One author has a weird experience with a guy, then decides that it's a big trend. Most people playing on WoW are under 16 anyway and can barely form a sentence. This isn't happening. It's like the fake bluesnarfing or podjacking. Just something an author thinks he sees.
It's true that people id'd as gold farmers will get worse treatment, but not true that people with poor language skills are treated like this. Honestly, have you seen the chat in any MMO lately? I call bullshit.
You can also use TiVo to Go with the Orb free streaming system. Just go to this site to download an add-on to Orb that lets you stream out your TiVo files anywhere you can access http://my.org.com./ You can stream as Windows Media, Real Video or 3G if you're feeling like streaming TiVo to your cell phones. Kinda like a slingbox, but free.
I know the Woodbridge store sold out (I live in Woodbridge and tried to get one two nights ago). Union had a ton in stock still as of last night.
Personally I LOVE my PSP. It's gorgeous. There's only two good games though, and I didn't want to buy it in a bundle so I got it from Best Buy. Only Lumines and Wipeout Pure are worth purchasing though.
After joining, I had to fill out the subscription form for the beta 3 times. Now when I do it, I see my beta key and a link to download the massive 2.5 gb file. So if you haven't gotten it yet, just resubmit and you should get through.
As a Canon Digital Rebel 300D owner, what I've been hoping to hear was whether or not this would support RAW files. Folks, it won't. It also won't have the horsepower to show large megapixel images quickly, which is why the site is talking about syncing photos to the ipod, not using it as an image tank.
And while Archos has a nice system it can't display RAW files either. So for now I'll stick with my 30 GB ipod, and my 20 GB Wolverine SixPac image tank.
Nintendo revealed a few more miscellaneous details--the system will only launch in the silver/black color shown in currently available pictures, although more colors will probably be added later; battery life is 6-10 hours depending on application;
and Game Boy/GB Color games will not be backwards compatible with the DS, although all Game Boy Advance games will work with the system in single-player mode.
There's a gag reel on the bonus disk. To get to it you have to key in 1138 on the DVD remote control.
Sitting here on my XP machine at work, I've got no idea of how to do this. RealPlayer, WiMP, PowerDVD, VLC and Media Player Classic don't allow you to use the number keys or numeric keypad to type into the running dvd like a remote. PowerDVD has a keypad, but only when the player isn't playing, it switches to a directional navigation and select button when the dvd is running.
Anyone figure out how to play the gag reel on a Windows PC? I know I can wait and watch it at home tonight, but where's the fun in that?
Check out NYC Wireless for a pretty comprehensive map of wifi hubs. And these are just the reported ones! There's some serious coverage in our fair city...
Actually the Metroid colors are only available to Japanese members of Club Nintendo. You send in your regular GBA SP with 600 points (about 10 gamecube games' proof of purchase) and a few weeks later they send you your GBA SP back with the new colors. These aren't for direct sale, just a special color you can get. They had a few others like it, Pearl, and an orange one, among others.
These aren't for sale, just cool extras you can get with spending the points.
Early in
The Sith Lords, you'll have various conversations that explain and address key plot points from the last game--you'll tell the game how you believe things went down--and the dialogue choices you make will affect story development in the rest of the game. "We tried to slip it in subtly," Avellone says, but clearly, the freedom to customize the story--such a beloved and important aspect of the first game--will be alive and well in this followup.
So you get to describe what happened in the last game and the new game will take that into account as the story begins. Fantastic!
I personally use the Customizer 104 at home, and loved it so much I bought one and brought it in for work. They also have a keyboard optimized for Linux with the old-style Control, Caps Lock and others placed differently, and no pesky Windows keys.
Try Best Buy on 23rd & 6th Ave for your generic hp's, compaq's. J&R on Park Row - www.jandr.com is a great source for everything else. J&R will also have deals on close-outs and refurbished models. A friend of mine recently got a Dell laptop there for $600, some 1.5 GHz processor, DVD-ROM, 15" display.
J&R is a good place both for new & refurb units, I'd definitely go there. The other big chains (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc) might be worth a visit, but J&R will price match any local competitors.
If you're also looking for a camera, be sure to hit B&H Photo & Video. They have the most amazing conveyor system for moving things around the store, it's worth it to stop by just to see that!
One real problem is that as newer MMO's come out, the cost of entry is getting very high. Not in dollars, but time.
My cousin used to be a pretty fanatical Everquest player. As new expansion packs would come out, he'd have to spend hundreds of hours leveling his character up just so he'd be strong enough to try out the Planes of Power, or whatever the new hotness was. All his friends played, and played a lot too, so if he wants to quest with them he has to be fairly close in levels or he'll be pasted in any combat.
So with any new MMO people have to start over. They have a new character, no skills, and lose all their previous investment of time. If their friends don't switch, then it's another reason not to embrace a new MMO. Why go play if all your friends are still playing EQ?
The only MMO coming out that says they plan to address this is World of Warcraft. According to early interviews and alpha impressions at Gamespy, it seems that Blizzard wants you to be able to jump right in and have fun, regardless of what level you are. No more spending a few hundred hours killing giant rats and spiders so you can be tough enough to actually try doing something FUN.
So I don't know if MMO's will be inherently limited if they have proper design. The current crop of MMO's is getting very saturated however. Lowering the cost of entry (level treadmills, money, in-game loot) will certainly allow newer MMO's to compete however. -- "Hands and feet are rarely discovered from these periods because they are usually the first thing carnivores eat. They make a tasty snack and are easy to eat." - Dr. Graham Baker, South African Journal of Science
I have the Flash2Advance cart from http://www.success-hk.com. I got one with a usb link device to write to the cartridge. You put the cart in the GBA, link it to your pc from the usb linker, then start up the writing software. That software boots the GBA with a special program so it can write to the cart.
The best way to organize the files on the cart is with PogoShell.
PogoShell lets you create a filesystem on the GBA, you can use it to read text files, play GBA roms and play NES roms. It has a built-in PocketNES emulator, so all you have to do is put the NES roms into a folder in the filesystem before you create a ROM image for burning. Works great!
I just gave this a whirl on my GBA SP (I have a flash cart & linker at home). While it was great to see Space Quest again, I forgot just how annoying some of these games can be. While you're presented with a visual of the layout of the room, you have to walk up to each item you want to mess around with, then find the right text combination to activate it, search it, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I loved these back in the day, and this is an amazing emulator, kudos to all. It's just reminding me of how nice it is these days to not have to find the exact phrasing of "turn on computer" to get the in game computer to work (in this case, "look screen").
The emulator does a great job though, and presents a popup menu that you can use to insert words into the game automatically, built from the vocabulary lists for that particular room.
Still, if you want to play these games again, this is a fantastic way to do it. I was able to fit 4 space quest games (space quest 1 & 2 and the two homebrew spacequest games) plus my NES roms all on a 128M cart.
I live in Brooklyn and ride the subway to work every day. I'm 30, know a lot of other 25-30 year olds who all have gameboys. On any given day I'll see 5-10 GBA SP's on the subway, and usually only one of those will be in the hands of a kid.
At home I have a gamecube, decked-out pc, and what I find myself playing the most are my gameboy games. Wario Ware, Advance Wars 1 & 2, Golden Sun, Mario & Luigi... these are all just great games. Sure I can load stuff up on the tv, but I can play my gameboy in the subway, I can take it with me on lunch breaks, I can play it in any room in the house, take it on planes, trains, etc.
Gameboys are not just for kids. That's similar to how people erroneously state that all gamecubes are owned by kids. Plenty of adults play and enjoy gameboys. They have incredible, quality games on them. I can name more wonderful gameboy games I've played in the last year than I can for my console and for my pc. There's some serious creativity going on with that platform.
Granted I didn't have this same love of my gba before the SP. I had a number of games that were fun, but I had to play those in good lighting, or buy a separate light kit. Plus the unit was so large. My SP fits in my coat pockets, heck, even in my jean pockets if the pants are baggy enough. Great games and portability, it's a good thing. Can't wait to see how the PSP does.
Nintendo also revealed today that it plans to
unveil its next-generation console at E3 in May next year. Nintendo's executive director Jinyou Mori stated that the company hopes to release the unannounced next-generation console during the next fiscal year in Japan, and also commented that a simultaneous worldwide release would be ideal.
So unless "next generation console" is supposed to be the next gameboy, we might be looking at the new cube next Christmas. I wonder if they'd be able to get any 3rd party games done in time.
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On Tuesday, Apple released an advisory that indicate that the Mac OS X 10.3 upgrade--which adds an improved Finder menu, better synchronization of files and a tool to help users find a specific window on a crowded desktop--also includes more than a dozen "security enhancements."
However, Apple apparently doesn't intend to fix the flaws in previous versions of the software: Apple's Security Updates Web page doesn't list fixes for the flaws in Mac OS X 10.2 and earlier.
So the point is that there were a dozen security updates since 10.2, some of which were mentioned in the advisory, that are fixed in Panther but have no patches available in 10.2. Not that there isn't a security hole in 10.2, there is one. Just that they don't offer a patch for it. The only fix right now is to upgrade to Panther.
I honestly don't think that this will remain a problem, Apple has been pretty good about patching things as they come along, but the point of the article is that 10.2 IS vulnerable, with the only protection/patch being an upgrade to Panther.
One big drawback to this is that it lacks a link connector to connect up multiple gameboys. So you can play a game on the cube, but you can't link up with any other cartridges.
Additionally, with titles like Four Swords and Pacman Vs. coming out soon, you'll not want to stray from the official Gameboy Player hardware.
I can see the appeal price-wise, but with $10 separating the two devices, I'd stick with the official Nintendo kit. The one place I'd consider going third party though is with the new wireless systems. Nintendo's won't be backwards compatible with older titles. It will be an all-new connection protocol.
Triton Labs, maker of the Afterburner, announced a wireless connector for the gameboy that would emulate the existing link protocol, so all gameboy games would be able to be used wirelessly. This I'd LOVE to see enabled. I'm pretty surprised that Nintendo didn't follow this path for the new wireless support, they have a good history with the gameboy of legacy support.
You can have an ipod work with both Macs & PC's by formatting it with the PC updater to ipod software 2.1. You'll want to have all your music backed up first, but then when you format it PC you can use it on either platform with iTunes.
But to use a Mac ipod on a PC, you'd still need MacOpener or something similar to read/write HFS+ drives.
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It's true that people id'd as gold farmers will get worse treatment, but not true that people with poor language skills are treated like this. Honestly, have you seen the chat in any MMO lately? I call bullshit.
You can also use TiVo to Go with the Orb free streaming system. Just go to this site to download an add-on to Orb that lets you stream out your TiVo files anywhere you can access http://my.org.com./ You can stream as Windows Media, Real Video or 3G if you're feeling like streaming TiVo to your cell phones. Kinda like a slingbox, but free.
Personally I LOVE my PSP. It's gorgeous. There's only two good games though, and I didn't want to buy it in a bundle so I got it from Best Buy. Only Lumines and Wipeout Pure are worth purchasing though.
one of the best ones you can do it with is Advance Wars 1 & 2. For a great, full list check out IGN's list of Multiboot Games.
After joining, I had to fill out the subscription form for the beta 3 times. Now when I do it, I see my beta key and a link to download the massive 2.5 gb file. So if you haven't gotten it yet, just resubmit and you should get through.
Why aren't all link submissions required to include a mirror? Ah well, here's the Coralized link
And while Archos has a nice system it can't display RAW files either. So for now I'll stick with my 30 GB ipod, and my 20 GB Wolverine SixPac image tank.
Answering my own question. Use VLC to playback, then go in the Navigation menu, then Navigation, then Title 38, then Chapter 1.
Sitting here on my XP machine at work, I've got no idea of how to do this. RealPlayer, WiMP, PowerDVD, VLC and Media Player Classic don't allow you to use the number keys or numeric keypad to type into the running dvd like a remote. PowerDVD has a keypad, but only when the player isn't playing, it switches to a directional navigation and select button when the dvd is running.
Anyone figure out how to play the gag reel on a Windows PC? I know I can wait and watch it at home tonight, but where's the fun in that?
Check out NYC Wireless for a pretty comprehensive map of wifi hubs. And these are just the reported ones! There's some serious coverage in our fair city...
These aren't for sale, just cool extras you can get with spending the points.
Why is it the most interesting link is always /.'d first? Ah well, here's the "something to do with this" link cache.
I personally use the Customizer 104 at home, and loved it so much I bought one and brought it in for work. They also have a keyboard optimized for Linux with the old-style Control, Caps Lock and others placed differently, and no pesky Windows keys.
J&R is a good place both for new & refurb units, I'd definitely go there. The other big chains (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc) might be worth a visit, but J&R will price match any local competitors.
If you're also looking for a camera, be sure to hit B&H Photo & Video. They have the most amazing conveyor system for moving things around the store, it's worth it to stop by just to see that!
One real problem is that as newer MMO's come out, the cost of entry is getting very high. Not in dollars, but time.
My cousin used to be a pretty fanatical Everquest player. As new expansion packs would come out, he'd have to spend hundreds of hours leveling his character up just so he'd be strong enough to try out the Planes of Power, or whatever the new hotness was. All his friends played, and played a lot too, so if he wants to quest with them he has to be fairly close in levels or he'll be pasted in any combat.
So with any new MMO people have to start over. They have a new character, no skills, and lose all their previous investment of time. If their friends don't switch, then it's another reason not to embrace a new MMO. Why go play if all your friends are still playing EQ?
The only MMO coming out that says they plan to address this is World of Warcraft. According to early interviews and alpha impressions at Gamespy, it seems that Blizzard wants you to be able to jump right in and have fun, regardless of what level you are. No more spending a few hundred hours killing giant rats and spiders so you can be tough enough to actually try doing something FUN.
So I don't know if MMO's will be inherently limited if they have proper design. The current crop of MMO's is getting very saturated however. Lowering the cost of entry (level treadmills, money, in-game loot) will certainly allow newer MMO's to compete however.
--
"Hands and feet are rarely discovered from these periods because they are usually the first thing carnivores eat. They make a tasty snack and are easy to eat."
- Dr. Graham Baker, South African Journal of Science
The best way to organize the files on the cart is with PogoShell. PogoShell lets you create a filesystem on the GBA, you can use it to read text files, play GBA roms and play NES roms. It has a built-in PocketNES emulator, so all you have to do is put the NES roms into a folder in the filesystem before you create a ROM image for burning. Works great!
I just gave this a whirl on my GBA SP (I have a flash cart & linker at home). While it was great to see Space Quest again, I forgot just how annoying some of these games can be. While you're presented with a visual of the layout of the room, you have to walk up to each item you want to mess around with, then find the right text combination to activate it, search it, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I loved these back in the day, and this is an amazing emulator, kudos to all. It's just reminding me of how nice it is these days to not have to find the exact phrasing of "turn on computer" to get the in game computer to work (in this case, "look screen").
The emulator does a great job though, and presents a popup menu that you can use to insert words into the game automatically, built from the vocabulary lists for that particular room.
Still, if you want to play these games again, this is a fantastic way to do it. I was able to fit 4 space quest games (space quest 1 & 2 and the two homebrew spacequest games) plus my NES roms all on a 128M cart.
I'd have to disagree.
I live in Brooklyn and ride the subway to work every day. I'm 30, know a lot of other 25-30 year olds who all have gameboys. On any given day I'll see 5-10 GBA SP's on the subway, and usually only one of those will be in the hands of a kid.
At home I have a gamecube, decked-out pc, and what I find myself playing the most are my gameboy games. Wario Ware, Advance Wars 1 & 2, Golden Sun, Mario & Luigi... these are all just great games. Sure I can load stuff up on the tv, but I can play my gameboy in the subway, I can take it with me on lunch breaks, I can play it in any room in the house, take it on planes, trains, etc.
Gameboys are not just for kids. That's similar to how people erroneously state that all gamecubes are owned by kids. Plenty of adults play and enjoy gameboys. They have incredible, quality games on them. I can name more wonderful gameboy games I've played in the last year than I can for my console and for my pc. There's some serious creativity going on with that platform.
Granted I didn't have this same love of my gba before the SP. I had a number of games that were fun, but I had to play those in good lighting, or buy a separate light kit. Plus the unit was so large. My SP fits in my coat pockets, heck, even in my jean pockets if the pants are baggy enough. Great games and portability, it's a good thing. Can't wait to see how the PSP does.
For any WSJ article, just add _print after the /article to read it without subscribing. In this case try http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB106807618 578400800,00.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news
I honestly don't think that this will remain a problem, Apple has been pretty good about patching things as they come along, but the point of the article is that 10.2 IS vulnerable, with the only protection/patch being an upgrade to Panther.
Additionally, with titles like Four Swords and Pacman Vs. coming out soon, you'll not want to stray from the official Gameboy Player hardware.
I can see the appeal price-wise, but with $10 separating the two devices, I'd stick with the official Nintendo kit. The one place I'd consider going third party though is with the new wireless systems. Nintendo's won't be backwards compatible with older titles. It will be an all-new connection protocol.
Triton Labs, maker of the Afterburner, announced a wireless connector for the gameboy that would emulate the existing link protocol, so all gameboy games would be able to be used wirelessly. This I'd LOVE to see enabled. I'm pretty surprised that Nintendo didn't follow this path for the new wireless support, they have a good history with the gameboy of legacy support.
But to use a Mac ipod on a PC, you'd still need MacOpener or something similar to read/write HFS+ drives.