I don't live in the US and keep seeing the term 'blackout' in comments.
Does this mean that if you live in an area 'near' any games stadium, then you can't watch it on TV because you should be paying money to watch it in real life?
That seems like a ridiculous idea and can't really believe that the broadcaster would do something like that, but it appears that's what's being said. no?
Licensee and developer are tw different things, a licensee will take a nintendo license and make a game with it, for example Rare with Starfox Adventures or Amusement Vision with F-Zero GX.
A developer will develop their own games, like any of the Gamecube games that aren't based on existing Nintendo franchises.
I think it's pretty reasonable to be picky about who you leave in charge of updating what is most likely an established series.
From what I know, modern CS degrees aren't as useful, often concentrating on high level program design and construction, whereas games require a lot more low level stuff.
That's not to say that there are no good CS courses about though.
That view is based a lot on my my uni and what I know of other uni's courses. I'm studying Games Tech at Abertay where that course is generally noted as one of the most demanding in the whole uni, a magnitude above the CS course. Although that might just suggest that our CS course is crap.
A games company may well look at CS students as viable, but more and more the games degrees are becoming important, not only for the stuff that you learn but also for the fact that finishing a 3/4 year course shows that you have some sort of dedication to your chosen profession.
Here in Japan I get a 50M ADSL line for 4,122 after tax, that's approximately GB£20 or US$40. I reckon that's a good deal, on top I get an ipPhone conncetion for an extra 1,000 so all my calls cost pennies too.
The GP post is a pretty good idea. But to say that the open source community is only Linux users is, well, wrong. It's mostly Linux, and they wouldnt care, but there's a lot of windows oss and users out there too.
Something run along the lines of Bug-me-not could work, start it off as a plugin for ffox and if it works it'll likely get amalgamated into a later release like some of the other popular plugins.
Anyone can submit a site/ip, ideally by a menu/toolbar button, then once a particular site/ip has n flags up it can get checked by a real person, or the checking/flagging can happen simuletaneously. There'd have to be some way to stop legitimate sites being attacked by competitors, but otherwise it could work. If you try to visit a site like this you just get a white page that says "The scamalert plugin has identified this page as possibly unsafe beacuse of $reason, do you really want to visit it? ", or you could have an option just to block them completely.
We'd just have to trust the (probably non-linux) community to do the right thing in submitting/checking sites.
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pretend that last bit's not all in bold there.
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The rest of the world.
You think I'd base any on slashdot's views?
One of Sony's markets is the most likely to commit piracy, I cant think of a demography, but I'd call them chav/scum/bams, the kids that do sweet f.a. with their lives live on council estates pissing off everyone, spend their free time drinking and pissing everyone off.
People that dont give a shit about how or where games/movies/anything comes from, and often dont care about the quality either, just as long as they can get it cheap/free. The people that the (large scale) pirates target.
The people who wouldnt buy a GC, cos it's 'kiddie', the people who dont buy an XBOX cos its not cool enough, the people that didnt buy a DC until they discovered how piss easy it was to rip off the games.
Yes, thses are really broad generalisations, and no, i've not got any sources atm, but I cant be arsed lookiing it up for someone else, and I don't care anymore.
I quite liked the Extreme-G games, other than that... nope, there aren't many.
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PS2, need I say more?
It's pretty well acknowledged that one of the biggest 'selling points' for many is that PS/PS2 games are easy as anything to rip off. I could ask any almost normal person with a PS2 where to get golddisk games and they'd know. Maybe not from the internet, but local markets, dodgy shops, a guy in the pub etc. The same places people get their 'pre-release' videos and DVDs.
Apparently first devices will be available 2005, not many other details than that on their site. Other than that the devices need a special reciever as part of / attatched to the battery.
Not sure if this is related to what you were looking for, but SplashPower are making 'charging pads' that charge any (electrical) device as long as the battery is fitted with a kind of reciever. Unavailable in shops at the moment though, although apparently they're working with some unnamed companies for launch in 2005.
America (assuming that's where you are) must be really behind with phones.
I had an IR remote* on my uk 7650 just less than 2 years ago, admittedly then it was still in beta and only worked with a few tvs and my stereo, but for at least a year it's been as universal as anything, plus if you can find the data files on the net, you can configure it for any device.
And that method of paying has been around in the UK for as long as i care to remember too, at first it was by charging you loads for a text message, eg. pick a ring tone and send a text message to a premium number, they send you a wap d/l link. but since wap was re-branded with Vodaphone Live! et al, that's the standard way to pay for things.
Here in Japan, well the Amazon thing will definitely be convenient, although the shops might not like it so much if everyone scans their own bar codes, orders from Amazon in the shop and leaves without buying anything from there:/
They're not that really that flimsy, I've played with them in te shops here, and I can say thet they feel like bricks. Maybe because they're small, but they weigh a lot more than they look like the should. In a mano-a-mano fight, the Vaio would beat the iPod just by lying on top of it.
Grand Theft Auto is, and always has been made in Scotland, why do so many people instantly presume it's American? It makes so much fun of american culture that it would probably be branded unpatriotic if it was made there.
(I know it's been said, probably in every post above this, but..)
To do this the Gimp needs to become nicer to use for the gimp newbs, I've used photoshop for ages, before that, I used Paint Shop Pro, the change from one to the tother wasn't painless, but it was still easy enough (ie. intuitive) to find out what I wanted to do.
However, any time I've used the gimp I stop after hardly any time, almost nothing makes sense. Maybe that's an exagguration, but that's exactly how it feels.
Of course people who learnt with the Gimp find it natural, that makes sense, I'm sure if I perciviered, so would I , but it would take a lot longer that the PSP->PS switch, and what for? not much really. PS is superior to PSP in that it's industry standard, more powerful(it is, although i've not looked at psp for a while) etc etc. Where does the gimp stand? it's free, that's the only real advantage I can think of for the normal PS user. personally I think most people are better off paying out for the usability of PS.
I'm aware that the Gimp's getting better, but for real acceptance I think it needs:
To be easy to migrate to from PS/PSP.
Thats it really, at the moment, the Gimp is not.
And to all the people saying you can fix the UI with a better window manager, that's useless to the masses(who you need). If you have to do something using a seperate program/utility to make the program you want to use better, it's not working like it should. Especially for a program not aimed at tech geeks.
That's my 2p.
Also, the name could be better.
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I don't live in the US and keep seeing the term 'blackout' in comments.
Does this mean that if you live in an area 'near' any games stadium, then you can't watch it on TV because you should be paying money to watch it in real life? That seems like a ridiculous idea and can't really believe that the broadcaster would do something like that, but it appears that's what's being said. no?
Well, what was it?! Don't leave us hanging!
I thought LARPing was pretty dorky, although a friend has described it as, "cross country pantomime", which sounds much more appealing.
Licensee and developer are tw different things, a licensee will take a nintendo license and make a game with it, for example Rare with Starfox Adventures or Amusement Vision with F-Zero GX.
A developer will develop their own games, like any of the Gamecube games that aren't based on existing Nintendo franchises.
I think it's pretty reasonable to be picky about who you leave in charge of updating what is most likely an established series.
Like this?
Pretty sure you can't buy new kits thesedays, but ebay might help you out.
Read the quote people:
...between 17 and 36 per cent cheaper than the in-house menu.
The parent was making an amusing statement by deliberately misinterpreting a typo, do you see?
Is that the XBOX that came out years after the Dreamcast?
That's not to say that there are no good CS courses about though.
That view is based a lot on my my uni and what I know of other uni's courses. I'm studying Games Tech at Abertay where that course is generally noted as one of the most demanding in the whole uni, a magnitude above the CS course. Although that might just suggest that our CS course is crap.
A games company may well look at CS students as viable, but more and more the games degrees are becoming important, not only for the stuff that you learn but also for the fact that finishing a 3/4 year course shows that you have some sort of dedication to your chosen profession.
Here in Japan I get a 50M ADSL line for 4,122 after tax, that's approximately GB£20 or US$40. I reckon that's a good deal, on top I get an ipPhone conncetion for an extra 1,000 so all my calls cost pennies too.
right now it only works for pre-rendering stuff (afaik), but it works on the principles that you're describing.
It's SFW, BTW, OMGROFLBBQ!!1*.
*yeah, I know, no need.
Something run along the lines of Bug-me-not could work, start it off as a plugin for ffox and if it works it'll likely get amalgamated into a later release like some of the other popular plugins.
Anyone can submit a site/ip, ideally by a menu/toolbar button, then once a particular site/ip has n flags up it can get checked by a real person, or the checking/flagging can happen simuletaneously. There'd have to be some way to stop legitimate sites being attacked by competitors, but otherwise it could work. If you try to visit a site like this you just get a white page that says "The scamalert plugin has identified this page as possibly unsafe beacuse of $reason, do you really want to visit it? ", or you could have an option just to block them completely.
We'd just have to trust the (probably non-linux) community to do the right thing in submitting/checking sites.
pretend that last bit's not all in bold there.
You think I'd base any on slashdot's views?
One of Sony's markets is the most likely to commit piracy, I cant think of a demography, but I'd call them chav/scum/bams, the kids that do sweet f.a. with their lives live on council estates pissing off everyone, spend their free time drinking and pissing everyone off. People that dont give a shit about how or where games/movies/anything comes from, and often dont care about the quality either, just as long as they can get it cheap/free. The people that the (large scale) pirates target.
The people who wouldnt buy a GC, cos it's 'kiddie', the people who dont buy an XBOX cos its not cool enough, the people that didnt buy a DC until they discovered how piss easy it was to rip off the games.
Yes, thses are really broad generalisations, and no, i've not got any sources atm, but I cant be arsed lookiing it up for someone else, and I don't care anymore.
I quite liked the Extreme-G games, other than that... nope, there aren't many.
PS2, need I say more?
It's pretty well acknowledged that one of the biggest 'selling points' for many is that PS/PS2 games are easy as anything to rip off. I could ask any almost normal person with a PS2 where to get golddisk games and they'd know. Maybe not from the internet, but local markets, dodgy shops, a guy in the pub etc. The same places people get their 'pre-release' videos and DVDs.
Or if you have the newest version, right click the username name field and pick bugmenot, it's all automatic!
yes.
Apparently first devices will be available 2005, not many other details than that on their site. Other than that the devices need a special reciever as part of / attatched to the battery.
Not sure if this is related to what you were looking for, but SplashPower are making 'charging pads' that charge any (electrical) device as long as the battery is fitted with a kind of reciever. Unavailable in shops at the moment though, although apparently they're working with some unnamed companies for launch in 2005.
Here in Japan, well the Amazon thing will definitely be convenient, although the shops might not like it so much if everyone scans their own bar codes, orders from Amazon in the shop and leaves without buying anything from there:/
Healthy competition I believe its called.
*imaginatively caller 'total IR remote'
They're not that really that flimsy, I've played with them in te shops here, and I can say thet they feel like bricks. Maybe because they're small, but they weigh a lot more than they look like the should. In a mano-a-mano fight, the Vaio would beat the iPod just by lying on top of it.
Grand Theft Auto is, and always has been made in Scotland, why do so many people instantly presume it's American? It makes so much fun of american culture that it would probably be branded unpatriotic if it was made there.
To do this the Gimp needs to become nicer to use for the gimp newbs, I've used photoshop for ages, before that, I used Paint Shop Pro, the change from one to the tother wasn't painless, but it was still easy enough (ie. intuitive) to find out what I wanted to do.
However, any time I've used the gimp I stop after hardly any time, almost nothing makes sense. Maybe that's an exagguration, but that's exactly how it feels.
Of course people who learnt with the Gimp find it natural, that makes sense, I'm sure if I perciviered, so would I , but it would take a lot longer that the PSP->PS switch, and what for? not much really. PS is superior to PSP in that it's industry standard, more powerful(it is, although i've not looked at psp for a while) etc etc. Where does the gimp stand? it's free, that's the only real advantage I can think of for the normal PS user. personally I think most people are better off paying out for the usability of PS.
I'm aware that the Gimp's getting better, but for real acceptance I think it needs:
To be easy to migrate to from PS/PSP.
Thats it really, at the moment, the Gimp is not. And to all the people saying you can fix the UI with a better window manager, that's useless to the masses(who you need). If you have to do something using a seperate program/utility to make the program you want to use better, it's not working like it should. Especially for a program not aimed at tech geeks. That's my 2p. Also, the name could be better.
I feel so cool for knowing that.