At least I can back up my saved game progress on a PC, which can't be done on a console.
What is this "can't" you speak of, where have you been for the past 18 years. There are these things called memory cards...the PSone (and other consoles like the Saturn and Neo Geo) had them in 1995.
The PS2 also had them in 2000.
In 2006, not only did the PS3 have a built in hard drive for game saves and content..it also has USB ports for external storage and a device that let you copy your saves to and from the PS3 and those PS1/PS2 memory cards. Some PS3 models also have a built in card reader. The PS3 also eventually supported cloud storage.
yes, but he does have the Shatner Softness in the voice...that sort of compensates. And he's the right height. I must admit I was looking for the girdle under the uniform.
Yes, but his voice is all WRONG! And he didn't do the eyebrow thing! Eomer in the Abrams films did a better job of portraying McCoy's curmudgeonlyness.
Yep, wondered if they were going to try some kind of voice synthesis using Majel's samples but they did one better.....Lwaxana's daughter.
It really wasn't bad at all, a little cheesy, but TOS was a little cheesy. And how did they get the set to look so perfect, the lighting was spot on. Did they gaussian blur the ladies?
I was not, however fond of the Bones portrayal, not curmudgeonly and gravelly enough. Also Uhura seemed a bit off...until she sang, then I realized why they went with her....she can sing. They also used her first name.
In regards to the primitive Holodeck as has been said, TAS had it. IIRC some of the novels have also mentioned it.
I did notice the women's boots were not consistent in style, but otherwise the costumes were fairly spot on.
It seems to depend on browser. I tried it in Firefox and it was slow and I didn't have the status display or music. In Chrome it seemed fullspeed and I had status display and music.
2.8GHz Athlon II X2, Nvidia GT220 using the driver from RPMfusion on Fedora 19.
The problem with aspect ratios is people setting their TV's and cable/satellite boxes wrong. You want the TV set to Normal, not zoom or panoramic or anything else. And you want the cable box set to send the program using the program's aspect ratio without alteration. Then 4:3 programs are 4:3 and 16:9 are 16:9.
But too many people have their boxes hooked up via RF so that the box will only output 4:3 480i and then set their TV's to stretch it.....facepalms
Looking at videos on Youtube I've come to the conclusion that even with a lot of practice one would never be as fast on a PS3 controller as with a K&M.
You will want to Practice more. PC Gamers do tend to be ham-fisted by my standards and haven't really developed their finger dexterity in ways that work well with a Dual Shock.
Still, if the game supports it, plug in a USB mouse and use it for aiming, but use the dual shock for moving. That works VERY well.
Yes. I've been plugging in keyboards and mice into PS2's/PS3's since 2002.
What your issues really are:
1 Why don't developers code in support for them.
The reason they don't do that is because they believe that console gamers don't really care about keyboard and mouse support for most games, and in fact, they don't.
2. Why don't they make mouse/keyboard centric games like turn based games.
Because #1 says that console gamers don't want those games. It also doesn't help that the companies that make such games tend to be very "PC platform partisan" especially those in Europe. Most of them haven't had to write efficient code since the C64/Atari 8 bit days. They've been doing x86 only games for so long they simply don't know how to do anything else, and most of them don't even want to try because they think it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Tom Clancy? The guy who thought that throwing as many acronym's and jargon into a paragraph as he could was good writing? His books, especially the recent ones, were Fetish fuel for right wing engineers who read Janes.
Valve at the moment have the only console that at launch will run every movie file you have lying around.
Don't tell me you ripped all those MKV's, Pirate.
If those Russian pirates weren't such jerks trying to prove their l33tness, they'd use proper MPEG4 containers that the consumer devices support instead of their own "Oh let's make something incompatible that you can't use on consumer electronics because we hate mass market stuff"
They could definitely make the pitch that the console may be $800 with all the controllers, but most of the games are under $20 instead of $60-80 a pop.
Australia? That's the only place I know of that uses a $ sign where games cost more than $59.95.
Here in the states there's basically 5 price points
Full price $59.95 Some games at $49.95 Some other games release at $39.95 Some titles discounted to $29.95 And then budget titles at $19.95
I would consider that elastic.
Also there is this thing called PSN, which has regular sales, discounts, and budget games.
We first had this argument a couple of centuries ago, a strong central government is simply more capable than a "Confederation" or...when we had the argument again, a "Confederacy"
Ha, there were companies selling Ag-network services to farmers in 1984
The guy who taught the "computer" classes at my high school (who was the ag teacher), which were basically a little basic and word processing/spreadsheet use on CBM 8032's, brought his C64 in to show us how he used it to access some kind of ag-centric network in early 84. He had a Hayes Smartmodem 1200, which may have cost him more than that C64!
Covers everything, ftp, gopher, veronica, archie, email, email_to_foo gateways, PGP, WAIS. The WWW is covered in two chapters, with the second focusing on the graphical web, total of 67 pages for both chapters. The authors said it had the potential to bring everything else under one easy to use umbrella as a swiss-army knife of the Internet.
I think I first touched the internet in late 98 or early 99, at the computer lab of the local community college satellite campus. Found out about their machines when I dropped my wheelchair using mother at GED classes. If memory serves me correctly they were PII 233's with 32MB RAM running Netscape Communicator on WinNT. 4.0 Netscape would crash if you looked at it funny. There was only 1 local ISP until spring of 99 which was ran by a local printing/graphics company and a lot of people didn't have access until there was competition from another local company which eventually ended up as part of Earthlink. If memory serves me well, AOL didn't even have a local access number until AFTER the cable company began offering broadband in late 2001 early 2002.
Slashdot Mirror
You can still install the newer version on Google Play if your tablet came installed with the old QuickOffice HD, I just did it on a Dell Streak 7.
then a C-note a game.
Games do not cost $100.
At least I can back up my saved game progress on a PC, which can't be done on a console.
What is this "can't" you speak of, where have you been for the past 18 years. There are these things called memory cards...the PSone (and other consoles like the Saturn and Neo Geo) had them in 1995.
The PS2 also had them in 2000.
In 2006, not only did the PS3 have a built in hard drive for game saves and content..it also has USB ports for external storage and a device that let you copy your saves to and from the PS3 and those PS1/PS2 memory cards. Some PS3 models also have a built in card reader. The PS3 also eventually supported cloud storage.
yes, but he does have the Shatner Softness in the voice...that sort of compensates. And he's the right height. I must admit I was looking for the girdle under the uniform.
All captains should have a hot redhead...or be a hot redhead (in Janeway's case)
Yes, but his voice is all WRONG! And he didn't do the eyebrow thing! Eomer in the Abrams films did a better job of portraying McCoy's curmudgeonlyness.
Yep, wondered if they were going to try some kind of voice synthesis using Majel's samples but they did one better.....Lwaxana's daughter.
It really wasn't bad at all, a little cheesy, but TOS was a little cheesy. And how did they get the set to look so perfect, the lighting was spot on. Did they gaussian blur the ladies?
I was not, however fond of the Bones portrayal, not curmudgeonly and gravelly enough. Also Uhura seemed a bit off...until she sang, then I realized why they went with her....she can sing. They also used her first name.
In regards to the primitive Holodeck as has been said, TAS had it. IIRC some of the novels have also mentioned it.
I did notice the women's boots were not consistent in style, but otherwise the costumes were fairly spot on.
Which is why for any kind of fictional thing i often head to TVTropes before checking out Wikipedia.
Oh, I do that as well, nice to know I'm not the only one. But....TVTropes will ruin your life.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
Or at least increase the number of open tabs you have.
Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/609/
It seems to depend on browser. I tried it in Firefox and it was slow and I didn't have the status display or music. In Chrome it seemed fullspeed and I had status display and music.
2.8GHz Athlon II X2, Nvidia GT220 using the driver from RPMfusion on Fedora 19.
The problem with aspect ratios is people setting their TV's and cable/satellite boxes wrong. You want the TV set to Normal, not zoom or panoramic or anything else. And you want the cable box set to send the program using the program's aspect ratio without alteration. Then 4:3 programs are 4:3 and 16:9 are 16:9.
But too many people have their boxes hooked up via RF so that the box will only output 4:3 480i and then set their TV's to stretch it.....facepalms
Looking at videos on Youtube I've come to the conclusion that even with a lot of practice one would never be as fast on a PS3 controller as with a K&M.
You will want to Practice more. PC Gamers do tend to be ham-fisted by my standards and haven't really developed their finger dexterity in ways that work well with a Dual Shock.
Still, if the game supports it, plug in a USB mouse and use it for aiming, but use the dual shock for moving. That works VERY well.
What we really want is a Mouse-type look with a stick like movement.
You got a PS1/PS2/PS3? Any FPS with mouse support on those...also lets you use a dual shock alongside it for movement.
As you said, best of both worlds and my preferred way of playing an FPS on console.
I was surprised about that too. Didn't Blizzard developers ever check out any of the Snowblind engine games which DO have that feature?
Yes. I've been plugging in keyboards and mice into PS2's/PS3's since 2002.
What your issues really are:
1 Why don't developers code in support for them.
The reason they don't do that is because they believe that console gamers don't really care about keyboard and mouse support for most games, and in fact, they don't.
2. Why don't they make mouse/keyboard centric games like turn based games.
Because #1 says that console gamers don't want those games. It also doesn't help that the companies that make such games tend to be very "PC platform partisan" especially those in Europe. Most of them haven't had to write efficient code since the C64/Atari 8 bit days. They've been doing x86 only games for so long they simply don't know how to do anything else, and most of them don't even want to try because they think it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Tom Clancy? The guy who thought that throwing as many acronym's and jargon into a paragraph as he could was good writing? His books, especially the recent ones, were Fetish fuel for right wing engineers who read Janes.
Valve at the moment have the only console that at launch will run every movie file you have lying around.
Don't tell me you ripped all those MKV's, Pirate.
If those Russian pirates weren't such jerks trying to prove their l33tness, they'd use proper MPEG4 containers that the consumer devices support instead of their own "Oh let's make something incompatible that you can't use on consumer electronics because we hate mass market stuff"
Why the "boxes" never added an option for KB/mouse is beyond me. That's been an argument against them from day one.
They do! Why do you think the PS2 and PS3 have USB ports....they're there for a reason.
They could definitely make the pitch that the console may be $800 with all the controllers, but most of the games are under $20 instead of $60-80 a pop.
Australia? That's the only place I know of that uses a $ sign where games cost more than $59.95.
Here in the states there's basically 5 price points
Full price $59.95
Some games at $49.95
Some other games release at $39.95
Some titles discounted to $29.95
And then budget titles at $19.95
I would consider that elastic.
Also there is this thing called PSN, which has regular sales, discounts, and budget games.
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
Lynx? Lynx is a screen mode browser with better UI, what you want is "www" which is the actual line mode browser.
The browser that CERN created first on their NeXt machine, called WorldWideWeb, had image support.
The line mode browser was created for less capable machines.
On Fedora, in your favorite terminal:
yum install w3c-libwww-apps
www http://www.site.foo/
We first had this argument a couple of centuries ago, a strong central government is simply more capable than a "Confederation" or...when we had the argument again, a "Confederacy"
Ha, there were companies selling Ag-network services to farmers in 1984
The guy who taught the "computer" classes at my high school (who was the ag teacher), which were basically a little basic and word processing/spreadsheet use on CBM 8032's, brought his C64 in to show us how he used it to access some kind of ag-centric network in early 84. He had a Hayes Smartmodem 1200, which may have cost him more than that C64!
I have one that's called "Navigating the Internet".
http://books.google.com/books/about/Navigating_the_internet.html?id=xh0-pXnRe6sC
Covers everything, ftp, gopher, veronica, archie, email, email_to_foo gateways, PGP, WAIS. The WWW is covered in two chapters, with the second focusing on the graphical web, total of 67 pages for both chapters. The authors said it had the potential to bring everything else under one easy to use umbrella as a swiss-army knife of the Internet.
I think I first touched the internet in late 98 or early 99, at the computer lab of the local community college satellite campus. Found out about their machines when I dropped my wheelchair using mother at GED classes. If memory serves me correctly they were PII 233's with 32MB RAM running Netscape Communicator on WinNT. 4.0 Netscape would crash if you looked at it funny. There was only 1 local ISP until spring of 99 which was ran by a local printing/graphics company and a lot of people didn't have access until there was competition from another local company which eventually ended up as part of Earthlink. If memory serves me well, AOL didn't even have a local access number until AFTER the cable company began offering broadband in late 2001 early 2002.
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com
Might want to install the OverbiteFF extension for the best experience, otherwise you get that http to gopher proxy.
http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/