Actually, the proposed bill on violent games would prevent such depraved acts as "dissection" of itself by anyone under the age of 21 without the presence of a parent or guardian. Any minors found dissecting such bills would be fined $5000 and sentenced to 15 hours of community service, scratching X's into original, non-censored copies of GTA: San Andreas.
"About nine months ago the motor overheated on our dryer while the house cleaner was here. I asked her how many loads of landry she had done that morning and she said three. I took her back to my office and fired up the software and told her she had done four and wow, there was a significant current surge when the motor gave out. She was also not particularly impressed and she now asks me every time she wants to use something in the house (not a good thing)."
"Hauppauge's PVR line of cards has held the crown for hardware MPEG2 TV tuner cards for the past few years, and while the PVR-150MCE l.p. has low CPU utilization and the quickest initialization and channel change times, its image quality is clearly lacking. The bundle could also use a DVD decoder to meet Media Center Edition 2005's compatibility requirements. Still, it's the only true low profile card in the round-up, and at $67 online, it's certainly affordable.
The TV Wonder Elite is a new contender in the hardware MPEG2 TV tuner market, and ATI has packaged the Elite as an all-inclusive solution that comes with everything you need to transform your PC into a personal video recorder. With low CPU utilization, good image quality, and an excellent remote control, it's a pretty slick solution. However the bundled PowerCinema software seems like a step backwards from ATI's old Multimedia Center, and it doesn't even come close to the functionality of Media Center Edition 2005. At $133 online, the TV Wonder Elite is by far the most expensive tuner in this round-up. You get what you pay for, though; the remote alone is worth $50.
eVGA NVTV
April 2005
Surprisingly, the best image quality comes from the least expensive tuner, eVGA's $65 NVTV. The card's bundled NVDVD decoder also makes the card ready to run with Media Center out of the box, provided you have a DirectX 9 graphics card. That's something the other cards lack. The NVTV does have its shortcomings. The card's CPU utilization tends to be a little higher than the others, although not by a significant enough margin to cause concern. The driver bug that plagued our Athlon 64 test system is also a cause for concern, although the card had no issues with our Intel test platform.
Overall, it's hard to come up with a verdict. The PVR-150MCE l.p. is easy to discount due to its comparatively poor image quality. Although the TV Wonder Elite has great image quality, works flawlessly, and comes with a swanky remote, it costs twice as much as the competition. The eVGA NVTV, which also has low CPU utilization and great image quality, runs only $62 online and comes bundled with the NVDVD decoder, making it perfect for Media Center Edition and thus our Editor's Choice. Just keep in mind that if you have an Athlon 64 system with a VIA chipset, you might want to avoid the NVTV until NVIDIA resolves its issues with that platform."
I HAVE THAT GAME! It was one of those Tiger electronic handheld games made in the 1980s. I even remember the sound effect when you beat Dracula. it went like this:
"DOOT. doo doo DOOT."
Of course, that was also the "Game Over" sound effect when you lost. Those Tiger electronics handhelds were pretty limited...
...you slipstream sp1 & sp2 onto a bootable window xp disk...
SP2 already includes all the SP1 patches, so you only have to slipstream the newer service pack, or possibly save the trouble and find an already slipstreamed CD image...
yeah, that's admirable and all, but how about this one: "even if I have to scour the p2p networks to see it!" Now that's BELIEVABLE as well as admirable!
So you're telling me that the gameplay is not directly affected by the graphics in a game like Rez for the PS2, where the entire gaming is a matter of presentation, a mixture of unique sounds and vector-type graphics? What, that game was too obscure an example for you? Then try this one on for size: the Doom 3 engine's per-pixel lighting and shadowing allows for an immersive gameplay environment since the player is constantly forced to decide whether to carry a flashlight to illuminate dark areas or to have a weapon in hand to fend off unseen enemies.
These two games are just off the top of my head; there are many, many games that use graphics as a way to enhance gameplay. graphics are important, and they are the main reason we're not still playing games on the NES.
There is an article over at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called The video game faithful have reason to rejoice over sequels that talks about videogame sequels. At the bottom of the article is a list of upcoming games, with the disclaimer "not all are sequels". Actually, in one way or another, they ALL are. Let's go through it game by game:
Shrek 2 - not sure if it's a direct sequel, but there are about a dozen games based on the first film, including Shrek: Super party and Shrek Extra Large.
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain - sequel to Syphon Filter 1, 2 and 3 for the Playstation 1.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure - semisequel/spinoff to a Gameboy advance game, which in turn was a remake of the Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
DRIV3R - sequel to Driver 2 and Driver for the Playstation 1.
Spider-man 2" - sequel to Spider-man 1.
Karaoke revolution 2 - sequel to Karaoke Revolution.
Pikmin 2 - sequel to Pikmin.
Headhunter: Redemption - sequel to Headhunter.
Madden NFL 2005 - the next sequel in the longest running sports series in all of videogames.
Half-Life 2 - sequel to Half-Life on the PC.
Ratchet and Clank: Up your Arsenal - the 3rd game in the R&C series.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - the 3rd game in the Grand Theft Auto III series (there were earlier games, GTA and GTA2, but they are very primitive the newer games are not really direct successors to the older games).
Metal gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 3rd in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Bloodrayne 2 - sequel to Bloodrayne.
Silent Hill 4: The Room - fourth in the Silent Hill series.
Kingdom Hearts 2 - sequel to Kingdom Hearts.
Jak III - 3rd in the series.
Need for Speed Underground 2 - 2nd in the NFS Underground series.
Dungeon Siege 2 - sequel to Dungeon Siege.
Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires - 4rth in the Dynasty Wariors series.
State of Emergency 2 - sequel to State of Emergency.
In the preceding list all but two are direct sequels, the exceptions being Shrek 2, which is a game based on a licensed property (the original Shrek movie also having many games based upon it), and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, which is a spinoff/semisequel to the Gameboy Advance version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which itself is a remake of the Super Nintendo game of the same name.
Not an orginal idea as far as the eye can see. The big publishers can't afford to have a high-profile game flop due to multi-million dollar budgets and 3-5year development cycles. The videogame industry has become a mirror image of the movie and music industry, as they ignore creativity in favor of dependability. And that, my friend, is the state of the industry today.
"The messages -- like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine -- flash before your eyes at 180th of a second. It's too fast for the eyes to notice, but not the brain."
Drat, i cant find a good link about about these glasses, i saw them before at skool and they help you remember what people said!
Bittorrent is currently the most viable legal method for large scale P2P. Just look at the networktraffic that a site can sustain using Bittorrent's "swarm" download method. With it, a relatively small site can host a half-gigabyte file and transfer 1.31 terabytes of data!
On the other hand we see how the traditional client/server system can break down if it has a significant user base and not enough bandwidth. The new Steam client hasn't allowed me to connect to a game since I installed it six hours ago. Who knows how much more data could have been transferred if all the Steam users were connected to each other and sharing their cache through a P2P network?
The next step in P2P would be to combine the swarm downloading of Bittorrent with a persistent P2P network like Edonkey2000. The Achilles Heel of Bittorrent is that it can only transfer one file at a time, and the only way to download multiple files is to open multiple instances of Bittorrent, which drains upload speed, a precious commodity among home broadband users. Some work is being done towards this goal but it currently deals with upload rates for individual downloads, and doesn't manage multiple downloads.
P2P is definitely the future, and I predict its popularity will continue to rise as more consumers sign up for broadband and start sucking down large media files like full albums and movies from corporate sites who aren't prepared for the broadband explosion.
...the UN teaches a handful of Afghanis some Linux and the first thing they do is swamp/. with GNAA posts. There is no limit to the wonders of technology!
The technology is not an end in and of itself, but a means to better gameplay. That's why I'm looking forward to Doom III; it's engine will allow unprecedented freedom of design to developers making the Next Big Thing.
And old technology does not mean bad games. Download the demo forMoonbase Commander, which came out last year and runs fine on a 486, and see for yourself.
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Hi-fricking-larious, mod parent way up!
Actually, the proposed bill on violent games would prevent such depraved acts as "dissection" of itself by anyone under the age of 21 without the presence of a parent or guardian. Any minors found dissecting such bills would be fined $5000 and sentenced to 15 hours of community service, scratching X's into original, non-censored copies of GTA: San Andreas.
The Army Corps of Engineers is working on better flood detection and protection, and anyone with expertise in this area could contact them and lend a hand.
No, they'll just release it 6 months later than they originally planned (see Collateral Damage.)
Here is a link that explains the basics of computer hardware; I think that it's a good companion piece to the RAID article: http://www.angelfire.com/rings/judy_patch/
"About nine months ago the motor overheated on our dryer while the house cleaner was here. I asked her how many loads of landry she had done that morning and she said three. I took her back to my office and fired up the software and told her she had done four and wow, there was a significant current surge when the motor gave out. She was also not particularly impressed and she now asks me every time she wants to use something in the house (not a good thing)."
Uh, can someone say backfired? Women.
"Hauppauge's PVR line of cards has held the crown for hardware MPEG2 TV tuner cards for the past few years, and while the PVR-150MCE l.p. has low CPU utilization and the quickest initialization and channel change times, its image quality is clearly lacking. The bundle could also use a DVD decoder to meet Media Center Edition 2005's compatibility requirements. Still, it's the only true low profile card in the round-up, and at $67 online, it's certainly affordable.
The TV Wonder Elite is a new contender in the hardware MPEG2 TV tuner market, and ATI has packaged the Elite as an all-inclusive solution that comes with everything you need to transform your PC into a personal video recorder. With low CPU utilization, good image quality, and an excellent remote control, it's a pretty slick solution. However the bundled PowerCinema software seems like a step backwards from ATI's old Multimedia Center, and it doesn't even come close to the functionality of Media Center Edition 2005. At $133 online, the TV Wonder Elite is by far the most expensive tuner in this round-up. You get what you pay for, though; the remote alone is worth $50.
eVGA NVTV April 2005 Surprisingly, the best image quality comes from the least expensive tuner, eVGA's $65 NVTV. The card's bundled NVDVD decoder also makes the card ready to run with Media Center out of the box, provided you have a DirectX 9 graphics card. That's something the other cards lack. The NVTV does have its shortcomings. The card's CPU utilization tends to be a little higher than the others, although not by a significant enough margin to cause concern. The driver bug that plagued our Athlon 64 test system is also a cause for concern, although the card had no issues with our Intel test platform.
Overall, it's hard to come up with a verdict. The PVR-150MCE l.p. is easy to discount due to its comparatively poor image quality. Although the TV Wonder Elite has great image quality, works flawlessly, and comes with a swanky remote, it costs twice as much as the competition. The eVGA NVTV, which also has low CPU utilization and great image quality, runs only $62 online and comes bundled with the NVDVD decoder, making it perfect for Media Center Edition and thus our Editor's Choice. Just keep in mind that if you have an Athlon 64 system with a VIA chipset, you might want to avoid the NVTV until NVIDIA resolves its issues with that platform."
If you did that in a theater in my neighborhood you would get a few multicolored contusions.
...I guess I was wrong.
Leave John Carmack out of this. He's a coder, not a biter.
Now I can watch those movies that I'm too embarrassed to let the mailman deliver. Anal Assassins 5, you're next in the queue!
Where's my movie deal?
"DOOT. doo doo DOOT."
Of course, that was also the "Game Over" sound effect when you lost. Those Tiger electronics handhelds were pretty limited...
SP2 already includes all the SP1 patches, so you only have to slipstream the newer service pack, or possibly save the trouble and find an already slipstreamed CD image...
They don't care.
yeah, that's admirable and all, but how about this one: "even if I have to scour the p2p networks to see it!" Now that's BELIEVABLE as well as admirable!
So you're telling me that the gameplay is not directly affected by the graphics in a game like Rez for the PS2, where the entire gaming is a matter of presentation, a mixture of unique sounds and vector-type graphics? What, that game was too obscure an example for you? Then try this one on for size: the Doom 3 engine's per-pixel lighting and shadowing allows for an immersive gameplay environment since the player is constantly forced to decide whether to carry a flashlight to illuminate dark areas or to have a weapon in hand to fend off unseen enemies.
These two games are just off the top of my head; there are many, many games that use graphics as a way to enhance gameplay. graphics are important, and they are the main reason we're not still playing games on the NES.
Shrek 2 - not sure if it's a direct sequel, but there are about a dozen games based on the first film, including Shrek: Super party and Shrek Extra Large.
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain - sequel to Syphon Filter 1, 2 and 3 for the Playstation 1.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure - semisequel/spinoff to a Gameboy advance game, which in turn was a remake of the Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
DRIV3R - sequel to Driver 2 and Driver for the Playstation 1.
Spider-man 2" - sequel to Spider-man 1.
Karaoke revolution 2 - sequel to Karaoke Revolution.
Pikmin 2 - sequel to Pikmin.
Headhunter: Redemption - sequel to Headhunter.
Madden NFL 2005 - the next sequel in the longest running sports series in all of videogames.
Half-Life 2 - sequel to Half-Life on the PC.
Ratchet and Clank: Up your Arsenal - the 3rd game in the R&C series.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - the 3rd game in the Grand Theft Auto III series (there were earlier games, GTA and GTA2, but they are very primitive the newer games are not really direct successors to the older games).
Metal gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 3rd in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Bloodrayne 2 - sequel to Bloodrayne.
Silent Hill 4: The Room - fourth in the Silent Hill series.
Kingdom Hearts 2 - sequel to Kingdom Hearts.
Jak III - 3rd in the series.
Need for Speed Underground 2 - 2nd in the NFS Underground series.
Dungeon Siege 2 - sequel to Dungeon Siege.
Dynasty Warriors 4: Empires - 4rth in the Dynasty Wariors series.
State of Emergency 2 - sequel to State of Emergency.
In the preceding list all but two are direct sequels, the exceptions being Shrek 2, which is a game based on a licensed property (the original Shrek movie also having many games based upon it), and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, which is a spinoff/semisequel to the Gameboy Advance version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which itself is a remake of the Super Nintendo game of the same name.
Not an orginal idea as far as the eye can see. The big publishers can't afford to have a high-profile game flop due to multi-million dollar budgets and 3-5year development cycles. The videogame industry has become a mirror image of the movie and music industry, as they ignore creativity in favor of dependability. And that, my friend, is the state of the industry today.
Can I save this this list as an html file and burn it to CD and distribute it legally?
Drat, i cant find a good link about about these glasses, i saw them before at skool and they help you remember what people said!
On the other hand we see how the traditional client/server system can break down if it has a significant user base and not enough bandwidth. The new Steam client hasn't allowed me to connect to a game since I installed it six hours ago. Who knows how much more data could have been transferred if all the Steam users were connected to each other and sharing their cache through a P2P network?
The next step in P2P would be to combine the swarm downloading of Bittorrent with a persistent P2P network like Edonkey2000. The Achilles Heel of Bittorrent is that it can only transfer one file at a time, and the only way to download multiple files is to open multiple instances of Bittorrent, which drains upload speed, a precious commodity among home broadband users. Some work is being done towards this goal but it currently deals with upload rates for individual downloads, and doesn't manage multiple downloads.
P2P is definitely the future, and I predict its popularity will continue to rise as more consumers sign up for broadband and start sucking down large media files like full albums and movies from corporate sites who aren't prepared for the broadband explosion.
...the UN teaches a handful of Afghanis some Linux and the first thing they do is swamp /. with GNAA posts. There is no limit to the wonders of technology!
That's the system requirements for the game, not my current system! Who do you think I am, Jeff K?!
Both GTA III and Vice City used the Renderware engine, as do many successful games.
The technology is not an end in and of itself, but a means to better gameplay. That's why I'm looking forward to Doom III; it's engine will allow unprecedented freedom of design to developers making the Next Big Thing.
And old technology does not mean bad games. Download the demo forMoonbase Commander, which came out last year and runs fine on a 486, and see for yourself.