If the article is correct that 60% of the men who cross-play do so to get free stuff or to ogle their pretty avatar, what about the other 40%? That's a huge percentage, given how vanishingly small the trans community is as a fraction of the total population....
Unline ONScripter (a freeware implementation of the engine that was used to create Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, among other things), there doesn't seem to be a Linux port of this yet.
Since PS3 is a computer, there are no models but configurations
Um, I thought the whole point of a console was to give everyone the same configuration so that developers can target a single stable platform without having to worry about configuration issues....
So, if it's a "computer", does that mean that they'll let me in to hack to my hearts content without any sort of encryption key BS? Or are they still going to try to lock me out of my own "computer"?
Dell, the world's biggest PC maker, has said it is committed to Blu-ray - Wrong Choice
Hewlett-Packard, the number two player, has said it will support both standards. - Right Choice
Um, no. Having one consistent standard makes it safe to buy a drive without worrying that you've just bought a Betamax -- and it makes it safe for studios to actually release movies on them. Having two competing standards is just about the worst possible outcome, especially if some titles are available on one, and some on the other. I don't care which format wins, I just want there to be a clear winner, and for the loser to quickly exit the market. I don't plan to buy either format until that happens.
Isn't it ironic that there's a Von Daniken-inspired series being announced at the same time as the new-school BSG prequel? Old-school BSG, circa 1978, was heavily influenced by Von Daniken....
HOW you are supposed to get them from CD -> Memory stick. Surely you'll have to use some program...
PSOne games are distributed on regular garden variety CD-ROMs. The PSP looks like a regular USB storage device. You can just do a filesystem copy from the CD-ROM to the memory stick without any need for special software.
They're adding a PSOne emulator to the PSP! That should help fix the lack of compelling titles problem, as Metal Gear Solid and the entire Final Fantasy series up to FF IX (except III) will now be portable, plus Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, and lots more. Hooray for portable Aeris and Snake!
Try installing Adblock with Fiterset.G (go to Tools/Extensions and "get more extensions" to install it). And while you're at it, NoScript is an awfully good idea, too....
Interactive Fiction isn't a methadone -- it's an addiction in its own right. Even worse, if she gets sucked far enough in, she'll start writing the stuff, and then you'll never see her. (Other than on IFMud or r.a.i-f.)
Well, it's pretty, and all... but warfish.net has a perfectly functional multiplayer play-over-the-web Risk implementation, using a stylized map, including several variants. The picture on the map doesn't matter nearly so much as the gameplay does....
You CAN be happy working in a cubicle and you can be miserable working in a job with an office.
Those aren't the only two choices. The best environment is to work in an XP-style project room, with everyone clustered around a central table full of machines, working in pairs, and able to trivially bat questions and design ideas back and forth.
The second-best environment to work in, if you and your team can solve the resulting communication issues, is a virtual office environment out of your own home. If you do wind up having to work longer hours, it's far more sustainable to do it from the comfort of your own home, and the time you would have spent on a commute can be productive time. And it's clothing-optional.:-)
I'd tend to give a game company who's been around longer than half the population of this website the benefit of a doubt.
They seem to have had similar success with the touchpad feature of the DS, so there's some logic in what you say. The other big factor behind the DS is that they've had a decent selection of good titles that actually make use of the new features. That's really going to be the factor that makes or breaks the Revolution: the presence or absence of "must have" games on it. Good ergonomics alone won't sell the thing -- they need a GTA3 or a Halo to drive purchases of it. (By which I mean a new title that becomes as wildly successful as those two, not just ports of them.)
Netrek over infrastructure wireless would be excellent, with the galactic on one screen and the tactical on the other. I don't have any plans to buy a DS, but a decent blessed Netrek client might make me reconsider....
...is that the second generation of titles haven't quite been released yet. Of the launch titles, Metal Gear Acid has been addictive, Lumines looks promising, and most of the rest are fairly pedestrian, but GTA and Madden are about to release, along with a huge batch of November titles. Between Metal Gear Acid, GTA, and Final Fantasy VI under emulation, that's enough to keep me going for a while. I haven't played with Bochs yet, but being able to take Nethack and Battle for Wesnoth with me in my pocket is fairly promising, too.
Now if someome would just release a decent native PSP RPG....
I hate to agree, but five years ago, I was responsible for rolling out email, calendaring, Usenet, and directory services across a corporation of 40,000 that had just split off from a larger company... and we were ordered to implement 200 Exchange servers (and put Outlook on people's desktops) rather than a dozen (far easier to manage) Sun boxen with IMAP (and put Netscape on everyone's desktop). Why? Because of the lack of a full-featured open source (or, heck, even closed source over an open standard that isn't MAPI) calendaring system.
I'm too heavily committed in other pro bono and open source projects to have any time to work on Sunbird or the like, but the problem still isn't solved, five years later, and that's a shame.
It's interesting that Ubuntu, a binary distro based on slow old Debian, has Gnome stable on 2.10.1, while we bleeding-edge Gentoo users are still on 2.8....
You mean a Destroid Tomahawk, yes? The original mecha that FASA ripped off to make the Warhammer?
There's a reason why no one has seen a Warhammer in a while....
Um, besides the fact that mecha don't actually exist.
If it's anything like the Toronto production of Siegfried that I saw last month, Shelob will be a troupe of dancers, Mordor will be abstract art, and the whole quest will take place in Frodo's head. Somehow, I don't think that's what they have in mind....
Supposedly, the building-in-a-bag won second prize in the Cement Association contest that it was originally designed as an entry for. I'd love to see what the winner came up with....
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If the article is correct that 60% of the men who cross-play do so to get free stuff or to ogle their pretty avatar, what about the other 40%? That's a huge percentage, given how vanishingly small the trans community is as a fraction of the total population....
Unline ONScripter (a freeware implementation of the engine that was used to create Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, among other things), there doesn't seem to be a Linux port of this yet.
Um, I thought the whole point of a console was to give everyone the same configuration so that developers can target a single stable platform without having to worry about configuration issues....
So, if it's a "computer", does that mean that they'll let me in to hack to my hearts content without any sort of encryption key BS? Or are they still going to try to lock me out of my own "computer"?
Dell, the world's biggest PC maker, has said it is committed to Blu-ray - Wrong Choice
Hewlett-Packard, the number two player, has said it will support both standards. - Right Choice Um, no. Having one consistent standard makes it safe to buy a drive without worrying that you've just bought a Betamax -- and it makes it safe for studios to actually release movies on them. Having two competing standards is just about the worst possible outcome, especially if some titles are available on one, and some on the other. I don't care which format wins, I just want there to be a clear winner, and for the loser to quickly exit the market. I don't plan to buy either format until that happens.
Isn't it ironic that there's a Von Daniken-inspired series being announced at the same time as the new-school BSG prequel? Old-school BSG, circa 1978, was heavily influenced by Von Daniken....
PSOne games are distributed on regular garden variety CD-ROMs. The PSP looks like a regular USB storage device. You can just do a filesystem copy from the CD-ROM to the memory stick without any need for special software.
(Given that they're on memory stick, presumably, you just copy them from the CD onto the stick?)
Disadvantage: you need a memory stick with 1.2 GB of free space to fit all of Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy VII....
They're adding a PSOne emulator to the PSP! That should help fix the lack of compelling titles problem, as Metal Gear Solid and the entire Final Fantasy series up to FF IX (except III) will now be portable, plus Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, and lots more. Hooray for portable Aeris and Snake!
Try installing Adblock with Fiterset.G (go to Tools/Extensions and "get more extensions" to install it). And while you're at it, NoScript is an awfully good idea, too....
Interactive Fiction isn't a methadone -- it's an addiction in its own right. Even worse, if she gets sucked far enough in, she'll start writing the stuff, and then you'll never see her. (Other than on IFMud or r.a.i-f.)
...when will Suntory be coming out with a Phoenix Down? Or a Megalixir?
Well, it's pretty, and all... but warfish.net has a perfectly functional multiplayer play-over-the-web Risk implementation, using a stylized map, including several variants. The picture on the map doesn't matter nearly so much as the gameplay does....
The best part: an ad at the bottom. "TEACH ENGLISH and travel the world...."
Or, worse, an entire nuclear reactor....
Those aren't the only two choices. The best environment is to work in an XP-style project room, with everyone clustered around a central table full of machines, working in pairs, and able to trivially bat questions and design ideas back and forth.
The second-best environment to work in, if you and your team can solve the resulting communication issues, is a virtual office environment out of your own home. If you do wind up having to work longer hours, it's far more sustainable to do it from the comfort of your own home, and the time you would have spent on a commute can be productive time. And it's clothing-optional. :-)
They seem to have had similar success with the touchpad feature of the DS, so there's some logic in what you say. The other big factor behind the DS is that they've had a decent selection of good titles that actually make use of the new features. That's really going to be the factor that makes or breaks the Revolution: the presence or absence of "must have" games on it. Good ergonomics alone won't sell the thing -- they need a GTA3 or a Halo to drive purchases of it. (By which I mean a new title that becomes as wildly successful as those two, not just ports of them.)
Netrek over infrastructure wireless would be excellent, with the galactic on one screen and the tactical on the other. I don't have any plans to buy a DS, but a decent blessed Netrek client might make me reconsider....
Now if someome would just release a decent native PSP RPG....
I'm too heavily committed in other pro bono and open source projects to have any time to work on Sunbird or the like, but the problem still isn't solved, five years later, and that's a shame.
It's interesting that Ubuntu, a binary distro based on slow old Debian, has Gnome stable on 2.10.1, while we bleeding-edge Gentoo users are still on 2.8....
You mean a Destroid Tomahawk, yes? The original mecha that FASA ripped off to make the Warhammer? There's a reason why no one has seen a Warhammer in a while....
Um, besides the fact that mecha don't actually exist.
Um, except that they do now, apparently.
Um.
If it's anything like the Toronto production of Siegfried that I saw last month, Shelob will be a troupe of dancers, Mordor will be abstract art, and the whole quest will take place in Frodo's head. Somehow, I don't think that's what they have in mind....
The punch line, of course, is that the Ring Cycle is already coming to Toronto next year....
Supposedly, the building-in-a-bag won second prize in the Cement Association contest that it was originally designed as an entry for. I'd love to see what the winner came up with....
The PS2 has a Linux distribution. I'm still waiting on the "hundreds of titles."
(On the gripping hand, the Cell does look tres cool.)