I played a demo of Tribes 3, and was amazed how slow & sluggish it was. Try driving a vehicle. It doesn't move, as moreso teleports every few feet. It made you almost sick to watch with the choppy motion.
If someone was enterprising at Take 2, they would procure a "leaked" memo thanking Jack Thompson for manipulating the court system for free PR. Jack Thompson would of course deny it, but that would just make it look more legitimate. Result: he would be discredited forever. Take 2 would be applauded for such a crazy viral marketing campaign.:)
While the ethics of doing so could be debated forever without a definitive conclusion, from strictly a scientific standpoint it would prove invaluable. We'd be able to directly analyze an individual who is, in essence, four millennia old. The immune system of this person would potentially be drastically different from ours today, so the research here would be particularly enlightening.
Okay I have to speak up. This sounds like an Italian low-budget ripoff of Species.
Heh. If any of the 30K videos removed were AMVs, YouTube is doing the public a favor. In YouTube's early months(long before the buyout), ANY search brought up Anime crap, probably being AMVs. It polluted their search engine. Putting a song to some anime footage brings nothing original to the table.
But you see, this provides a new innovation in anti-spam technology. If they are in wifi range, thay are within hulk-smash range too. A self-solving problem.
I was hoping that the power of the next-gen consoles would mean developers finally stop using cut-scene movies and do everything in the game engine. Why waste disk space on movie files when doing it with the game engine is smaller and better for immersion?
If there were no cutscenes in games, what the heck would reviewers use for "screenshots"(and oh do I liberally use those quotes) in magazines and websites? What? UH, ACTUAL screenshots? NO way!
Should Myspace be required to have people who manually confirm all users aren't sex offenders?
Should a van dealership be required to have people who manually confirm all buyers aren't sex offenders? Should a candy store be required to have people who manually confirm all buyers aren't sex offenders?
The answer is NO.
Enough of this Jew/Gypsy witch hunt Germany 1930s crap with sex offenders already.
Myspace can't even stop the billions of spambots that flow through.
Since when does a company need a judge's permission to publish anything? Seems like the game's name is incredibly ironic in this sense. Has ANYTHING else happened like this before? Has a judge cleared something controversial ahead of time? I honestly can't think of any legal process that explains this.
When I working at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, the PR department put together a video from the company's E3 party.The management team was plastered, the vice president was on stage doing a showgirl routine in fishnet stockings, and a PR girl was grabbing her crotch while slurring through a song......aaand the YouTube link for that is? That sounds like some of the best entertainment to come out of Infogrames in a long time!
I just bought an LCD tv 2 weeks ago. Yes, I think one of the biggest selling points for me was the incredible ease of moving & transport. It fit into my MINI Cooper S just fine, unlike the cheaper, larger CRT HDTVs. When I took my 20 inch Advent CRT TV out I was amazed at just how huge the thing was from front to back. It's almost cube-shaped.
Or rapidly degenerate email to the point where the only use of it is spam, so no one bothers using it anymore. Which would be a good solution too as it can lead to fast implementation of next-generation email solutions. (Forums have replaced mailing lists, IM has replaced quick "how are you doing?" emails, and so on)..
Guess what? Spam has evolved too. I call it spam 2.0. Spam now shows up in blog comments(all the popular s/w types), myspace messages/accounts(they are getting hit HARD lately), and any other forms of non-email communication. SMTP is a rotting Fox corpse in the forest, and now the disease is moving onto living hosts.
What's annoying about Google Video is the marketing angle. I try doing a vague search for "80s". What do I get? Some stock footage film company showing you samples of stuff to buy.
Also, it seems no matter what I search for, I ALWAYS end up with "Charlie Rose" tv shows for sale in search results. I don't want to buy videos. I just want to see the free ones. Google Video seems to have exactly what I don't want.
myspace videos, OTOH are all viral videos and soft core porn. Youtube's got that wonderful middle ground. No stupid codecs to download, no additional browser windows(you listening, ifilm?), etc.
Yet it seems to have a lot better uptime and reliability than myspace. Sure, apples & oranges, but I don't remember it taking weeks to process an uploaded video on youtube.
IMDB's recommendation system for movies is so bad it's funny in it's own right. You could look up a science fiction movie, and it would recommend a head cleaner cassette for a Betamax VCR.
My ipod has this tendency to play tracks from the "Buckaroo banzai/saturn 3" soundtrack. It was a bootleg-only soundtrack that has about 8 BB tracks, and about 20 Saturn 3 tracks. I regret ripping it to my ipod. No matter if I use "shuffle songs" or any custom smart playlists, they ALWAYS show up.
I'm in 100% agreement. There's NOTHING to indicate Myspace is an exclusive teen-only site. It's not "Myspace, a place for teenagers(to show risque pictures of themselves)". To make a blanket statement that anyone over the age of so-and-so on the site is a predator is plain wrong. C'mon, it isn't the no-longer-exclusive facebook.
If it weren't for the "adults", there would be no myspace for you to show off risque pictures of yourself on. So shaddap.
If this whole story would be made into a movie, I would go see it. Forget the video game angle, the whole swindling of money and wooing investors is a good enough plotline for me. It could be done in circular time, with a wrecked Ferarri Enzo and an officer to the scene. Then it unfolds.
On a side note, I noticed the names of the launch games, one being "Mommy, Can I mow the Lawn?". That just seemed to ridiculous to be a serious launch title. Sounds like it was made up to tell investors off. I can picture in the office:
"uh, yeah, we have, um, a launch title or 2 for the Gizmondo. It's called uh (looks outside office window), Mommy, can I mow the lawn? Total PSP killer!".
I read the whole 6-page spiel and was more entertained by the whole scam story than the game console itself. The same can be applied for the Phantom console.
So, any other scam artists want to release a game console?
But Netcraft is reporting that their website runs Windows Server 2003. Yeah, they wont use free market leading webserver Apache. And they think they can peddle alternatives to office.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Oh drop the linux advocacy for a second. Where does it require that you have to run/distribute OSS to sell an Office alternative? Most likely their web services are done by a different company or branch. As if Ma & Pa Kettle(whatever the UK equivalent is) are going to check the OS the webserver's run on.
MySpace has taught more kids CSS than all of us combined.
Last I checked, myspace has no teaching facility, and never will. I'm assuming most of the kids are copying & pasting CSS code from some blinky-ass website to copy & paste. Heck, even I copied & pasted some helpful code to make a custom contact table.
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I played a demo of Tribes 3, and was amazed how slow & sluggish it was. Try driving a vehicle. It doesn't move, as moreso teleports every few feet. It made you almost sick to watch with the choppy motion.
If someone was enterprising at Take 2, they would procure a "leaked" memo thanking Jack Thompson for manipulating the court system for free PR. Jack Thompson would of course deny it, but that would just make it look more legitimate. Result: he would be discredited forever. Take 2 would be applauded for such a crazy viral marketing campaign. :)
While the ethics of doing so could be debated forever without a definitive conclusion, from strictly a scientific standpoint it would prove invaluable. We'd be able to directly analyze an individual who is, in essence, four millennia old. The immune system of this person would potentially be drastically different from ours today, so the research here would be particularly enlightening.
Okay I have to speak up. This sounds like an Italian low-budget ripoff of Species.
Heh. If any of the 30K videos removed were AMVs, YouTube is doing the public a favor. In YouTube's early months(long before the buyout), ANY search brought up Anime crap, probably being AMVs. It polluted their search engine. Putting a song to some anime footage brings nothing original to the table.
But you see, this provides a new innovation in anti-spam technology. If they are in wifi range, thay are within hulk-smash range too. A self-solving problem.
Welcome to the world of "blogs". 2/3rds of all web content is just regurgitating the original 1/3rd.
I was hoping that the power of the next-gen consoles would mean developers finally stop using cut-scene movies and do everything in the game engine. Why waste disk space on movie files when doing it with the game engine is smaller and better for immersion?
If there were no cutscenes in games, what the heck would reviewers use for "screenshots"(and oh do I liberally use those quotes) in magazines and websites? What? UH, ACTUAL screenshots? NO way!
Should Myspace be required to have people who manually confirm all users aren't sex offenders?
Should a van dealership be required to have people who manually confirm all buyers aren't sex offenders?
Should a candy store be required to have people who manually confirm all buyers aren't sex offenders?
The answer is NO.
Enough of this Jew/Gypsy witch hunt Germany 1930s crap with sex offenders already.
Myspace can't even stop the billions of spambots that flow through.
Since when does a company need a judge's permission to publish anything? Seems like the game's name is incredibly ironic in this sense. Has ANYTHING else happened like this before? Has a judge cleared something controversial ahead of time? I honestly can't think of any legal process that explains this.
When I working at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari for six years, the PR department put together a video from the company's E3 party.The management team was plastered, the vice president was on stage doing a showgirl routine in fishnet stockings, and a PR girl was grabbing her crotch while slurring through a song. .....aaand the YouTube link for that is? That sounds like some of the best entertainment to come out of Infogrames in a long time!
I believe TRON [wikipedia.org] has been in millions of machines longer than Symbian.
Does it come on a frisbee? Are there problems from attacks on the MCP?
I just bought an LCD tv 2 weeks ago. Yes, I think one of the biggest selling points for me was the incredible ease of moving & transport. It fit into my MINI Cooper S just fine, unlike the cheaper, larger CRT HDTVs. When I took my 20 inch Advent CRT TV out I was amazed at just how huge the thing was from front to back. It's almost cube-shaped.
Or rapidly degenerate email to the point where the only use of it is spam, so no one bothers using it anymore. Which would be a good solution too as it can lead to fast implementation of next-generation email solutions. (Forums have replaced mailing lists, IM has replaced quick "how are you doing?" emails, and so on). .
Guess what? Spam has evolved too. I call it spam 2.0. Spam now shows up in blog comments(all the popular s/w types), myspace messages/accounts(they are getting hit HARD lately), and any other forms of non-email communication. SMTP is a rotting Fox corpse in the forest, and now the disease is moving onto living hosts.
What's annoying about Google Video is the marketing angle. I try doing a vague search for "80s". What do I get? Some stock footage film company showing you samples of stuff to buy.
Also, it seems no matter what I search for, I ALWAYS end up with "Charlie Rose" tv shows for sale in search results. I don't want to buy videos. I just want to see the free ones. Google Video seems to have exactly what I don't want.
myspace videos, OTOH are all viral videos and soft core porn. Youtube's got that wonderful middle ground. No stupid codecs to download, no additional browser windows(you listening, ifilm?), etc.
I bet the code on YouTube is crap.
Yet it seems to have a lot better uptime and reliability than myspace. Sure, apples & oranges, but I don't remember it taking weeks to process an uploaded video on youtube.
Get with the times with your recording equipment. Instead of a mail-in diary, use those newfangled FAX machines. :)
(it's a joke people).
IMDB's recommendation system for movies is so bad it's funny in it's own right. You could look up a science fiction movie, and it would recommend a head cleaner cassette for a Betamax VCR.
My ipod has this tendency to play tracks from the "Buckaroo banzai /saturn 3" soundtrack. It was a bootleg-only soundtrack that has about 8 BB tracks, and about 20 Saturn 3 tracks. I regret ripping it to my ipod. No matter if I use "shuffle songs" or any custom smart playlists, they ALWAYS show up.
And removing tracks from an ipod was never easy.
I'm in 100% agreement. There's NOTHING to indicate Myspace is an exclusive teen-only site. It's not "Myspace, a place for teenagers(to show risque pictures of themselves)". To make a blanket statement that anyone over the age of so-and-so on the site is a predator is plain wrong. C'mon, it isn't the no-longer-exclusive facebook.
If it weren't for the "adults", there would be no myspace for you to show off risque pictures of yourself on. So shaddap.
If this whole story would be made into a movie, I would go see it. Forget the video game angle, the whole swindling of money and wooing investors is a good enough plotline for me. It could be done in circular time, with a wrecked Ferarri Enzo and an officer to the scene. Then it unfolds.
On a side note, I noticed the names of the launch games, one being "Mommy, Can I mow the Lawn?". That just seemed to ridiculous to be a serious launch title. Sounds like it was made up to tell investors off. I can picture in the office:
"uh, yeah, we have, um, a launch title or 2 for the Gizmondo. It's called uh (looks outside office window), Mommy, can I mow the lawn? Total PSP killer!".
I read the whole 6-page spiel and was more entertained by the whole scam story than the game console itself. The same can be applied for the Phantom console.
So, any other scam artists want to release a game console?
And the "uncanney valey"(?) for the Brooke Burke model in the racing game ISN'T? I do admit, the model for the subservient chicken's nice.
But Netcraft is reporting that their website runs Windows Server 2003. Yeah, they wont use free market leading webserver Apache. And they think they can peddle alternatives to office.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Oh drop the linux advocacy for a second. Where does it require that you have to run/distribute OSS to sell an Office alternative? Most likely their web services are done by a different company or branch. As if Ma & Pa Kettle(whatever the UK equivalent is) are going to check the OS the webserver's run on.
Yes, let's port MESS(and mame) over, put some tweaks in to make it easy to use, secure some licenses, and BAM: instant retro-library at launch.
I'd love to be able to play classic games in the living room instead of fighting with so-so programmed emulators.
MySpace has taught more kids CSS than all of us combined.
Last I checked, myspace has no teaching facility, and never will. I'm assuming most of the kids are copying & pasting CSS code from some blinky-ass website to copy & paste. Heck, even I copied & pasted some helpful code to make a custom contact table.
From the manual:
Defaults:
Master = 555555
Service = 222222
Operator = 111111
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage!