What I was referring to is the exploitation of their workers in poor countries by the likes of Nike and Adidas, where 12 a year old is given a bowl of rice for a day's pay. I think these company are as guilty as de Beers.
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... aren't you amazed at the quantity of people who say "Damn de Beers and their blood diamonds! I will never support a company like that!" and are still dressed in Nike shoes, Adidas shorts and t-shirt and Calvin Klein underwear? (I have to admit taking a shot at Calvin Klein is gratuitous and maybe they really do have good working environments, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't)
cross-platform MMORPG is due for PC this October in the U.S., several months ahead of the PlayStation 2 version Since it's a PC version, it could theoratically run under Wine on a modified XBOX right? So now it would probably be possible to play this game on the Xbox before the people with PS2s:p
Since the day after the fiasco in Florida I started to worry that this horror might end up to Canada.:p They should have started to worry the day after this thing happened. There's little chance that it happends tough, we get our national election results 2 hours after the election ends, so having computers crunch the votes for us is not really interresting. Plus I'm sure that designing a system like this would cost more in the short AND long run, since you'd have to hire a lot of people you'll have to pay a fews ten-thousand dollars for two years to make the thing, then test the hell out of it (let's add another 6 months). Then you'd have to buy a lot of highly secure hardware (argumenting that our'll be saving money using Linux instead of Windows on a 30000$ machine is pretty pointless, as Windows only costs 299$ of the total price) to keep the votes, plus add lot of terminals to vote.
From the website : And you can find the larger version also at BOLL's server and files.bungie.org. Enjoy! So, these are hacks that have been done with modified Xboxes? And Bungie hosts them. Who owns Bungie now? That's right, Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they took it down. It's as if Bungie was saying : Look what cool thing you can unlock in our game if you hack your Xbox.
Since I can't post in the related Journal Entry since it's in the archive now, I was wondering how was going the Slashdot game? Did anybody sign up? Because I might have some Pro MS posts to collect on...:)
Turns out you seem to be right. The Adrenaline pack that includes Amped and Halo seems to be a Candian offer only. Tough, now you can go over to Amazon.com and buy an Adrenaline pack, but it doesn't include the same package as my Xbox did. It comes with 2 sports games and Halo, and costs much more. And I just realized it has been discontinued. But the Amped+Halo version is still sold on Amazon.ca, so it's still possible to import it from Canada. (now, when is the last time someone imported video games from Canada;) Or if you feel like going on a field trip, the get your ass north of the border and go to a Canadian Walmart.:)
I don't know where you live, but I bought the Xbox Adrenaline bundle in June for 279.99$CA (which is about 179.00$US, yeah Canadian money is THAT worthless) and when I went to Wal-Mart yesterday they were still selling them, so if you've been waiting a great bargin to buy the Xbox, then go to your local Wal-Mart and buy the Xbox Adrenaline bundle. It comes with Amped and Halo and all the traditional A/V cords. OR you could buy the Playstation 2 Online Bundle with no games for the same price.:(
On my Logitech mouse, if I press on the scrollwheel, the cursor turns into a four way arrow and you can pan around the document and the scroll bars will be updated automatically. Look under your mouse options in Windows to get this. For Linux, well, I don't where to go to enable this, but I remember panning in documents this way in Netscape 4.7 at my university. Didn't work in Konqueror tough, and it probably should have, but the Linux techie didn't seem to know much more than I do about Linux (which is not a lot at all), so maybe he got it wrong.
I'm no Microsoft lover, but people need to start to realize that even tough they're not the best at making games, they are bringing a lot of innovation to the console market, and Sony is not the one doing the innovation in that area.
So maybe the Xbox box and controller design is bad, and the controller bigger than other consoles (tough I never found that an handicap for me), but they're really trying to push the enveloppe of what console gaming is. Sony never did shit to improve gaming. Using a CD instead of a cartridge wan't innovative, it was just the next logical step, and the controller is just a ripoff of the SNES controller with two pairs of L/R buttons instead of one.
So, maybe you'll argue that the Xbox and its broadband connection and HD isn't innovative, since it's already available to the PC for years, but you have to understand that this console only game out a year after the PS2 and only a couple of days before the GameCube, and these consoles still don't have anything comparable to offer in North America right now (sure, Japan gets all the cool stuff first, well, except for the Xbox:) ). The PS2 with online adapter costs as much at the Xbox right now, but with Xbox you get two awesome games and the HD (which still isn't out for the PS2 btw) for the same price.
Now, with Xbox Live, Microsoft is integrating GameSpy-like features directly into the gaming experience. They might not have the greatest games, but with all the momentum Microsoft is gaining right now, I wouldn't be surprised if people started buying even more Xboxes. In fact, my local ebGames store told me that two months ago that Xbox outsold PS2 5 units to 2 in his store at that time. I don't know if it's still the same tough.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to get across here, but loss focus of because I just love my Xbox and games(ok, so maybe I was a bit trolling over there, sorry!), is that Microsoft, for once, is the innovative one. While everybody else in console gaming is trying to catch up (or not at all as Nintendo is pretty much doing), they should deserve a little more respect they are getting, even tough they're still Microsoft, and most of us would not want to get caught dead with a licensed Windows copy of WinME in their hands.
That was a great hockey game for the NES from Konami. You even heard someone say "Blades of Steel" when you loaded the game. Whhhooaaaa!:) It was so cool at the time! It wasn't too realistic (since when the loser of a fight is going to the penalty box?:D ), but it just so fun.
No rules, just twelves guys with a hockey stick and one puck, trying to outscore the other team. Today's game are all about realism. I hate it when you have to stop the game because off an offside or whatever hey call them these days. That's why I don't really watch hockey anymore either. The game just stops too often. But Blades of Steel stopped only for goals. The only rule was there was no rule.
A weird gameplay mechanic of the game was that if you touched the goaler, a player would fall, so if you stuck your guy with the puck behind the goaler right in the middle of the net, the CPU players at the professionnal difficulty level would try to go around the net, but always bump into the goaler, start again, fall on the ice, and again and again and again, so you just had to score once and then wait for the timer to go back to 0:00 and you won the game.
I've played many hockey games dring the 90s (well, not that many tough, many were revisions of NHL Hockey from EA), but I never enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed Blades of Steel back then. Sure the AI wasn't as developped as today's hockey games, but I can't remember a hockey that when we made a goal had me and my buddies screaming more than this one.
Never played Fallout, so maybe I missed the point. When the other poster said fantasy, I thought fantasy as in knights in armor and magicians type of fantasy, not futuristic(even tough Star Wars is set in the past... err...:p) fantasy. So i guess from your comment that Falluot has no fantasy whatsoever and plays more like a futuristic RPG with no magic or monsters? Just poeple and horribly mutated people? (judging from the game title)
Then if you have an Xbox, or are willing to wait a few months for the PC port (no PS2 or GC port planned), get Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic. It's one of the best RPGs I ever played and has been getting rave reviews for a month now.
Doctor Evil : and after that, I'll want 1 million dollars for each CPUs, (puts little finger to the mouth) MOUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Scott Evil : A million is less than a billion, retard...
One of the reason of Halo's success, besides the great story and awesome action, is the incredible quality of the graphics. It's jawdropping even on a regular TV set. I haven't seen it yet on an HDTV, but I bet it's one of the most beautifull games on the Xbox, despite it being released at system launch.
What I've seen so far from that PS2 are average graphics, and very dark colors. There's no way this is going to match Halo's bright and detailed worlds.
So that game will really have to have a really great gameplay to surpass Halo AND get a major graphics overhaul to even be worthy of Halo. And by that time that game finally, comes out, Xbox ownser will all be happy playing Halo2 on their Xbox, and if God wants to, Doom3.:)
Maybe if that game came out 3 years ago, it might have been nice, but now, unless it does get the graphics overhaul, it's just going to look boring compared to other FPS. You shouldn't always judge a game by it's looks, but that's what people always do at first, and that costs sales.
Now, to anyone who says that "it's because of people like me who prefer graphics over gameplay (which I DON'T anyway) that the creativity has stagnated in the gaming industry in the past few years in favor of graphics", well you know what? Get real. Today's games aren't only about gameplay, they're also about immersion, and since the standard of computer graphics has been raised, nobody is gonna be fooled anymore by Mario Bros blocky sprites and call that immersion.
It means that the game is rendered in "something" by 720 lines of resolution. If you have the HDTV adapter fox the Xbox (not available on the PS2 I believe) and an HDTV, that's what you're going to get. Other resolutions include 480p, 480i (for interlaced, so 480i is less good than 480p), 525p, 525i, 1080i (not sure about the last one tough). So when there's a P, fullframes are rendered, like on a computer, and when there's an I, then it's half-frames, like on a TV.
This isn't revolurionary in the least, I've the same box (Atlanta Scientific) here for months in Canada, and it had been already offered for a few months before I got one. But it sure is nice tought. And there is NO LOSS while taping a show. The only grudge I've had in the past with the system is that sometimes I would get decompression squares or image freeze, more than usual. Turned out the signal that came into my house wasn't strong enough, so they had to install a booster. Everything thing works a 100% fine now. It even has TV on demand, so you can order a TV show, play, rewind, fastward, instant replay as you want. I though it used the hard drive, but it turns out our HDless model in the living room is also able to have video on demand, and it's as fast as with Explorer 8000. Now, if I could only get my hands on the HDTV model (there's no HDTV with an hard drive at this time tough), and I'd be in Nirvana.
Well, you don't need an optical cable to have 5.1 audio, since you can use 3 stereo cables (one for the front, one for the rear, one of the bass/center) on a lot of DVD players and amplifier, tough having 6 wire coming out of your PSP would be pretty cumbersome.
Also, I've seen in stores a new generation of headphones that decode 5.1 signal and redistribute the sound in little speakers positionned at different places inside each of the ear muffs, giving something close to a 5.1 hometheater experience. The obvious obstacle is of course price, but these should become mainstream in a few years with consomers who are realizing more and more that the only way to watch a good movie is in 5.1 on a 50 each TV, or even better, a projector, and that should drive the price of the headset under the 100$ bar.
With that in mind, does anyone have news about the new DVD format supposedly coming out in a few months? It's supposed to have bigger storage and high-definition for mpegs.
Click on the head of the guy in the back with his head in someones a**. Then click of the hand of the guy, or girl, where not sure since we only see one hand coming out between two legs and the owner is hidden by the midget. Click on the GSpot (if you can find it).
I wonder what are the odds now that this game will be able to run on the Xbox now after seeing these specs. Sure the vid card clearly meets the minimum requirement, but even thought you save quite a few clock cycles on the Xbox since you don't have the big fat OS sitting under your game (only a small windows 2000 variant), will the Xbox have enough power? Time will tell I guess.
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What I was referring to is the exploitation of their workers in poor countries by the likes of Nike and Adidas, where 12 a year old is given a bowl of rice for a day's pay. I think these company are as guilty as de Beers.
... aren't you amazed at the quantity of people who say "Damn de Beers and their blood diamonds! I will never support a company like that!" and are still dressed in Nike shoes, Adidas shorts and t-shirt and Calvin Klein underwear? (I have to admit taking a shot at Calvin Klein is gratuitous and maybe they really do have good working environments, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't)
Thing is, even tough you can call them "email virus", they're still "Windows virus",
cross-platform MMORPG is due for PC this October in the U.S., several months ahead of the PlayStation 2 version :p
Since it's a PC version, it could theoratically run under Wine on a modified XBOX right? So now it would probably be possible to play this game on the Xbox before the people with PS2s
They should install security measures on the camera themselves then. I think 220V should do it. ;)
Since the day after the fiasco in Florida I started to worry that this horror might end up to Canada. :p They should have started to worry the day after this thing happened. There's little chance that it happends tough, we get our national election results 2 hours after the election ends, so having computers crunch the votes for us is not really interresting. Plus I'm sure that designing a system like this would cost more in the short AND long run, since you'd have to hire a lot of people you'll have to pay a fews ten-thousand dollars for two years to make the thing, then test the hell out of it (let's add another 6 months). Then you'd have to buy a lot of highly secure hardware (argumenting that our'll be saving money using Linux instead of Windows on a 30000$ machine is pretty pointless, as Windows only costs 299$ of the total price) to keep the votes, plus add lot of terminals to vote.
From the website : And you can find the larger version also at BOLL's server and files.bungie.org. Enjoy!
So, these are hacks that have been done with modified Xboxes? And Bungie hosts them. Who owns Bungie now? That's right, Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if they took it down. It's as if Bungie was saying : Look what cool thing you can unlock in our game if you hack your Xbox.
Since I can't post in the related Journal Entry since it's in the archive now, I was wondering how was going the Slashdot game? Did anybody sign up? Because I might have some Pro MS posts to collect on... :)
Turns out you seem to be right. The Adrenaline pack that includes Amped and Halo seems to be a Candian offer only. Tough, now you can go over to Amazon.com and buy an Adrenaline pack, but it doesn't include the same package as my Xbox did. It comes with 2 sports games and Halo, and costs much more. And I just realized it has been discontinued. But the Amped+Halo version is still sold on Amazon.ca, so it's still possible to import it from Canada. (now, when is the last time someone imported video games from Canada ;) Or if you feel like going on a field trip, the get your ass north of the border and go to a Canadian Walmart. :)
I don't know where you live, but I bought the Xbox Adrenaline bundle in June for 279.99$CA (which is about 179.00$US, yeah Canadian money is THAT worthless) and when I went to Wal-Mart yesterday they were still selling them, so if you've been waiting a great bargin to buy the Xbox, then go to your local Wal-Mart and buy the Xbox Adrenaline bundle. It comes with Amped and Halo and all the traditional A/V cords. OR you could buy the Playstation 2 Online Bundle with no games for the same price. :(
On my Logitech mouse, if I press on the scrollwheel, the cursor turns into a four way arrow and you can pan around the document and the scroll bars will be updated automatically. Look under your mouse options in Windows to get this. For Linux, well, I don't where to go to enable this, but I remember panning in documents this way in Netscape 4.7 at my university. Didn't work in Konqueror tough, and it probably should have, but the Linux techie didn't seem to know much more than I do about Linux (which is not a lot at all), so maybe he got it wrong.
I'm no Microsoft lover, but people need to start to realize that even tough they're not the best at making games, they are bringing a lot of innovation to the console market, and Sony is not the one doing the innovation in that area.
:) ). The PS2 with online adapter costs as much at the Xbox right now, but with Xbox you get two awesome games and the HD (which still isn't out for the PS2 btw) for the same price.
:)
So maybe the Xbox box and controller design is bad, and the controller bigger than other consoles (tough I never found that an handicap for me), but they're really trying to push the enveloppe of what console gaming is. Sony never did shit to improve gaming. Using a CD instead of a cartridge wan't innovative, it was just the next logical step, and the controller is just a ripoff of the SNES controller with two pairs of L/R buttons instead of one.
So, maybe you'll argue that the Xbox and its broadband connection and HD isn't innovative, since it's already available to the PC for years, but you have to understand that this console only game out a year after the PS2 and only a couple of days before the GameCube, and these consoles still don't have anything comparable to offer in North America right now (sure, Japan gets all the cool stuff first, well, except for the Xbox
Now, with Xbox Live, Microsoft is integrating GameSpy-like features directly into the gaming experience. They might not have the greatest games, but with all the momentum Microsoft is gaining right now, I wouldn't be surprised if people started buying even more Xboxes. In fact, my local ebGames store told me that two months ago that Xbox outsold PS2 5 units to 2 in his store at that time. I don't know if it's still the same tough.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to get across here, but loss focus of because I just love my Xbox and games(ok, so maybe I was a bit trolling over there, sorry!), is that Microsoft, for once, is the innovative one. While everybody else in console gaming is trying to catch up (or not at all as Nintendo is pretty much doing), they should deserve a little more respect they are getting, even tough they're still Microsoft, and most of us would not want to get caught dead with a licensed Windows copy of WinME in their hands.
Now, let the trolling begin!
That was a great hockey game for the NES from Konami. You even heard someone say "Blades of Steel" when you loaded the game. Whhhooaaaa! :) It was so cool at the time! It wasn't too realistic (since when the loser of a fight is going to the penalty box? :D ), but it just so fun.
No rules, just twelves guys with a hockey stick and one puck, trying to outscore the other team. Today's game are all about realism. I hate it when you have to stop the game because off an offside or whatever hey call them these days. That's why I don't really watch hockey anymore either. The game just stops too often. But Blades of Steel stopped only for goals. The only rule was there was no rule.
A weird gameplay mechanic of the game was that if you touched the goaler, a player would fall, so if you stuck your guy with the puck behind the goaler right in the middle of the net, the CPU players at the professionnal difficulty level would try to go around the net, but always bump into the goaler, start again, fall on the ice, and again and again and again, so you just had to score once and then wait for the timer to go back to 0:00 and you won the game.
I've played many hockey games dring the 90s (well, not that many tough, many were revisions of NHL Hockey from EA), but I never enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed Blades of Steel back then. Sure the AI wasn't as developped as today's hockey games, but I can't remember a hockey that when we made a goal had me and my buddies screaming more than this one.
Never played Fallout, so maybe I missed the point. When the other poster said fantasy, I thought fantasy as in knights in armor and magicians type of fantasy, not futuristic(even tough Star Wars is set in the past... err... :p) fantasy. So i guess from your comment that Falluot has no fantasy whatsoever and plays more like a futuristic RPG with no magic or monsters? Just poeple and horribly mutated people? (judging from the game title)
Then if you have an Xbox, or are willing to wait a few months for the PC port (no PS2 or GC port planned), get Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic. It's one of the best RPGs I ever played and has been getting rave reviews for a month now.
Could that be a Fight Club reference? :)
Yeah sure, a PC could do better, but we're comparing console games, and the PS2 just doesn't have what it takes to make an FPS as beautiful as Halo.
Doctor Evil : and after that, I'll want 1 million dollars for each CPUs, (puts little finger to the mouth) MOUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Scott Evil : A million is less than a billion, retard...
One of the reason of Halo's success, besides the great story and awesome action, is the incredible quality of the graphics. It's jawdropping even on a regular TV set. I haven't seen it yet on an HDTV, but I bet it's one of the most beautifull games on the Xbox, despite it being released at system launch.
:)
What I've seen so far from that PS2 are average graphics, and very dark colors. There's no way this is going to match Halo's bright and detailed worlds.
So that game will really have to have a really great gameplay to surpass Halo AND get a major graphics overhaul to even be worthy of Halo. And by that time that game finally, comes out, Xbox ownser will all be happy playing Halo2 on their Xbox, and if God wants to, Doom3.
Maybe if that game came out 3 years ago, it might have been nice, but now, unless it does get the graphics overhaul, it's just going to look boring compared to other FPS. You shouldn't always judge a game by it's looks, but that's what people always do at first, and that costs sales.
Now, to anyone who says that "it's because of people like me who prefer graphics over gameplay (which I DON'T anyway) that the creativity has stagnated in the gaming industry in the past few years in favor of graphics", well you know what? Get real. Today's games aren't only about gameplay, they're also about immersion, and since the standard of computer graphics has been raised, nobody is gonna be fooled anymore by Mario Bros blocky sprites and call that immersion.
It means that the game is rendered in "something" by 720 lines of resolution. If you have the HDTV adapter fox the Xbox (not available on the PS2 I believe) and an HDTV, that's what you're going to get. Other resolutions include 480p, 480i (for interlaced, so 480i is less good than 480p), 525p, 525i, 1080i (not sure about the last one tough). So when there's a P, fullframes are rendered, like on a computer, and when there's an I, then it's half-frames, like on a TV.
This isn't revolurionary in the least, I've the same box (Atlanta Scientific) here for months in Canada, and it had been already offered for a few months before I got one. But it sure is nice tought. And there is NO LOSS while taping a show. The only grudge I've had in the past with the system is that sometimes I would get decompression squares or image freeze, more than usual. Turned out the signal that came into my house wasn't strong enough, so they had to install a booster. Everything thing works a 100% fine now. It even has TV on demand, so you can order a TV show, play, rewind, fastward, instant replay as you want. I though it used the hard drive, but it turns out our HDless model in the living room is also able to have video on demand, and it's as fast as with Explorer 8000. Now, if I could only get my hands on the HDTV model (there's no HDTV with an hard drive at this time tough), and I'd be in Nirvana.
Well, you don't need an optical cable to have 5.1 audio, since you can use 3 stereo cables (one for the front, one for the rear, one of the bass/center) on a lot of DVD players and amplifier, tough having 6 wire coming out of your PSP would be pretty cumbersome.
Also, I've seen in stores a new generation of headphones that decode 5.1 signal and redistribute the sound in little speakers positionned at different places inside each of the ear muffs, giving something close to a 5.1 hometheater experience. The obvious obstacle is of course price, but these should become mainstream in a few years with consomers who are realizing more and more that the only way to watch a good movie is in 5.1 on a 50 each TV, or even better, a projector, and that should drive the price of the headset under the 100$ bar.
Exactly what I was going to say.
With that in mind, does anyone have news about the new DVD format supposedly coming out in a few months? It's supposed to have bigger storage and high-definition for mpegs.
How do I retrieve my password if I lost it?
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To : Joe
From : Support
Sujet Lost Password
In the gang bang picture 37, your password is
Click on the head of the guy in the back with his head in someones a**.
Then click of the hand of the guy, or girl, where not sure since we only see one hand coming out between two legs and the owner is hidden by the midget.
Click on the GSpot (if you can find it).
I wonder what are the odds now that this game will be able to run on the Xbox now after seeing these specs. Sure the vid card clearly meets the minimum requirement, but even thought you save quite a few clock cycles on the Xbox since you don't have the big fat OS sitting under your game (only a small windows 2000 variant), will the Xbox have enough power? Time will tell I guess.