That's funny, I've been playing multiplayer games with only one monitor on my consoles for years now.
From Super Bomberman to Golden Eye to Super Smash Brothers Melee. And I don't need CAT5 to tell my friend he's an idiot for kamikaze'ing just so he could take me out.
People who bring up "LAN party" as a pro compared to console gaming do not realize that console gamers have their own advantages in that respect. All we need is one $300-or-less console, 2-or-more controllers (and many bring their own controllers), and one copy of a game to enjoy multiplayer goodness. It's much more social to be sitting next to your competitor than across from them.
And Halo, as many have pointed out, offers that "LAN party" experience PC gamers seem to love. I can't see what's so good about it, though; Halo just doesn't do it for me. I'm not a fan of console FPS's.
Console game parties are a blast, though. Take over a lounge or rent some space for a night or two and share all the different systems and games you own with others, talk about past, present, and future classics, partake in a few tournaments, and just have a fun time socializing with other gamers. They don't happen as frequently as LAN parties do, I guess, but they're still fun and if you can check one out (or set one up!).
And have you ever tried to drag a 28'' TV with you to a LAN? And tried to find room for 10 or more of those?
Yes. Anything to get my game on.
You seriously underestimate the will of a console gamer. Go look in a dorm hall - you'll see people like us willing to find a couple TVs and take over a lounge for game time.
I think there's a problem with the software firewall, though - if you reboot, the firewall might not kick in until the firewall service actually starts...so if you don't patch the machine before rebooting and have the thing plugged in...
At least that's what I've seen from testing...could be wrong.
Of course, considering the Cube has the 2nd best software-to-hardware ratio, and Nintendo was not bleeding money from the start with the hardware, their marketshare is good enough for them to be making a profit.
It will be pretty hard for Nintendo to pull a Sega. For that to happen, they would have to kill consumer faith in their product [Sega released add-ons for the Genesis that failed; Sega did a "surprise" launch of the US Saturn, catching consumers and retailers completely off guard, with consumers not having any money saved up to buy the thing yet]. The Dreamcast did not fail simply because the Saturn "came in last."
Nintendo would have to lose all major third party support as well. They haven't.
Micorsoft itself is probably in the greatest danger of pulling a Dreamcast. They're trying to end this generation early, talks about hardware but no software, might lose backwards compatibility, has not really touched base with Japanese game studios, and will lose the advantage of having the more powerful system in the coming generation. They might just release something with "more of the same."
You apparently underestimate the Nintendo franchises. They are the reason to get a Game Cube. Nintendo does not depend on one "great" game to sell their consoles; a series of "great" games that people enjoy and expect from Nintendo. Sure, I guess its good Microsoft has made a Halo-settop-box, but it doesn't hide the fact that it is seemingly the ONLY game really selling Xboxes.
Honestly, you think the entire US is a gang warland? Naive, indeed. Prevalent? I'm sorry, I didn't get AK-47'd on my way to school like some others do in the Middle East. The bus that brought me back from a party didn't explode in a religious act to go to Heaven with the promise of a virgin harem. I wasn't shot just for breaking a rule "written" by a God but edited by humans.
Maybe PARTS of the U.S. are unsafe, but on the whole I feel pretty safe walking the streets, speaking my voice, and believing my own beliefs.
I'd love to have more female opponents in fighting games. For some reason, a girl who can jump-in-HK standing+HP forward+LP into a quarter-circle-forward, half-circle-to-back+HP MAX SDM ending with a forward-down-downforward+LKx2 (one in air) is damned sexy.
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Virginia Univ. proved that 1100 G5s can make an exceptionally cost effective super computer that is #3 in the world.
Yeah, it was F5, now I remember. It's been awhile. It doesn't help that the installer doesn't really tell you that exists, but I guess that's not something MS wants normal people fooling with or worrying about, just the power users.
As I type this I am staring at my Neo Geo Pocket Color, a nice little handheld that unfortunately tried to compete with the Gameboy line. Needless to say, it was DOA, in America at least.
I've been a fan of SNK since I played Fatal Fury at a local arcade. After that, I would purchase most of their SNES porting efforts, even if those ports sucked because of extreme size-reduced sprites. Then the golden days came along with my Sega Saturn, importing classics like the King of Fighters Collector's Edition (95-97), Real Bout Fatal Fury collector's edition, Metal Slug, etc. Dreamcast came, and so did Last Blade 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and Capcom vs SNK, which was basically a dream-come-true for me.
Nowadays, though, the talent looks like it is pretty much gone. No more sweet arranged music for the home versions of KoF, and they're only just now switching to the Atomis Engine (Sammy's fighting game engine, seen in the extremely popular Guilty Gear series) to hopefully abandon the woeful graphics the series currently suffers from. Compare KoF 2000/2001 for the Playstation 2 to KoF 97 on the Saturn - they look the same, but the 97 version just has that added detail of polish, in presentation, music, etc. The hits seem harder, the desparation-moves look cooler, and it just adds to a more fun experience while playing.
Hopefully Playmore will remember that the little details help make a good gaming experience. Not stuff like giving Kim Kaphwan more frames of animation just because he's Korean [note: Playmore is Korean].
Back to playing my KoF97...hoping for a return of SNK's former glory.
The way I turned off ACPI on a friend's Win2k install was by -
1) Turning it off in BIOS,
2) During the start of the Win2k installer, where it says press F6 (or F8? I forget) to install third party drivers, you hit that button and then install "Standard PC."
I think you can do the same by changing the "ACPI-compliant computer" driver in Device Manager under "computer" to "Standard PC." Of course, this isn't recommended, as I believe it requires the reinstallation of a lot of drivers (maybe all?), and I don't even know if that works correctly, but one should always be open to experimentation I guess.:P
Aside from benchmarking Word for Mac against Word for Windows of all things, what does this actually prove? That Macs don't run software as well as Windows does when it comes to software that has been available for Windows longer? I'd be more interested in a price comparison between the systems.
No software-RAID setup on the Mac? Why RAID on the other machines?
As a CS student at VT, I received word of it days ago -
Hello all,
This email is to serve as invitation and notice of impending Terascale Facility assembly assistance. For those receiving this info for the first time know that Virginia Tech is building a top 10 supercomputer from scratch and we need your assistance. We do have one stipulation to volunteerism and that is you must not be a wage employee of the university. Grad students on GTA/GRA are fine as well as others outside the university that may wish to volunteer.
We are expecting to receive machines next week!!! Yikes! In preparation for the assembly process, we need to get volunteers together at the AISB (Andrews Information Systems Building), 1700 Pratt Dr., this weekend. We are planning to have a process orientation session start at 10:00 AM on Saturday, August 30, and last no longer than an hour. We can give you a few more details about the project if you show up and have not been before.:-)
That's just stupid. Simple doesn't just exclude depth.
Something that is easy to pick up is not inherently shallow. Play a game like Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Super Smash Bros Melee, hell even Tetris. Controls are simple to pick up, fun to play, easy to learn, but it is tough to master such games, and there is an extreme amount of depth hidden to be found by the not-so-remedial game players.
Easy to pick up, tough to master - a simple game that's fun to play. That's why today's "current crop" games seem to suck more ass than before.
The difference between a good player and a "remedial" one is not the ability to read a fucking manual to learn all 400 ways to buy an item - it is being able to pick up on all the rules one can "bend" or take advantage of very quickly while playing the game. Parent is stupid, next post please.
Every kid these days seems to have a calc, and these babies have a BASIC-esque language in them (except the 89 and 92/+ models with use a C-ish BASIC language).
Or you can always do scripting. It is fun trying to do weird things when you're scripting, because you learn what boo boos are and you become a tad bit innovative getting around certain issues.
My handwriting is atrocious, I'll admit. (I should mention, however, that it has always been that way, and elementary school could never get me to write in a "pretty" way - I just wanted to take notes to remind myself of thoughts I had during the day)
But it is easier to read something someone has printed out after having typed it up on a keyboard rather than trying to figure out whether they make i's look like e's or l's. If I need a mathematical notation I can just add it with my wacom tablet.
I still do handwriting, though, just never for anything other than note-taking. My handwriting is done in such a way that I can understand it just fine. I use symbols here and there that nobody really knows what they mean, but let me understand what I was thinking at that time. I always rework my homework to pdf and print as often as I can.
Personally, I have a sense of apathy toward losing cursive. As long as I can sign my name that's all the cursive I'll ever do in my lifetime.
Yes! Hopefully my college's sysadmin will be nice enough to make Kazaa so slow that people will stop installing that spyware-infested, OS-breaking POS software, so that I (being a dorm's paid computer janitor) won't have to fix their computer later on:P
Now, if something could be done about stopping those fine young college girls inadvertantly running attacks on their campus's servers?:P
(Now that I think about it, I don't mind the girls needing help so much as the dumb college guys spilling beer on their laptop's keyboard...)
If a bank has crappy security, does that mean the bank is responsible if someone robs the bank? I dare you to deny this!
Just because you can rob the bank, just because you can hack the server, doesn't mean it is the fault of the bank, or fault of the server-provider, if you do.
While I agree the security measures taken by Ubi were probably pretty poor, it does not mean the hackers aren't liable for damages they caused.
The difference between your car exploding tale and this is that the people who "crashed into you" (ie hacked the server) knew what was going to happen.
If I were to spot one of the cars you mentioned, and blatantly crash into it only because I knew the gas tank would explode, I would have some liability in what I have done. Likewise, the hackers knew what was going to happen when they hacked the server and (comically, I might add - hackers tend to have a sense of humor) teleport everybody to the sea.
There's a difference in accidentally causing someone's "car" to "explode" and purposely causing it.
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From Super Bomberman to Golden Eye to Super Smash Brothers Melee. And I don't need CAT5 to tell my friend he's an idiot for kamikaze'ing just so he could take me out.
People who bring up "LAN party" as a pro compared to console gaming do not realize that console gamers have their own advantages in that respect. All we need is one $300-or-less console, 2-or-more controllers (and many bring their own controllers), and one copy of a game to enjoy multiplayer goodness. It's much more social to be sitting next to your competitor than across from them.
And Halo, as many have pointed out, offers that "LAN party" experience PC gamers seem to love. I can't see what's so good about it, though; Halo just doesn't do it for me. I'm not a fan of console FPS's.
Console game parties are a blast, though. Take over a lounge or rent some space for a night or two and share all the different systems and games you own with others, talk about past, present, and future classics, partake in a few tournaments, and just have a fun time socializing with other gamers. They don't happen as frequently as LAN parties do, I guess, but they're still fun and if you can check one out (or set one up!).
Yes. Anything to get my game on.
You seriously underestimate the will of a console gamer. Go look in a dorm hall - you'll see people like us willing to find a couple TVs and take over a lounge for game time.
At least that's what I've seen from testing...could be wrong.
It will be pretty hard for Nintendo to pull a Sega. For that to happen, they would have to kill consumer faith in their product [Sega released add-ons for the Genesis that failed; Sega did a "surprise" launch of the US Saturn, catching consumers and retailers completely off guard, with consumers not having any money saved up to buy the thing yet]. The Dreamcast did not fail simply because the Saturn "came in last."
Nintendo would have to lose all major third party support as well. They haven't.
Micorsoft itself is probably in the greatest danger of pulling a Dreamcast. They're trying to end this generation early, talks about hardware but no software, might lose backwards compatibility, has not really touched base with Japanese game studios, and will lose the advantage of having the more powerful system in the coming generation. They might just release something with "more of the same."
"Great" is in quotes because that is subjective.
Honestly, you think the entire US is a gang warland? Naive, indeed. Prevalent? I'm sorry, I didn't get AK-47'd on my way to school like some others do in the Middle East. The bus that brought me back from a party didn't explode in a religious act to go to Heaven with the promise of a virgin harem. I wasn't shot just for breaking a rule "written" by a God but edited by humans.
Maybe PARTS of the U.S. are unsafe, but on the whole I feel pretty safe walking the streets, speaking my voice, and believing my own beliefs.
Darl McBryde: We'll have so much fun it should be illegal, like copyright infringement! Ho ho ho, okay Joe, see you at the ball game!
Until you stop paying, or the service dies.
I'd love to have more female opponents in fighting games. For some reason, a girl who can jump-in-HK standing+HP forward+LP into a quarter-circle-forward, half-circle-to-back+HP MAX SDM ending with a forward-down-downforward+LKx2 (one in air) is damned sexy.
Yikes! Confuse, but don't offend!
Virginia Tech != UVA
Yeah, it was F5, now I remember. It's been awhile. It doesn't help that the installer doesn't really tell you that exists, but I guess that's not something MS wants normal people fooling with or worrying about, just the power users.
Really? I guess I shouldn't trust info from random fansites. Lo siento
I've been a fan of SNK since I played Fatal Fury at a local arcade. After that, I would purchase most of their SNES porting efforts, even if those ports sucked because of extreme size-reduced sprites. Then the golden days came along with my Sega Saturn, importing classics like the King of Fighters Collector's Edition (95-97), Real Bout Fatal Fury collector's edition, Metal Slug, etc. Dreamcast came, and so did Last Blade 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and Capcom vs SNK, which was basically a dream-come-true for me.
Nowadays, though, the talent looks like it is pretty much gone. No more sweet arranged music for the home versions of KoF, and they're only just now switching to the Atomis Engine (Sammy's fighting game engine, seen in the extremely popular Guilty Gear series) to hopefully abandon the woeful graphics the series currently suffers from. Compare KoF 2000/2001 for the Playstation 2 to KoF 97 on the Saturn - they look the same, but the 97 version just has that added detail of polish, in presentation, music, etc. The hits seem harder, the desparation-moves look cooler, and it just adds to a more fun experience while playing.
Hopefully Playmore will remember that the little details help make a good gaming experience. Not stuff like giving Kim Kaphwan more frames of animation just because he's Korean [note: Playmore is Korean].
Back to playing my KoF97...hoping for a return of SNK's former glory.
1) Turning it off in BIOS, 2) During the start of the Win2k installer, where it says press F6 (or F8? I forget) to install third party drivers, you hit that button and then install "Standard PC."
I think you can do the same by changing the "ACPI-compliant computer" driver in Device Manager under "computer" to "Standard PC." Of course, this isn't recommended, as I believe it requires the reinstallation of a lot of drivers (maybe all?), and I don't even know if that works correctly, but one should always be open to experimentation I guess. :P
Aside from benchmarking Word for Mac against Word for Windows of all things, what does this actually prove? That Macs don't run software as well as Windows does when it comes to software that has been available for Windows longer? I'd be more interested in a price comparison between the systems.
No software-RAID setup on the Mac? Why RAID on the other machines?
Seems kind of one-sided.
It is quite the fashion statement :)
(Excuse the blurriness and poor lighting - crappy cam and crappy dorm lighting)
As a CS student at VT, I received word of it days ago - Hello all, This email is to serve as invitation and notice of impending Terascale Facility assembly assistance. For those receiving this info for the first time know that Virginia Tech is building a top 10 supercomputer from scratch and we need your assistance. We do have one stipulation to volunteerism and that is you must not be a wage employee of the university. Grad students on GTA/GRA are fine as well as others outside the university that may wish to volunteer. We are expecting to receive machines next week!!! Yikes! In preparation for the assembly process, we need to get volunteers together at the AISB (Andrews Information Systems Building), 1700 Pratt Dr., this weekend. We are planning to have a process orientation session start at 10:00 AM on Saturday, August 30, and last no longer than an hour. We can give you a few more details about the project if you show up and have not been before. :-)
Something that is easy to pick up is not inherently shallow. Play a game like Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Super Smash Bros Melee, hell even Tetris. Controls are simple to pick up, fun to play, easy to learn, but it is tough to master such games, and there is an extreme amount of depth hidden to be found by the not-so-remedial game players.
Easy to pick up, tough to master - a simple game that's fun to play. That's why today's "current crop" games seem to suck more ass than before.
The difference between a good player and a "remedial" one is not the ability to read a fucking manual to learn all 400 ways to buy an item - it is being able to pick up on all the rules one can "bend" or take advantage of very quickly while playing the game. Parent is stupid, next post please.
Or you can always do scripting. It is fun trying to do weird things when you're scripting, because you learn what boo boos are and you become a tad bit innovative getting around certain issues.
But it is easier to read something someone has printed out after having typed it up on a keyboard rather than trying to figure out whether they make i's look like e's or l's. If I need a mathematical notation I can just add it with my wacom tablet.
I still do handwriting, though, just never for anything other than note-taking. My handwriting is done in such a way that I can understand it just fine. I use symbols here and there that nobody really knows what they mean, but let me understand what I was thinking at that time. I always rework my homework to pdf and print as often as I can.
Personally, I have a sense of apathy toward losing cursive. As long as I can sign my name that's all the cursive I'll ever do in my lifetime.
Yes! Hopefully my college's sysadmin will be nice enough to make Kazaa so slow that people will stop installing that spyware-infested, OS-breaking POS software, so that I (being a dorm's paid computer janitor) won't have to fix their computer later on :P
Now, if something could be done about stopping those fine young college girls inadvertantly running attacks on their campus's servers? :P
(Now that I think about it, I don't mind the girls needing help so much as the dumb college guys spilling beer on their laptop's keyboard...)
A week ago I saw a banner ad for SCO Unix on the top of the front page...
If I knew how to get around the bank's "security," would it be right of me to rob them?
If a bank has crappy security, does that mean the bank is responsible if someone robs the bank? I dare you to deny this!
Just because you can rob the bank, just because you can hack the server, doesn't mean it is the fault of the bank, or fault of the server-provider, if you do.
The difference between your car exploding tale and this is that the people who "crashed into you" (ie hacked the server) knew what was going to happen.
If I were to spot one of the cars you mentioned, and blatantly crash into it only because I knew the gas tank would explode, I would have some liability in what I have done. Likewise, the hackers knew what was going to happen when they hacked the server and (comically, I might add - hackers tend to have a sense of humor) teleport everybody to the sea.
There's a difference in accidentally causing someone's "car" to "explode" and purposely causing it.