Yeah, a PS3 version of something like the PC games Tie Fighter or Xwing would have me seriously considering buying a PS3 sooner than later.
I absolutely hated the control setup in RS 2 & 3 though. I was hoping for free form flight like in Jedi: Starfighter, but instead some kiddy controls were instituted.
I have no doubt there will be many Star Wars games for the next generation hardware, the question is will quality studios like Factor 5 continue where they left off from the GC?
Factor 5 produced Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II and III for the Gamecube and both were visually stunning. The control scheme was frustrating though and had me wishing for the control setup of Jedi: Starfighter (on the Xbox), which had gameplay similar to Xwing and Tie Fighter for the PC. Graphically, though, Jedi: Starfighter could not compare to Rogue Leader and in the years since Rogue Leader's release I haven't seen any space sim on any console that comes close.
I've seen what Factor 5 can do with the "limited" Gamecube, so I can only assume the results will be that much more stunning with all the horse power of the PS3.
the impression I got from this game is that it is a lot more fun in two player co-operative mode than single player. Don't get me wrong, I loved it and finished it single player, but I really enjoyed two players mowing down Trade Federation droids, solving puzzles and the like. Also note that there are some levels that require you to return in free form mode with characters that are unlocked further into the game to reach the remaining secret areas and fully complete that level. Again, two player co-op mode really makes this fun.
The controls are kid friendly and pretty forgiving. In fact, you cannot lose at this game; if you die it simply respawns you back to full health minus 1000 "buttons" that are collected during the game (or back to zero if you have none). A great game for the kids.
The program appeared on PBS as a Nova special and it was clear that scholars were stunned to find that Archimedes devised a simple form of integral calculus in an attempt to find the area under a curve, something that was unknown prior to the investigation of the parchment.
Archimedes treatises on levers, the value of PI, and his other mathematical discoveries have been known to us for centuries and I was simply listing off his notable achievements.
I watched a program about the amazing discoveries uncovered through the painstaking analysis of this parchment.
One of the most stunning discoveries was the description by Archimedes of his method for finding the area under a curve though a rudimentary form of integral calculus, 2000 years before Newton or Leibniz!
He established the law of levers, found the relationship of the area of a cylinder to a sphere (which he believed to be his greatest discovery and he directed a model of which to be inscribed on his tomb), described the relationship of volume and buoyancy in water (his eureka! moment), among many other mathematical and mechanical discoveries.
A true genius that stands with Newton, Pascal and others.
This is why I love the Gamecube controler. I know what every button is based on the shape of the button. The big button is "A" the smaller button is "B", Z is skinny button on the top and so on. On the other hand, I wish the analog sticks were parallel to each other like the PS controler instead of off centre.
I am not sure how Nintendo is going to improve their controler scheme and maintain backwards compatiblity, but they say they will.
I wonder if the cost of emulating the old Xbox on new hardware would be significantly reduced if MS pursued a hardware solution. That is, if they followed Sony's PS compatiblity method in the PS2 through inclusion of miniturized integrated PS circuitry.
By including certain hardware elements from the old Xbox, such as the Nvidia graphics chip, they could avoid legal entanglements and guarantee compatibility. On the other hand, I don't think MS considers backwards compatiblity to be high on their priority list and, at least at this stage, it appears MS is making a weak effort.
I bought a HD Firewire enclosure from TigerDirect for use with my Mac Mini and Tiger OS (but not for the reasons outlined in TFA). Just thought that was a bit ironic considering the legal entanglements...
but is not a cardinal rule of business that no one person should be indespensible? And equally so, say you're out having your vacation and something does go wrong and you we're contacted via your satellite pager. How are you going to contact your sysadmin back home and what are you going to do, drive or fly all the way back home? Hours could go by and the customers you want avoid inconveniencing would have to wait for your return before restoration of service.
You need to invest in a good technical team if it is that important, never mind a pager.
I have no love for the CRTC at the best of times, but this decision was welcomed by the smaller players like Shaw, Vonnage, etc. because it allows them to enter the market with a competitive price structure and not worry that the incumbent carriers (Telus or Bell) would swoop in and offer similar service at a fraction of the cost. In essence, killing off the competition with artificially low priced service.
Shaw just recently began offering their VoIP service in Calgary and Edmonton at $55/month for unlimited local and North American long distance combined with voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, 3 way calling, and call forwarding it is a fantastic bargain compared to Telus. Without this ruling Telus could leverage their infrastructure and financial base to undercut Shaw and force them into a price war that Shaw or any other VoIP provider could not maintain in the long run.
Telus and Bell will still be able to compete, but it means that they will have to submit their pricing structure to the CRTC for approval. A lot of the rationale for the decision comes from the CRTC mandate to find a regulatory format that would open the local service to real competition, something that has eluded them for years, and VoIP appears to be the only cost effective way this will be achieved.
PS2 owners who want network play know all about the inconsistencies with the Sony on-line approach.
I would rather pay a small fee each month for a centralized service that works consistently, such as Xbox Live, than suffer through the mess that you have on the PS2.
I am no Microsoft fan, but anyone who's compared the on-line experiences will say that Xbox Live is the way it should be done.
I would also like to think that having the Xbox Live infrastructure is very appealing to game studios since it removes the cost of server maintanence and upkeep. Further, players aren't at the mercy of game studios if they decide to shut down the network servers for whatever reason.
Now I am not an authority on this, but vitamin B12 is only found in amounts sufficient for our dietary needs in animal products like meat, fish, eggs, and dairy and is essential for proper nervous system function. If you're one of the "strict" vegetarians out there you must supplement your all vegetable diet with B12 or run the risk of developing nerve damage or neurological disease (among other complications). You cannot meet all of your dietary requirements from an all-vegetable diet unless you take supplements.
While I would agree that a vegetarian diet is certainly healthier than what most people eat, the fact is a balanced diet from all the food groups including animal products is not only wise but absolutely necessary for a healthy human body. If my memory of biology class is correct just about every herbivore has to eat an enormous amount of plant material to sustain themselves, with specialized digestive sytems. Why do you think a cow has four stomachs?
I watched my sister fade away on a stict vegan diet and even with supplements it wasn't enough. She re-introduced a weekly serving of meat and noticed a huge improvement in her mood and energy level. Her experience taught me that a balanced diet is more important than focusing on any one particular food group and my diet is the better for it.
Bill C-24, passed in 2003, prohibits corporate or union donations and limits donations made by invidividuals to no more than $5,000 anually.
Political parties that achieve a certain threshold of the popular vote during a federal election receive funding based on a formula established by law. In essence, taxpayers fund political parties based on the popular vote.
And while some political factions in Canada feel the functions of the Parliamentary Commision on Ethics and Conflict of Interest are not independant enough, the commision has wide ranging and draconian powers to deal with Parliamentary misdeeds.
The CBC covered the issues of parliamentary ethics and conflict of interest on a program recently and I was quite agast at how intrustive the rules are to MPs. Among the many powers and responsibilites of the commission is the ability to review Visa and bank accounts of MPs for potential violations of the ethics rules. It all sounded very Orwellian, actually.
It's been mentioned all through this thread that section 107 of the Copyright Act allows for fair use of copyrighted works for criticism or comment. What I don't think people are getting is how is the web site supposed to achieve parody without expressing the elements of the WalMart charity web site such as logos, design, etc. The very nature of parody REQUIRES copyright infringement to meet its aims.
We need to have a little talk about the TPS reports. If people were filing their TPS reports on time this wouldn't be a problem, mmmmm'k? So, I am going to go ahead and ask everyone to make their best effort getting their uh, TPS reports in on time, including the new coversheets. It would be great if everyone could that from now on.
Also, Friday is "kick the accountant in the nuts day". So, go ahead and kick Frank here in the nuts anytime Friday. All right. Any questions? Great!
So software developers are terrified that Nikon will wield the DMCA scythe at them if they reverse engineer the white balance encryption algorithm? How would Nikon have any case when the content in question is owned by the creator, not Nikon?
To my thinking this is another clear application of interoptibility, so I don't see how the DMCA could apply especially given the ownership of the "protected content".
the DC area to experience a shower of bullshit tapering to blowing turds in the early evening. Accumulations of twelve to fourteen inches are anticipated while Congress is in session...
The ads can be FAST FORWARDED through in a few seconds if you peg the fast forward.
I had the same problem with an unskippable ad on a DVD a few years ago and tried to FFWD through the FBI warning and the ad. Voila! A few seconds to the main menu.
Annoying? Absofuckinglutely, and I wish there was a law against ads on DVDs, but when there's a buck to be made...
Municipalities do not have taxation powers in Canada; they can only collect school and property taxes (depending on province). I know in the U.S. the situation is completely different and must vary from state to state.
Oh, cities and municipal districts in Canada really, really want those powers, but no sane provincal government would grant them.
that NASA is all pent up about sending the shuttle back into space with a feable backup plan when they sent a total of 33 men on 11 do-or-die Apollo missions. There was no recovery for a failed Apollo mission, it was fly or die. Funny how the Cold War seemed to convince many to accept much slimmer margins of error then are currently accepted.
Maybe the cold war was the best thing that ever happened to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
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Yeah, a PS3 version of something like the PC games Tie Fighter or Xwing would have me seriously considering buying a PS3 sooner than later.
I absolutely hated the control setup in RS 2 & 3 though. I was hoping for free form flight like in Jedi: Starfighter, but instead some kiddy controls were instituted.
I have no doubt there will be many Star Wars games for the next generation hardware, the question is will quality studios like Factor 5 continue where they left off from the GC?
Factor 5 produced Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II and III for the Gamecube and both were visually stunning. The control scheme was frustrating though and had me wishing for the control setup of Jedi: Starfighter (on the Xbox), which had gameplay similar to Xwing and Tie Fighter for the PC. Graphically, though, Jedi: Starfighter could not compare to Rogue Leader and in the years since Rogue Leader's release I haven't seen any space sim on any console that comes close.
I've seen what Factor 5 can do with the "limited" Gamecube, so I can only assume the results will be that much more stunning with all the horse power of the PS3.
the impression I got from this game is that it is a lot more fun in two player co-operative mode than single player. Don't get me wrong, I loved it and finished it single player, but I really enjoyed two players mowing down Trade Federation droids, solving puzzles and the like. Also note that there are some levels that require you to return in free form mode with characters that are unlocked further into the game to reach the remaining secret areas and fully complete that level. Again, two player co-op mode really makes this fun.
The controls are kid friendly and pretty forgiving. In fact, you cannot lose at this game; if you die it simply respawns you back to full health minus 1000 "buttons" that are collected during the game (or back to zero if you have none). A great game for the kids.
The program appeared on PBS as a Nova special and it was clear that scholars were stunned to find that Archimedes devised a simple form of integral calculus in an attempt to find the area under a curve, something that was unknown prior to the investigation of the parchment.
Archimedes treatises on levers, the value of PI, and his other mathematical discoveries have been known to us for centuries and I was simply listing off his notable achievements.
I watched a program about the amazing discoveries uncovered through the painstaking analysis of this parchment.
One of the most stunning discoveries was the description by Archimedes of his method for finding the area under a curve though a rudimentary form of integral calculus, 2000 years before Newton or Leibniz!
He established the law of levers, found the relationship of the area of a cylinder to a sphere (which he believed to be his greatest discovery and he directed a model of which to be inscribed on his tomb), described the relationship of volume and buoyancy in water (his eureka! moment), among many other mathematical and mechanical discoveries.
A true genius that stands with Newton, Pascal and others.
This is why I love the Gamecube controler. I know what every button is based on the shape of the button. The big button is "A" the smaller button is "B", Z is skinny button on the top and so on. On the other hand, I wish the analog sticks were parallel to each other like the PS controler instead of off centre.
I am not sure how Nintendo is going to improve their controler scheme and maintain backwards compatiblity, but they say they will.
I wonder if the cost of emulating the old Xbox on new hardware would be significantly reduced if MS pursued a hardware solution. That is, if they followed Sony's PS compatiblity method in the PS2 through inclusion of miniturized integrated PS circuitry.
By including certain hardware elements from the old Xbox, such as the Nvidia graphics chip, they could avoid legal entanglements and guarantee compatibility. On the other hand, I don't think MS considers backwards compatiblity to be high on their priority list and, at least at this stage, it appears MS is making a weak effort.
I bought a HD Firewire enclosure from TigerDirect for use with my Mac Mini and Tiger OS (but not for the reasons outlined in TFA). Just thought that was a bit ironic considering the legal entanglements...
but is not a cardinal rule of business that no one person should be indespensible? And equally so, say you're out having your vacation and something does go wrong and you we're contacted via your satellite pager. How are you going to contact your sysadmin back home and what are you going to do, drive or fly all the way back home? Hours could go by and the customers you want avoid inconveniencing would have to wait for your return before restoration of service.
You need to invest in a good technical team if it is that important, never mind a pager.
when you can surf for porn at work.
I have no love for the CRTC at the best of times, but this decision was welcomed by the smaller players like Shaw, Vonnage, etc. because it allows them to enter the market with a competitive price structure and not worry that the incumbent carriers (Telus or Bell) would swoop in and offer similar service at a fraction of the cost. In essence, killing off the competition with artificially low priced service.
Shaw just recently began offering their VoIP service in Calgary and Edmonton at $55/month for unlimited local and North American long distance combined with voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, 3 way calling, and call forwarding it is a fantastic bargain compared to Telus. Without this ruling Telus could leverage their infrastructure and financial base to undercut Shaw and force them into a price war that Shaw or any other VoIP provider could not maintain in the long run.
Telus and Bell will still be able to compete, but it means that they will have to submit their pricing structure to the CRTC for approval. A lot of the rationale for the decision comes from the CRTC mandate to find a regulatory format that would open the local service to real competition, something that has eluded them for years, and VoIP appears to be the only cost effective way this will be achieved.
PS2 owners who want network play know all about the inconsistencies with the Sony on-line approach.
I would rather pay a small fee each month for a centralized service that works consistently, such as Xbox Live, than suffer through the mess that you have on the PS2.
I am no Microsoft fan, but anyone who's compared the on-line experiences will say that Xbox Live is the way it should be done.
I would also like to think that having the Xbox Live infrastructure is very appealing to game studios since it removes the cost of server maintanence and upkeep. Further, players aren't at the mercy of game studios if they decide to shut down the network servers for whatever reason.
Now I am not an authority on this, but vitamin B12 is only found in amounts sufficient for our dietary needs in animal products like meat, fish, eggs, and dairy and is essential for proper nervous system function. If you're one of the "strict" vegetarians out there you must supplement your all vegetable diet with B12 or run the risk of developing nerve damage or neurological disease (among other complications). You cannot meet all of your dietary requirements from an all-vegetable diet unless you take supplements.
While I would agree that a vegetarian diet is certainly healthier than what most people eat, the fact is a balanced diet from all the food groups including animal products is not only wise but absolutely necessary for a healthy human body. If my memory of biology class is correct just about every herbivore has to eat an enormous amount of plant material to sustain themselves, with specialized digestive sytems. Why do you think a cow has four stomachs?
I watched my sister fade away on a stict vegan diet and even with supplements it wasn't enough. She re-introduced a weekly serving of meat and noticed a huge improvement in her mood and energy level. Her experience taught me that a balanced diet is more important than focusing on any one particular food group and my diet is the better for it.
Nothing like classic Zelda or Tetris on the beautiful DS screen...
Bill C-24, passed in 2003, prohibits corporate or union donations and limits donations made by invidividuals to no more than $5,000 anually.
Political parties that achieve a certain threshold of the popular vote during a federal election receive funding based on a formula established by law. In essence, taxpayers fund political parties based on the popular vote.
And while some political factions in Canada feel the functions of the Parliamentary Commision on Ethics and Conflict of Interest are not independant enough, the commision has wide ranging and draconian powers to deal with Parliamentary misdeeds.
The CBC covered the issues of parliamentary ethics and conflict of interest on a program recently and I was quite agast at how intrustive the rules are to MPs. Among the many powers and responsibilites of the commission is the ability to review Visa and bank accounts of MPs for potential violations of the ethics rules. It all sounded very Orwellian, actually.
It's been mentioned all through this thread that section 107 of the Copyright Act allows for fair use of copyrighted works for criticism or comment. What I don't think people are getting is how is the web site supposed to achieve parody without expressing the elements of the WalMart charity web site such as logos, design, etc. The very nature of parody REQUIRES copyright infringement to meet its aims.
We need to have a little talk about the TPS reports. If people were filing their TPS reports on time this wouldn't be a problem, mmmmm'k? So, I am going to go ahead and ask everyone to make their best effort getting their uh, TPS reports in on time, including the new coversheets. It would be great if everyone could that from now on.
Also, Friday is "kick the accountant in the nuts day". So, go ahead and kick Frank here in the nuts anytime Friday. All right. Any questions? Great!
isn't Nikon violating the DMCA with their software by providing access to YOUR protected content?
Just wondering...
So software developers are terrified that Nikon will wield the DMCA scythe at them if they reverse engineer the white balance encryption algorithm? How would Nikon have any case when the content in question is owned by the creator, not Nikon?
To my thinking this is another clear application of interoptibility, so I don't see how the DMCA could apply especially given the ownership of the "protected content".
the DC area to experience a shower of bullshit tapering to blowing turds in the early evening. Accumulations of twelve to fourteen inches are anticipated while Congress is in session...
The ads can be FAST FORWARDED through in a few seconds if you peg the fast forward.
I had the same problem with an unskippable ad on a DVD a few years ago and tried to FFWD through the FBI warning and the ad. Voila! A few seconds to the main menu.
Annoying? Absofuckinglutely, and I wish there was a law against ads on DVDs, but when there's a buck to be made...
Municipalities do not have taxation powers in Canada; they can only collect school and property taxes (depending on province). I know in the U.S. the situation is completely different and must vary from state to state.
Oh, cities and municipal districts in Canada really, really want those powers, but no sane provincal government would grant them.
that'll come in the Cougar release, once OS X "matures".
that NASA is all pent up about sending the shuttle back into space with a feable backup plan when they sent a total of 33 men on 11 do-or-die Apollo missions. There was no recovery for a failed Apollo mission, it was fly or die. Funny how the Cold War seemed to convince many to accept much slimmer margins of error then are currently accepted.
Maybe the cold war was the best thing that ever happened to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
is not that the bill was accepted, but that correct change for a $200 bill was given.