That's a bit counterproductive - if the only people who're going to be travelling into space are wealthy millionaires, we'd be much slower in space-travel development than we are at current. Not that it's all that important, but.
A lack of efficiency was a problem, now that I think about how my friend always had to carry his Game Gear in a huge case with an adaptor that plugged into the wall, but honestly, I still think Nintendo moves to slowly. We could certainly sacrifice some efficiency (who plays a handheld gaming console for 10 hours at a time, anyway?) in exchange for a bit more power. I'm not very hardware-literate, so I don't know how much efficiency we'd have to give up and how far it'd get us, but I'm certainly ready to see handheld gaming go beyond 2D.
I've always thought that the handheld game console market moves far too slowly because of Nintendo's huge market share and coincidental unwillingness to innovate at a speed I'd concider suitable. I mean, look at the GBA - it's only a bit better than the Sega Nomad, which is how old? 10 years?
is that? I mean, give the kids some freedom. I can see how it might have advantages in that it'll immediatly alert you if your child is kidnapped, but other than that, it's just another unneeded restriction.
If they use the English dubbed version, I'm sure as hell not watching it. It'd be nice to see Trigun on TV for once - I've got all 24 eps on my PC, but it's nice to sit on the couch - but if it's dubbed, I'm not watching... The voices are pathetic in dubbed Trigun. They don't express the right emotions based on the situation and the translations are all changed. I hope they don't edit thing, either... that'd be annoying.
Yeah, I agree. Linux is great - I've loved it when I've had access to it, although I can't say that much right now - but I don't mind using Windows. Honestly, if I had the choice, there are few things I'd change about Windows as it is now - it's crashed to the point that I need to restart the system maybe four times in a year, and application specific crashes are fairly infrequent. I'd still rather be using Linux right now if I had the opportunity, but this isn't my computer... but yeah. They both have advantages and disadvantages, people need to realize that.
Thannks... actually, I was looking around AvantGo earlier, but I didn't find anything that met my requirements. I was hoping it could be done through a PC-only conduit, mind you, since I don't have the tools nessecary to write Palm software, but I guess I'll just have to keep waiting... unless another Slashdotter could write/find something like this...
Now it's a matter of someone coding something that gives those lamps the same functionality as the orb. Does anyone have any information on that? It kind of defeats the purpose of the orb if it just flashes pretty colors - it needs to be able to change based on something, like website traffic.
I was thinking about doing something similar with my Palm Pilot - creating a conduit that, when the Palm was on it's dock, would send statistics of my choosing to the Palm and display them on it's screen - I'd be able to take a quick glance at the screen while I was working on other things to see how my site is doing and so forth. This'd also be much simpler to do, but I don't know where to start - can anyone help?
...it's close, but it's still not perfect... I wonder if it'll ever be perfect? I'm sure you could pass it off as a real person to someone with bad eyesight, though...
That's true... and it's not appropriate for such a big corporation, I wouldn't argue that. Mind you, they at least provide some support for their software. id should just give the games away for free, then nobody would be complaining... ^_^;;
I agree. They're basically saying;
"Give us $15 and we'll let you download this 13 year old game that may or may not work on your system. If it doesn't work, you can't download it, or you accidently delete the downloaded file - well, we guess you're screwed. Too bad."
I don't think even MS would do something like that.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more anti-MS comments in this post than I have. I thought there'd be tons. Anyway, I don't really care what EA does.
I say this as player - Live is great for gamers, if not for developers and publishers. I'd say the latter would like the idea of being able to boost their sales for free and with minimal extra coding on their part - after all, Ghost Recon sold more than a million copies - I believe about 3.5 times what the PS2 version sold - because that little Live stamp on the box.
EA, however, doesn't seem to realize the benefits of Live. It's their loss, though - right now it seems like they won't be making console online games at all because they don't want to let Microsoft have complete 'control' over the servers, but the last thing I heard on the subject was that they wouldn't be making PS2 online games, and as for Gamecube, everybody knows there are none in progress right now.
I really don't care what EA does, though. I've never liked EA. They've been behind one game that I liked and about a thousand that I hated. After they bought the Bond license (or whatever happened, I don't remember) from Rare, Bond games just started to suck. Nightfire, the most recent game, is the only Bond game from EA that I'd even call on par, and that's only because of it's (offline) multiplayer - the single player mode is still horrible.
As for Eidos, I don't really care either way. They've published a few games I liked, but for the most part, I just don't play Eidos games so it doesn't effect me.
I'm sure these announcements dissapointed some people, but I think in the end, EA will realize they've been losing a lot of potential money on not going with Live.
The purpose of this gun - and other guns designed like it - is to keep innocents safe and criminals without the tools to murder or steal, right? I really wonder. There are already millions of guns in existence that don't require you to fake a fingerprint in order to use them, and it's not that hard for any criminal worth his crowbar to acquire one. As for civilians who seek protection in these guns, there are several aforementioned issues with the user recognition system. One internal error and you're screwed.
Outside of rounding up every ballistic weapon in existence and destroying/disabling them - which is, of course, nearly impossible - there's no solution to the problems created by guns. We've gotten ourselves into this, and unfortunately, there isn't really a way out.
I don't know if I'd want computer technology implanted into my brain... as much as I love computers, there's the inherent risk of literally being hacked to death. Well, once these things have WiFi, anyway.
Mhhhm. I don't take it personally, I just think a little maturity would be nice sometimes. I mean, it's been a while since that whole "Gates of Borg" thing was funny...
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That's a bit counterproductive - if the only people who're going to be travelling into space are wealthy millionaires, we'd be much slower in space-travel development than we are at current. Not that it's all that important, but.
I don't play many Blizzard games... someone care to tell me what this means?
Does the rat wonder why the f--k it has a robotic body?
A lack of efficiency was a problem, now that I think about how my friend always had to carry his Game Gear in a huge case with an adaptor that plugged into the wall, but honestly, I still think Nintendo moves to slowly. We could certainly sacrifice some efficiency (who plays a handheld gaming console for 10 hours at a time, anyway?) in exchange for a bit more power. I'm not very hardware-literate, so I don't know how much efficiency we'd have to give up and how far it'd get us, but I'm certainly ready to see handheld gaming go beyond 2D.
Isn't it Nokia that's releasing the cell phone handheld? I don't think Sony's handheld does any of those things...
I've always thought that the handheld game console market moves far too slowly because of Nintendo's huge market share and coincidental unwillingness to innovate at a speed I'd concider suitable. I mean, look at the GBA - it's only a bit better than the Sega Nomad, which is how old? 10 years?
is that? I mean, give the kids some freedom. I can see how it might have advantages in that it'll immediatly alert you if your child is kidnapped, but other than that, it's just another unneeded restriction.
I don't get it... all their games are using shareware as well? What does that mean? Sorry. I'm tired.
If they use the English dubbed version, I'm sure as hell not watching it. It'd be nice to see Trigun on TV for once - I've got all 24 eps on my PC, but it's nice to sit on the couch - but if it's dubbed, I'm not watching... The voices are pathetic in dubbed Trigun. They don't express the right emotions based on the situation and the translations are all changed. I hope they don't edit thing, either... that'd be annoying.
Yeah, I agree. Linux is great - I've loved it when I've had access to it, although I can't say that much right now - but I don't mind using Windows. Honestly, if I had the choice, there are few things I'd change about Windows as it is now - it's crashed to the point that I need to restart the system maybe four times in a year, and application specific crashes are fairly infrequent. I'd still rather be using Linux right now if I had the opportunity, but this isn't my computer... but yeah. They both have advantages and disadvantages, people need to realize that.
Haha, Micro So Soft... is the title a joke, or did you guys not realize someone would bring up that reference when you posted this? Hahaha...
Thannks... actually, I was looking around AvantGo earlier, but I didn't find anything that met my requirements. I was hoping it could be done through a PC-only conduit, mind you, since I don't have the tools nessecary to write Palm software, but I guess I'll just have to keep waiting... unless another Slashdotter could write/find something like this...
Now it's a matter of someone coding something that gives those lamps the same functionality as the orb. Does anyone have any information on that? It kind of defeats the purpose of the orb if it just flashes pretty colors - it needs to be able to change based on something, like website traffic.
But I'm just stating the oubvious.
I was thinking about doing something similar with my Palm Pilot - creating a conduit that, when the Palm was on it's dock, would send statistics of my choosing to the Palm and display them on it's screen - I'd be able to take a quick glance at the screen while I was working on other things to see how my site is doing and so forth. This'd also be much simpler to do, but I don't know where to start - can anyone help?
...it's close, but it's still not perfect... I wonder if it'll ever be perfect? I'm sure you could pass it off as a real person to someone with bad eyesight, though...
That's true... and it's not appropriate for such a big corporation, I wouldn't argue that. Mind you, they at least provide some support for their software. id should just give the games away for free, then nobody would be complaining... ^_^;;
Someone should try to memorize every standard class in Java or every distribution of Linux... haha, wonder what you'd call that?
I agree. They're basically saying; "Give us $15 and we'll let you download this 13 year old game that may or may not work on your system. If it doesn't work, you can't download it, or you accidently delete the downloaded file - well, we guess you're screwed. Too bad." I don't think even MS would do something like that.
Are we really that nerdy? Do we actually care about a new way to remember the periodic table? I hope not.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more anti-MS comments in this post than I have. I thought there'd be tons. Anyway, I don't really care what EA does.
I say this as player - Live is great for gamers, if not for developers and publishers. I'd say the latter would like the idea of being able to boost their sales for free and with minimal extra coding on their part - after all, Ghost Recon sold more than a million copies - I believe about 3.5 times what the PS2 version sold - because that little Live stamp on the box.
EA, however, doesn't seem to realize the benefits of Live. It's their loss, though - right now it seems like they won't be making console online games at all because they don't want to let Microsoft have complete 'control' over the servers, but the last thing I heard on the subject was that they wouldn't be making PS2 online games, and as for Gamecube, everybody knows there are none in progress right now.
I really don't care what EA does, though. I've never liked EA. They've been behind one game that I liked and about a thousand that I hated. After they bought the Bond license (or whatever happened, I don't remember) from Rare, Bond games just started to suck. Nightfire, the most recent game, is the only Bond game from EA that I'd even call on par, and that's only because of it's (offline) multiplayer - the single player mode is still horrible.
As for Eidos, I don't really care either way. They've published a few games I liked, but for the most part, I just don't play Eidos games so it doesn't effect me.
I'm sure these announcements dissapointed some people, but I think in the end, EA will realize they've been losing a lot of potential money on not going with Live.
The purpose of this gun - and other guns designed like it - is to keep innocents safe and criminals without the tools to murder or steal, right? I really wonder. There are already millions of guns in existence that don't require you to fake a fingerprint in order to use them, and it's not that hard for any criminal worth his crowbar to acquire one. As for civilians who seek protection in these guns, there are several aforementioned issues with the user recognition system. One internal error and you're screwed. Outside of rounding up every ballistic weapon in existence and destroying/disabling them - which is, of course, nearly impossible - there's no solution to the problems created by guns. We've gotten ourselves into this, and unfortunately, there isn't really a way out.
"Embedded HTTP-compliant Web server" I dunno, I'd tend to call it a server if it's got that...
I don't know if I'd want computer technology implanted into my brain... as much as I love computers, there's the inherent risk of literally being hacked to death. Well, once these things have WiFi, anyway.
Mhhhm. I don't take it personally, I just think a little maturity would be nice sometimes. I mean, it's been a while since that whole "Gates of Borg" thing was funny...
Hahahahaha.... You'll keep saying that until you get shot by snipers.