Nintendo unveiling a new portable By Steven Kent, Special forUSA TODAY LOS ANGELES -- Video game giant Nintendo, facing increased competition in the market for handheld entertainment, will have a new portable out this fall with twin color screens, sharper graphics and the feel of a PDA. The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering.
The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering. The DS will sell alongside today's Game Boy Advance, not replace it, according to the company. Nintendo has not announced a release date or price, though analysts predict it may sell in the $150 range.
One of the two 3-inch screens is touch-sensitive and works with a stylus -- like Palms and Pocket PCs -- to control the action in some games. In one demo, players guide a toddler-age Mario as he falls from the sky by drawing clouds. Other games give multiple views of the action.
The DS also has Bluetooth wireless communication to connect with other units within range for cordless competition. DS has separate slots for current Game Boy Advance cartridges and new, smaller DS game cards.
DS is largely viewed as Nintendo's response to Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP, a new system that will play both movies and video games stored on mini DVD discs. Sony has announced plans to release PSP in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2005.
"I have not seen the PSP," says Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the famous Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong characters. "The screen, I believe, is bigger than a DS screen, and I am sure it will have excellent graphic quality." But, he adds, "the PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.... We want to do things that you could not do before. We are looking at the creative end."
The DS has slightly more processing power than the Nintendo 64 console released in 1996. While that's nowhere near today's top game-system graphical capabilities, two- and three-dimensional game images, when viewed on DS screens, are surprisingly crisp.
Sony's PSP, reported to be only slightly less powerful than the PlayStation 2, will have a higher-resolution screen and more graphics power. The price has not yet been announced, though estimates have ranged to $250 and up.
Having sold more than 168 million Game Boys worldwide since 1989, Nintendo dominates the handheld game market, even as it's losing market share in console systems to Sony and Microsoft. Over the past 15 years, such companies as Sega, NEC, SNK and most recently cell phone giant Nokia have launched nine competing portable game systems without much success.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered ISS community when NASA confirmed that ISS atmosphere has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 95% percent of all atmospheres. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that ISS has lost more atmosphere , this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. ISS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent "Space Stations: What's hot and what's not".
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict ISS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: ISS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for ISS because ISS is dying. Things are looking very bad for ISS. As many of us are already aware, ISS continues to lose atmosphere.
All major surveys show that ISS has steadily declined in cool factor. ISS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If ISS is to survive at all it will be among russian dilettante dabblers. ISS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, ISS is dead.
...and 40% if you're counting by hours played. (Yes, women tend to play more hours than men.) What the hell? Now, let me get my maths right here. 100-40=60 OK, So that leaves 60% of the hours to someone other than females. Now, if women tend to play more hours than men, that means that there are at most 39% men playing. Now. 40+39=79 100-79=21
So theres 21% of the hours been played by people not male or female. WTF?
Did anyone else think that this was relating to the court case where they guys shot the other guy, and blamed GTA3?
I was looking at the text and going "wtf, where is the verdict!"
Why doesn't he travel back in time and kill all of their grandfathers? They would cease to exist. Wait. Then he wouldn't need to kill their grandfathers. And then he would. And... And... Excuse me. [Opens Window] I can fly!
Now really, the only real way to combat muscle atrophy in space is to exercise, or to create a stable artificial gravity, which allows the muscles to be exercised. What do they need to research?
The newest 24 preview has Jack sitting infront of a 17" PowerBook, with a G5 in the background. They both look amazing.
What would microsoft do? Have a WindowsXP box sitting on the desk, with him holding it up, looking at the camera and saying "For all you security needs, use windows" and promptly proceeds to blast a cap in it's ass.
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Totally o/t, but why is wood alcohol so bad for you? Does it contain methanol vs ethanol or something?
That's what it was in the 90's, right now it's worth about 0.704932 USD per 1 AUD.
p df , remove the space)
In the 90's, it was worth more, and in the 80's it was worth even more.
( http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/fasts/2000/DollarClock.
I implied that they put the linux version of the player.
Now, I wonder where they hid that Shockwave player for Linux?
/dev/null
Nintendo unveiling a new portable
... We want to do things that you could not do before. We are looking at the creative end."
By Steven Kent, Special forUSA TODAY
LOS ANGELES -- Video game giant Nintendo, facing increased competition in the market for handheld entertainment, will have a new portable out this fall with twin color screens, sharper graphics and the feel of a PDA. The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering.
The Nintendo DS -- short for dual-screen -- will be unveiled Tuesday morning at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry gathering. The DS will sell alongside today's Game Boy Advance, not replace it, according to the company. Nintendo has not announced a release date or price, though analysts predict it may sell in the $150 range.
One of the two 3-inch screens is touch-sensitive and works with a stylus -- like Palms and Pocket PCs -- to control the action in some games. In one demo, players guide a toddler-age Mario as he falls from the sky by drawing clouds. Other games give multiple views of the action.
The DS also has Bluetooth wireless communication to connect with other units within range for cordless competition. DS has separate slots for current Game Boy Advance cartridges and new, smaller DS game cards.
DS is largely viewed as Nintendo's response to Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP, a new system that will play both movies and video games stored on mini DVD discs. Sony has announced plans to release PSP in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2005.
"I have not seen the PSP," says Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the famous Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong characters. "The screen, I believe, is bigger than a DS screen, and I am sure it will have excellent graphic quality." But, he adds, "the PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.
The DS has slightly more processing power than the Nintendo 64 console released in 1996. While that's nowhere near today's top game-system graphical capabilities, two- and three-dimensional game images, when viewed on DS screens, are surprisingly crisp.
Sony's PSP, reported to be only slightly less powerful than the PlayStation 2, will have a higher-resolution screen and more graphics power. The price has not yet been announced, though estimates have ranged to $250 and up.
Having sold more than 168 million Game Boys worldwide since 1989, Nintendo dominates the handheld game market, even as it's losing market share in console systems to Sony and Microsoft. Over the past 15 years, such companies as Sega, NEC, SNK and most recently cell phone giant Nokia have launched nine competing portable game systems without much success.
And the image is here!
ROFL, Classic quip at ST:VOY.
I applaud you, good sir.
But is it L1,L2,L3?
How many KB?
What clockspeed?
Who makes the chips?
Jeez.
I truely hope that they both come back, particularly Futurama.
Ah, Zoidy, what are we doing without you?
So that you still get the pings after the Martians intercept the data stream, duh. :)
Oh, what the fuck!
I said Text, you stupid bastard!
Here it is as it was meant to be.
ping marsrover.dsn.gov
ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 159649 ttl=320000 size=64
ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 134572 ttl=320000 size=64
ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 152142 ttl=320000 size=64
ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 168453 ttl=320000 size=64
Sent: 10 Recieved: 4 Packet Loss : 60% Min/Avrg/Max : 134572, 153704, 168453
(Stupid Lameness Filter! Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.)
ping marsrover.dsn.gov ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 159649 ttl=320000 size=64 ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 134572 ttl=320000 size=64 ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 152142 ttl=320000 size=64 ping reply from marsrover.dns.gov 168453 ttl=320000 size=64 Sent: 10 Recieved: 4 Packet Loss : 60% Min/Avrg/Max : 134572, 153704, 168453 (Stupid Lameness Filter! Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.)
Perhaps it's a crappy code, with 42 as both the code and the answer!.
The code is 42!
It is official; Netcraft confirms: ISS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered ISS community when NASA confirmed that ISS atmosphere has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 95% percent of all atmospheres. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that ISS has lost more atmosphere , this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. ISS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent "Space Stations: What's hot and what's not".
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict ISS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: ISS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for ISS because ISS is dying. Things are looking very bad for ISS. As many of us are already aware, ISS continues to lose atmosphere.
All major surveys show that ISS has steadily declined in cool factor. ISS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If ISS is to survive at all it will be among russian dilettante dabblers. ISS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, ISS is dead.
Fact: ISS is dying
I know, someone compiled me with the --pedantic switch.
(Might have had the --nohumour switch too)
...and 40% if you're counting by hours played. (Yes, women tend to play more hours than men.)
What the hell?
Now, let me get my maths right here.
100-40=60
OK, So that leaves 60% of the hours to someone other than females.
Now, if women tend to play more hours than men, that means that there are at most 39% men playing.
Now.
40+39=79
100-79=21
So theres 21% of the hours been played by people not male or female.
WTF?
Did anyone else think that this was relating to the court case where they guys shot the other guy, and blamed GTA3?
I was looking at the text and going "wtf, where is the verdict!"
A joe-job is a spam run forged to appear as though it came from an innocent party, who is then generally flooded by the bounces or complaints.
Why doesn't he travel back in time and kill all of their grandfathers? They would cease to exist.
Wait. Then he wouldn't need to kill their grandfathers. And then he would.
And...
And...
Excuse me.
[Opens Window]
I can fly!
Now really, the only real way to combat muscle atrophy in space is to exercise, or to create a stable artificial gravity, which allows the muscles to be exercised. What do they need to research?
Oh, and another straw on the camels back?
Am I the only one that saw
"Sanyo Develops Porn-Based Biodegradeable CD"
and thought "Wow, where can we donate!"
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The newest 24 preview has Jack sitting infront of a 17" PowerBook, with a G5 in the background. They both look amazing. What would microsoft do? Have a WindowsXP box sitting on the desk, with him holding it up, looking at the camera and saying "For all you security needs, use windows" and promptly proceeds to blast a cap in it's ass.
Beware, Goatse.