If I were to release a game console, I'd get the already tried-true game ports out there ASAP.
You know, things like ports of Tetris, Columns, possibly Bejeweled. Release smaller games in packs for a dirt cheap price.
Then move onto the card, gambling games, and maybe some board games(chess, checkers, etc).
Then get licensing for the classic game ports(Atari, Namco, bunch of arcade ports, etc).
Why? These games are (mostly) already made. No need to spend tons of $ on actors, writers, etc. Nintendo has done this to some extent by re-releasing NES games on the GBA, but they could go a bit further. Boom, instant seed library of games for a new console.
Actually in Demolition Man, it was the eye that was the authentication. And yes, they showed A severed eye at the end of a scalpel, letting Simon Phoenix go free.
I have my years old(and by PDA standards, decades old) Handspring Visor.
1. I use the to-do list a lot 2. I play extensive amounts of bookworm on it.
I can't do much else with it. Since support for it has disappeared, i can't go to Best Buy to get software/hardware for it. Why? they have already made shelf space for the 1000000 other PDAs and their pricey accessories.
Sadly, every place i've seen online that sells Handspring gear still sells it at ungodly high prices. Yeah, they will be sitting on the shelf for years. I'm talking to you, mr $200 medical dictoionary module, and you mr $300 WiFi unit, and you mr $150 56K modem.
I can see why PDA sales are dropping. They find it necessary to release one every month it seems. Good luck getting all sorts of fun freeware when developers probably moved onto the next latest greatest PDA.
They do indeed. I drive a Jaguar and an original Mini. So what do they say about that combination...?
They say you must have the skills of a master auto mechanic./Triumph Spitfire + new MINI owner
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And one way it could be circumvented would be to make a device that makes all the shuter sounds every couple seconds or so. You'll never know if someone's snapping a pic or not.
I remember seeing the infamous "green card" spamvertisement on EVERY usenet group.I was slighly in awe that they went through the effort to put it on EVERY freakin' newsgroup.
Now within the last 6 months, I see the same 1 or two spam posts on every single usenet group I'm subbed to. Sad, really.
I would say spam has claimed a victory here. i do find some good usage out of local groups like mn.general(which is generally spam free, but not political cook free), and the grand-theft-auto newsgroup.
But with the playstation2 group, it's 99% cross-posted-to-other-groups flamewars between ps2 and xbox users. *sigh*. Never bothered with the binary groups since I just could not figure out the obfuscated mess that is FreeAgent.
Comcast supposedly moved everyone over to giganews, which is a paid service with either 1 or 2 gigs a month. Wow, 2 gigs of spam per month! Sign me up! Thankfuly their old server still works, but they keep it quiet.
But with the poor s/n ratios of newsgroups, I can see why ISPs are jumping ship.
Imagine the next version of Grand Theft Audio having streaming audio for network-enabled PS2s. That way you woulnd't get sick of the same stations over and over while looking for spray tags, etc. Covering events in the game would be optional, but it does happen in San Andreas. You will hear scripted news reports after certain missions, giving it a nice touch.
I swore I saw X-box games go on sale for $10 the last time I was at Best Buy. Mind you, these were probably old titles, but surely this undercuts the lowest price for old PS2 games? I've never seen a classic PS2 game("greatest hits" or whatever) go for under $20.
Let's not forget how much glitching(ie intentionally exploiting game bugs) can ruin an online gaming experience. Last time I tried Tony Hawk Underground Online(for PS2), it seemed every round I was in had glitchers just going crazy.
When the SVG spec was first published, I combed over it pretty well. This was when basically no renderers were active enough to cover the whole spec. Yet, the W3C had screenshots. They had screenshots for some rather confusing or unclarified attributes of certain elements. These were things you couldn't explain in words well, but moreso with illustrations.
I haven't tried Burnout 3, but in 2 the races are definitely possible. You just have to learn how to get into chains of burnouts. my record was 11. Basically, when you are in boost mode, drive on the wrong side of the track, do good drifts on intersections and do lots of near misses.
Your reward is more boost when you are currently boosting. Thus, you can be miles ahead of the competition.
As for burnout 1, I couldn't complete a race due to sheer boredom of the game.
1. Give customers a secureID card 2. Have a phone number customers call to retrieve a pin. Have the website require the PIN to be entered before using the site.
Surely one or both of these ideas would cost less in the long run than thousands of dollars of fraudulent charges.
It was some guy and his magical computer where they do these weird REd vs. blue like skits with MMORPG avatars. It aired late night, and every joke fell flat. You almost felt sorry for the host.
It aired late at night when most kids have turned off the station. Didn't G4 originally have about 5 hours of original programming per day and just a ton of Pringles ads?
Come to think of it, I think Pringles was their only major sponsor.
Being an unofficial supervisor in my tech support job, I did my share of monitoring calls. It's pretty uneventful. You're just checking out if your tech support rep guy is doing his/her job right. You fill out a form in regards to the call, and send it to his/her manager.
Heck, I once got a super-irate customer yelling & screaming at me, and told a coworker(who had supervisor priveledges too), and he asked me "What's your extension?", and I gave it to him so he could listen in on the fun. When you work tech support, you have to make the job fun.
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If I were to release a game console, I'd get the already tried-true game ports out there ASAP.
You know, things like ports of Tetris, Columns, possibly Bejeweled. Release smaller games in packs for a dirt cheap price.
Then move onto the card, gambling games, and maybe some board games(chess, checkers, etc).
Then get licensing for the classic game ports(Atari, Namco, bunch of arcade ports, etc).
Why? These games are (mostly) already made. No need to spend tons of $ on actors, writers, etc. Nintendo has done this to some extent by re-releasing NES games on the GBA, but they could go a bit further. Boom, instant seed library of games for a new console.
Actually in Demolition Man, it was the eye that was the authentication. And yes, they showed A severed eye at the end of a scalpel, letting Simon Phoenix go free.
I have my years old(and by PDA standards, decades old) Handspring Visor.
1. I use the to-do list a lot
2. I play extensive amounts of bookworm on it.
I can't do much else with it. Since support for it has disappeared, i can't go to Best Buy to get software/hardware for it. Why? they have already made shelf space for the 1000000 other PDAs and their pricey accessories.
Sadly, every place i've seen online that sells Handspring gear still sells it at ungodly high prices. Yeah, they will be sitting on the shelf for years. I'm talking to you, mr $200 medical dictoionary module, and you mr $300 WiFi unit, and you mr $150 56K modem.
I can see why PDA sales are dropping. They find it necessary to release one every month it seems. Good luck getting all sorts of fun freeware when developers probably moved onto the next latest greatest PDA.
Anyone remember the Simpsons episode that basically trashed ep1?
Their opening text for the star wars film in the episode was incredibly obfuscated, and hilarious.
Another good part was when the AT-AT crashed through the conference, and then sat there like a dog, waiting for the roll call to finish.
They do indeed. I drive a Jaguar and an original Mini. So what do they say about that combination...?
/Triumph Spitfire + new MINI owner
They say you must have the skills of a master auto mechanic.
And one way it could be circumvented would be to make a device that makes all the shuter sounds every couple seconds or so. You'll never know if someone's snapping a pic or not.
I'm at work. I think it's netnews.comcast.net
Sign on with your full email addy, not just the username.
If that doesn't work, email me at british@nerp.net and I'll get you the right name when I get home.
So remember, AOL caters to the simple/stupid crowd.
Look on the bright side. No USENET access means less of a chance of AOl users clicking on binary attatchments to numerous virii.
I remember seeing the infamous "green card" spamvertisement on EVERY usenet group.I was slighly in awe that they went through the effort to put it on EVERY freakin' newsgroup.
Now within the last 6 months, I see the same 1 or two spam posts on every single usenet group I'm subbed to. Sad, really.
I would say spam has claimed a victory here. i do find some good usage out of local groups like mn.general(which is generally spam free, but not political cook free), and the grand-theft-auto newsgroup.
But with the playstation2 group, it's 99% cross-posted-to-other-groups flamewars between ps2 and xbox users. *sigh*. Never bothered with the binary groups since I just could not figure out the obfuscated mess that is FreeAgent.
Comcast supposedly moved everyone over to giganews, which is a paid service with either 1 or 2 gigs a month. Wow, 2 gigs of spam per month! Sign me up! Thankfuly their old server still works, but they keep it quiet.
But with the poor s/n ratios of newsgroups, I can see why ISPs are jumping ship.
The question is: how many Video Toasters is that equivical to?
man, wish I had one of those video toasters back in the day.
Imagine the next version of Grand Theft Audio having streaming audio for network-enabled PS2s. That way you woulnd't get sick of the same stations over and over while looking for spray tags, etc. Covering events in the game would be optional, but it does happen in San Andreas. You will hear scripted news reports after certain missions, giving it a nice touch.
People are cheering on various screens shown on a Macintosh.
Quite corny.
Now I'm watching people cheer while the Macintosh is doing this Steven Hawking-like voice.
Kids, you might want to watch this with the sound off.
I swore I saw X-box games go on sale for $10 the last time I was at Best Buy. Mind you, these were probably old titles, but surely this undercuts the lowest price for old PS2 games? I've never seen a classic PS2 game("greatest hits" or whatever) go for under $20.
Then: teenage girls arguing with each other via blogs /Emma Bunton
Now: CEOS of multi-million dollar corporations arguing with each other via blogs
Let's not forget how much glitching(ie intentionally exploiting game bugs) can ruin an online gaming experience. Last time I tried Tony Hawk Underground Online(for PS2), it seemed every round I was in had glitchers just going crazy.
. The Apple zealots practically own /. now...
:)
Don't worry, the Apple zealots only have 3% of the Slashdot zealotry market now. Linux has the other 97%.
When the SVG spec was first published, I combed over it pretty well. This was when basically no renderers were active enough to cover the whole spec. Yet, the W3C had screenshots. They had screenshots for some rather confusing or unclarified attributes of certain elements. These were things you couldn't explain in words well, but moreso with illustrations.
Are there any apps that fully support CSS to the last detail? I often see all too often "can't render CSS".
Is it like SVG where there is/was no single 100% compliant renderer, yet the w3c had something magical to make their few sample screenshots?
....the most impersonal form of communication ever to have been devised by mankind. It doesn't talk to you, it barks at you.
I haven't tried Burnout 3, but in 2 the races are definitely possible. You just have to learn how to get into chains of burnouts. my record was 11. Basically, when you are in boost mode, drive on the wrong side of the track, do good drifts on intersections and do lots of near misses.
Your reward is more boost when you are currently boosting. Thus, you can be miles ahead of the competition.
As for burnout 1, I couldn't complete a race due to sheer boredom of the game.
Am I reading this correctly? 500 euros for a motherboard?
But its probably a really really good motherboard?
They are charging that much to match how pricey the Amiga was in the 80s. You have to adjust for inflation, you know.
1. Give customers a secureID card
2. Have a phone number customers call to retrieve a pin. Have the website require the PIN to be entered before using the site.
Surely one or both of these ideas would cost less in the long run than thousands of dollars of fraudulent charges.
WIth all those links in the story, there were no ones to screenshots.
C'mon, screenshots!
....was so bad I cant remember the name.
It was some guy and his magical computer where they do these weird REd vs. blue like skits with MMORPG avatars. It aired late night, and every joke fell flat. You almost felt sorry for the host.
It aired late at night when most kids have turned off the station. Didn't G4 originally have about 5 hours of original programming per day and just a ton of Pringles ads?
Come to think of it, I think Pringles was their only major sponsor.
Being an unofficial supervisor in my tech support job, I did my share of monitoring calls. It's pretty uneventful. You're just checking out if your tech support rep guy is doing his/her job right. You fill out a form in regards to the call, and send it to his/her manager.
Heck, I once got a super-irate customer yelling & screaming at me, and told a coworker(who had supervisor priveledges too), and he asked me "What's your extension?", and I gave it to him so he could listen in on the fun. When you work tech support, you have to make the job fun.