Once they have an xbox in every household, and Sony and Nintendo are has-beens, they can start making the Xbox into the household entertainment center that controls everything.
Throw in a keyboard, revolution controller ripoff, and put a webby version of Office on Live and they'll make a dent in a lot more than just the console market.
I'd probably be a bit surprised if they don't try to turn the 360 into some kind of evil amiga. HDTV gives them the resolution to really make it work.
Here in the UK, the PSP still hasn't even been released yet (it comes out on the 1st of September)
I got my PSP from the states when they first came out, and obviously I'm impressed with the visuals, same story for most of the gamers I know, most of us bought DS's too because, well, I guess 20-something gamers in IT just buy everything that comes along, huh?
The funny thing is now, a few days before the PSP's real launch, all ours are just gathering dust, everyone I speak to has been saying the same story for months now - "I'm thinking of ebaying it, but I'll wait for x" (whether x is GT4, Liberty City Stories, or, uhh, actually that's it, heheheh)
The PSP is a pain in the ass, it's a beautiful piece of kit for sure, but it feels horrendously fragile, carry it in your jeans and bang your leg into anything and that's your PSP fucked, whereas with the DS you shut it, chuck it in your pocket, and don't worry about it the rest of the day. Sure it's big enough that you know it's there, but the clamshell design gives you so much peace of mind the extra size is worth it.
Fantastically, all through typing up this post, I've had my wife sitting across from me totally engrossed in Nintendogs on her DS, she's all "sit down! sit down! sit down!" but that's the DS, it's endlessly compelling, and endlessly fun. Much more important characteristics of a console than a beautiful design. Something Sony doesn't seem to have figured out yet (roll on Revolution)
Having said all that, the web-browser in the 2.0 firmware is pretty slick (although it sucks it won't do flash), and Liberty City Stories really is shaping up to be something special... Despite what those pompous pricks at Edge might say.
Anyone who bought an original playstation 2 in the UK got a programming language with the console so that Sony could say that it was a computer and not a toy
I don't remember that coming with mine... Is this a new thing?
Yeah, we won't really hear about the Revolution as much as the XBox 360 or PS3, but that's largely because they're not playing the same game - Sony and Microsoft's last consoles were hyped way beyond their actual spec... sorry, they were "marketed intelligently" - this generation is going to be the same story, already we're hearing that the XBox360's processor is 15x faster than that in the original console, and the PS3's processor a staggering 35x faster than "a PS2", but just as was the case with the previous generation, Sony and Microsoft's numbers are a load of smoke and mirrors.
One of the things I've always admired about Nintendo is they don't play the technical bullshitting game, they say "the Revolution is going to be around 3x the speed of the GC" and that means your console is going to perform like a gamecube that's three times more powerful, not that the new processor can do a very specific set of functions 3x faster than the old one could.
I'm looking forward to all 3 consoles, but we'll have no idea how the new Microsoft or Sony consoles will perform for several months, the Revolution is a known quantity and it's pretty unfair that they lost mindshare and magazine space as a result of the other companies' runaway "marketing".
Bear in mind that this is the first generation that's been online out of the box. Sure it's nothing for us PC gamers, but these consoles are going to open up a door for non-PC gamers to play all their favourite games against real people - the difference between AI and real people isn't something to be sniffed at as "same old song and dance"
The past couple of years have been right up there IMHO, where in just a few months we've had the likes of Half Life 2, World of Warcraft, San Andreas, Silent Hill 4, Resident Evil 4, Halo 2, Doom III, Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario TYD... There have been more great games released in the past year than there have been in any I can remember, and there's certainly enough on every format you busy for a long time, and what's coming up just looks better and better with every passing day (and that's ignoring the PSP and DS). Sure purists will say "those ones above are all sequels" but who cares, they're all great games, (with the possible exception of Doom III, heheh)
Games are still as cool, fun and new as ever, it sounds like you're just getting a bit jaded, or maybe spoiled for choice?
I think I know what you're talking about, but it wasn't spy satellites that took the images, rather a spy agency doing supersampling with multiple MGS images of the region.
I remember reading about it on space.com, the article is probably in their archives somewhere.
But some sites REALLY require JavaScript. For example, in Hotmail (yes, another MS creation), none of the links are really links. They are JavaScript function calls, which in turn redirect to the page. I don't want to whore my website too much today, but I have a pic here. Hotmail is just one example. There are other sites that do this as well.
Not being able to open javascript links in a new tab bugs the hell out of me too, but the only real solution is to build that functionality into the browser, rather than change the way javascript operates. Your browser should be smart enough to open them in new tabs if you configure it that way. In a future version of javascript I'm sure we'll see the same kind of support for tabs as we do today for windows, in the meantime it's up to the browser to handle javascript links gracefully.
I've had my (ISP) email address for the past 8 years or so, and when I first got that internet connection I was pretty naive, I'd use my real email address everywhere, it was on a popular site, it went unmunged on newsgroups and all was well. Not so long after getting it the spam started coming in, and it's increased over the entire 8 years without my involvement (I stopped using that address many years ago when I got my own domain)
That address must be on every spam list/CD known to man, my ISP offers (free) filtering so I switched that on just to save my hard drive - I still get several hundred that make it through their filter every day, and they block tens of thousands each month - on the rare occasion when I go "oh, I signed up for an account on this site years ago, I wonder if my account still exists" - I go to the site, put that email address in the "remind me" box, fetch my new mail and literally have to do a search on that account's inbox - it's that bad that I can't even quickly find an email minutes after receiving it.
So I've written off that account, I play around with anti-spam technologies from time to time and I use it as a throwaway account though, so I continue to let it exist and fetch my mail a few times a day - anyway... about 6 months ago I noticed I was getting dozens of the same email in a row from the same guys, for shits and giggles I clicked the unsubscribe link and did my usual "shauihfeuihgerisbuisrghsruighuisegr@hduiwehfeuiwh uighuierghruigher.com" - it came back with the "Thank you, you have now been removed from our list!" so I thought "ok, they're just building an unsubscribe list" - I put in my email address too (it's worthless now anyway, and I figured this way I covered my ass) and waited a couple of weeks - as I expected I just got spammed harder by them, to the point where I was receiving over a hundred of the exact same email every day. I looked up the contact details on the site that they were advertising, did a whois on the domain and got the contacts, whoised whatever was after the @ on each of the contacts and so on and so on and wrote my email.
Essentially, I emailed the spammer and BCCd his ISP, the site he was advertising's webmaster, cust feedback, billing company, and anybody else I could find who had business dealings with the site or spammer that was responsible for spamming me so hard.
I said "I unsubscribed from the list I didn't subscribe to, you were still sending hundreds of identical emails to me every day. As you are not honoring unsubscribe requests I don't know what else to do but go over your head.
All, please ensure I am removed from this list, I don't care how, you are all responsible to an extent."
for the next week I got about 10-20 of the same email daily, the week after I got
It's a silly amount of hoops to jump through to get removed from one list (and futile, considering I get thousands of UCE from other sources), I did it largely to see if it would work, it did, draw your own conclusions:D
As for the temperatures on Mars, they would have to be well monitored.. during the day it can get really hot, and nights are really cold due to the lack of a dense atmosphere, but if you chose the right time, with a temperature around 100 degrees to 40 degrees, you wouldn't have to worry about freezing, and the heating and cooling in the suit should take care of any astronaut discomfort.
100 to 40 degrees... Are those numbers C or F? I think they're inaccurate either way, the Martian temperature peaks at around 20C, and it doesn't get that hot very often (or even very many places).
Of course, that's just the surface temperature, if you're standing on the right part of Mars, at the right time of day, with no suit on the soles of your feet will be a nice and toasty 20C, everything above your toes is going to be sub-zero though.
Anyways, if you haven't already, try Firebird - you lose some of the things you like, but the UI is about as intuitive as any I've used, especially in Linux. Cut-n-pasting URLs into new tabs with four mouse clicks and a whammy on the NumPad key just looks cool.
4? Numpad?
I'm on windows just now (ick) with a two-button mouse (double-ick) but I'm not sure what you're doing there, maybe you're right (I can't remember, and can't test it here) but if you've got the other tab open you can click the address bar (to highlight the address) click the target tab's tab, then middle click anywhere in the body - 3 clicks, no numpad.
For those of you who will continue to whine that this was an act of terrorism, please go look up the word terrorism and note that the target is to inflict terror
That and "the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments", which kinda screws this entire part of your argument, doesn't it? I haven't RTFA yet, so I offer no opinion on whether the actions mentioned therein were warranted or not, just pointing that out.
Oh, and if you hate the US so much that you will take any tiny hint of wrongdoing and blow it all out of proportion, move.
While you're shipping everybody who disagrees with the actions of the government out of America, why not burn the constitution too?
And once you've got a game working on a Linux server, porting the rest of the game is relatively simple.
Yep, those 6 lines you have to remove to port the server from Winsock to regular sockets are the hard part, after that the hundreds of thousands of lines of DirectX/3D that have to be converted to SDL/OpenGL are a walk in the park!
It's part of our IT department's standard operating environment to have MSIE as the only browser on Windows platforms. It's also part of their policy to prevent additional programs -- specifically including web browsers of any kind -- from being installed, and the penalty for doing so is not something I really feel like finding out. People have been fired for repeat violations.
Firebird doesn't have an installer, it just runs out of the directory you extract it to - unless your company has some really obscure and complex policies in place it should work fine in your OE.
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I'd probably be a bit surprised if they don't try to turn the 360 into some kind of evil amiga. HDTV gives them the resolution to really make it work.
I'm in, as long as they've got games with as crazy names as the GP32.
(the link is a screenshot of the title screen of "Dyhard With Infinite Stairs")
Here in the UK, the PSP still hasn't even been released yet (it comes out on the 1st of September)
I got my PSP from the states when they first came out, and obviously I'm impressed with the visuals, same story for most of the gamers I know, most of us bought DS's too because, well, I guess 20-something gamers in IT just buy everything that comes along, huh?
The funny thing is now, a few days before the PSP's real launch, all ours are just gathering dust, everyone I speak to has been saying the same story for months now - "I'm thinking of ebaying it, but I'll wait for x" (whether x is GT4, Liberty City Stories, or, uhh, actually that's it, heheheh)
The PSP is a pain in the ass, it's a beautiful piece of kit for sure, but it feels horrendously fragile, carry it in your jeans and bang your leg into anything and that's your PSP fucked, whereas with the DS you shut it, chuck it in your pocket, and don't worry about it the rest of the day. Sure it's big enough that you know it's there, but the clamshell design gives you so much peace of mind the extra size is worth it.
Fantastically, all through typing up this post, I've had my wife sitting across from me totally engrossed in Nintendogs on her DS, she's all "sit down! sit down! sit down!" but that's the DS, it's endlessly compelling, and endlessly fun. Much more important characteristics of a console than a beautiful design. Something Sony doesn't seem to have figured out yet (roll on Revolution)
Having said all that, the web-browser in the 2.0 firmware is pretty slick (although it sucks it won't do flash), and Liberty City Stories really is shaping up to be something special... Despite what those pompous pricks at Edge might say.
They'll be changing the popular "Shut Do..." button to the even less meaningful "Do..."
Yeah, we won't really hear about the Revolution as much as the XBox 360 or PS3, but that's largely because they're not playing the same game - Sony and Microsoft's last consoles were hyped way beyond their actual spec... sorry, they were "marketed intelligently" - this generation is going to be the same story, already we're hearing that the XBox360's processor is 15x faster than that in the original console, and the PS3's processor a staggering 35x faster than "a PS2", but just as was the case with the previous generation, Sony and Microsoft's numbers are a load of smoke and mirrors.
One of the things I've always admired about Nintendo is they don't play the technical bullshitting game, they say "the Revolution is going to be around 3x the speed of the GC" and that means your console is going to perform like a gamecube that's three times more powerful, not that the new processor can do a very specific set of functions 3x faster than the old one could.
I'm looking forward to all 3 consoles, but we'll have no idea how the new Microsoft or Sony consoles will perform for several months, the Revolution is a known quantity and it's pretty unfair that they lost mindshare and magazine space as a result of the other companies' runaway "marketing".
Bear in mind that this is the first generation that's been online out of the box. Sure it's nothing for us PC gamers, but these consoles are going to open up a door for non-PC gamers to play all their favourite games against real people - the difference between AI and real people isn't something to be sniffed at as "same old song and dance"
The past couple of years have been right up there IMHO, where in just a few months we've had the likes of Half Life 2, World of Warcraft, San Andreas, Silent Hill 4, Resident Evil 4, Halo 2, Doom III, Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario TYD... There have been more great games released in the past year than there have been in any I can remember, and there's certainly enough on every format you busy for a long time, and what's coming up just looks better and better with every passing day (and that's ignoring the PSP and DS). Sure purists will say "those ones above are all sequels" but who cares, they're all great games, (with the possible exception of Doom III, heheh)
Games are still as cool, fun and new as ever, it sounds like you're just getting a bit jaded, or maybe spoiled for choice?
I think I know what you're talking about, but it wasn't spy satellites that took the images, rather a spy agency doing supersampling with multiple MGS images of the region.
I remember reading about it on space.com, the article is probably in their archives somewhere.
All that's missing is "loose" in place of lose.
Since Fox binned My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, they've been putting the unaired episodes up on their site every Friday.
The quality isn't the best, but it's a hilarious show, and it's always nice to see companies embracing technology.
Actually, the official* release schedule looks more like this
Doom V
Duke Nukem Forever
Phantom
"Stolen" SCO code
Bush's Medical Records
PlayStation 4
Saddam's WMD
The Passion 2: Judgement Day
Half Life 2
*not official
"later one" indeed!
Unfortunately, spelt is in the dictionary.
A valiant effort, B-!
It's starting to seem like the patent office just likes all the traffic they get from slashdot.
The code is indeed directions to the holy grail (well, close enough), it breaks down like this
"Up Down Up Down Left Right Left Right A B A B Select Start"
Nothing beats a "hogh-tech" yo-yo.
I've had my (ISP) email address for the past 8 years or so, and when I first got that internet connection I was pretty naive, I'd use my real email address everywhere, it was on a popular site, it went unmunged on newsgroups and all was well. Not so long after getting it the spam started coming in, and it's increased over the entire 8 years without my involvement (I stopped using that address many years ago when I got my own domain)
h uighuierghruigher.com" - it came back with the "Thank you, you have now been removed from our list!" so I thought "ok, they're just building an unsubscribe list" - I put in my email address too (it's worthless now anyway, and I figured this way I covered my ass) and waited a couple of weeks - as I expected I just got spammed harder by them, to the point where I was receiving over a hundred of the exact same email every day. I looked up the contact details on the site that they were advertising, did a whois on the domain and got the contacts, whoised whatever was after the @ on each of the contacts and so on and so on and wrote my email.
:D
That address must be on every spam list/CD known to man, my ISP offers (free) filtering so I switched that on just to save my hard drive - I still get several hundred that make it through their filter every day, and they block tens of thousands each month - on the rare occasion when I go "oh, I signed up for an account on this site years ago, I wonder if my account still exists" - I go to the site, put that email address in the "remind me" box, fetch my new mail and literally have to do a search on that account's inbox - it's that bad that I can't even quickly find an email minutes after receiving it.
So I've written off that account, I play around with anti-spam technologies from time to time and I use it as a throwaway account though, so I continue to let it exist and fetch my mail a few times a day - anyway... about 6 months ago I noticed I was getting dozens of the same email in a row from the same guys, for shits and giggles I clicked the unsubscribe link and did my usual "shauihfeuihgerisbuisrghsruighuisegr@hduiwehfeuiw
Essentially, I emailed the spammer and BCCd his ISP, the site he was advertising's webmaster, cust feedback, billing company, and anybody else I could find who had business dealings with the site or spammer that was responsible for spamming me so hard.
I said "I unsubscribed from the list I didn't subscribe to, you were still sending hundreds of identical emails to me every day. As you are not honoring unsubscribe requests I don't know what else to do but go over your head.
All, please ensure I am removed from this list, I don't care how, you are all responsible to an extent."
for the next week I got about 10-20 of the same email daily, the week after I got
It's a silly amount of hoops to jump through to get removed from one list (and futile, considering I get thousands of UCE from other sources), I did it largely to see if it would work, it did, draw your own conclusions
Of course, that's just the surface temperature, if you're standing on the right part of Mars, at the right time of day, with no suit on the soles of your feet will be a nice and toasty 20C, everything above your toes is going to be sub-zero though.
Either that or those links are b0rked
I'm on windows just now (ick) with a two-button mouse (double-ick) but I'm not sure what you're doing there, maybe you're right (I can't remember, and can't test it here) but if you've got the other tab open you can click the address bar (to highlight the address) click the target tab's tab, then middle click anywhere in the body - 3 clicks, no numpad.
Which for the rest of the world, by today's exchange rates, is around the same cost as a loaf of bread.
While you're shipping everybody who disagrees with the actions of the government out of America, why not burn the constitution too?