It's very difficult, and there is a reason why in the real world people who shoot guns (soldiers, policemen), are trained to do so from a stationary stance.
True, but in real life, movement and aiming are done with different parts of the body. Not so in RE4.
If you pull out your gun, the analogstick that you previously used to move, now aims, and the analogstick you previously used to aim, still does!
The controls just aren't consistant. It's not so much that pulling out your gun makes the left analog stick do nothing, that wouldn't be too bad, but pulling out your gun makes the left analog stick identical to the right one!
I still think Blu-ray will win. While this is a definite plus for them (I assume HD-DVD could do this, but I haven't heard of any of the movies or players being able to), if you combine this with the increased storage capacity, the soon to be massive installed base (the PS3), and the availability (within a few months of HD-DVD, and more importantly: before Christmas)... I think things are getting better and better for Blu-ray to win.
I think you're wrong. First, HD-DVD drives shown at CES will be available in JUNE. Second, all the Blu-Ray players shown at CES were MSRP $1000, while three HD-DVD players were $500. Thirdly, the PS3 will be either delayed or insanely expensive.
If the PS3 were really going to be released sooner, someone would've had a $500 Blu-Ray player on display.. they don't.
The problem is that games are really hard to review. Because what one person finds great, another person finds untenable.
A good example is Resident Evil 4. It got Game of the Year from several different publications. I rented it.
There is no way I would ever recommend Resident Evil 4 as game of the year, I couldn't even stand playing it for an hour. That's for one reason and one reason alone. Here it is.. are you ready?
You can't move and shoot at the same time.
Read that again. As soon as you pull out your gun, you lose the ability to move.
At that point, I don't care about the story, the graphics, the sound, or anything. The game is absolutely unplayable.
Only one review I read even mentioned the fact that pulling out your gun (or an axe, or any weapon) will switch you to "aim mode" where you can't move. How could they not mention that?
Well, probably because the reviewer is *used* to playing Resident Evil games. The entire series has a history of horrible control schemes.
Games are hard to review because your experience with them depends on your experience with other games. You're inadvertantly comparing RE4 with RE3, and the fact that the camera is over-the-shoulder in RE4 made it a little easier to move around compared to RE3... so your relative experience got a little better.. not worse.
If you normally watch 5 or 6 shows with any regularity, over a full 22 episode season, that comes out to 264 bucks a year. How much are you paying for cable yearly?
Definitely more than that, but I also have about 15 shows in my TiVo Season Pass list. Not to mention all the little shows on History Channel and Discovery that I watch randomly.
I also get them from the cable company at 720x480, not 320x240.
It's a far better deal to buy those shows on DVD anyway.. it's cheaper, you get extras like behind the scenes and commentary, and it's better resolution.
If you own a PS2, the domestic robot sim Chibi Robo, the surreal collecting game We Love Katamari and the extraordinary Japanese adventures Shadow of Colossus and Okami should all be on your must-have list.
If you own a PS2, you'll want to pick up a gamecube to play Chibi Robo.. it's a Nintendo exclusive, and miyamoto himself had a hand in its development.
They didn't ever state at any point that they'd do announcements at CES, or even this year's E3 for that matter.
Yes, but they said the PS3 would be out "Spring 2006".. which isn't going to happen since E3 isn't until May, and I doubt they're going to launch it without showing it off first.
If the PS3 was really going to come out in the spring, it would've been playable at CES.
As it is, this hints that the $1000 Blue-ray players are really causing problems for Sony's PS3 plans. I wouldn't be suprised to see the PS3 delayed until 2007.
Microsoft doesn't license anything - they developed wmv rather then licensing quicktime and so on.
Apple is even worse. Developing Applelossless even though FLAC already existed and was license free (and offers even better compression). Refusing to add any opensource formats to quicktime (both audio and video).
Forces transfer from the larger vehicle to the smaller vehicle to occupants.
This is true.. however, you're looking at it much too simply. The average crash isn't a perfectly straight head-on collision where both vehicles send all their force into one another.
The NHTSA does the off-center collision test because it's the most common fatal accident situation (a car drifting into oncoming traffic and clipping an oncoming car that couldn't veer out of the way quick enough).
In an accident such as the off-center collision, both cars are sent spinning, the *majority* of their force is still pushing them forward, only a fraction of their force went into the other car. The average SUV will roll more than 40% of the time (using NHTSA numbers) in a *moderate* accident because of this very reason.
Cue a bunch of people saying how blogs are stupid and no one wants to read about boring details of other people's lives, jobs, hobbies, whatever.
Which doesn't make sense since Weblogs Inc runs Engadget and Joystiq.. which aren't exactly "personal blogs".. instead they're more like slashdot (except that there aren't any dupes and the news posted on them is a bit more timely... so actually, they're nothing like slashdot)
We use it a lot for actual syndication. I work for a newspaper, and all of our sections have an RSS feed. Our partners can use that RSS feed to put our headlines on their page, and vice-versa. The AP provides hundreds of RSS feeds. Our pages are assembled with RSS and XSLT.
RSS works rather well as a back-end syndication format.
If the partner wants the full story (like Yahoo and MSNBC's local news wires), we provide an NITF.
Its a Nissan, it is expected to be pushed from behind:).
I know that was supposed to be funny, but Nissan has an extremely high reliability rating. Whether or not that will be affected by MS has yet to be seen, of course:)
Objective-C is actually a fairly clean OO language, moreso than C++.
Whatever you're smoking I want some. Objective-C's syntax is pretty awful. Whenever I use ObjC I feel like I'm writing with macros that get processed by a preprocessor and converted into regular old C.
"Tacked on" is the best way I can describe ObjC's syntax.
NetBSD could learn a lot from the rest of the world.. where you don't have to recompile an entire project just because you made a small change to a header file.
Autotools do more than just make sure you have all the libraries needed to compile the app, they also set up a dependency tree so only the files affected need to be recompiled when a change is made.
Is this reviewer biased? The entire tone of the article is to nail Apple. An honest review does pull out the plus side of things (even if the pluses are small, few, and far between) along with the minuses.
He does several times. For instance, "Once you've set some ratings and keywords, sorting through the items is very elegant and well thought out. If there's one thing Apple knows how to do, it's help you find things easily."
Did people even read the review? Or did they just immediately cry bias because he had some negative things to say about Apple's UI.
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Does the Dell ship with a decent Movie editor
Yes it does. The Windows Movie editor (comes with XP) is way better than iMovie.
I wonder if anyone here has actually used iMovie. It's useless since it can't import clips longer than 9 minutes long. That's insane.
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm MacBook."
I smell a new Apple slogan!
they had the Power name way back before PPC
Did they? I'm not entirely sure about that.
I was trying to come up with some other names for their MacBook. I like Lapintosh.
I like how Apple reinvents pheed and calls it "Photocasting" as well as "incredibly new".
Thanks Steve, but the Associated Press has been standardized on pheed for well over a year now.
The film didn't make any profit, so no tax is paid.
That's why revenue is taxed, not profit. The film may have lost money, but they still need to pay taxes on that $8 million in revenue.
It's very difficult, and there is a reason why in the real world people who shoot guns (soldiers, policemen), are trained to do so from a stationary stance.
True, but in real life, movement and aiming are done with different parts of the body. Not so in RE4.
If you pull out your gun, the analogstick that you previously used to move, now aims, and the analogstick you previously used to aim, still does!
The controls just aren't consistant. It's not so much that pulling out your gun makes the left analog stick do nothing, that wouldn't be too bad, but pulling out your gun makes the left analog stick identical to the right one!
I still think Blu-ray will win. While this is a definite plus for them (I assume HD-DVD could do this, but I haven't heard of any of the movies or players being able to), if you combine this with the increased storage capacity, the soon to be massive installed base (the PS3), and the availability (within a few months of HD-DVD, and more importantly: before Christmas)... I think things are getting better and better for Blu-ray to win.
I think you're wrong. First, HD-DVD drives shown at CES will be available in JUNE. Second, all the Blu-Ray players shown at CES were MSRP $1000, while three HD-DVD players were $500. Thirdly, the PS3 will be either delayed or insanely expensive.
If the PS3 were really going to be released sooner, someone would've had a $500 Blu-Ray player on display.. they don't.
The problem is that games are really hard to review. Because what one person finds great, another person finds untenable.
A good example is Resident Evil 4. It got Game of the Year from several different publications. I rented it.
There is no way I would ever recommend Resident Evil 4 as game of the year, I couldn't even stand playing it for an hour. That's for one reason and one reason alone. Here it is.. are you ready?
You can't move and shoot at the same time.
Read that again. As soon as you pull out your gun, you lose the ability to move.
At that point, I don't care about the story, the graphics, the sound, or anything. The game is absolutely unplayable.
Only one review I read even mentioned the fact that pulling out your gun (or an axe, or any weapon) will switch you to "aim mode" where you can't move. How could they not mention that?
Well, probably because the reviewer is *used* to playing Resident Evil games. The entire series has a history of horrible control schemes.
Games are hard to review because your experience with them depends on your experience with other games. You're inadvertantly comparing RE4 with RE3, and the fact that the camera is over-the-shoulder in RE4 made it a little easier to move around compared to RE3... so your relative experience got a little better.. not worse.
If you normally watch 5 or 6 shows with any regularity, over a full 22 episode season, that comes out to 264 bucks a year. How much are you paying for cable yearly?
Definitely more than that, but I also have about 15 shows in my TiVo Season Pass list. Not to mention all the little shows on History Channel and Discovery that I watch randomly.
I also get them from the cable company at 720x480, not 320x240.
It's a far better deal to buy those shows on DVD anyway.. it's cheaper, you get extras like behind the scenes and commentary, and it's better resolution.
DVD players retailed for around $700+ when the ps2 launched at less than half that price.
My how we forget. Some very high-end DVD players were $700, but I had a $150 DVD player *before* the PS2 came out.
DVD players were out for 3 years before the PS2 dropped. Blu-ray players will have been out for half a year or so when the PS3 comes out.
from the article:
If you own a PS2, the domestic robot sim Chibi Robo, the surreal collecting game We Love Katamari and the extraordinary Japanese adventures Shadow of Colossus and Okami should all be on your must-have list.
If you own a PS2, you'll want to pick up a gamecube to play Chibi Robo.. it's a Nintendo exclusive, and miyamoto himself had a hand in its development.
They didn't ever state at any point that they'd do announcements at CES, or even this year's E3 for that matter.
Yes, but they said the PS3 would be out "Spring 2006".. which isn't going to happen since E3 isn't until May, and I doubt they're going to launch it without showing it off first.
If the PS3 was really going to come out in the spring, it would've been playable at CES.
As it is, this hints that the $1000 Blue-ray players are really causing problems for Sony's PS3 plans. I wouldn't be suprised to see the PS3 delayed until 2007.
Microsoft doesn't license anything - they developed wmv rather then licensing quicktime and so on.
Apple is even worse. Developing Applelossless even though FLAC already existed and was license free (and offers even better compression). Refusing to add any opensource formats to quicktime (both audio and video).
Certainly very eye opening - the driver of the 4x4 would definately not be in very good shape if he wasn't wearing a racing harness, etc.
Even if he was, most SUVs and pickups don't have roll bars (and the ones that do aren't actually rated for the weight of the vehicle)
Forces transfer from the larger vehicle to the smaller vehicle to occupants.
This is true.. however, you're looking at it much too simply. The average crash isn't a perfectly straight head-on collision where both vehicles send all their force into one another.
The NHTSA does the off-center collision test because it's the most common fatal accident situation (a car drifting into oncoming traffic and clipping an oncoming car that couldn't veer out of the way quick enough).
In an accident such as the off-center collision, both cars are sent spinning, the *majority* of their force is still pushing them forward, only a fraction of their force went into the other car. The average SUV will roll more than 40% of the time (using NHTSA numbers) in a *moderate* accident because of this very reason.
Cue a bunch of people saying how blogs are stupid and no one wants to read about boring details of other people's lives, jobs, hobbies, whatever.
Which doesn't make sense since Weblogs Inc runs Engadget and Joystiq.. which aren't exactly "personal blogs".. instead they're more like slashdot (except that there aren't any dupes and the news posted on them is a bit more timely... so actually, they're nothing like slashdot)
It's almost too bad that there's no need for it.
We use it a lot for actual syndication. I work for a newspaper, and all of our sections have an RSS feed. Our partners can use that RSS feed to put our headlines on their page, and vice-versa. The AP provides hundreds of RSS feeds. Our pages are assembled with RSS and XSLT.
RSS works rather well as a back-end syndication format.
If the partner wants the full story (like Yahoo and MSNBC's local news wires), we provide an NITF.
Online gaming will annihilate offline console gaming.
That's not true at all. Way too many games don't work online. Imagine a multiplayer version of Silent Hill.
Story-driven games, puzzle games, horror games, none of them work online.
A lot of those "ads" look like they were put together by a graphic artist, and the same artist, throughout most of the design.
A lot of sites that offer advertising also offer ad design services.
Look at penny arcade.. all the ads were drawn by gabe.
At a dollar a pixel, he probably draws the ads for the clients as well.
Its a Nissan, it is expected to be pushed from behind
I know that was supposed to be funny, but Nissan has an extremely high reliability rating. Whether or not that will be affected by MS has yet to be seen, of course
Objective-C is actually a fairly clean OO language, moreso than C++.
Whatever you're smoking I want some. Objective-C's syntax is pretty awful. Whenever I use ObjC I feel like I'm writing with macros that get processed by a preprocessor and converted into regular old C.
"Tacked on" is the best way I can describe ObjC's syntax.
NetBSD could learn a lot from the rest of the world.. where you don't have to recompile an entire project just because you made a small change to a header file.
Autotools do more than just make sure you have all the libraries needed to compile the app, they also set up a dependency tree so only the files affected need to be recompiled when a change is made.
Does anyone have any experience or views deploying a medium/high volume commercial or enterprise solution using this?
I personally don't, but BaseCamp is written with RoR.. it's pretty high volume commercial site.
Penny Arcade is now on RoR.
All you TV geeks should learn some things about user friendliness from Apple/Google.
You mean like Apple's "Media Center" which can't be hooked up to a TV? Yeah, solve the problem by removing the feature!
Is this reviewer biased? The entire tone of the article is to nail Apple. An honest review does pull out the plus side of things (even if the pluses are small, few, and far between) along with the minuses.
He does several times. For instance, "Once you've set some ratings and keywords, sorting through the items is very elegant and well thought out. If there's one thing Apple knows how to do, it's help you find things easily."
Did people even read the review? Or did they just immediately cry bias because he had some negative things to say about Apple's UI.