but you're supposed to share the precious gpg pubkeys! At one time, Slashdot made it easy to for slashdotters to share the precious pubkeys with a field in the profile for them. You can access them at http://slashdot.org/~username/..., but apparently they removed the field from the profile, so you can't change it if you revoke the old key and new users can't add theirs.
As for much of the rest of the world, you're probably going to get [citation needed] by way of response.
Yeah, they may grumble about the Five Eyes spying on absolutely everyone , but deep down they know what I said is true, even if they don't want to admit it.
It would depend on what it was running. I've ran Linux on the PS3 so I was able to make "some" comparisons. In my experience, yes, the PS3 was faster for some tasks. It was noticeable in the GIMP in particular. For some other tasks, it was slower, but not "that much" slower. Part of the problem was the RAM limit.
But there is a reason I rip CD's in the PS3 and not on this machine, the PS3 is faster.
And in the real world, people would be asking, "Why is it OK for the US government to commit exactly those same crimes and get away with it?"
It's quite simple, the USA is the World's watchdog and policeman. It keeps everyone else in line and tries to get rid of the worst of the bullies, barbarians and bandit lords. The USA may be a bit of a "jerk" itself, but who would you rather have running the world? The Five Eyes, or Russia or China. When push comes to shove, even the USA's critics would rather have the USA managing the show.
(since the PS4 doesn't, at least I don't think, support YouTube yet for content producers. You can watch YouTube videos, but you can't record with the PS4 and upload to YouTube. Though maybe the last update solved that).
The PS4 doesn't support direct upload to youtube directly on the PS4....yet. You can, thanks to that 1.70 update, save to the hard drive, transfer the file to USB storage, then attach that to a PC for youtube upload.
and all the free games in basic that came in the old magazine "Home and Office Computing" which became Family Computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computing)
You got that backwards, it was Family Computing first with the basic listings and game reviews and "full home computer coverage, not just covering x86 only"...and then later became Family and Home office computing, adding more articles for the "wannabe home-office entrepreneur" and then becoming "Home office computing" and dumping anything not home-office and IBM PC related.
Now the PS4 is out and desperate for games (go ahead, name a PS4 exclusive)
Umm wait, I think I can name one..ummm. Resogun? Ummmm Infamous Second Sun? And there's a Brown Shooter or two I can't remember the name of. [looks over at the PS4 sittingmostly idle because of the lack of games in genres I want to play....maybe I should have got a Vita instead. I do play DCUO on it now and again....but that is not exclusive the PS4]
a PowerPC core, and not a particularly fast one at that
It's 3.2 GHz, hyperthreaded, with an Altivec unit. Probably more capable than the CPU's on all those WinXP machines still running. Heck it might even beat the Athlon X2 240 (2.8GHz) I have in this machine.
Okay, it looks like you like strategy games and mech games. do realize that just because the PC based strategy games aren't often on consoles, the consoles have their own games and you won't recognize the titles.Now you're not going to be able to find ports of most of those... so you'll have to settle for stuff like:
RTS: Head over to PSN (You do have the PS3 net-connected, right?) and pick up the PSone ports of the C&C games: C&C, C&C Red Alert, C&C Retaliation If they're not on PSN, you can get the disc versions, they work in a PS3. There's also the RA3 for the PS3. Plus Warcraft II, Dune 2000, and Warzone 2100.
Strategy: head on over the Games>Genre>Strategy section on PSN. Enjoy. You might like PTO IV, the History Channel game series (Legends of War). Disgaea is a "strategy-rpg". And take a look at the Front Mission games, Nobunaga's Ambition and the like.
You might also like the Armored Core series, some of them are more action-y than strategy.
Since you mentioned Ultima, you should try the classic console RPG series, Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, and the Dragon Fantasy homage to older RPG's.
You can pick up a copy of the PSone version of Civ II, and Civ: Revolution is on the PS3. Yes, it's simpler than Civ IV/V, that's a good thing because it's more "approachable", and it doesn't take forever to play a campaign. Essentially it's the "good parts" version of Civ, without the tedium.
As for "Elite space-sim" trader style games, you're out of luck on the PS3...I think. While there are the colony wars series (check PSN for those) and Iron Sky on the PS3, they are more combat oriented. Though some do have RPG elements. There is one upcoming indie game called Drifter like that for the PS4.
As for flight sims on consoles, the Air Combat series, and IL-2 are there. Plug in your HOTAS for those. Yes, it will work for the later Ace Combat's and IL-2.
If you like Eve, try Dust514 which is a part of the EVE universe, yes it's a shooter, but a very very very complex one with the same deep learning curve as EVE. And yes, you could turn on your Dust514 team-mates because some Eve corp bribed you to lose a game. Or you could turn on the corp that hired your entire team, when another corp makes an offer. (it's more like a shooter crossed with MMO and RPG elements)
If you like Crobots, then the Carnage Heart games are right up your alley, you will have to find the discs, because the only version of the game on PSN is the Carnage Heart EXA for PSP/Vita. You program robots to fight using "chips" in a board. Apparently it helps if you know about loops and boolean logic. Really, the manual for the first game mentions boolean logic.
There are plenty of complex and deep console games, they just don't get the attention on Slashdot like the dudebro games like CoD and Battlefield-foo do.
Playing online with consoles requires a dedicated subscription.
Well no, it didn't with the PS2 and PS3. And even now it doesn't for every game. With the PS4, F2P online games can be played without PS+. (Examples being DCUO and WarFrame) Also asynchronous games don't need it either, SCEfoo uses the example of a chess game that lets you "send turns" a la PBM/PBEM Chess for that.
who likes to tell me that local multiplayer with friends is obsolete.
It is, for most genre's. Oh sure, you might have some school age kids, college guys in a dorm room, or people pulling out a Wii at holiday get togethers...but haven't you noticed how much people are playing games online? Oh, that's right, you got your PS2 late in it's life so never did much online gaming.
He claims that the vast majority of gamers are adults,
They are, and have been since the PSone days. The average gamer is 31 years old. Didn't you read the ESA's 2014 report? Head to page 5.
Remember, once you're past 18, you're an adult, and there are a lot more people older than 18 than under it.
and the vast majority of adult gamers have moved on to online multiplayer
They have. I don't do PC gaming, but check the steam stats for what's being played sometime. But in the online console games I've played over the years, you could pretty much find someone to play with 24/7.
with pickup groups of strangers.
I didn't exactly say that. I said that you CAN play with whoever is online at the times you are, but you also CAN friend them. Most online games and game networks like PSN and Xbox Live have "friends lists" or guilds or clans, so you can friend someone that you enjoyed playing with and play more regularly with them. You know how have built up onine friendships over USENET, IRC, Instant Message, and message boards? Gaming works the same way. people have been forming online friendships via gaming ever since the BBS, Quantumlink and Compuserve days.
Where have you been the past 20 years, playing SNES games with babysat kids on a SNES and obsessing over the Tetris infinite spin thing?
1100 watt oven 3 minutes 10 seconds, without the crisping sleeve, on a paper plate, on the outside of the turntable. Let cool for a minute, or two, Eat. Better tasting fillng that way too.
The Star Wars Battlefront (SWBF) games aren't affected in single-player mode or LAN play. Yes, the PS2 versions support LAN play.
You see how some are saying "this is why users should be able to run their own servers" comments?
Well that's how the SWBF games have always worked! You can host the game either by:
1 Using freely downloadable software provided by EA, on a PC to host game servers for PS2's (Dedicated PC) 2. Hosting a game on a PS2 in "Dedicated" mode (PS2 Dedicated) 3. Hosting and playing on a PS2.(PS2 Non-dedicated)
The problem is....while the game servers are hosted on PS2's and PC's...the matchmaking/server lists are handled by Gamespy, which is shutting those down, not EA.
Course the SWBF games are 9 and 10 years old so I think there's a little bit too much whining about this. The server for the PS3 version of Freerealms ()released in 2011) gets shut down and it's ho-hum from Slashdot. But the matchmaking/server list service for a 2004 multiplayer shooter gets shut down and it's the end of the world.
That's why non-MMO multiplayer games should always allow users to run their own servers.
The PS2 Star Wars Battlefront games listed DO let you run your own servers, it works as follows:
1. Run dedicated software on a PC that hosts a server for PS2's.
2. Run a PS2 with the game in "Dedicated" mode. You can't play the game this way, the PS2 only serves as host in this mode.
3. Host the game on a PS2 in non-dedicated mode.
You may be thinking that if you can host the game yourself why is it shutting down? Because while you can easily host the game yourself...the server list and matchmaking is provided by Gamespy.
Since the two SWBF games support LAN play (Yes even on the PS2), I wonder if the LAN play could be tunneled.
If memory serves me correctly, he also can be powered by other colors of stars, except red of course. Last Son of Krypton mentions blue, though he had reduced powers because of it.
Slashdot Mirror
What else should it be doing while on the charger?
Maybe nothing?
but you're supposed to share the precious gpg pubkeys! At one time, Slashdot made it easy to for slashdotters to share the precious pubkeys with a field in the profile for them. You can access them at http://slashdot.org/~username/..., but apparently they removed the field from the profile, so you can't change it if you revoke the old key and new users can't add theirs.
As for much of the rest of the world, you're probably going to get [citation needed] by way of response.
Yeah, they may grumble about the Five Eyes spying on absolutely everyone , but deep down they know what I said is true, even if they don't want to admit it.
It would depend on what it was running. I've ran Linux on the PS3 so I was able to make "some" comparisons. In my experience, yes, the PS3 was faster for some tasks. It was noticeable in the GIMP in particular. For some other tasks, it was slower, but not "that much" slower. Part of the problem was the RAM limit.
But there is a reason I rip CD's in the PS3 and not on this machine, the PS3 is faster.
And in the real world, people would be asking, "Why is it OK for the US government to commit exactly those same crimes and get away with it?"
It's quite simple, the USA is the World's watchdog and policeman. It keeps everyone else in line and tries to get rid of the worst of the bullies, barbarians and bandit lords. The USA may be a bit of a "jerk" itself, but who would you rather have running the world? The Five Eyes, or Russia or China. When push comes to shove, even the USA's critics would rather have the USA managing the show.
And the most popular video game console of 2014 is the SNES, because it has the biggest game library.
The SNES doesn't have the largest game library among the game consoles. The PSone has 3 times as many and the PS2 has FIVE times as many.
(since the PS4 doesn't, at least I don't think, support YouTube yet for content producers. You can watch YouTube videos, but you can't record with the PS4 and upload to YouTube. Though maybe the last update solved that).
The PS4 doesn't support direct upload to youtube directly on the PS4....yet. You can, thanks to that 1.70 update, save to the hard drive, transfer the file to USB storage, then attach that to a PC for youtube upload.
and all the free games in basic that came in the old magazine "Home and Office Computing" which became Family Computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computing)
You got that backwards, it was Family Computing first with the basic listings and game reviews and "full home computer coverage, not just covering x86 only"...and then later became Family and Home office computing, adding more articles for the "wannabe home-office entrepreneur" and then becoming "Home office computing" and dumping anything not home-office and IBM PC related.
Now the PS4 is out and desperate for games (go ahead, name a PS4 exclusive)
Umm wait, I think I can name one..ummm. Resogun? Ummmm Infamous Second Sun? And there's a Brown Shooter or two I can't remember the name of. [looks over at the PS4 sittingmostly idle because of the lack of games in genres I want to play....maybe I should have got a Vita instead. I do play DCUO on it now and again....but that is not exclusive the PS4]
a PowerPC core, and not a particularly fast one at that
It's 3.2 GHz, hyperthreaded, with an Altivec unit. Probably more capable than the CPU's on all those WinXP machines still running. Heck it might even beat the Athlon X2 240 (2.8GHz) I have in this machine.
In practice, a lot of games did most of their work in the main CPU (a MIPS machine)
The PS3's Cell isn't MIPS, it's PPC.
Okay, it looks like you like strategy games and mech games. do realize that just because the PC based strategy games aren't often on consoles, the consoles have their own games and you won't recognize the titles.Now you're not going to be able to find ports of most of those... so you'll have to settle for stuff like:
RTS: Head over to PSN (You do have the PS3 net-connected, right?) and pick up the PSone ports of the C&C games: C&C, C&C Red Alert, C&C Retaliation If they're not on PSN, you can get the disc versions, they work in a PS3. There's also the RA3 for the PS3. Plus Warcraft II, Dune 2000, and Warzone 2100.
Strategy: head on over the Games>Genre>Strategy section on PSN. Enjoy. You might like PTO IV, the History Channel game series (Legends of War). Disgaea is a "strategy-rpg". And take a look at the Front Mission games, Nobunaga's Ambition and the like.
You might also like the Armored Core series, some of them are more action-y than strategy.
Since you mentioned Ultima, you should try the classic console RPG series, Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, and the Dragon Fantasy homage to older RPG's.
You can pick up a copy of the PSone version of Civ II, and Civ: Revolution is on the PS3. Yes, it's simpler than Civ IV/V, that's a good thing because it's more "approachable", and it doesn't take forever to play a campaign. Essentially it's the "good parts" version of Civ, without the tedium.
As for "Elite space-sim" trader style games, you're out of luck on the PS3...I think. While there are the colony wars series (check PSN for those) and Iron Sky on the PS3, they are more combat oriented. Though some do have RPG elements. There is one upcoming indie game called Drifter like that for the PS4.
As for flight sims on consoles, the Air Combat series, and IL-2 are there. Plug in your HOTAS for those. Yes, it will work for the later Ace Combat's and IL-2.
If you like Eve, try Dust514 which is a part of the EVE universe, yes it's a shooter, but a very very very complex one with the same deep learning curve as EVE. And yes, you could turn on your Dust514 team-mates because some Eve corp bribed you to lose a game. Or you could turn on the corp that hired your entire team, when another corp makes an offer. (it's more like a shooter crossed with MMO and RPG elements)
If you like Crobots, then the Carnage Heart games are right up your alley, you will have to find the discs, because the only version of the game on PSN is the Carnage Heart EXA for PSP/Vita. You program robots to fight using "chips" in a board. Apparently it helps if you know about loops and boolean logic. Really, the manual for the first game mentions boolean logic.
There are plenty of complex and deep console games, they just don't get the attention on Slashdot like the dudebro games like CoD and Battlefield-foo do.
Playing online with consoles requires a dedicated subscription.
Well no, it didn't with the PS2 and PS3. And even now it doesn't for every game. With the PS4, F2P online games can be played without PS+. (Examples being DCUO and WarFrame) Also asynchronous games don't need it either, SCEfoo uses the example of a chess game that lets you "send turns" a la PBM/PBEM Chess for that.
But there is a persistent console fan on Slashdot
That would be me, I think.
who likes to tell me that local multiplayer with friends is obsolete.
It is, for most genre's. Oh sure, you might have some school age kids, college guys in a dorm room, or people pulling out a Wii at holiday get togethers...but haven't you noticed how much people are playing games online? Oh, that's right, you got your PS2 late in it's life so never did much online gaming.
He claims that the vast majority of gamers are adults,
They are, and have been since the PSone days. The average gamer is 31 years old. Didn't you read the ESA's 2014 report? Head to page 5.
http://www.theesa.com/facts/pd...
Remember, once you're past 18, you're an adult, and there are a lot more people older than 18 than under it.
and the vast majority of adult gamers have moved on to online multiplayer
They have. I don't do PC gaming, but check the steam stats for what's being played sometime. But in the online console games I've played over the years, you could pretty much find someone to play with 24/7.
with pickup groups of strangers.
I didn't exactly say that. I said that you CAN play with whoever is online at the times you are, but you also CAN friend them. Most online games and game networks like PSN and Xbox Live have "friends lists" or guilds or clans, so you can friend someone that you enjoyed playing with and play more regularly with them. You know how have built up onine friendships over USENET, IRC, Instant Message, and message boards? Gaming works the same way. people have been forming online friendships via gaming ever since the BBS, Quantumlink and Compuserve days.
Where have you been the past 20 years, playing SNES games with babysat kids on a SNES and obsessing over the Tetris infinite spin thing?
I suspect he's the Anonymous reader.
1100 watt oven 3 minutes 10 seconds, without the crisping sleeve, on a paper plate, on the outside of the turntable. Let cool for a minute, or two, Eat. Better tasting fillng that way too.
Yep, dedicated lets you have more users and AI soldiers.
"What do you mean Flash Object approaching? Open Fire, All Weapons. Send out HTML5 Ajax to bring back it's body."
The Star Wars Battlefront (SWBF) games aren't affected in single-player mode or LAN play. Yes, the PS2 versions support LAN play.
You see how some are saying "this is why users should be able to run their own servers" comments?
Well that's how the SWBF games have always worked! You can host the game either by:
1 Using freely downloadable software provided by EA, on a PC to host game servers for PS2's (Dedicated PC)
2. Hosting a game on a PS2 in "Dedicated" mode (PS2 Dedicated)
3. Hosting and playing on a PS2.(PS2 Non-dedicated)
The problem is....while the game servers are hosted on PS2's and PC's...the matchmaking/server lists are handled by Gamespy, which is shutting those down, not EA.
Course the SWBF games are 9 and 10 years old so I think there's a little bit too much whining about this. The server for the PS3 version of Freerealms ()released in 2011) gets shut down and it's ho-hum from Slashdot. But the matchmaking/server list service for a 2004 multiplayer shooter gets shut down and it's the end of the world.
That's why non-MMO multiplayer games should always allow users to run their own servers.
The PS2 Star Wars Battlefront games listed DO let you run your own servers, it works as follows:
1. Run dedicated software on a PC that hosts a server for PS2's.
2. Run a PS2 with the game in "Dedicated" mode. You can't play the game this way, the PS2 only serves as host in this mode.
3. Host the game on a PS2 in non-dedicated mode.
You may be thinking that if you can host the game yourself why is it shutting down? Because while you can easily host the game yourself...the server list and matchmaking is provided by Gamespy.
Since the two SWBF games support LAN play (Yes even on the PS2), I wonder if the LAN play could be tunneled.
If memory serves me correctly, he also can be powered by other colors of stars, except red of course. Last Son of Krypton mentions blue, though he had reduced powers because of it.
What, and forget to synergize our core competencies with our emotional intelligence as well?
I'm sorry, have you seen Chromefox 29?
Yes I did and I thought:
"If I wanted to use the Chrome UI I'd be using Chrome"
And I googled and installed Classic Theme Restorer to make it right and proper again.
I thought Gmail had an option to pick the quoting style, notwithstanding the ability to use a real e-mail client of one's choice via IMAP or POP3.