That's exactly what a marketing company like Microsoft is good at. You'll notice that they'll keep their mouths shut about the PS3 having builtin HD DVD capabilities...
Yeah, okay, technically Microsoft's wider options mean you can get the XBox 360 experience for "only" $300 if you really want it-- but not if you want to be able to save your game.
That's not true. I believe so far all the games that have been released will work just fine with memory card.
That's all fine and good. The issue is cross platform games. I don't have faith that say someone like EA will do a good job, or even attempt to support that controller in any meaningful way.
So the risk is, you may end up have a sitution where all the first party games are well done and uses the controller very well. But most 3rd party cross platform games will play like crap. I suppose you can say "well, that's fine, I only play first party games anyway." But that's not so fine for 3rd party support.
Sony is going to make at least part of their catalog avaiable online both for PS3 and PSP. Thus the argument is valid.
Sony discussed such a service here at GDC.
PSP DOES have wifi. Sony Japan's PSP hardware page clearly indicate it as such. It's in japanese, but do a search for 802.11 even if you don't read japanese.
color me skepical, but I'm not sure government is the magical solution to this problem.
Just look at how much good the new anti-spam law they passed is doing.:)
hmm, has RoleMaster[RollMaster:)] improved since its early days? I remember playing it a long time ago, and having to roll tons of dice, and lookup tons of tables to do anything.
If I remember correctly, the evolution of the whole D&D series started with the Basic D&D set. (I'm not counting Chainmail ruleset, which I feel is still a wargame.) My Basic D&D set was a red box, it even came with dice and crayon for you to fill in the numbers. In this rule set, Elf is a character class, not a player race. Elf played very similar to Fighter/Mage for those of you that cared. There were 5 such sets. Basic(1-3), Expert(4-14), Companion(15-25 levels), Master(26-36 levels), and Immortals(37+).
AD&D came after that, it was published in 1978 as three hardcover books: Player's Guide, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual. It's a format that's follow even to this day. Various player race were introduced, and the rules were changed so that races are no longer classes.
Then came AD&D 2nd edition in 1989. For a while, they went to a 3 ring binder format for you to keep track of all the monsters, which drove me crazy. It may have been a good idea for adding new monsters, but pages tear and fall out all the time.
D20, or D&D 3rd edition, returned to the original Dungeon and Dragon name. The changes are quite drastic compare to any of the previous editions of D&D/AD&D.
The most recent release is 3.5E, which was last year. (2003)
I've updated a few of my RH9 boxes to FC1, no issues that occured during the upgrade. The biggest annoynce was in FC1, the up2date out of the box doesn't have the right rpm key, easily fixed by either import the correct key or just manually update the up2date rpm.
The other annoyance is up2date now takes a lot longer, unless you point it to one of the mirrors. These RH9 machines were on RH support, so I must admit, I miss the old up2date speed.
Other than that, nothing else noteworthy for us. These machines are web/db servers, running apache, php, mysql, pgsql etc.
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It's not that Sun is depreciating JavaME. But that JavaME and JavaSE will merge. More detail on this from James Golsing's blog entry.
already tried it. iPhone gives a "It's an invalid SIM card, please activate your iPhone using iTunes."
I was getting somewhere between 300k to 700k for both the i386 and the x86_64 one.
According to this, it's the 10th most played game on Xbox 360, so it can't be doing that badly.
You mean Blu-Ray, right :)
That's not true. I believe so far all the games that have been released will work just fine with memory card.
That's all fine and good. The issue is cross platform games. I don't have faith that say someone like EA will do a good job, or even attempt to support that controller in any meaningful way. So the risk is, you may end up have a sitution where all the first party games are well done and uses the controller very well. But most 3rd party cross platform games will play like crap. I suppose you can say "well, that's fine, I only play first party games anyway." But that's not so fine for 3rd party support.
You can always use your monitor/LCD panel with Xbox 360 via VGA.
Nintendo made the most money in the last console war? Are you counting the revenue from GBA/DS as well? If so, that's not a good comparison.
Sony is going to make at least part of their catalog avaiable online both for PS3 and PSP. Thus the argument is valid. Sony discussed such a service here at GDC.
fair enough. here is info in English.
PSP DOES have wifi. Sony Japan's PSP hardware page clearly indicate it as such. It's in japanese, but do a search for 802.11 even if you don't read japanese.
I assume you mean Animal Crossing? Yea, that was a fun game. Pikmin lost my interest fairly fast.
color me skepical, but I'm not sure government is the magical solution to this problem. Just look at how much good the new anti-spam law they passed is doing. :)
hmm, has RoleMaster[RollMaster :)] improved since its early days? I remember playing it a long time ago, and having to roll tons of dice, and lookup tons of tables to do anything.
Which RPG system do you have in mind that predate this?
Neverwinter Night, and the two follow up expansion packs did a wonderful job recreating d20 RPG on PCs.
AD&D came after that, it was published in 1978 as three hardcover books: Player's Guide, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual. It's a format that's follow even to this day. Various player race were introduced, and the rules were changed so that races are no longer classes.
Then came AD&D 2nd edition in 1989. For a while, they went to a 3 ring binder format for you to keep track of all the monsters, which drove me crazy. It may have been a good idea for adding new monsters, but pages tear and fall out all the time.
D20, or D&D 3rd edition, returned to the original Dungeon and Dragon name. The changes are quite drastic compare to any of the previous editions of D&D/AD&D.
The most recent release is 3.5E, which was last year. (2003)
For a history of D&D/TSR, take a look at here
The core of D20 is also published here as a set of rtfs.
I don't think either Python or Perl has ever threaten Microsoft in the way Java has.
hey, it's the secure WinXP release! (duck for cover)
I discovered that later on, the thing is, in a RH9 to FC1 upgrade, it won't install yum. You have to install it manually.
I've updated a few of my RH9 boxes to FC1, no issues that occured during the upgrade. The biggest annoynce was in FC1, the up2date out of the box doesn't have the right rpm key, easily fixed by either import the correct key or just manually update the up2date rpm. The other annoyance is up2date now takes a lot longer, unless you point it to one of the mirrors. These RH9 machines were on RH support, so I must admit, I miss the old up2date speed. Other than that, nothing else noteworthy for us. These machines are web/db servers, running apache, php, mysql, pgsql etc.
might I suggest you wash it by hand? :)
for drying, I highly recommand sunlight. It's free!
that my friend, is the sound of freedom!
Let's have a review that actually cover something please.