I love the Gamecube. I love the games for it. I absolutely despise that Z button. Couldn't it have been under the right middle finger? Then it would actually be easy AND usefull(without having to leave the R flipper).
Note: I'm a Nintendo Fanboy good as the rest, but I'm not gonna say it's perfect.
Here is the thing that worries me, if you are a gba/ds fan you know that all these companies that own the rights to the old SNES/NES games are coming out of the woodwork to make ports for the gba and ds. I fear these same companies would be hesitant to release these older games again on the Revo because it might cut heavily into their sales of the cartidges.
They won't be hesitant. They'll jump on it. How would you like your manufacturing and distribution costs reduced to a fraction of current. Instant profit.
Seriously, everyone will get what they want so long as you can take your memory card and games with you to friend's houses.
They're not talking about the 14.4k being illicit. It was the high speed part that they're talking about. People with certain non-billed features were able to use the $60/month high speed network while only using minutes.
Websites gave details, drivers, and instructions on how to get Verizon to change your account to make it happen. Hell, even store employees would tell customers what to do to make it happen. They'd even setup the account right.
People were pissed when suddenly they couldn't get online and were told to pick between expensive, or slow. I known several people that ran into that issue.
This article is FROM IBM about IBM. The article is what is quoted and of course they're talking about themselves, so "WE" is a perfectly acceptable term to use in their own article.
Now, it may not seem newsworthy to some to put a navel gazing press release up on the front page, but some will find it interesting to get a glimpse of part of IBM's internal workings. Take it or leave it, the article is not some kind of Google ranking ploy.
There's also the fact that these "random" phone call surveys often do not include cellphone numbers. They are typically excluded due to the fact it uses the receiver's minutes/money.
This means that you won't sample an estimated six percent of the population at all. "According to our analysis of most recent government data, the demographic information regarding those who have wireless-only service indicates that young, single people living in urban areas are those most likely to have cut the cord."-Insight Research
Doesn't it seem to you that "young, single people living in urban areas" are very likely to be internet users? Six percent missing from the sample could seriously skew the results. Political polls are also skewed due to the younger generation not being surveyed. It'd be interesting to see if they're trying to compensate for that lack of available sample. Even then they could get it wrong.
The people in the other store were quite insulting, and also tried to discourage me from getting a 20D, purely on the basis of my not being a professional photographer -- there was enough of the little sneer in the guy's voice, worthy of a cartoon character. I tried to stick around for a while, but even though there were no other customers, I had an extremely hard time getting anyone to talk to me. These weren't high-school kids in a storefront, mind you.
Wow, this is EXACTLY the same treatment I got when I went into our local camera shop a few years ago. Only two guys in the store, obviously one was a managing partner or owner of the place and the other wasn't a customer. Couldn't be bothered to talk to me even about buying a high speed CF card.
Even though I was looking to spend about a grand, I left. Went to Best Buy down the street and spent my money. I felt like the place was a front for the mob or something where they don't need sales because the store's not really there for that.
Small stores are only as good as the people running them. It's just that it's harder for them to run a dozen storefronts IRL than it is online(not that it doesn't happen as others here have mentioned.)
I'm a bit tired at the moment, but I seem to recall there being two radio thingys to stick next to the TV. Triangulation would be the method used, it's not optical. No way could an LED interface do what Nintendo is having these controllers do. The Power Glove was IR, I know(I actually did pretty well with the thing playing Zelda 2), but unless Nintendo's come up with magic to improve IR these are guaranteed to be RF.
I would buy a $2900 camera if I could. The 5D is a low-pro/high-amature level camera.
It gets you: *12.7 megapixels. *Very high light sensitivity. (ISO 3200 which is about eight better times your average digicam.) *Low noise(It will look cleaner at ISO 3200 than your average camera at ISO 400.) *Fast shutter speeds(1/8000th of a second.) *Interchangable lenses(Let's see you do that for less than $600 new.) *Filters, polarizers, hoods, and diopters for those lenses. *Full 35mm size CMOS sensor(for true wide angle shots(think 7mm.) *Start-up time less than 1/3rd of a second(Your average digicam has about 3-7 seconds start-up.) *Pro quality and strength flashes. *Ability to slave multiple flashes(think portrait studio.) *Ability to control the exposure for HOURS if needed(I've done some neat stuff with long exposures.) *Remote shutter control. *Underwater housing. *Fast focus-to-shot(near instant, better than the half second or more some digicams take.) *Focus and track moving subjects *More focus and light metering options(Get that shot right the first time.) *Shoot 3 frames per second for 60 frames(See the dust fly off the baseball when it's hit.)
I could go on and on. This type of camera is overkill for your average mom wanting to take pictures at Christmas. It's a real tool in the hands of a creative person.
Show me a 12.7 megapixel camera for $290. Hell, show me an 8 megapixel camera for $290 and I'll show you a piece of garbage.
Not everone needs a set of $2,000 cutlery, but you wouldn't give a professional chef a knock off Swiss army knife to do your meal with would you?
Loser pay systems should only be instituted if the lawsuit was deemed to be frivolous or otherwise "out of order."
The reason for this is simple: What happens when you sue for some grevious percieved mistake your dentist made while working on your teeth? You lose due to the jury/judge deciding that it wasn't a mistake, but rather a known standard complication...yadda yadda. Now you owe the dentist another $100,000. Congratulations, now you have a messed up mouth AND a huge debt.
I do realize you are probably taking this into account, but many people do not. Loser pays is not the answer people think it is. It has to be restricted some way.
The card system is one of the things I am really enjoying about it. It's so radically diferent that it's going to be a turn off for a good number of people I'm sure. It gets better when you have a larger selection of cards. Balancing your deck for each area becomes more important later on.
I really appreciate the option to retry boss monsters without having to go back to a save point. If you fail against a boss(I did lose once), you can retry. If you do, you don't get thrown back in to the wolves. They let you change characters and remix your decks. Thus, if you're smart, you probably won't lose the second time around.
There are some issues I have with the game too. For example, controls. There are many instances where using the digital pad is much more responsive(battle especially). However, there isn't much consistancy when you can use the Dpad and when you must use the analog stick. I also have a tendancy to out read the text speed in the game, so I have to press A to make the text block fill, and A to advance. This results in a LOT of button pressing for me since on occasion I press A one time too many and I have to go through the whole conversation again. I wish they set the B button to cancel the conversation like it cancels other things.
This isn't the only game to suffer from this sort of thing, but it's especially noticable for me since it's been a while since I'd played a game for 52 hours and still not have reached the end. I've only found about 10% of the special card combos(partly because I'm focusing on the storyline). I will probably play it again sometime and do the side quests. This is one game that's 50+ hours WITHOUT having to do all the useless stuff.
FF IV is my favorite game of all time, even more so than VI.
When I first picked up FFVII to play, boy was I disappointed. It seemed to me that the 3d characters on the 2d bakgrounds didn't match each other at all. The 3d characters didn't have the expressiveness or "detail" that I always pictured in my imagination. After 17 hours in that oppressively dark city I was beginning to wonder if everything too place there. I was about to give up. Thankfully it did get better. Although...killing a character in a game which really didn't kill anyone before...well that's a debate in itself.
I feel that disparity has been resolved with modern pre-rendered RPGs. Baten Kaitos has some absolutely stunning 2d pre-rendered backgrounds(just turn off the voices in that game, for your own sake). The characters in Baten Kaitos are unusual for the most part. There are a couple of typical hero types, but you also have an asshole, a murderer, and a wimpy goody-two-shoes. The characters definately aren't your average.
I'll guarantee you that when I was hearing reports that the PSP was sold out here in the US, there were 54 of them sitting about ten meters away(thirty feet ~ for us Americans).
People don't know where to look. People will go to the local EB Games, then Best Buy, then Gamestop that each had twenty non-pre-order units for sale and see that there aren't any and give up saying "OMG! It's sold out everywhere!" They won't go to Target and Walmart because they're not thinking of them as Games and Electronics stores.
The Walmart I was in NEVER ran out of PSPs and Target didn't run out for a month. I suggest people try shopping something other than specialty stores if they actually want one.
The number one game in the UK before Ridge Racer(PSP) was Brian Lara International Cricket 2005?! No fucking wonder it's a hit!
I hear European gamers bitch and whine and moan about how things take forever to get over to them. When the latest and greatest is out for six months to a year before you can touch it, it creates pent up demand.
I'm not making a comment on one system versus another here. I'm just trying to say that people in Europe are a completely different market from the US. They've been itching to get this for a long while, plus it had more games available than launch any other location, plus people had time to save up their £ AFTER deciding which system they wanted to try.
As someone else said here, competition is good, and nobody's dropping out of the handheld market any time soon.
Planescape: Torment sounds like what you're looking for. Dying doesn't mean dying and plays and integral part of the game. Dying is it's own experience as you're already dead.
Soul Reaver has a slight variation on "death" too.
The problem wasn't with the "z" in the word. It was the fact that it's completely misspelled.
What you guys want to use is capitalization. The original poster left out the I between L and Z and both you and he replaced the A with an I. Being European has nothing to do with it as you'll notice nobody said anything about an S.
It's interesting to watch people correct the correction of the correcting post and still get it wrong. Heh.
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Weird. For the Olympus C5050 it was just a single line mounting the USB device as a drive and it worked great.
Used to have a roommate with the C3030(and 2020 before it) that convinced me to go for it.
No shit.
I love the Gamecube. I love the games for it. I absolutely despise that Z button. Couldn't it have been under the right middle finger? Then it would actually be easy AND usefull(without having to leave the R flipper).
Note: I'm a Nintendo Fanboy good as the rest, but I'm not gonna say it's perfect.
They won't be hesitant. They'll jump on it. How would you like your manufacturing and distribution costs reduced to a fraction of current. Instant profit.
Seriously, everyone will get what they want so long as you can take your memory card and games with you to friend's houses.
of course.
They're not talking about the 14.4k being illicit. It was the high speed part that they're talking about. People with certain non-billed features were able to use the $60/month high speed network while only using minutes.
Websites gave details, drivers, and instructions on how to get Verizon to change your account to make it happen. Hell, even store employees would tell customers what to do to make it happen. They'd even setup the account right.
People were pissed when suddenly they couldn't get online and were told to pick between expensive, or slow. I known several people that ran into that issue.
These are not truly different. There are two things that are likely scratching the disks.
*The mold formed plastic tray.
*The lazer head assembly.
Both of these are simple non-transistor based errors. There's no way a bad transistor is causing this.
This article is FROM IBM about IBM. The article is what is quoted and of course they're talking about themselves, so "WE" is a perfectly acceptable term to use in their own article.
Now, it may not seem newsworthy to some to put a navel gazing press release up on the front page, but some will find it interesting to get a glimpse of part of IBM's internal workings. Take it or leave it, the article is not some kind of Google ranking ploy.
There's also the fact that these "random" phone call surveys often do not include cellphone numbers. They are typically excluded due to the fact it uses the receiver's minutes/money.
This means that you won't sample an estimated six percent of the population at all. "According to our analysis of most recent government data, the demographic information regarding those who have wireless-only service indicates that young, single people living in urban areas are those most likely to have cut the cord."-Insight Research
Doesn't it seem to you that "young, single people living in urban areas" are very likely to be internet users? Six percent missing from the sample could seriously skew the results. Political polls are also skewed due to the younger generation not being surveyed. It'd be interesting to see if they're trying to compensate for that lack of available sample. Even then they could get it wrong.
Wow, this is EXACTLY the same treatment I got when I went into our local camera shop a few years ago. Only two guys in the store, obviously one was a managing partner or owner of the place and the other wasn't a customer. Couldn't be bothered to talk to me even about buying a high speed CF card.
Even though I was looking to spend about a grand, I left. Went to Best Buy down the street and spent my money. I felt like the place was a front for the mob or something where they don't need sales because the store's not really there for that.
Small stores are only as good as the people running them. It's just that it's harder for them to run a dozen storefronts IRL than it is online(not that it doesn't happen as others here have mentioned.)
I'm a bit tired at the moment, but I seem to recall there being two radio thingys to stick next to the TV.
Triangulation would be the method used, it's not optical. No way could an LED interface do what Nintendo is having these controllers do. The Power Glove was IR, I know(I actually did pretty well with the thing playing Zelda 2), but unless Nintendo's come up with magic to improve IR these are guaranteed to be RF.
I would buy a $2900 camera if I could. The 5D is a low-pro/high-amature level camera.
It gets you:
*12.7 megapixels.
*Very high light sensitivity. (ISO 3200 which is about eight better times your average digicam.)
*Low noise(It will look cleaner at ISO 3200 than your average camera at ISO 400.)
*Fast shutter speeds(1/8000th of a second.)
*Interchangable lenses(Let's see you do that for less than $600 new.)
*Filters, polarizers, hoods, and diopters for those lenses.
*Full 35mm size CMOS sensor(for true wide angle shots(think 7mm.)
*Start-up time less than 1/3rd of a second(Your average digicam has about 3-7 seconds start-up.)
*Pro quality and strength flashes.
*Ability to slave multiple flashes(think portrait studio.)
*Ability to control the exposure for HOURS if needed(I've done some neat stuff with long exposures.)
*Remote shutter control.
*Underwater housing.
*Fast focus-to-shot(near instant, better than the half second or more some digicams take.)
*Focus and track moving subjects
*More focus and light metering options(Get that shot right the first time.)
*Shoot 3 frames per second for 60 frames(See the dust fly off the baseball when it's hit.)
I could go on and on. This type of camera is overkill for your average mom wanting to take pictures at Christmas. It's a real tool in the hands of a creative person.
Show me a 12.7 megapixel camera for $290. Hell, show me an 8 megapixel camera for $290 and I'll show you a piece of garbage.
Not everone needs a set of $2,000 cutlery, but you wouldn't give a professional chef a knock off Swiss army knife to do your meal with would you?
No, but I did live in Louisiana, just about the same really. I'm sure it's worse now.
The quotes are from the Quake 3 announcer for when you perform actions such as killing someone with the melee glove.
Loser pay systems should only be instituted if the lawsuit was deemed to be frivolous or otherwise "out of order."
The reason for this is simple: What happens when you sue for some grevious percieved mistake your dentist made while working on your teeth? You lose due to the jury/judge deciding that it wasn't a mistake, but rather a known standard complication...yadda yadda. Now you owe the dentist another $100,000. Congratulations, now you have a messed up mouth AND a huge debt.
I do realize you are probably taking this into account, but many people do not. Loser pays is not the answer people think it is. It has to be restricted some way.
Ok, well how about the recent Ford recall. This switch may fail and start a fire. It has failed 660 times.
Falling foam probably won't be damaging enough to bring down a space shuttle. Ad infinitum...
There are a lot of things that might happen in life. Let's not have a 555 seat airplane crash because someone didn't want to spend a few more dollars.
They did mention he was missing and that this was the trigger for the war.
The card system is one of the things I am really enjoying about it. It's so radically diferent that it's going to be a turn off for a good number of people I'm sure. It gets better when you have a larger selection of cards. Balancing your deck for each area becomes more important later on.
I really appreciate the option to retry boss monsters without having to go back to a save point. If you fail against a boss(I did lose once), you can retry. If you do, you don't get thrown back in to the wolves. They let you change characters and remix your decks. Thus, if you're smart, you probably won't lose the second time around.
There are some issues I have with the game too. For example, controls. There are many instances where using the digital pad is much more responsive(battle especially). However, there isn't much consistancy when you can use the Dpad and when you must use the analog stick. I also have a tendancy to out read the text speed in the game, so I have to press A to make the text block fill, and A to advance. This results in a LOT of button pressing for me since on occasion I press A one time too many and I have to go through the whole conversation again. I wish they set the B button to cancel the conversation like it cancels other things.
This isn't the only game to suffer from this sort of thing, but it's especially noticable for me since it's been a while since I'd played a game for 52 hours and still not have reached the end. I've only found about 10% of the special card combos(partly because I'm focusing on the storyline). I will probably play it again sometime and do the side quests. This is one game that's 50+ hours WITHOUT having to do all the useless stuff.
Because they won't. As long as things sell they'll keep using the brand name because it helps sell things.
Look at the Ford Mustang... there were some around the mid '80s that decidedly were NOT really Mustangs, but the name helps sell things.
Would you pick up "Legendary Materia," or "Final Fantasy VII?"
FF IV is my favorite game of all time, even more so than VI.
When I first picked up FFVII to play, boy was I disappointed. It seemed to me that the 3d characters on the 2d bakgrounds didn't match each other at all. The 3d characters didn't have the expressiveness or "detail" that I always pictured in my imagination. After 17 hours in that oppressively dark city I was beginning to wonder if everything too place there. I was about to give up. Thankfully it did get better. Although...killing a character in a game which really didn't kill anyone before...well that's a debate in itself.
I feel that disparity has been resolved with modern pre-rendered RPGs. Baten Kaitos has some absolutely stunning 2d pre-rendered backgrounds(just turn off the voices in that game, for your own sake). The characters in Baten Kaitos are unusual for the most part. There are a couple of typical hero types, but you also have an asshole, a murderer, and a wimpy goody-two-shoes. The characters definately aren't your average.
I'll guarantee you that when I was hearing reports that the PSP was sold out here in the US, there were 54 of them sitting about ten meters away(thirty feet ~ for us Americans).
People don't know where to look. People will go to the local EB Games, then Best Buy, then Gamestop that each had twenty non-pre-order units for sale and see that there aren't any and give up saying "OMG! It's sold out everywhere!" They won't go to Target and Walmart because they're not thinking of them as Games and Electronics stores.
The Walmart I was in NEVER ran out of PSPs and Target didn't run out for a month. I suggest people try shopping something other than specialty stores if they actually want one.
The number one game in the UK before Ridge Racer(PSP) was Brian Lara International Cricket 2005?! No fucking wonder it's a hit!
I hear European gamers bitch and whine and moan about how things take forever to get over to them. When the latest and greatest is out for six months to a year before you can touch it, it creates pent up demand.
I'm not making a comment on one system versus another here. I'm just trying to say that people in Europe are a completely different market from the US. They've been itching to get this for a long while, plus it had more games available than launch any other location, plus people had time to save up their £ AFTER deciding which system they wanted to try.
As someone else said here, competition is good, and nobody's dropping out of the handheld market any time soon.
Planescape: Torment sounds like what you're looking for.
Dying doesn't mean dying and plays and integral part of the game. Dying is it's own experience as you're already dead.
Soul Reaver has a slight variation on "death" too.
The problem wasn't with the "z" in the word. It was the fact that it's completely misspelled.
What you guys want to use is capitalization. The original poster left out the I between L and Z and both you and he replaced the A with an I. Being European has nothing to do with it as you'll notice nobody said anything about an S.
It's interesting to watch people correct the correction of the correcting post and still get it wrong. Heh.
The name is based on mythology. Slight spelling variation, but here's your basic info. THe first link is the better of the two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotho
You obviously are a glass half full kinda person.
Like someone else said, it'll just cost more for the same cheap ass accessory, or they'll just get more crappy. Neither's a very good option.