs something to make. Where the money comes from is what makes TV free as in speech.
The BBC can't be swayed by advertisers since they show no adverts.
Top Grear, the BBC's motoring program, once gave a Ford car such a lambasting that Ford UK were ordered by their US management to pull all advertising from the BBC in retaliation. Jeremy Clarkson loves to laugh at that every chance he gets.
I'd rather pay the license fee every year than see the BBC need to support its self via advertising.
You implied that I was using my anonymity to snipe at other websites without revealing that I was associated with SPOnG. I took that as an implied insult, if you didn't mean it as such, I apologise.
/. account?
My post history shows that I read SPOnG and find their articles interesting enough to submit and defend. If that automatically makes me a writer for SPOnG then Zonk must work for GI, no?
And yes, Mr. Fahey is the editor of GI. You can find that out by going to his website and looking in the left hand column. You had enough drive to check my posting record to back up your assertions, why not enough curiosity to answer your own questions?
As to being paranoid, I'm not the one posting AC, are you worried that I'll be able to track down your posting record if you use a
And you are an AC, why should I have to declare any affiliation to other sites when you get to post without anybody knowing who you are? For all I know you are Rob Fahey and are insulting me to get your own back.
According to some analysis of the GBA2 rumours, combined with Nintendo licensing Palm OS software it looks bad for touch screen gaming.
If the GBA2 launches this year, what are the chances of publishes launching games for both the DS and the GBA2? Slim to none, and Nintendo knows this, so license Palm OS, turn the DS into a PDA and throw your weight behind the GBA2 as the gaming platform.
Paranoid? The DS launches in Europe next Friday and there has been no public advertising in the UK yet.
Given the fact that GI have now 'debunked' the story themselves, what are you prattling on about?
So MCV is hosted at the same IP as SPOnG and they have a news feed from SPOnG. What's wrong with that?
Since MCV is a trade print magazine and GI is a website, how are they competing for news?
Just for the record, the original, wrong, story appeard on GamesIndustry.biz first and was copied across the Internet by other websites who are impressed by GI's URL. GI has NO association with any gaming industry institutions what so ever. GI is mostly one bloke in his room re-writing press releases.
/. posts so many of GI's stories in the games section, they'd be better off tracking down the original press release.
I still don't know why
Which is why the confusion claim could not be based in reality.
Does this look like this?
Not to me it doesn't!
SPOnG revealse this in mid January as part of their Exclusive Need for Speed story.
SPOnG get the official ELSPA charts directly from ChartTrack, who compile them. When you see UK chart analysis on SPOnG, it's done by them, directly on the raw data.
Not really, we've decoded on the features that we want to use, basically because they are extremely time saving for our work.
If a FOSS editor had the same features, we'd switch. Our text editor is one of the two things keeping us on Windows desktops for the programmers.