One would have expected a CAPITALIST nation to be the first to start strip-mining one of the few untouched natural resources we have left. But it's for "The Benefit of Humanity", so that makes it alright.
Nintendo doesn't have an online strategy. It will have separate adapters for sale and one game, PSO from Sega.
It's a sad indcation of Nintendo's overall strategy that the only real innovation coming from the Gamecube, be it online play or Game Boy Advance connectivity, is coming from their old rivals Sega.
Just goes to show how far-sighted the Dreamcast was. Now if only Sega would quit playing the field and pick one console to develop for so we know which one to put our money behind.
And if you've got the Aliens soundtrack, you'll notice a track right at the end that doesn't appear in the film. "Resolution / Hyperspace", I think it's called. But that's OK, as it turns up at the end of Die Hard instead. Even though Michael Kamen did the rest of the music for that one.
Some of the monitor screens on Andromeda have the 'IBM' logo displayed prominently underneath.
And it makes you wonder if the new Enterprise series was moved a bit closer to the present day just so that you can conceivably imagine current corporations having their goods advertised on the show.
The N64 version got it right. You could use the analogue stick to move in any direction you wanted. When the camera angle shifted, your character kept moving in the same direction for about a second, just to give you time to adjust to the new screen and direction configuration.
It was VERY smooth and intuitive, although it naturally wasn't the default option. The system you mention above gets in the way of the game, providing an unnecessary 'head messing' barrier to being absorbed in the carefully designed atmosphere.
It would have been nice if all the characters in the Resident Evil movie rotated on the spot and moved in straight lines just to add that sense of authenticity. Let alone Milla Jojovich (sic?) not being able to pick up a keycard because her pockets were stuffed full of plants.
You could use the analogue stick to move in any direction you wanted. When the camera angle shifted, your character kept moving in the same direction for about a second, just to give you time to adjust to the new screen and direction configuration.
It was VERY smooth and intuitive, although it naturally wasn't the default option. The system you mention above gets in the way of the game, providing an unnecessary 'head messing' barrier to being absorbed in the carefully designed atmosphere.
It would have been nice if all the characters in the Resident Evil movie rotated on the spot and moved in straight lines just to add that sense of authenticity. Let alone Milla Jojovich (sic?) not being able to pick up a keycard because her pockets were stuffed full of plants.
Kids LOVE gory stuff! I know _I_ always used to watch overly sick horror films (so called 'video nasties') when I was a kid without many ill effects. Mind you, I probably WAS a grubby lil' scrote back then.
The Resident Evil games are no worse than a copy of the Fangoria Swimsuit Special edition.
And venturing dubiously off topic, I wonder if Capcom are going to acknowledge the fact that the Gamecube controllers have ANALOGUE STICKS on them, and thus allow the gamer to immerse themselves into the game by... Pointing the stick in the direction they want to go!
If there's one thing gamers HATE about the Resident Evil games, it's the 'turn and point' method of control. It's clunky and artificial, and a throwback to games that are about a decade old. The N64 version of RE2 had the right idea, with an analogue stick option. But the Dreamcast RE games didn't have.
Funnily enough, RE2 was the only one I persevered with. I couldn't even be bothered to get out of the first room on Dreamcast RE3 because of the controls.
However, if Capcom actually include the option to use a vaguely modern control system in the Gamecube versions, I WILL buy the console just for that. Hell, the control system in Luigi's Mansion seems just right. One stick to move, one stick to aim. Sorted.
Mind you consumers are gaining in the meantime so whos complaining
If the X-Box is responsible for one thing, it's being the catalyst for console prices to drop dramatically at a faster rate than previous generations.
As consoles are sold at a loss anyway, getting more into gamers' homes can only be a good thing, right? At this rate, I can probably afford two different consoles, and have more choice with what I play. This is good, right?
Hell, I may even treat myself to a PSOne at that price.
The Deskjet printers were HARDWARE, which means there was an environmental cost to their manufacture, and subsequent discarding for more reliable machines.
Let alone their hatred of recycled ink cartridges. Again, the environmental cost is immense, all in the name of "The HP Way".
A shoddy company that deserved to fall. But I doubt the new look ComPaquard will be any better. The cost to our children will be catastrophic.
Companies are taken over all the time. What makes the "HP Way" so special that we should all mourn its passing?
If the "HP Way" means releasing vastly unreliable Deskjet printers into the consumer marketplace, then I for one am glad it's dead.
No matter how close you get to a corporation, even if you're related to the founder, PLEASE get some perspective. Company mantras do NOT qualify as religion.
I think it's something to do with exclusivity. Headhunting agencies send out Resumes with the intent that the company then hires the prospective employee THROUGH the agency. Thus giving the agency a nice bonus, as they claim a 'finding fee'
If a company approaches the prospect directly, then they don't have to pay the agency anything. If the agency has sent the resume previously, they can sue the company for leaving them out of the loop.
But the problem is that this vunerability would affect previously trusted applications. Obviously, you can have the security settings up to maximum paranoia, and have it warn you very time you start up Internet Explorer, but that would quickly get in the way of general web browsing.
As a generic moderator-on-crack appears to believe wholeheartedly that the juxtaposition of this news article and a previous one is 'Offtopic', I feel it best to explain a potential 'Nightmare Scenario' on the horizon...
Assumption One: Cancerware authors are amoral miscreants. Given the track record of the likes of Brilliant Digital, we can safely say that this is a given.
Assumption Two: One of the biggest advantages of a modularised Windows OS appears to be the ability to switch out the insecure MSHTML renderer as used in Internet Explorer to replace with Gecko and their ilk. Forcing Microsoft to publish the full API would enable a seamless changeover between rendering engines.
Let's follow this closely. The rendering engine runs as locally executed code, which brings with it additional security issues. I imagine, when push comes to shove, there will be plenty of Microsoft oriented warning messages along the lines of "It may be dangerous to change your rendering engine!" should a user want to make the switch.
However, fully expect the AOL / Netscape hegemony to complain loudly to the courts that this is FUD, and that it is PERFECTLY safe to switch to Gecko without notifying the user short of a generic EULA type click-through. Microsoft, having received a battering from all corners, will be forced to comply and take the warning out.
Which brings us back to Assumption One - Cancerware. Cancerware authors are forever looking for increasingly sneaky and devious ways to install their filthy code onto previously stable computers.
So, take one 'killer app', currently a P2P client, but who knows what the next one will be. Add a clause during installation that some vague 'browser enhancement' software will be installed as a requirement of the killer app. Many people will click through without reading, or just think "Enhancement - Cool!" and let it install.
What does this browser enhancement do? It acts as a fully functional replacement for the MSHTML module. Thanks to the efforts of Microsoft's competitors, it will install seamlessly, running code with local privledges.
What can it do? Anything that cancerware does already. Spying, gathering important data like CC numbers, taking control of your machine, uber DDoS, etc. etc. The possibilities rest purely with the devious malevolence of the author. It will, of course, be auto-updating, so even if it's caught out initially as being just another Purple Ape, it can download enhancements to itself to get past most security problems.
Remember that NO-ONE in the hacking community knew about Brilliant Digital's plans until they made their press releases. Sleeper cancerware, ready to awaken when the stars are right. As MSHTML is part of the Operating System now, for good or ill, it will be loaded on startup, even if the user doesn't open a browser.
But won't this be noticed by firewall software? Well, assuming consumer-grade firewalls work like Zonealarm, then no. Zonealarm checks for EXE files attempting to access parts of the net that they shouldn't be. But of course, Internet Explorer, being the most common Internet application, will be allowed through. The.exe itself hasn't changed, just a shared library that the exe uses.
And of course, the only way to uninstall this version of MSHTML would be to delete it, thus breaking anything that wants to use it. Like, err, everything!
Regardless of any non-Microsoft eliteness, the fact remains that Windows is the most popular PC Operating System for now, and shall be for a long time. This scenario outlined above is one of many potential fallabilities. I can assure you that minds far more devious than my own are concocting their own plans.
Cancerware is nothing more than barely-legitimized cracking. It seems that replacing "3133t hax0r sp33k" with the terse pseudo-legalese wording of EULAs makes this all acceptable. It isn't. And the sooner more people realise this, the better.
Of course, any company releasing something like this shall eventually become a target for the authorities. But the arrest of the author of the Melissa Virus didn't magically undo all the damage it caused, right?
Imagine the fun the likes of Brilliant Digital could have when the courts force Microsoft to release their full APIs. Whole new ways to sneak their filthy cancerware onto our machines.
Group of Terminators go back in time with a human prisoner. When they get there, it turns out the human's had a zap-gun implanted in his stomach, which is then retrieved with predictable gory results.
What about the next? How trivial would it be to code up some cancerware that gathers addresses from the victim's address book, and sends itself out to them, hidden in some kind of novelty 'Purple Monkey'-type application?
This situation reminds me of a docu-drama they had on the UK's Channel 4 a few years back, set the requisite 20 minutes into the future, about the ultimate video multicasting 'killer-app' that spread itself across the Internet as a virus. When people wanted to view the video files, they found they automatically HAD the right software without needing to run a complicated install.
Something about the field generated by a living organism. I don't know tech stuff.
That's why Arnie came through naked in both films. The organic material covered the T-800 endoskeleton, permitting time travel. See, there's plot justification. It's not as if they were all nudists in the future.
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One would have expected a CAPITALIST nation to be the first to start strip-mining one of the few untouched natural resources we have left. But it's for "The Benefit of Humanity", so that makes it alright.
Nintendo doesn't have an online strategy. It will have separate adapters for sale and one game, PSO from Sega.
It's a sad indcation of Nintendo's overall strategy that the only real innovation coming from the Gamecube, be it online play or Game Boy Advance connectivity, is coming from their old rivals Sega.
Just goes to show how far-sighted the Dreamcast was. Now if only Sega would quit playing the field and pick one console to develop for so we know which one to put our money behind.
And if you've got the Aliens soundtrack, you'll notice a track right at the end that doesn't appear in the film. "Resolution / Hyperspace", I think it's called. But that's OK, as it turns up at the end of Die Hard instead. Even though Michael Kamen did the rest of the music for that one.
"How Wude!"
So I guess Jar Jar had SOME effect!
Some of the monitor screens on Andromeda have the 'IBM' logo displayed prominently underneath.
And it makes you wonder if the new Enterprise series was moved a bit closer to the present day just so that you can conceivably imagine current corporations having their goods advertised on the show.
The N64 version got it right. You could use the analogue stick to move in any direction you wanted. When the camera angle shifted, your character kept moving in the same direction for about a second, just to give you time to adjust to the new screen and direction configuration.
It was VERY smooth and intuitive, although it naturally wasn't the default option. The system you mention above gets in the way of the game, providing an unnecessary 'head messing' barrier to being absorbed in the carefully designed atmosphere.
It would have been nice if all the characters in the Resident Evil movie rotated on the spot and moved in straight lines just to add that sense of authenticity. Let alone Milla Jojovich (sic?) not being able to pick up a keycard because her pockets were stuffed full of plants.
You could use the analogue stick to move in any direction you wanted. When the camera angle shifted, your character kept moving in the same direction for about a second, just to give you time to adjust to the new screen and direction configuration. It was VERY smooth and intuitive, although it naturally wasn't the default option. The system you mention above gets in the way of the game, providing an unnecessary 'head messing' barrier to being absorbed in the carefully designed atmosphere. It would have been nice if all the characters in the Resident Evil movie rotated on the spot and moved in straight lines just to add that sense of authenticity. Let alone Milla Jojovich (sic?) not being able to pick up a keycard because her pockets were stuffed full of plants.
I am NOT supporting a product of a monopolist, evil, and anti-competitive company...
So we're Sony's pals this week then?
Kids LOVE gory stuff! I know _I_ always used to watch overly sick horror films (so called 'video nasties') when I was a kid without many ill effects. Mind you, I probably WAS a grubby lil' scrote back then.
The Resident Evil games are no worse than a copy of the Fangoria Swimsuit Special edition.
And venturing dubiously off topic, I wonder if Capcom are going to acknowledge the fact that the Gamecube controllers have ANALOGUE STICKS on them, and thus allow the gamer to immerse themselves into the game by... Pointing the stick in the direction they want to go!
If there's one thing gamers HATE about the Resident Evil games, it's the 'turn and point' method of control. It's clunky and artificial, and a throwback to games that are about a decade old. The N64 version of RE2 had the right idea, with an analogue stick option. But the Dreamcast RE games didn't have.
Funnily enough, RE2 was the only one I persevered with. I couldn't even be bothered to get out of the first room on Dreamcast RE3 because of the controls.
However, if Capcom actually include the option to use a vaguely modern control system in the Gamecube versions, I WILL buy the console just for that. Hell, the control system in Luigi's Mansion seems just right. One stick to move, one stick to aim. Sorted.
Mind you consumers are gaining in the meantime so whos complaining
If the X-Box is responsible for one thing, it's being the catalyst for console prices to drop dramatically at a faster rate than previous generations.
As consoles are sold at a loss anyway, getting more into gamers' homes can only be a good thing, right? At this rate, I can probably afford two different consoles, and have more choice with what I play. This is good, right?
Hell, I may even treat myself to a PSOne at that price.
Used disks may not come with the leaflet or original jewel box.
You mean you'd DARE buy a used disk??? That should be illegal. Clearly you're a pirate, communist or terrorist, at least if the RIAA had their way.
It's sad that they assume the consumer is a criminal. And it's only going to get worse.
Didn't this console come with a smart-card type thing that allowed you to transfer game stats to and from the arcade machines?
And while we're at it, whatever happened to the PC Engine?
Isn't "Sentence Fragment" a Sentence Fragment?
SuSE were the first company to offer a DVD distribution. There was a lot of fuss back then because no-one believed Linux could play DVDs.
The Deskjet printers were HARDWARE, which means there was an environmental cost to their manufacture, and subsequent discarding for more reliable machines.
Let alone their hatred of recycled ink cartridges. Again, the environmental cost is immense, all in the name of "The HP Way".
A shoddy company that deserved to fall. But I doubt the new look ComPaquard will be any better. The cost to our children will be catastrophic.
Companies are taken over all the time. What makes the "HP Way" so special that we should all mourn its passing?
If the "HP Way" means releasing vastly unreliable Deskjet printers into the consumer marketplace, then I for one am glad it's dead.
No matter how close you get to a corporation, even if you're related to the founder, PLEASE get some perspective. Company mantras do NOT qualify as religion.
I think it's something to do with exclusivity. Headhunting agencies send out Resumes with the intent that the company then hires the prospective employee THROUGH the agency. Thus giving the agency a nice bonus, as they claim a 'finding fee'
If a company approaches the prospect directly, then they don't have to pay the agency anything. If the agency has sent the resume previously, they can sue the company for leaving them out of the loop.
Better too little information than Too Much!
But the problem is that this vunerability would affect previously trusted applications. Obviously, you can have the security settings up to maximum paranoia, and have it warn you very time you start up Internet Explorer, but that would quickly get in the way of general web browsing.
As a generic moderator-on-crack appears to believe wholeheartedly that the juxtaposition of this news article and a previous one is 'Offtopic', I feel it best to explain a potential 'Nightmare Scenario' on the horizon...
.exe itself hasn't changed, just a shared library that the exe uses.
Assumption One: Cancerware authors are amoral miscreants. Given the track record of the likes of Brilliant Digital, we can safely say that this is a given.
Assumption Two: One of the biggest advantages of a modularised Windows OS appears to be the ability to switch out the insecure MSHTML renderer as used in Internet Explorer to replace with Gecko and their ilk. Forcing Microsoft to publish the full API would enable a seamless changeover between rendering engines.
Let's follow this closely. The rendering engine runs as locally executed code, which brings with it additional security issues. I imagine, when push comes to shove, there will be plenty of Microsoft oriented warning messages along the lines of "It may be dangerous to change your rendering engine!" should a user want to make the switch.
However, fully expect the AOL / Netscape hegemony to complain loudly to the courts that this is FUD, and that it is PERFECTLY safe to switch to Gecko without notifying the user short of a generic EULA type click-through. Microsoft, having received a battering from all corners, will be forced to comply and take the warning out.
Which brings us back to Assumption One - Cancerware. Cancerware authors are forever looking for increasingly sneaky and devious ways to install their filthy code onto previously stable computers.
So, take one 'killer app', currently a P2P client, but who knows what the next one will be. Add a clause during installation that some vague 'browser enhancement' software will be installed as a requirement of the killer app. Many people will click through without reading, or just think "Enhancement - Cool!" and let it install.
What does this browser enhancement do? It acts as a fully functional replacement for the MSHTML module. Thanks to the efforts of Microsoft's competitors, it will install seamlessly, running code with local privledges.
What can it do? Anything that cancerware does already. Spying, gathering important data like CC numbers, taking control of your machine, uber DDoS, etc. etc. The possibilities rest purely with the devious malevolence of the author. It will, of course, be auto-updating, so even if it's caught out initially as being just another Purple Ape, it can download enhancements to itself to get past most security problems.
Remember that NO-ONE in the hacking community knew about Brilliant Digital's plans until they made their press releases. Sleeper cancerware, ready to awaken when the stars are right. As MSHTML is part of the Operating System now, for good or ill, it will be loaded on startup, even if the user doesn't open a browser.
But won't this be noticed by firewall software? Well, assuming consumer-grade firewalls work like Zonealarm, then no. Zonealarm checks for EXE files attempting to access parts of the net that they shouldn't be. But of course, Internet Explorer, being the most common Internet application, will be allowed through. The
And of course, the only way to uninstall this version of MSHTML would be to delete it, thus breaking anything that wants to use it. Like, err, everything!
Regardless of any non-Microsoft eliteness, the fact remains that Windows is the most popular PC Operating System for now, and shall be for a long time. This scenario outlined above is one of many potential fallabilities. I can assure you that minds far more devious than my own are concocting their own plans.
Cancerware is nothing more than barely-legitimized cracking. It seems that replacing "3133t hax0r sp33k" with the terse pseudo-legalese wording of EULAs makes this all acceptable. It isn't. And the sooner more people realise this, the better.
Of course, any company releasing something like this shall eventually become a target for the authorities. But the arrest of the author of the Melissa Virus didn't magically undo all the damage it caused, right?
Imagine the fun the likes of Brilliant Digital could have when the courts force Microsoft to release their full APIs. Whole new ways to sneak their filthy cancerware onto our machines.
Group of Terminators go back in time with a human prisoner. When they get there, it turns out the human's had a zap-gun implanted in his stomach, which is then retrieved with predictable gory results.
What about the next? How trivial would it be to code up some cancerware that gathers addresses from the victim's address book, and sends itself out to them, hidden in some kind of novelty 'Purple Monkey'-type application?
This situation reminds me of a docu-drama they had on the UK's Channel 4 a few years back, set the requisite 20 minutes into the future, about the ultimate video multicasting 'killer-app' that spread itself across the Internet as a virus. When people wanted to view the video files, they found they automatically HAD the right software without needing to run a complicated install.
How is this type of cancerware distinguishable from a virus that spreads by exploiting security vunerabilities?
It seems that all the Klez and Chernobyl kiddies have gone and got themselves some venture capital, and are turning their malware into a business.
Something about the field generated by a living organism. I don't know tech stuff.
That's why Arnie came through naked in both films. The organic material covered the T-800 endoskeleton, permitting time travel. See, there's plot justification. It's not as if they were all nudists in the future.