When the DS and PSP were revealed to the public, but not yet released, I thought that I would probably purchase both, but get the DS first. I got as far as the DS, and I don't think I'll be picking up a PSP. There's a lot of cool things about both systems, but when it comes down to it, I love the touchscreen. The PSP offers me a portable version of PS2 gaming, which is cool and all, but I don't really play video games away from the house, even with my DS. Since I have the PS2 experience at home, I might as well get the console that has totally different gameplay? If you haven't seen the bonus games that came with Super Mario 64 DS, they are a perfect example of what is possible with touch screen gaming. The ones where you draw a line, and it becomes a trampoline for Mario are amazing. There's some game coming out that's a RTS RPG (the stylus is a great replacement for the mouse, so PC style strategy and FPS games work quite well) where the player casts spells by writing runes on the screen. The better your handwriting, the more powerful the spells. It's quite cool to have a totally unique perspective on gaming like that, and the GBA support means I have Street Fighter Alpha 2 on it.
This is my problem: I love video games, but I hate sugarry pop culture. I wish video games weren't based on the comic book tastes of the countries these games come from. On my PS2 I have two games, Gran Turismo 4 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, because I don't like either the Japanese anime style nor the US comic book style. Japanese RPGs have interesting combat engines, but I don't know how to sit through all the pop culture madness that assault me in dozens of unskippable cutscenes. I remember being bored when I had some time off of work, and someone suggested Final Fantasy X2 to me. I didn't get past looking at the box with that one, but it's not that much worse than other Japanese games. I assume they feel the same way about most US games; I'm inclined to agree. They seems to be based on either the Fast and Furious aesthetic (extreme in much the same way that Mountain Dew is) or old-school comics, with shirtless barbarians in some Tolkien rehash. Grand Theft Auto is great, but where are the other good console games for people older that 14? Am I just waiting for The Sopranos to get licenced into a game?
Oh, I still think a good game trumps any little issues like these. The Zelda for Gamecube is one of my favorite games ever. It just seems with such a huge market for videogaming, we the consumers are compromising WAY too much. Playing some PS2 should not feel like watching Fox.
Agreed, when I used to live in Las Vegas, there was this strip club called "The Library," which was quite brilliant because it allowed you to say things like "I'm going to the library" without lying. Imagine my disappointment when I showed up and it was just regular strippers like everywhere else in town. I didn't leave, but I do wish some chick with thick glasses frames came over with a gin and tonic and started talking about Joyce or something.
I would love to see this, but I'm afraid that many consumers that buy the DS for it's simplicity and pick-up and play style may shy away from the technology.
Wifi is everywhere now, so once the kids figure out you can use it to load porn sites in the bathroom, I suspect it will be the number one program for the DS.
The first computer that was mine, and not my mother's, was a TI 99/4A. IIRC, Bill Cosby was the spokesman for it. It was a pretty cool system for the time. It had a cartridge bay in the front, so you could slip in a game like on the Atari 2600, but if you booted it without one you could still write and run BASIC programs. The coolest accessory was the Speech Synthesizer, which plugged into the side and certain software could use it to speak out loud. It was surprisingly good for the early 80s, Mac OS X's Fred voice isn't that much better. You could also load software off of audio tape, but it was a supreme pain in the ass. You had to tell the computer to start loading the software, then push play on the tape which played an analog audio signal with the program data that was demodulated back into binary data on the computer, but the trick was getting the audio levels right that the signal to noise ratio didn't get all messed up. I had a particularly cool game about fighting spiders that was only available on audio tape because it was too big for a cartridge.
My mother had a Digtial Rainbow, which was DEC's competitor to the IBM PC. It had two disk drives, but only one read/write head positioned between the drives so the lower disk had to be put in upside down (this was long before double sided disks, IIRC.) My mother showed her leet tech skills by upgrading it to have 128k of RAM, which maxed it out.
For those who are feeling nostalgic for old-skool computers check out glTerminal. It uses OpenGL to make your terminal look like an old CRT screen; white, green or amber. Options for flicker and screen curvature. Here's the link for OS X.[ldopa.net]
Who would want to buy a football stained with semen, not to mention pummeled and pounced up on by almost two dozen sweaty heavy guys for two hours non-stop?
Future scientist : The chemical composition suggests that the specimen lived on a diet of sawdust and polyeurothane around 2000 A.D.
Future sceintist's boss : Yeah, they called that "McDonalds." He's probably from, oh, let's say Phoenix.
Right on. Obsolecence is my favorite feature on my 10GB 3rd Gen iPod. Once you don't care anymore, you can just put the fucking thing in your pocket and use it as a portable music player. No case to keep it pretty, becuase why bother.
Are there any marketing students out there who can contribute to OSS projects by coming up with product names that aren't (in my opinion) the types of things businesses are going to immediately disregard because they sound retarded. Gimp may be a passable image editor, but it shares its name with a failure to walk correctly, or worse, the dude in the mask in the basement. Divx may be an ok codec, but naming it after someone else's failed technology on a lark hardly seems like a good idea. Netwosix sounds like something Homer Simpson would make. It's not all bad, but there's so much that is.
Not only can I can watch Queer Eye at my convenience, but equally importantly, in only 37 minutes.
I remember when I first got my Tivo, I learned that you can watch a half hour episode of Blind Date in 12.5 minutes.
Commercials aren't all that bad though. I recently found myself watching ads for xbox 360 and nintendo DS games to see how they looked, but I still fast forward through commercials for vagina medicine, luxury cars or anything else I'm not going to be buying.
I don't know what this story is about, but I know the next song I write is bound to have the line "Toxic Moondust Bounces Like A Cannonball." Thanks, and pass the bong, taco.
Whatever dude. How then do you suggest I download and watch Gwen Stefani videos on the bus. Maybe I need to watch the latest sports highlights when sqeezing out a deucer in the Nordstrom bathroom. These are the thing that marketing departments have been telling us we want for years, and now it's here, and it's almost decent. You're probably jealous or something.
Ditto for Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Things like recording technology (and IIRC, the methods of hypnotism) were new at the time, and they were included to give the novel a modern feel. If we're recommending books for everyone to read, it gets my vote.
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The one thing I really would like is the ability to delete files directly from the Save and Open dialogs. It doesn't need a button, but highlighting a file and pressing delete should allow me to get rid of that file.
The one thing I haven't seen any other player do is the incredible amount of filtering and sorting by metadata that my iPod does. For example, I have a "New music playlist" which is any music added to the ipod in the last 2 months, unless it's rating is 1 or 2 stars. I use that as my alarm clock so as I'm laying there half asleep I get a chance to listen to my new music. The iPod always has my top rated playlist (4 and 5 star songs), new music, anything by the beatles and anything by radiohead. The remaining space is filled with any unrated music, so if I feel so inclined I can get to sorting it. I also have genre playlists and a bunch of dynamically updating playlists that represent how I listen to music. Plus, all the accessories made for the dock connector are nice.
I only have the 2004 version of PowerPoint for Mac OS X, but if I remember correctly the dual-screen configuration is greatly improved since previous versions. The ability to customize the presenter's screen on your PowerBook while sending the slideshow to your external display/projector is certainly a welcome addition.
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When the DS and PSP were revealed to the public, but not yet released, I thought that I would probably purchase both, but get the DS first. I got as far as the DS, and I don't think I'll be picking up a PSP. There's a lot of cool things about both systems, but when it comes down to it, I love the touchscreen. The PSP offers me a portable version of PS2 gaming, which is cool and all, but I don't really play video games away from the house, even with my DS. Since I have the PS2 experience at home, I might as well get the console that has totally different gameplay? If you haven't seen the bonus games that came with Super Mario 64 DS, they are a perfect example of what is possible with touch screen gaming. The ones where you draw a line, and it becomes a trampoline for Mario are amazing. There's some game coming out that's a RTS RPG (the stylus is a great replacement for the mouse, so PC style strategy and FPS games work quite well) where the player casts spells by writing runes on the screen. The better your handwriting, the more powerful the spells. It's quite cool to have a totally unique perspective on gaming like that, and the GBA support means I have Street Fighter Alpha 2 on it.
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Oh yeah, please buy my computer.
Does this mean those Mario 1 up mushrooms from thinkgeek are fake too. Fuck that, I want one.
just think in GMT/UCT and everything makes sense.
I'll tell that to my boss next time I'm 4 hours late for work
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Oh yeah, please buy my computer.
This is my problem: I love video games, but I hate sugarry pop culture. I wish video games weren't based on the comic book tastes of the countries these games come from. On my PS2 I have two games, Gran Turismo 4 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, because I don't like either the Japanese anime style nor the US comic book style. Japanese RPGs have interesting combat engines, but I don't know how to sit through all the pop culture madness that assault me in dozens of unskippable cutscenes. I remember being bored when I had some time off of work, and someone suggested Final Fantasy X2 to me. I didn't get past looking at the box with that one, but it's not that much worse than other Japanese games. I assume they feel the same way about most US games; I'm inclined to agree. They seems to be based on either the Fast and Furious aesthetic (extreme in much the same way that Mountain Dew is) or old-school comics, with shirtless barbarians in some Tolkien rehash. Grand Theft Auto is great, but where are the other good console games for people older that 14? Am I just waiting for The Sopranos to get licenced into a game? Oh, I still think a good game trumps any little issues like these. The Zelda for Gamecube is one of my favorite games ever. It just seems with such a huge market for videogaming, we the consumers are compromising WAY too much. Playing some PS2 should not feel like watching Fox.
Yes, but you'll have to learn English to play the games.
Agreed, when I used to live in Las Vegas, there was this strip club called "The Library," which was quite brilliant because it allowed you to say things like "I'm going to the library" without lying. Imagine my disappointment when I showed up and it was just regular strippers like everywhere else in town. I didn't leave, but I do wish some chick with thick glasses frames came over with a gin and tonic and started talking about Joyce or something.
You have convinced me, we need a buddy cop movie about a Mormon and a Jew. Bruckheimer will direct.
I would love to see this, but I'm afraid that many consumers that buy the DS for it's simplicity and pick-up and play style may shy away from the technology.
Wifi is everywhere now, so once the kids figure out you can use it to load porn sites in the bathroom, I suspect it will be the number one program for the DS.
The first computer that was mine, and not my mother's, was a TI 99/4A. IIRC, Bill Cosby was the spokesman for it. It was a pretty cool system for the time. It had a cartridge bay in the front, so you could slip in a game like on the Atari 2600, but if you booted it without one you could still write and run BASIC programs. The coolest accessory was the Speech Synthesizer, which plugged into the side and certain software could use it to speak out loud. It was surprisingly good for the early 80s, Mac OS X's Fred voice isn't that much better. You could also load software off of audio tape, but it was a supreme pain in the ass. You had to tell the computer to start loading the software, then push play on the tape which played an analog audio signal with the program data that was demodulated back into binary data on the computer, but the trick was getting the audio levels right that the signal to noise ratio didn't get all messed up. I had a particularly cool game about fighting spiders that was only available on audio tape because it was too big for a cartridge.
My mother had a Digtial Rainbow, which was DEC's competitor to the IBM PC. It had two disk drives, but only one read/write head positioned between the drives so the lower disk had to be put in upside down (this was long before double sided disks, IIRC.) My mother showed her leet tech skills by upgrading it to have 128k of RAM, which maxed it out.
For those who are feeling nostalgic for old-skool computers check out glTerminal. It uses OpenGL to make your terminal look like an old CRT screen; white, green or amber. Options for flicker and screen curvature.
Here's the link for OS X.[ldopa.net]
Who would want to buy a football stained with semen, not to mention pummeled and pounced up on by almost two dozen sweaty heavy guys for two hours non-stop?
Call to get your drapes redone, ask him.
Cool, just so long as it's not really made from gecko feet. I would hate to have non-vegan ram.
Future scientist : The chemical composition suggests that the specimen lived on a diet of sawdust and polyeurothane around 2000 A.D. Future sceintist's boss : Yeah, they called that "McDonalds." He's probably from, oh, let's say Phoenix.
Right on. Obsolecence is my favorite feature on my 10GB 3rd Gen iPod. Once you don't care anymore, you can just put the fucking thing in your pocket and use it as a portable music player. No case to keep it pretty, becuase why bother.
The oxford english dictionary that comes with tiger doesn't recognize "firepink" as a word, and neither do I. Anybody?
Are there any marketing students out there who can contribute to OSS projects by coming up with product names that aren't (in my opinion) the types of things businesses are going to immediately disregard because they sound retarded. Gimp may be a passable image editor, but it shares its name with a failure to walk correctly, or worse, the dude in the mask in the basement. Divx may be an ok codec, but naming it after someone else's failed technology on a lark hardly seems like a good idea. Netwosix sounds like something Homer Simpson would make. It's not all bad, but there's so much that is.
Fortunately, they can look anything up by the serial number of the iPod itself.
How does knowing prime numbers help anyone figure out that my password is k1n6c4tf15h?
Not only can I can watch Queer Eye at my convenience, but equally importantly, in only 37 minutes.
I remember when I first got my Tivo, I learned that you can watch a half hour episode of Blind Date in 12.5 minutes.
Commercials aren't all that bad though. I recently found myself watching ads for xbox 360 and nintendo DS games to see how they looked, but I still fast forward through commercials for vagina medicine, luxury cars or anything else I'm not going to be buying.
Don't worry, we can remember it for you wholesale.
I don't know what this story is about, but I know the next song I write is bound to have the line "Toxic Moondust Bounces Like A Cannonball." Thanks, and pass the bong, taco.
Whatever dude. How then do you suggest I download and watch Gwen Stefani videos on the bus. Maybe I need to watch the latest sports highlights when sqeezing out a deucer in the Nordstrom bathroom. These are the thing that marketing departments have been telling us we want for years, and now it's here, and it's almost decent. You're probably jealous or something.
Ditto for Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Things like recording technology (and IIRC, the methods of hypnotism) were new at the time, and they were included to give the novel a modern feel. If we're recommending books for everyone to read, it gets my vote. H.
The one thing I really would like is the ability to delete files directly from the Save and Open dialogs. It doesn't need a button, but highlighting a file and pressing delete should allow me to get rid of that file.
The one thing I haven't seen any other player do is the incredible amount of filtering and sorting by metadata that my iPod does. For example, I have a "New music playlist" which is any music added to the ipod in the last 2 months, unless it's rating is 1 or 2 stars. I use that as my alarm clock so as I'm laying there half asleep I get a chance to listen to my new music. The iPod always has my top rated playlist (4 and 5 star songs), new music, anything by the beatles and anything by radiohead. The remaining space is filled with any unrated music, so if I feel so inclined I can get to sorting it. I also have genre playlists and a bunch of dynamically updating playlists that represent how I listen to music. Plus, all the accessories made for the dock connector are nice.
I only have the 2004 version of PowerPoint for Mac OS X, but if I remember correctly the dual-screen configuration is greatly improved since previous versions. The ability to customize the presenter's screen on your PowerBook while sending the slideshow to your external display/projector is certainly a welcome addition.