for other s60 phones(7650,3650) there are software to turn it into 'flight mode'(you need to remove sim though also), so that it doesn't transmit.
For Delta though, they don't distinguish between flight mode and not. They have no real way to test every kind of cellphone to see if the radio's off or not, so they've enacted a universal ban on all cellphones operating during all flights.
Of course with the upcoming wireless gameboy adapters and the Sony PSP it'll be interesting to see if they get hit with a universal ban as well. I'd hate to fly without my gameboy sp!
These sorts of set-top games are really only useful in homes that do not already have a gaming console. I don't really care if my cable box will let me play tetris, I have a gamecube for games on my TV. The demographics seem correct, this sort of device would only be used by people who don't have a traditional console.
It seems a bit like the N-gage. Games on cellphones are handy only if you don't have a gameboy sp. If my cell phone has a bundled game, I might play it once in a while if I forget my gameboy, but I wouldn't buy something like the N-gage just to play games. Similar with this. If my cable box had games and I didn't have a console I might waste some time on those games, but with a dedicated console, who needs it.
Idle N-gage point - when I was flying Delta this week coming back from Florida they announced that all cellphones and all cellphone games had to remain off for the entire flight. Another nail in the N-gage coffin...
Check out the preview at Gamespot.com for more information. They also have screenshots and video clips up.
I'm not sure if this page is subscriber-only or not (I subscribe to gamespot), so here's the text of their review just in case:
At a recent Nintendo press event, Vivendi Universal had on display a playable GameCube version of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, its new mission-oriented action and driving game based on the long-lived animated franchise. We sat down to play the game for a few minutes with little idea of what to expect, and frankly we were surprised to learn that Hit & Run is best described as Grand Theft Auto: Springfield. Indeed, the newest Simpsons games shares a whole lot of gameplay mechanics with the most recent GTA games, and from what we gathered while playing it in its early state, Hit & Run may just marry the Simpsons franchise and the GTA formula successfully.
The Hit & Run demo began simply by casting the player as Homer Simpson and sending him out into the world of Springfield looking for tasks to complete. The game very overtly guides you toward your next goal--it tells you which character you need to speak with to initiate the mission, and then once your objective is understood, it indicates on a minimap where you should go and also overlays the road with arrows pointing toward your destination. For the first task, Marge sent Homer to the Kwik-E-Mart to buy a new supply of ice cream, and subsequent missions had Homer racing Principal Skinner to the elementary school or searching for Ned Flanders' purloined possessions. You'll get around Springfield mostly by car, starting with the Simpsons' familiar pink sedan. Of course, in true Grand Theft Auto style you can also run into the street and nab other motorists' vehicles if you get bored with or destroy your own car.
Graphically, Hit & Run is looking decent, and its style is about what you'd expect from yet another 3D Simpsons game. The character models are solid and the frame rate is quite smooth, although the demo was fraught with camera anomalies. These will surely be cleared up before the game's release, though. It seems that the entire voice cast of the show has recorded new dialogue for the game, which is always refreshing. The constant stream of wisecracks and one-liners adds a lot to the Simpsons-like atmosphere, from what we heard.
Vivendi says that a variety of characters will be playable later on in The Simpsons: Hit & Run, although we only got to see Homer in action during our brief time with the game. In addition to driving to and fro, you can also collect a sort of coin scattered around town, attack hapless pedestrians, and double-jump your way to obscure areas. Though the quality of past Simpsons games may have been dubious, we have to say that there's something strangely likable about Hit & Run. You can drive all over Springfield, talk to famous town residents, and go inside and explore fully modeled and recognizable locations from the TV series, and even apart from the actual mission structure of the game, these things are enjoyable for fans of the show. Of course, we'll have to wait for the finished product to find out if the mission-based gameplay actually holds up over many hours of playtime. The Simpsons: Hit & Run is currently scheduled for release in September. Stay tuned for more coverage.
Any and all recent Blizzard games would work fine. Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Starcraft. Many will allow LAN play with up to 8 players with just one cd!
New Blizzard games are simultaneous releases of Mac & PC on the same cd. Buy War 3 and with the same disc play on either platform.
Older titles are really cheap too. You can get the Starcraft or Diablo battlechests for around $20 or less.
The device looks great, but how in the world will you power it all? Plus by including all the original buttons (although only one analog stick) this isn't going to be small by any means. This seems to be sized more like a micro laptop than anything else. However, using all the original controls lets them make it PSOne port friendly. In an ideal world you'd be able to rip PSOne cd's to this new format disc and just play them directly, but no way Sony would give up that much money in licensing.
Serious audio though, which hopefully will spur Nintendo to finally add dedicated audio hardware to future GBA's.
Impressive stats, we'll have to see how much they can deliver. But, hey, if they build a great portable with the same sort of size as my GBA SP, with a 10 hour battery, backlit screen, etc., I'd be glad to get one.
Actually if you pick up a flash2advance cartridge and then download PogoShell you can load up a few hundred NES ROMs on the cartridge and play your good ol' NES games on the go or on the gameboy player. PogoShell also can play GBA ROMs, play old Frotz games like Hitchhiker's Guide, and even read text files (like books from Project Gutenberg.)
So there's a lot you can do with that spiffy Gameboy Player. If you have a GameCube, it's a no-brainer, you have to get one. If you're getting a new GameCube you can get a GBA Player for free. So worth it!
So next time you're going camping for a week and can't take all that nature, just get the solar charger and enjoy some quality Advance Wars 2 time without having to watch all that annoying nature.
Actually the link to PocketNES should be to nes.pocketheaven.com. That's the GBA version. Pretty big FAQ too on using it, so there seems to be help available to get it up and running.
The FTC already filed a complaint and had a preliminary injunction against Childs back in April. See the press release for more information. The article mentions he lives by Riverside drive in an apartment, could be with Linda Lightfoot, the woman mentioned in the complaints with him?
Yes! The way it works, at least with Calvin & Hobbes, is that they picked some arbitrary date to start running it, and you can go back into the past as far as you'd like. There's a little archive icon under each comic, click on that and you'll get a little calendar, so you can browse back to view other comics. You can't go into the "future" (which is the past in this case, natch) but you can view comics that have already run.
Kind of like being forced not to skip ahead on those old Far Side off the wall calendars.
I read an article about this last week, and checked out the site. It's a really great idea. Not only can you view these online, but you can setup daily emails with as many of these comics as you'd like. There's also a "collection" feature where you can virtually clip comics to save in as many libraries as you'd like.
Not only do they have Bloom County and will soon have Outland, but they have Calvin & Hobbes as well! $10/year is a pretty good deal for all these great comics. Color me convinced!
Acquisition is great! Supports all the new gnutella updates such as ultrapeers. Much faster than Limewire, much nicer looking, and I've had better results with it as well.
Neo is a shadow client to Kazaa. It unfortunately doesn't actually log you into Kazaa, but rather is used to query ranges of IP's looking for Kazaa clients. It then sends searches to these clients directly, rather than to the nodes. Still, it can be very useful.
Actually Batman defeated the entire JLA!
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In the Tower of Babel comic, Batman's secret plans for overcoming the entire JLA fell into the wrong hands. With his files Ra's al Ghul was able to take down the entire JLA, Superman included.
The best part of the comic was when Batman had to face up to the JLA after the attacks and got his ass kicked out of the group. Batman explained he made the files in case the group was taken over mentally like had happened before. Showed that knowledge, planning and a lot of cunning could take down or neutralize any superpower.
You can pick up a nice region-free copy from Image Anime here in NYC. Subtitled, 5.1 surround, it's nice!
There will be a US release next year with the same astounding English-language cast from the original series translation, so you can wait for that copy to come out as well. It's a really great movie, more of the same from the series. Great music, and they really kick the animation up a notch.
You need to switch iTunes from automatic syncing to manual mode. Then you can add, remove, or do whatever you'd like. I have always had mine in manual mode, since I keep my mp3's on the iPod and sync with my iBook, but my primary mp3 storage is on a server at work.
Just change your prefs in iTunes to manual and you're set.
There's an incredibly fast Sherlock replacement called Locator (freeware) which puts a GUI on the OS X locate database. Searches in Locator take all of a second or two. Plus no channels, no big GUI overhead, just hella fast searches. Plus if you use a program called Keyboard Maestro in it's free form you can reassign Command+F to point to Locator instead of Sherlock. Speed speed speed!
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For Delta though, they don't distinguish between flight mode and not. They have no real way to test every kind of cellphone to see if the radio's off or not, so they've enacted a universal ban on all cellphones operating during all flights.
Of course with the upcoming wireless gameboy adapters and the Sony PSP it'll be interesting to see if they get hit with a universal ban as well. I'd hate to fly without my gameboy sp!
It seems a bit like the N-gage. Games on cellphones are handy only if you don't have a gameboy sp. If my cell phone has a bundled game, I might play it once in a while if I forget my gameboy, but I wouldn't buy something like the N-gage just to play games. Similar with this. If my cable box had games and I didn't have a console I might waste some time on those games, but with a dedicated console, who needs it.
Idle N-gage point - when I was flying Delta this week coming back from Florida they announced that all cellphones and all cellphone games had to remain off for the entire flight. Another nail in the N-gage coffin...
I'm not sure if this page is subscriber-only or not (I subscribe to gamespot), so here's the text of their review just in case:
New Blizzard games are simultaneous releases of Mac & PC on the same cd. Buy War 3 and with the same disc play on either platform.
Older titles are really cheap too. You can get the Starcraft or Diablo battlechests for around $20 or less.
Check out the IGN article on the specs as well.
The device looks great, but how in the world will you power it all? Plus by including all the original buttons (although only one analog stick) this isn't going to be small by any means. This seems to be sized more like a micro laptop than anything else. However, using all the original controls lets them make it PSOne port friendly. In an ideal world you'd be able to rip PSOne cd's to this new format disc and just play them directly, but no way Sony would give up that much money in licensing.
Serious audio though, which hopefully will spur Nintendo to finally add dedicated audio hardware to future GBA's.
Impressive stats, we'll have to see how much they can deliver. But, hey, if they build a great portable with the same sort of size as my GBA SP, with a 10 hour battery, backlit screen, etc., I'd be glad to get one.
So there's a lot you can do with that spiffy Gameboy Player. If you have a GameCube, it's a no-brainer, you have to get one. If you're getting a new GameCube you can get a GBA Player for free. So worth it!
So next time you're going camping for a week and can't take all that nature, just get the solar charger and enjoy some quality Advance Wars 2 time without having to watch all that annoying nature.
Actually the link to PocketNES should be to nes.pocketheaven.com. That's the GBA version. Pretty big FAQ too on using it, so there seems to be help available to get it up and running.
The FTC already filed a complaint and had a preliminary injunction against Childs back in April. See the press release for more information. The article mentions he lives by Riverside drive in an apartment, could be with Linda Lightfoot, the woman mentioned in the complaints with him?
Yes! The way it works, at least with Calvin & Hobbes, is that they picked some arbitrary date to start running it, and you can go back into the past as far as you'd like. There's a little archive icon under each comic, click on that and you'll get a little calendar, so you can browse back to view other comics. You can't go into the "future" (which is the past in this case, natch) but you can view comics that have already run.
Kind of like being forced not to skip ahead on those old Far Side off the wall calendars.
I read an article about this last week, and checked out the site. It's a really great idea. Not only can you view these online, but you can setup daily emails with as many of these comics as you'd like. There's also a "collection" feature where you can virtually clip comics to save in as many libraries as you'd like.
Not only do they have Bloom County and will soon have Outland, but they have Calvin & Hobbes as well! $10/year is a pretty good deal for all these great comics. Color me convinced!
Acquisition is great! Supports all the new gnutella updates such as ultrapeers. Much faster than Limewire, much nicer looking, and I've had better results with it as well.
Neo is a shadow client to Kazaa. It unfortunately doesn't actually log you into Kazaa, but rather is used to query ranges of IP's looking for Kazaa clients. It then sends searches to these clients directly, rather than to the nodes. Still, it can be very useful.
The best part of the comic was when Batman had to face up to the JLA after the attacks and got his ass kicked out of the group. Batman explained he made the files in case the group was taken over mentally like had happened before. Showed that knowledge, planning and a lot of cunning could take down or neutralize any superpower.
You can pick up a nice region-free copy from Image Anime here in NYC. Subtitled, 5.1 surround, it's nice! There will be a US release next year with the same astounding English-language cast from the original series translation, so you can wait for that copy to come out as well. It's a really great movie, more of the same from the series. Great music, and they really kick the animation up a notch.
You need to switch iTunes from automatic syncing to manual mode. Then you can add, remove, or do whatever you'd like. I have always had mine in manual mode, since I keep my mp3's on the iPod and sync with my iBook, but my primary mp3 storage is on a server at work.
Just change your prefs in iTunes to manual and you're set.
There's an incredibly fast Sherlock replacement called Locator (freeware) which puts a GUI on the OS X locate database. Searches in Locator take all of a second or two. Plus no channels, no big GUI overhead, just hella fast searches. Plus if you use a program called Keyboard Maestro in it's free form you can reassign Command+F to point to Locator instead of Sherlock. Speed speed speed!