Just like the pricing turned out to be a rumor, I seriously question the truth behind this. They're saying that, this late in the game, Nintendo intends to strap a non-trivial piece of hardware onto a system that I'm pretty sure works already. Also, the wide-area integrity of a network based entirely on systems that are A. irregularly distributed, B. probably moving around, and C. turned off much of the time doesn't sound like it'd be worth the effort to set it up.
I guess it could work to automatically network to any other DS's within a set range, but over a wide area, what happens when some dipshit turns off his DS and breaks the very tenuous chain of DS's transmitting through the rural area between two urban areas (where there are more people and probably far more DS's floating around)? I admit I'm not as knowledgeable about wireless networks as wired ones, but I don't see this working on a large scale, and on a smaller scale, why even bother with building a hub into every DS?
With all its problems, the N-Gage probably was closer to the spot with a wider area gaming network. The cell phone network is already there, and although it's not 100% reliable (especially if you're moving around between cells), it's got far less random factors involved than a p2p DS network.
Just sounds too cool to be true. At least the hoax about the PSP price was believable. The PSP will be a lot closer to $350 than the DS will be to this p2p distributed network.
How would it be a good thing? Or are you one of those ultra conservatives you say are so keen on shutting down PBS?
Anyway, they get money from me every time pledges roll around. It gets split up, though. I usually pick a few shows I like pledge a bit for each one, and then look at my tuition bill and see that I pay a $250 media fee that goes to the university's PBS station WFUM and feel a bit better about only having $25-30 to donate.
I actually have a VHS tape sitting around of me playing all the way through Link to the Past. It runs about 5 hours, and its not very good quality, though. You can probably find playthrough movies in the ZSNES movie format for SNES games (you need the ROM to view them, though), but for most later games, the sheer length of the games adds up against this sort of thing. I have games that have taken me 80+ hours. I feel for anybody who would watch my playthrough of Morrowind, which took two years of fairly active playing, months of which consisted of me walking back and forth along the length of an uninteresting valley trying to find the cave to get the hell back out and being swarmed by cliff racers ten at a time.
Mythbusters is probably one of the most scientific shows still on Discovery, not on the air. PBS and a couple other channels still have good science, and I hear Discovery has a science spin-off channel, but my carrier doesn't offer it.
Discovery doesn't do anything like this anymore. Take a look at their lineup. Lots of good shows (American Chopper, Mythbusters, etc), but not a lot of science anymore. They're dominated right now by home decorating and gearhead shows, with a few crime investigation shows thrown in for the CSI crowd. Heck, Mythbusters is probably one of their most scientific shows still on the air. I suppose its better than a few years ago when they were big on the occult and pseudoscience (how many times did they have to rerun half-assed alient abduction documentaries, for crying out loud?), but if you want science, technology, history, or even philosophy, it's not the place to go.
Good, because it's free. How do you think they get so many assinine 12 year old AOL users to sign up and spam the living fuck out of every message board and guestbook they can find?
That's why he says he doesn't want restrictions. Just hop from game to game until you find somebody who isn't a moron. Sorta like channel surfing the TV, only with more killing.
Realistically, there will almost certainly be options to disable or limit the number of spectators in a game to control latency, or just keep the asshats away (if spectators can talk to actual players, which would be useful in some cases and a pain in any other), but I suspect there will be enough people who leave them open that you can just flip through them and find a good game going that doesn't involve people talking about the size of their penis.
1. Newbies: New players to the game can watch better players and try to learn the game. I did this with Starcraft, Warcraft III, and Shattered Galaxy and picked up those games very quickly when I started playing myself, compared to, say, Red Alert II, which I still suck royally at.
2. Tournaments: See some of the competition in action. Same idea as with the newbies, but a bit more specific as to what you're looking for.
3. "Referee": I had a friend who I beat very badly at Starcraft repeatedly. He constantly accused me of hacking. The only way he would stfu was if we set up a 1v1 between us with the same setup as the previous loss, and have two neutral third parties (we each picked one of them) as spectators who would then tell everybody at school wether or not I was a hacker. I wasn't, although it turns out he did have a map hack running. Sometimes you need somebody who wasn't in the game to settle stupid arguments like that.
5. Just plain bored: I have a few gameplay videos stored, and I run them sometimes when I'm doing something and can't dedicate the time to actually play.
I know that replay files are pretty popular downloads for Warcraft III, largely for the same reasons as above. The same could easily apply on XBox Live.
The whole point of Outwars is effectively the same as the point of spam, too. The idea is that you get people to click your link. More clicks=higher score. It's always been exactly like spam, just without the penis enlargement (or should I say pe..n''is en'lar;ge.ment) and such.
I wouldn't say that's a forgone conclusion. The Playstation consoles have major brand-name recognition and a considerable following, consisting heavily of the 18-25 gamers who criticize Nintendo for having mostly kids' games. Rather than being the next N-Gage, I think we have the next Game Gear here: It'll do moderately good, but it's too far undersold by a competitor that was already wildly successful when they came along.
Kind of freaky, but I get almost no spam on my hotmail account. I only use it to sign up for messageboards and websites and such, but its my main email that gets all the spam. My hotmail account, despite definitly being in the hands of at least one porn distributor, only gets Microsoft's Hotmail support spam every couple weeks.
2. Seeing as it's in Europe, a football pitch is probably a soccer field.
3. Because fungi reproduce sexually. Each individual is a mix of its parents. Only asexual species "clone" themselves when they reproduce. Just like with genetically identical aspen groves, its infinitely more likely that each individual is connected to a much larger root system than for them to be separate. Lots of plants and fungi do this already, and spread over very large areas without actually reproducing. It could be that there are actually multiple separate fungi, but the cause would probably be something killing off sections of it and breaking the continuity, not truely distinct individuals.
I don't know. The baggies sorta kill it for me. I'm sure the adult novelty industry could do some interesting things with the urine tube technology, though.
Reminds me of when I had a "talk" with my nephew about wasting harddrive space. I told him that when I was his age, I had a 10 meg harddrive, DblSpace'd to around 18, with two operating systems, seven major applications, and over 30 games. The kid's 12, and he can't remember data formats that can't be effectively measured in gigabytes. I feel old:(
I read Deke Slaton's book about the Apollo missions, and the way they described the bathroom situation on the early missions was downright scary. Basically, you have a tube that you clamp on your dong, and a plastic baggie that you flypaper to your ass. And you don't even want to know what they had to do to disinfect the bags. For a good six weeks after reading Moon Shot, I couldn't put my sandwitches in plastic bags.
It doesn't sound very brillian to me. We already have a court reporter typing every word said in the trial into a computer shorthand. It's really the next logical step to wire that computer into monitors everybody can see.
I was on a jury (case of four teenagers breaking ~1000 mailboxes in four counties along the Dixe/Dort Highway. Biggest waste of three days in my life) a few years ago, and you'd be suprised how many times the proceedings had to be inturrupted because a lawyer, the judge, or the jury couldn't hear what was being said clearly. Every time, the court reporter had to stand up and read the last few things that were said. This would sometimes happen two to three times an hour.
It's not a bad price at all, but I've been hard on my GBA. This is the first SP I've killed, but I've only had it three months. I polished off two of the original version in under a year with simmilar acts of frustration. Either way, I'm going to wait until the DS is out before I replace my SP. I might safe a few more dollars, or I might even decide to step up to the DS, I never know. Worst case secnario, I spend the same amount of money I would right now.
I don't know. Most of what they have, you can see elsewhere first. But Infinium only knows the language of money. They didn't like HardOCP talking about them, they sued them. HardOCP didn't back down, and they won.
They don't like Penny-Arcade ripping on them, so they basically say, "They really love us, it's just a sort of hazing ritual they put the new guys in the industry through." Of course, they never said Bill Gates performed freakish acts of carnal violence, they just made a few jokes about how big it and its controller was. I think there's a long way between an eight hundred pound grizzley bear and a dead dog.
Infinium just can't turn off the hype/fud/doubletalk for ten seconds and make a serious effort to tell gamers what they're doing. Even Microsoft turned off the spin machine regularly and honestly laid it out: Here's our system, here's what it does, and here's the games you'll be able to get for it when it comes out.
We've gotten all hype and no substance on what the Phantom really does that makes it different than my PC can already do, and they have not one developer willing to admit that their game will be in the Phantom lineup.
Instead of pulling it out and telling us straight up (Jesus, I hope that doesn't sound as dirty to you as it does to me) what their deal really is, they attack or belittle everybody who attack them.
Infinium won't play by the rules, so this guy basically just said he'll play by theirs instead (and in the process makes a bit of an attack on their ethics). "You want me to go away, fine. You've got a bunch of investory money, you're not behind on the payments for the shiny cars that money bought you, and I'm not proud. Let's get with the checkbook."
I'm not saying its not a bit unethcial, but hell, if somebody put $100,000 on the table in front of me, I don't think my ethics would mean jack shit when they finished talking.
Fanfiction isn't a gray area. It's one of those sections of fair use that weren't screwed by the DMCA. In the US, at least, it stands as perfectly legal. During Blizzard's breif IP zeal when they squashed Bnetd, they also went after fan fiction, fan-made mods, and even a couple fan games (like a pacman clone using childishly drawn MSPaint Starcraft characters). The only thing they managed to take out was Bnetd and a total conversion of Starcraft that sought to effectively recreate the gameplay of Warcraft III before it was released, and I think that one just bowed out to avoid going to court over it.
I wouldn't consider the PStwo an real problem for the Phantom, since it's basically the same thing as the existing Playstation 2, just smaller and cooler looking. The DS and PSP are both handhelds, and won't be competing directly with the Phantom.
The main thing the Phantom has going against it right now is that it's got a dubious business plan, questionable managers, no end product that I couldn't turn my PC into with a dremel tool and some talent, and a two year history of making asses of themselves.
They don't have to worry about their competition, they're doing a fine job of sinking their own boat.
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Just like the pricing turned out to be a rumor, I seriously question the truth behind this. They're saying that, this late in the game, Nintendo intends to strap a non-trivial piece of hardware onto a system that I'm pretty sure works already. Also, the wide-area integrity of a network based entirely on systems that are A. irregularly distributed, B. probably moving around, and C. turned off much of the time doesn't sound like it'd be worth the effort to set it up.
I guess it could work to automatically network to any other DS's within a set range, but over a wide area, what happens when some dipshit turns off his DS and breaks the very tenuous chain of DS's transmitting through the rural area between two urban areas (where there are more people and probably far more DS's floating around)? I admit I'm not as knowledgeable about wireless networks as wired ones, but I don't see this working on a large scale, and on a smaller scale, why even bother with building a hub into every DS?
With all its problems, the N-Gage probably was closer to the spot with a wider area gaming network. The cell phone network is already there, and although it's not 100% reliable (especially if you're moving around between cells), it's got far less random factors involved than a p2p DS network.
Just sounds too cool to be true. At least the hoax about the PSP price was believable. The PSP will be a lot closer to $350 than the DS will be to this p2p distributed network.
How would it be a good thing? Or are you one of those ultra conservatives you say are so keen on shutting down PBS? Anyway, they get money from me every time pledges roll around. It gets split up, though. I usually pick a few shows I like pledge a bit for each one, and then look at my tuition bill and see that I pay a $250 media fee that goes to the university's PBS station WFUM and feel a bit better about only having $25-30 to donate.
I actually have a VHS tape sitting around of me playing all the way through Link to the Past. It runs about 5 hours, and its not very good quality, though. You can probably find playthrough movies in the ZSNES movie format for SNES games (you need the ROM to view them, though), but for most later games, the sheer length of the games adds up against this sort of thing. I have games that have taken me 80+ hours. I feel for anybody who would watch my playthrough of Morrowind, which took two years of fairly active playing, months of which consisted of me walking back and forth along the length of an uninteresting valley trying to find the cave to get the hell back out and being swarmed by cliff racers ten at a time.
Mythbusters is probably one of the most scientific shows still on Discovery, not on the air. PBS and a couple other channels still have good science, and I hear Discovery has a science spin-off channel, but my carrier doesn't offer it.
Discovery doesn't do anything like this anymore. Take a look at their lineup. Lots of good shows (American Chopper, Mythbusters, etc), but not a lot of science anymore. They're dominated right now by home decorating and gearhead shows, with a few crime investigation shows thrown in for the CSI crowd. Heck, Mythbusters is probably one of their most scientific shows still on the air. I suppose its better than a few years ago when they were big on the occult and pseudoscience (how many times did they have to rerun half-assed alient abduction documentaries, for crying out loud?), but if you want science, technology, history, or even philosophy, it's not the place to go.
I would never buy a game
Good, because it's free. How do you think they get so many assinine 12 year old AOL users to sign up and spam the living fuck out of every message board and guestbook they can find?
That's why he says he doesn't want restrictions. Just hop from game to game until you find somebody who isn't a moron. Sorta like channel surfing the TV, only with more killing.
Realistically, there will almost certainly be options to disable or limit the number of spectators in a game to control latency, or just keep the asshats away (if spectators can talk to actual players, which would be useful in some cases and a pain in any other), but I suspect there will be enough people who leave them open that you can just flip through them and find a good game going that doesn't involve people talking about the size of their penis.
I can see a good few uses for it, actually:
1. Newbies: New players to the game can watch better players and try to learn the game. I did this with Starcraft, Warcraft III, and Shattered Galaxy and picked up those games very quickly when I started playing myself, compared to, say, Red Alert II, which I still suck royally at.
2. Tournaments: See some of the competition in action. Same idea as with the newbies, but a bit more specific as to what you're looking for.
3. "Referee": I had a friend who I beat very badly at Starcraft repeatedly. He constantly accused me of hacking. The only way he would stfu was if we set up a 1v1 between us with the same setup as the previous loss, and have two neutral third parties (we each picked one of them) as spectators who would then tell everybody at school wether or not I was a hacker. I wasn't, although it turns out he did have a map hack running. Sometimes you need somebody who wasn't in the game to settle stupid arguments like that.
5. Just plain bored: I have a few gameplay videos stored, and I run them sometimes when I'm doing something and can't dedicate the time to actually play.
I know that replay files are pretty popular downloads for Warcraft III, largely for the same reasons as above. The same could easily apply on XBox Live.
The whole point of Outwars is effectively the same as the point of spam, too. The idea is that you get people to click your link. More clicks=higher score. It's always been exactly like spam, just without the penis enlargement (or should I say pe..n''is en'lar;ge.ment) and such.
I wouldn't say that's a forgone conclusion. The Playstation consoles have major brand-name recognition and a considerable following, consisting heavily of the 18-25 gamers who criticize Nintendo for having mostly kids' games. Rather than being the next N-Gage, I think we have the next Game Gear here: It'll do moderately good, but it's too far undersold by a competitor that was already wildly successful when they came along.
$200 I'd pay, if it lives up to the current hype. For $250, I'd watch for it on sale. $350 would be a stretch, even if the DS ends up sucking.
Anybody who didn't see this comming a mile away is blind, dumb, or both.
I'm sure there's some zen higher meaning in this series of posts, but I'm too damn tired to find it.
Kind of freaky, but I get almost no spam on my hotmail account. I only use it to sign up for messageboards and websites and such, but its my main email that gets all the spam. My hotmail account, despite definitly being in the hands of at least one porn distributor, only gets Microsoft's Hotmail support spam every couple weeks.
1. That'd be a hell of a lot of Tinactin.
2. Seeing as it's in Europe, a football pitch is probably a soccer field.
3. Because fungi reproduce sexually. Each individual is a mix of its parents. Only asexual species "clone" themselves when they reproduce. Just like with genetically identical aspen groves, its infinitely more likely that each individual is connected to a much larger root system than for them to be separate. Lots of plants and fungi do this already, and spread over very large areas without actually reproducing. It could be that there are actually multiple separate fungi, but the cause would probably be something killing off sections of it and breaking the continuity, not truely distinct individuals.
I don't know. The baggies sorta kill it for me. I'm sure the adult novelty industry could do some interesting things with the urine tube technology, though.
Reminds me of when I had a "talk" with my nephew about wasting harddrive space. I told him that when I was his age, I had a 10 meg harddrive, DblSpace'd to around 18, with two operating systems, seven major applications, and over 30 games. The kid's 12, and he can't remember data formats that can't be effectively measured in gigabytes. I feel old:(
I read Deke Slaton's book about the Apollo missions, and the way they described the bathroom situation on the early missions was downright scary. Basically, you have a tube that you clamp on your dong, and a plastic baggie that you flypaper to your ass. And you don't even want to know what they had to do to disinfect the bags. For a good six weeks after reading Moon Shot, I couldn't put my sandwitches in plastic bags.
It doesn't sound very brillian to me. We already have a court reporter typing every word said in the trial into a computer shorthand. It's really the next logical step to wire that computer into monitors everybody can see.
I was on a jury (case of four teenagers breaking ~1000 mailboxes in four counties along the Dixe/Dort Highway. Biggest waste of three days in my life) a few years ago, and you'd be suprised how many times the proceedings had to be inturrupted because a lawyer, the judge, or the jury couldn't hear what was being said clearly. Every time, the court reporter had to stand up and read the last few things that were said. This would sometimes happen two to three times an hour.
It's not a bad price at all, but I've been hard on my GBA. This is the first SP I've killed, but I've only had it three months. I polished off two of the original version in under a year with simmilar acts of frustration. Either way, I'm going to wait until the DS is out before I replace my SP. I might safe a few more dollars, or I might even decide to step up to the DS, I never know. Worst case secnario, I spend the same amount of money I would right now.
I don't know. Most of what they have, you can see elsewhere first. But Infinium only knows the language of money. They didn't like HardOCP talking about them, they sued them. HardOCP didn't back down, and they won.
They don't like Penny-Arcade ripping on them, so they basically say, "They really love us, it's just a sort of hazing ritual they put the new guys in the industry through." Of course, they never said Bill Gates performed freakish acts of carnal violence, they just made a few jokes about how big it and its controller was. I think there's a long way between an eight hundred pound grizzley bear and a dead dog.
Infinium just can't turn off the hype/fud/doubletalk for ten seconds and make a serious effort to tell gamers what they're doing. Even Microsoft turned off the spin machine regularly and honestly laid it out: Here's our system, here's what it does, and here's the games you'll be able to get for it when it comes out.
We've gotten all hype and no substance on what the Phantom really does that makes it different than my PC can already do, and they have not one developer willing to admit that their game will be in the Phantom lineup.
Instead of pulling it out and telling us straight up (Jesus, I hope that doesn't sound as dirty to you as it does to me) what their deal really is, they attack or belittle everybody who attack them.
Infinium won't play by the rules, so this guy basically just said he'll play by theirs instead (and in the process makes a bit of an attack on their ethics). "You want me to go away, fine. You've got a bunch of investory money, you're not behind on the payments for the shiny cars that money bought you, and I'm not proud. Let's get with the checkbook."
I'm not saying its not a bit unethcial, but hell, if somebody put $100,000 on the table in front of me, I don't think my ethics would mean jack shit when they finished talking.
Fanfiction isn't a gray area. It's one of those sections of fair use that weren't screwed by the DMCA. In the US, at least, it stands as perfectly legal. During Blizzard's breif IP zeal when they squashed Bnetd, they also went after fan fiction, fan-made mods, and even a couple fan games (like a pacman clone using childishly drawn MSPaint Starcraft characters). The only thing they managed to take out was Bnetd and a total conversion of Starcraft that sought to effectively recreate the gameplay of Warcraft III before it was released, and I think that one just bowed out to avoid going to court over it.
...I mean, they're releasing it in 2005! That's, like, way sooner than never.
I wouldn't consider the PStwo an real problem for the Phantom, since it's basically the same thing as the existing Playstation 2, just smaller and cooler looking. The DS and PSP are both handhelds, and won't be competing directly with the Phantom.
The main thing the Phantom has going against it right now is that it's got a dubious business plan, questionable managers, no end product that I couldn't turn my PC into with a dremel tool and some talent, and a two year history of making asses of themselves.
They don't have to worry about their competition, they're doing a fine job of sinking their own boat.
Hm... so what you're saying is, we basically /.'ed their tour program?