Well, my current signature (and the guy I quoted) disagree...the bottom line is if a game is fun, you will play it well past the point where it's causing you physical pain. -Chris
This means that your hands will adapt to the console you grew up with.. Sometimes artificially. (electric tape on the thumb, anyone?)
And to answer another comment in the same thread.. Yes. The big A. Forcing third parties to use THAT button as primary button is great. Very intuitive and all.
But Nintendo.. practice what you preach. That might be one of the reasons the Zelda:TTP demo wasn't too well received (when I tried it, anyway) because that big green A button had NOTHING assigned to it when you start the demo. Must have been used for a device you acquire later in the game.
I don't know what I had in mind, walking in there. I thought I'd see some new games, I guess. And I did. Unfortunately, they were all in Chinese. Sony and Microsoft tried to make a showing. That didn't work. Local companies, Chinese companies, Korean companies, and this guy all stole their thunder.
Why?
And he got kicked out, and just walked back in. Funny stuff.
I think my brother got to the Indian doing just that. Groin kicks. I was going for the full point.. jump over the red dude and kick him on the back of his head. Full point!
A few weeks later they replaced that machine with Tron and it all went downhill from there.. good times.
Well, it was there, now it's patched. Uwe stops making movies. Coincidence? I don't think so.
What happened is that if an investor lost money in a national cultural production, he had a tax break for the amount of money he put in, or something that would create that effect. Today, the same german investor cannot get any benefit from putting money in a movie that will not bring a revenue, and cannot get the break anymore. Uwe will definitely retire.
I can see the tag teams.. Mother Theresa (the Calcuta Fury) and Aldof Hitler (The Fuhrer) taking on the Double-Gees, Ghengis Khan and Ghandi, in a triple-caged match, fighting for the central european belt.
Back on topic.. how long would Archangel Gabriel last vs. Cthulhu? And I think you also need to have the FSM in there. Noodly-appendage and all.
>>You obviously haven't looked at how proud ($$$) they seem to be of their GBA NES/SNES ports...
Box. Art. Shipping. Cartridge. Marketing.. They all cost money.
I doubt there's going to be a TV spot and a graffiti media blitz for the ability to download Paper Boy on the Revolution. Or repay for re-design and print of the paper manual and maps of Legend of Zelda.
I would expect 1/4 of the price of the carts.. But I will probably be wrong. We'll know when it's there. (or when it leaks)
Best FMV game I've played in years: "A fork in the Tale" with Rob Schneider as the hero.
5 disks of a crossover between monkey island and Hercules/Xena, with an Ian Anderson-like character playing God. (the guy who turns the stones to warp you back in time)
Most of the reviews for it are bad, but if you like Rob Schneider's humor you'll enjoy it.
What smoking and having those "bad" habits only do is make the last few years of your life miserable, not simply end it.
What doesn't kill you, at that point, just makes life harder to live. But it all comes down to the 'tude. My cousin's grand-father lost eyesight in the middle of both eyes. He can still sorta read, drive and all that stuff. But anything in the middle of his vision is simply blank. I needed to tell him who I was for him to recognize me, just because he couldn't really see me. So he still works as a volunteer, physical work stuff. I'd really freak if I lost my eyesight. I could still type and all, and relearn with voice reading or braille, but to learn these things at 60-70? I don't think so.
I'm looking for a video capture of the "second reality" demo. I have it somewhere, but I'm too newb (old?) to even want to try to run it full-speed and capture the video. I wouldn't know where to start.
When I say "you know, the future crew logo with the hex nuts, and the space ape, and the spinning stuff", people just give me blank stares until I show them. But somehow when I run it on my machine it hangs halfway.
Undervolting is not underclocking.
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Undervolting a Laptop
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· Score: 4, Informative
It seems a lot of people just assume that undervolting would be something akin to getting the inverse result of overclocking.
Experience shows that the processor may continue working correctly at lower-than-nominal voltages and frequencies, thereby reducing power consumption, heat and fan noise.
Even if your system seems stable, it may still suffer transient faults leading to arbitrary data corruption. In addition, errors in following these instructions (or changes between processor models) may operate the CPU above its nominal parameters, with effects up to and including laptop meltdown.
There's also a thourough discussion and user results from undervoltage on this thread.
When mentionning Players, Andy is referring to Blu-Ray Players hungry for movie titles to play, not game players hungry for game titles.
This quote, out of the context, is very very misleading.
That 3-7 million figure is the number of blu-ray players/oem ordered by Sony.. thus his assumption that Sony plans to sell that many PS3's.
This conclusion is following a discussion on EvilAvatar yesterday.
Andy Parsons, senior vice president of Pioneer Electronics told Digital Bits, "The PS3 is going to represent an almost overnight population explosion of Blu-ray capable players. That's not something that's really happened before. The PlayStation 2 helped [DVD], because that came well down the road after DVD launched, but it did help to get a lot of players out there. But this is something new."
He added, "The PS3 is launching right at the forefront of Blu-ray. If Sony ships the kind of numbers we expect them to this year, that will provide a very rapid growth of players out there hungry for titles. We've been hearing between four and seven million units could ship."
And it's not the first time we see that type of article indeed, but the research is new.
One finding was that out of the millions of bacterias present on the keyboard, next to none have the potential of doing damage to your system. Try to get an e coli or some other bug from a public toilet seat.. You might get a few days off from work, but these might not be "happy days".
The reason most bacterias do not survive on the toilet is that porcelain is not a good environment for them, and in contrast plastic, wood and other porous surfaces are excellent breeding grounds for these buggers. (which is apparently why public toilet seats are U shaped and not round)
For example, common carriers generally explicitly have no legal liability for the contents of freight shipped through them unless the customer has purchased excess insurance for that purpose.
Hmm.. I think there's a precedent with Throgdor the Burninator. "Thatch roof cottaaaaaage"
For a console, having two disks or two support media is a killer. Not only it is more prone to break, but the distributors/producer think that since we are giving you two games, we should charge something like the double.
It was initially like that for DVD movies. I hope the trend doesn't carry on to games.
(people want information, not "look there, the answer is there") but I think this issue has already been dealt with. That was 6 years ago.
Q: Global Linux 2000 is also being held here in Seoul. Is that why you are also here? What are your thoughts about Linux?
A: We even compete with our current installed base more than anything. These are people who say they just want to stay with their current version of Windows. That's our number one competitor. Linux might only be number two.
The goal we have is always to take software to a new level-whether it's the way we design software around XML, operating systems for tablet computing, handwriting or speech recognition. The way we think about it is in the days of MS-DOS, when that level of capability became unimportant. We came up with the Windows level, then with Windows NT. We've always come out with things we've done in the past and then making it obsolete.
That's how we compete with our installed base-by having these new breakthrough versions that people wanna buy.
(Incidentally, this revealing statement from Gates-that Microsoft ends up competing with its own installed base of customers and that it tries to force these customers to upgrade because their newer technologies are not backward compatible and the older versions become obsolete-was struck out from the official transcript forwarded to the press-Ed.)
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Well, my current signature (and the guy I quoted) disagree. ..the bottom line is if a game is fun, you will play it well past the point where it's causing you physical pain. -Chris
This means that your hands will adapt to the console you grew up with.. Sometimes artificially. (electric tape on the thumb, anyone?)
And to answer another comment in the same thread.. Yes. The big A. Forcing third parties to use THAT button as primary button is great. Very intuitive and all.
But Nintendo.. practice what you preach. That might be one of the reasons the Zelda:TTP demo wasn't too well received (when I tried it, anyway) because that big green A button had NOTHING assigned to it when you start the demo. Must have been used for a device you acquire later in the game.
I don't know what I had in mind, walking in there. I thought I'd see some new games, I guess. And I did. Unfortunately, they were all in Chinese. Sony and Microsoft tried to make a showing. That didn't work. Local companies, Chinese companies, Korean companies, and this guy all stole their thunder.
Why?
And he got kicked out, and just walked back in. Funny stuff.
Pretty funny in french.. Emirats Arabes Unis.. EAU.. or the french word for "Water".
Groin-kick was the best move in that game.
...
"Half point!"
"Half point!"
I think my brother got to the Indian doing just that. Groin kicks.
I was going for the full point.. jump over the red dude and kick him on the back of his head. Full point!
A few weeks later they replaced that machine with Tron and it all went downhill from there.. good times.
Come on..
What part of "Alone in the Dark", just the title, didn't he get..
Alone: No.. a heavy commando of 20 soldiers does not even remotely look like "Alone".
Dark: Not bright. Sunless. At least cloudy or sometimes underground. Cold, damn crypt or something.
Put them together. Alone in the Dark.
It's an insult.
And I take it personally.
Cthulhu fhtagn.
I'm not sure either movie would earn my money.
German movie tax loophole.
Look it up. it's there.
Well, it was there, now it's patched. Uwe stops making movies. Coincidence? I don't think so.
What happened is that if an investor lost money in a national cultural production, he had a tax break for the amount of money he put in, or something that would create that effect. Today, the same german investor cannot get any benefit from putting money in a movie that will not bring a revenue, and cannot get the break anymore. Uwe will definitely retire.
I can see the tag teams.. Mother Theresa (the Calcuta Fury) and Aldof Hitler (The Fuhrer) taking on the Double-Gees, Ghengis Khan and Ghandi, in a triple-caged match, fighting for the central european belt.
Back on topic.. how long would Archangel Gabriel last vs. Cthulhu?
And I think you also need to have the FSM in there. Noodly-appendage and all.
>>You obviously haven't looked at how proud ($$$) they seem to be of their GBA NES/SNES ports...
Box. Art. Shipping. Cartridge. Marketing.. They all cost money.
I doubt there's going to be a TV spot and a graffiti media blitz for the ability to download Paper Boy on the Revolution. Or repay for re-design and print of the paper manual and maps of Legend of Zelda.
I would expect 1/4 of the price of the carts.. But I will probably be wrong.
We'll know when it's there. (or when it leaks)
Easy.. Repeat after me.
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Best FMV game I've played in years: "A fork in the Tale" with Rob Schneider as the hero.
5 disks of a crossover between monkey island and Hercules/Xena, with an Ian Anderson-like character playing God. (the guy who turns the stones to warp you back in time)
Most of the reviews for it are bad, but if you like Rob Schneider's humor you'll enjoy it.
*SIGH* some people I know wished it were true.
What smoking and having those "bad" habits only do is make the last few years of your life miserable, not simply end it.
What doesn't kill you, at that point, just makes life harder to live. But it all comes down to the 'tude. My cousin's grand-father lost eyesight in the middle of both eyes. He can still sorta read, drive and all that stuff. But anything in the middle of his vision is simply blank. I needed to tell him who I was for him to recognize me, just because he couldn't really see me. So he still works as a volunteer, physical work stuff. I'd really freak if I lost my eyesight. I could still type and all, and relearn with voice reading or braille, but to learn these things at 60-70? I don't think so.
I'm looking for a video capture of the "second reality" demo.
I have it somewhere, but I'm too newb (old?) to even want to try to run it full-speed and capture the video. I wouldn't know where to start.
When I say "you know, the future crew logo with the hex nuts, and the space ape, and the spinning stuff", people just give me blank stares until I show them. But somehow when I run it on my machine it hangs halfway.
It seems a lot of people just assume that undervolting would be something akin to getting the inverse result of overclocking.
Here's the link to an interesting page about undervolting pentium M processors.
Experience shows that the processor may continue working correctly at lower-than-nominal voltages and frequencies, thereby reducing power consumption, heat and fan noise.
Even if your system seems stable, it may still suffer transient faults leading to arbitrary data corruption. In addition, errors in following these instructions (or changes between processor models) may operate the CPU above its nominal parameters, with effects up to and including laptop meltdown.
There's also a thourough discussion and user results from undervoltage on this thread.
This quote, out of the context, is very very misleading.
That 3-7 million figure is the number of blu-ray players/oem ordered by Sony.. thus his assumption that Sony plans to sell that many PS3's.
This conclusion is following a discussion on EvilAvatar yesterday.
And it's not the first time we see that type of article indeed, but the research is new.
One finding was that out of the millions of bacterias present on the keyboard, next to none have the potential of doing damage to your system. Try to get an e coli or some other bug from a public toilet seat.. You might get a few days off from work, but these might not be "happy days".
The reason most bacterias do not survive on the toilet is that porcelain is not a good environment for them, and in contrast plastic, wood and other porous surfaces are excellent breeding grounds for these buggers. (which is apparently why public toilet seats are U shaped and not round)
For example, common carriers generally explicitly have no legal liability for the contents of freight shipped through them unless the customer has purchased excess insurance for that purpose.
Wikipedia, Common carrier
As a penny arcade reader told Tycho, if you preorder just the console, you'll be bumped by people preordering the console plus extra stuff.
One way to make sure you get the console on launch: Preorder with a shitload of accessories.
You generate more revenue for them.
Hmm.. I think there's a precedent with Throgdor the Burninator.
"Thatch roof cottaaaaaage"
For a console, having two disks or two support media is a killer. Not only it is more prone to break, but the distributors/producer think that since we are giving you two games, we should charge something like the double.
It was initially like that for DVD movies. I hope the trend doesn't carry on to games.
Sorry, I need coffee.
(people want information, not "look there, the answer is there")
but I think this issue has already been dealt with. That was 6 years ago.
Q: Global Linux 2000 is also being held here in Seoul. Is that why you are also here? What are your thoughts about Linux?
A: We even compete with our current installed base more than anything. These are people who say they just want to stay with their current version of Windows. That's our number one competitor. Linux might only be number two.
The goal we have is always to take software to a new level-whether it's the way we design software around XML, operating systems for tablet computing, handwriting or speech recognition. The way we think about it is in the days of MS-DOS, when that level of capability became unimportant. We came up with the Windows level, then with Windows NT. We've always come out with things we've done in the past and then making it obsolete.
That's how we compete with our installed base-by having these new breakthrough versions that people wanna buy.
(Incidentally, this revealing statement from Gates-that Microsoft ends up competing with its own installed base of customers and that it tries to force these customers to upgrade because their newer technologies are not backward compatible and the older versions become obsolete-was struck out from the official transcript forwarded to the press-Ed.)
So that would mean a butterfly flapping its wings in Oregon couldn't cause a rainstorm in Singapore?
Fluid dynamics.. Chaotic systems.. It's always going to look so simple, and that's the trap.
Actually, Jack Bauer says nucular.. so it's got my vote.
Bauer.. Simpson.. Bush..
(And I'm sure other people on Fox say it like that too)
Yes.. The dinosaur is moving.
And check out their "games on demand" division.
(there are a few interesting intranet links, but here's one for the web. )
I just wished their "On Demand" philosophy applied also to the job I'm doing. *sigh*
I need a new manager.
Ikaruga was also released on the Dreamcast.
Pikmin.. not Pikman
Smash Brother Melee is also THE title to get other gamers to the gamecube.
We probably won't hear from TTP until E3, I fear.
...Firefox crashed.
And I had to do it again and I had to do it fast, so it wasn't as good.
It's kind of.. a bummer..
I'm Xenna and I'm looking for car insurance.
I'd really like to see them try to bust the FSM.
Adam: Pirate'd!!!
Jamie: Arr..