When I moved into my new place over new year I was told at the last minute by my ISP (who I had primed three weeks before about the move) that I would have to wait a further three weeks.. Now I work from home so this left me with a bit of a problem. Fortunately there were several people with completely unsecured connections, who saved my piggybackin' bacon in those three weeks. Now, I would have like to go and asked their permission, but its difficult to tell in such a densely populated area who the owner would be.. They were weak signals too so could've been anywhere in a wide radius.
Perhaps the next generation of WiFi access protocols could allow you to add a name and address tag of sorts.. But maybe someone would present the downside of this to me? I can't think of one right now, but I'm sure there is something..
I'm sorry, I can't really articulate it into words, but Sony are in trouble this gen if the latest reports are true. Just a gut instinct. No news about the PS3 release date yet.. Going to scrape a US launch this year? I'm thnking it's starting to seem doubtful, especially with all the bleeding edge tech they are looking to put in.
My money (all fanboyism aside - I own all the major consoles, and always will do) is on the Revolution this time round. I can just smell the market is ripe for the attitude Ninty are taking on this. But I don't care who wins as long as I get some kick ass gaming in the next 18 months, I'm getting bored of my Vectrex...
Hi FPGA field apps guy here - an Altera Cyclone EP1C3T144C8 (3000 odd LEs - an LE is a programmable register and some combinatorial logic) will do the trick pretty cheaply with an EPCS1SI8 (FPGA's are SRAM so you'll need a flash config. Whole solution about $16 for both chips at low volume.
See altera-dot-com and look for QuartusII web edition . This free download will let you put your design in schematically or via an HDL such as verilog, or VHDL.
At last a question on Slashdot I'm well qualified to answer.:)
Yard work, when done for real, is horrible, sweaty, and you might possibly even get some grease (or insert horrible... err.. stuff..) on your flesh.. For REAL! "Yard Work Simulator" (nice title you market it) on the other hand lets you get the same physical excercise but with the added option of - 1. Slaying yard martians (poss) 2. Emptying nuclear bins or 3: slaying flu birds and disposing of them (in the correct way of course) in wacky places, for points!!!! And all for fun too.... and backed up by that 'I must get to the next level to seee what they do next with the graphics' feel.
Thats why a Revolution controller strapped to your shin could make all the difference.
Not as sophisticated as many of the games mentioned on here but as I have said before a stone cold classic I have owned and played to death on many of the systems I have had since it came out in '86 (currently Taito Legends version on PS2). God, am I that old?
ur so wrong my 65 year old mum is far more into gaming than my 42 40 year old bros and my 70 year old dad. Prising the PSP out of her hands sometimes... a difficult task. welcome to my world!
But every Maxtor drive I have had over the last ten years (4) has suffered major problems. 2 of them had head crashes within six months - losing everything.
But some people love them - so go figure!
"Microsoft plans to launch the console in the California desert"
And if it goes anything like Atari's E.T. launch they'll also be burying it there later..
Having had a few weeks to stew on this now I think I can make a few general statements (feel free to cut me down like the fool I am)
The next gen fight is apparently now 'clearly' between Sony and Microsoft - Nintendo don't want to play (without taking the ball home) because they are not caught in this stupid fight about processing power, and that's why I think they may be the (suprise?) victors of the next gen
I have owned pretty much EVERYTHING over my past 31 years (Ok I'm not that old - but old enough)- Spectrum/ Sega 1/2 SNES//nes/ N64/ Amiga/ Lynx/ GG/ GameBoy1 - 5 etc..etc I realy could go on but you get the idea). I'm not saying this here for bragging rights - I'm saying here because I have played a few games (I'll also just briefly mention the 7 years runnig a computer shop back when they were indie in North London - 'Logic Sales' anyone say hi if you remember!).
Er so rusty gaming credentials aside...
I am bored now.
Every shiny new thing I have picked up in the past 4 years (after a five year hiatus away from the gaming scene 95-2000) has been exactly that - shiny and new with no depth to pull me back in like the days when I used to strap myself into the chair (!) to play F117A Interceptor - because it was such a fresh, engaging experience at the time. And I was 12 and had no girl... But I digress...
Now it takes me about 20 seconds to work out the menu and despite the gorgeous grpahics and depth of the potential area to explore - I no longer feel the urge to explore anymore.
PS2 games (currently own one amongst others) - great - games look great. But just the same as that shitty Spectrum/NES/GameBoy game I played 82-95 (the golden years for me lol) there's plenty of PS2 games that get the cursory look through the intro then get filed away for the next thing to grab my attention
My favourite games at the moment? Bubble Bobble GBA/ Taito legends PS2/ Mercury (tragically, tragically underrated game). All simple (even cutesy - eurgggh!) games but all keep me coming back for more, even Phoenix, for F***k's sake!
I don't get it - I drool over PS3/XBOX360 graphics just like the rest of you - I still yearn for realistic skin ('specially real life lol), realistic AI - Real immersive gameplay. But I think it's too far off from XBOX260 and PS3.
If my local betting shop were up for it I woould put it on the Revolution (sticks head out). Why? Because so many are going to buy PS3/360 looking for this awesome new experience that will turn out to be better graphics and more awesome cutscenes - not something that will truly engage them.
I'm no fanboy of anyone - each system since the 2600 has had its own special allure (I even still fancy a Colecovision - I think it has the perfect LadyBug conversion - say a prayer for me). But I'm really hoping the Revolution is going to give us all something new and special and FUN!!!!! to play with.
Otherwise -... N64 10 games perfect condition... Timex.....
You're new(ish) here? It took me 6 years of logging in day by day and not meta modding before I even got a sniff of mod points - now mod points are fairly regular 9twice month?)... clip yourself in and enjoy the ride dude... sorry for the patronising tone I can't help myself sometimes:)
It looks to me like Sony are beginning to bet the farm on the PS3. The Walkman range is now outsold by Apple branded players, the TV market is awash with other makes of TV.. I could go on in any other markets (maybe brodacst - admit not too sure on that).
They also seem to be losing their grip on their legendary quality of years back (though my admittedly late-era PSP is still a thing of beauty IMHO - lets ee how it stands up to time) - My Sony 6 CD player in my less than year old car has already taken to playing no CD's and has a radio that likes to retune at random...
I could go on..
Sony are to me, at least, beginning to look more like a games company than anything else - if they don't succeed they may well be dodo, if not severely crippled.
Shame because:
A) the article (in online form) is only too short
B) the three comments here so far are rubbish trolls
Bubble Bobble is one of the finest arcade games of all time, simplistic yet with depth of play, graphically appealing (yes even to a grown man now almost 20 years on) and has a lot of staying power having been converted over more formats than say, er, Doom. Or Duke Nukem forever. And lets not even talk about Space Invaders, Rainbow Islands or Operation Wolf.
Anyone else here want a sensible discussion about these stone cold classics?
We have all copied music - via tape, via CD burner, via MP3. God knows I've done it on and off for the past twenty years. Is the music industry dead yet? No, because although I may copy certain music I find marginal, I'll always keep buying the stuff I'm really into. And so it balances out between me and the guys that love Metallica:)
Any DRM will always be worked around as long as we have software and hardware. In fact, until PCB's become completely 'unmodable' there will always be a hardware back door - loss in quality - well then love MP3 then!
cat and mouse - for how long and for how futile?
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When I moved into my new place over new year I was told at the last minute by my ISP (who I had primed three weeks before about the move) that I would have to wait a further three weeks.. Now I work from home so this left me with a bit of a problem. Fortunately there were several people with completely unsecured connections, who saved my piggybackin' bacon in those three weeks. Now, I would have like to go and asked their permission, but its difficult to tell in such a densely populated area who the owner would be.. They were weak signals too so could've been anywhere in a wide radius. Perhaps the next generation of WiFi access protocols could allow you to add a name and address tag of sorts.. But maybe someone would present the downside of this to me? I can't think of one right now, but I'm sure there is something..
I'm sorry, I can't really articulate it into words, but Sony are in trouble this gen if the latest reports are true. Just a gut instinct. No news about the PS3 release date yet.. Going to scrape a US launch this year? I'm thnking it's starting to seem doubtful, especially with all the bleeding edge tech they are looking to put in. My money (all fanboyism aside - I own all the major consoles, and always will do) is on the Revolution this time round. I can just smell the market is ripe for the attitude Ninty are taking on this. But I don't care who wins as long as I get some kick ass gaming in the next 18 months, I'm getting bored of my Vectrex...
Hi FPGA field apps guy here - an Altera Cyclone EP1C3T144C8 (3000 odd LEs - an LE is a programmable register and some combinatorial logic) will do the trick pretty cheaply with an EPCS1SI8 (FPGA's are SRAM so you'll need a flash config. Whole solution about $16 for both chips at low volume. See altera-dot-com and look for QuartusII web edition . This free download will let you put your design in schematically or via an HDL such as verilog, or VHDL. At last a question on Slashdot I'm well qualified to answer. :)
Yard work, when done for real, is horrible, sweaty, and you might possibly even get some grease (or insert horrible... err.. stuff..) on your flesh.. For REAL! "Yard Work Simulator" (nice title you market it) on the other hand lets you get the same physical excercise but with the added option of - 1. Slaying yard martians (poss) 2. Emptying nuclear bins or 3: slaying flu birds and disposing of them (in the correct way of course) in wacky places, for points!!!! And all for fun too.... and backed up by that 'I must get to the next level to seee what they do next with the graphics' feel. Thats why a Revolution controller strapped to your shin could make all the difference.
Not as sophisticated as many of the games mentioned on here but as I have said before a stone cold classic I have owned and played to death on many of the systems I have had since it came out in '86 (currently Taito Legends version on PS2). God, am I that old?
a funny grammar nazi at last lol
Hi Impy, very interesting but at your age I'd lay of the LSD dude.
ur so wrong my 65 year old mum is far more into gaming than my 42 40 year old bros and my 70 year old dad. Prising the PSP out of her hands sometimes... a difficult task. welcome to my world!
...a perfectly cromulent word.
Just asking the question in case I was missing something everyone 'cept me knew..!
FLASH has NO moving parts, not FEWER than hard disk technology?
Thanks, but for the rest of us non Apple fanboys it's good enough.
But every Maxtor drive I have had over the last ten years (4) has suffered major problems. 2 of them had head crashes within six months - losing everything. But some people love them - so go figure!
..Mario dies in Mario128 after eating one too many gold coins...
"Microsoft plans to launch the console in the California desert" And if it goes anything like Atari's E.T. launch they'll also be burying it there later..
Help me Obi Won Kenobi - You're our only hope - Help me....
Yeah I know - please have a look at Colourspace comment below?
Having had a few weeks to stew on this now I think I can make a few general statements (feel free to cut me down like the fool I am) The next gen fight is apparently now 'clearly' between Sony and Microsoft - Nintendo don't want to play (without taking the ball home) because they are not caught in this stupid fight about processing power, and that's why I think they may be the (suprise?) victors of the next gen I have owned pretty much EVERYTHING over my past 31 years (Ok I'm not that old - but old enough)- Spectrum/ Sega 1/2 SNES/ /nes/ N64/ Amiga/ Lynx/ GG/ GameBoy1 - 5 etc..etc I realy could go on but you get the idea). I'm not saying this here for bragging rights - I'm saying here because I have played a few games (I'll also just briefly mention the 7 years runnig a computer shop back when they were indie in North London - 'Logic Sales' anyone say hi if you remember!).
Er so rusty gaming credentials aside...
I am bored now.
Every shiny new thing I have picked up in the past 4 years (after a five year hiatus away from the gaming scene 95-2000) has been exactly that - shiny and new with no depth to pull me back in like the days when I used to strap myself into the chair (!) to play F117A Interceptor - because it was such a fresh, engaging experience at the time. And I was 12 and had no girl... But I digress...
Now it takes me about 20 seconds to work out the menu and despite the gorgeous grpahics and depth of the potential area to explore - I no longer feel the urge to explore anymore.
PS2 games (currently own one amongst others) - great - games look great. But just the same as that shitty Spectrum/NES/GameBoy game I played 82-95 (the golden years for me lol) there's plenty of PS2 games that get the cursory look through the intro then get filed away for the next thing to grab my attention
My favourite games at the moment? Bubble Bobble GBA/ Taito legends PS2/ Mercury (tragically, tragically underrated game). All simple (even cutesy - eurgggh!) games but all keep me coming back for more, even Phoenix, for F***k's sake!
I don't get it - I drool over PS3/XBOX360 graphics just like the rest of you - I still yearn for realistic skin ('specially real life lol), realistic AI - Real immersive gameplay. But I think it's too far off from XBOX260 and PS3.
If my local betting shop were up for it I woould put it on the Revolution (sticks head out). Why? Because so many are going to buy PS3/360 looking for this awesome new experience that will turn out to be better graphics and more awesome cutscenes - not something that will truly engage them.
I'm no fanboy of anyone - each system since the 2600 has had its own special allure (I even still fancy a Colecovision - I think it has the perfect LadyBug conversion - say a prayer for me). But I'm really hoping the Revolution is going to give us all something new and special and FUN!!!!! to play with.
Otherwise - ... N64 10 games perfect condition... Timex.....
You're new(ish) here? It took me 6 years of logging in day by day and not meta modding before I even got a sniff of mod points - now mod points are fairly regular 9twice month?) ... clip yourself in and enjoy the ride dude... sorry for the patronising tone I can't help myself sometimes :)
... Gizmondo could buy them out? At the very least they appear to have some sort f product..
It looks to me like Sony are beginning to bet the farm on the PS3. The Walkman range is now outsold by Apple branded players, the TV market is awash with other makes of TV.. I could go on in any other markets (maybe brodacst - admit not too sure on that). They also seem to be losing their grip on their legendary quality of years back (though my admittedly late-era PSP is still a thing of beauty IMHO - lets ee how it stands up to time) - My Sony 6 CD player in my less than year old car has already taken to playing no CD's and has a radio that likes to retune at random... I could go on.. Sony are to me, at least, beginning to look more like a games company than anything else - if they don't succeed they may well be dodo, if not severely crippled.
I totally agree. No matter what, we need to be terraforming now..
Shame because: A) the article (in online form) is only too short B) the three comments here so far are rubbish trolls Bubble Bobble is one of the finest arcade games of all time, simplistic yet with depth of play, graphically appealing (yes even to a grown man now almost 20 years on) and has a lot of staying power having been converted over more formats than say, er, Doom. Or Duke Nukem forever. And lets not even talk about Space Invaders, Rainbow Islands or Operation Wolf. Anyone else here want a sensible discussion about these stone cold classics?
Best. Most. Factual. Post. Ever!
We have all copied music - via tape, via CD burner, via MP3. God knows I've done it on and off for the past twenty years. Is the music industry dead yet? No, because although I may copy certain music I find marginal, I'll always keep buying the stuff I'm really into. And so it balances out between me and the guys that love Metallica :)
Any DRM will always be worked around as long as we have software and hardware. In fact, until PCB's become completely 'unmodable' there will always be a hardware back door - loss in quality - well then love MP3 then!
cat and mouse - for how long and for how futile?