People are barely talking about it in my country as well and they are extremely apathetic.
Perhaps an approach is to invoke visions of a similar device that in practice, has gotten a lot of press lately as being unsafe.
Diebold does not just make voting machines. They make ATMs, and it has been shown time and time again that they can be subverted from the inside or outside with relative ease.
People lose money and their identities all the time. Fortunately this one's life! Authenticity is easy to prove.
A voting machine is precisely no different, since there is no way authenticity can be proven at any time- only this time instead of losing your savings or identity- you lose your freedom to choose.
I live in Canada, and these things will be in use here soon if they aren't already. I am going to start collecting info, for my own propoganda, re-educate myself on the issues, and go pass out some homemade fliers.
I suggest each and every one of you Americans do the same, if you are real patriots.
I'm through with every Mario game. that doesn't change the fact that they are still funner than many games that come out today.
Pitfall is a good example. The original Gary Kitchen pitfall was way more fun than the 3d demo I just played a few days ago. It also played better despite being simpler.
The only nostalgia I ever experience I find is based around small cues like music phrases (like swinging on vines in pitfall), or specific scenes
that have come to represent classic gaming moments ("but our princess is in another castle"...or hooker depending on how old u are")
"Mario dies way too easy. Oh, grab the umbrella. Those are cool. Unfashionable, gay, but cool. Oh, 300 points. That's it? All you get is points? That's lame. Can't you do something with the umbrella?" - Tim, 11 years old
I dunno sounds like a normal retarded 11 year old to me. Note the vernacular of the word "gay" (or "ghey").
Sure sure, we've all said a game is sort of "gay" at one time or another no matter our personal sexual preference or gregarious mood. But really, is this something that should be attributed to an 11 year old in a large magazine?
Hmm... wait maybe it IS written in its entirety by an EGM writer! No wonder it was my favorite magazine when I was 12.
of smaller buckets, bigger pipes rather than bigger buckets.
Anyway no time to rtfa
It is very interesting. What if you could do incremental backups to the network bandwidth and do wider full backups throughout the week?
Someone mentioned, what if the power goes down?
Any datacenter worth speaking of, should have a backup deisel generator. Would then at least data held over the network here, be unaffected?
How about the rest of you grow some large hairy nads and go protest?!
This journalist is trying to do his part, now stop whining about your liberty on./ and go do something about it.
Most days here in Canada, someone is protesting on the 'hill. Maybe even two or three different groups.
Of course its much easier to trade farscape episodes, take out the garbage for mom, and drink mountain dew all day.:)
Speaking of mountain dew, I'm going to go protest laws that prevent the Dew from being caffinated in the great white north....because I still can.
Actually, the shuttle TPS has to be refurbished every flight. It is also more important than other components which have an operating range. The TPS must be inspected, replaced and checked repeatedly.
If it is not, they burn up. All it takes is the wrong SINGLE tile to be damaged.
I'm surprised, I don't see anyone mentioning that this is obviously blatent propoganda aimed at younger kids.
They went after a 12 yo on purpose to make a big story. I'm willing to bet they'll even back off once things quiet down.
Thats my 2cents anyway
These same users are the ones who end up configuring their webserver with passwords such as "god" or "admin." A secure O/S is fine and dandy, but it doesn't help all that much against the same general stupidity that afflicts windows and linux users alike. How many servers are defaced because they're either very behind on security, or simply easy to get into?
You can mod this down as a troll if you like but let's face something here:
So long as the linux crowd holds on to generalizations such as this, the linux crowd shall remain easily marginalized.
Now, with all this GPU power and speedy ram we have to drool over these days on our videocards, why doesnt someone just hack together a driver that calculates and displays a stereoscopic image? Or does this already exist?
I seem to remember SMS games that used the 3d glasses, though I have never played one, so I don't know how it worked exactly....
Then these stupid glasses I got from the 7-11 years ago, would be useful.
Can I use all my mod points on one post?:)
While I feel strongly, Media by nature expires. It becomes either becomes assimilated into culture or loses its shelf life.
Very few media releases outlast this cycle of assimilation or rejection.
A few ground rules for "Media Copyrights" needs to be set. Ideally, a standard copyright should expire after 25 years, and in special cases where the product is a) still available in unlimited release and b) establishes that a profit is still derived from its copyright holder.
All other work that does not the two conditions above, should be freely distributed provided they are not for profit.
But sadly, that will never happen...
I agree that first is usually worst, but I'm not speaking in terms of the next system. I'm talking in gaming in general.
Nintendo has successfully caused these paradigm shifts several times over the last 25 years either through action or inaction.
Donkey Kong Mario changed the games we play. NES and once again the Gameboy in the late 80s changed how and where we play them (ie with lots of friends and not in arcades although this effect was gradual. The SNES CDROM begat the Playstation, and toppled Sega through total inaction and FUD. Then, they changed the games we play again when Mario64 showed how a 3d platformer should be done. More recently they put 32bit processors in the palm of your hand and created a market for practical wireless interaction. The GBA is more pervasive than most PDAs, all in the name of entertainment rather than business.
All of the above has been introduced first by Nintendo in their respective moments in time, or have changed gaming in general. The lone exception being the SNES CD-ROM, which never came out.
It is a fact Nintendo squashes misfires such as as the virtual boy, superscopre, power pad, rob quickly and actually minimizes its losses rather than prop up dead hardware.
I feel your concerns are unfounded in respect to Nintendo.
I hope that this "new thing" they speak of is another classic trail blazed by Nintendo.
I love all games, but I will forever respect and believe in Nintendo. For Nintendo, setting the mark has always been their best (if only) strategy.
I'm sick of being ridiculed by my partial allegiance to Nintendo. It escalated when there were obscure comments from Nintendo that the GCN may be their last system.
But anyone who knows the industry well enough knows: They are a well run company, have loads of cash, and despite not meeting expectations in the last two generations, Nintendo is not hemmoraging money like Sega did for well over a decade.
They are a Franchise building company. The Cube is just a home for their real cash cow. Nintendo will make videogame systems as long as they wish to retain absolute control over their franchises
If I was Nintendo, after the last two "disappointments" I would get a jump on the next generation or next big thing. Seems to me that is exactly what they are doing.
Canadian support is most definately crucial.
We are one of the most connected countries on earth (per capita).
Broadband penetration here is as wide if not more than South Korea (which I believe most recently was named "tops" in broadband) depending on how you measure.
The advice on offering a more expensive lossless option is also a good one. Whoever said guitar tabs is also thinking on a different level, what a great idea!
Now thats Opensource Music.
This review brought up the point of disabled playing games. While there are some features one mentioned is a little far fetched:
Qaudrapalegics playing with their eyes. This is just not possible for anything more complicated than Pitfall. And even then... Hangman or word games are probably better suited for this purpose.
Eyes get tired much faster than our more robust thumb and hand muscles. More importantly, watch someone's eyes as they play a Mario game (arguably simplistic compared to quake). They wouldn't have a hope of controlling any action.
Eyes are input only. I hope researchers stop wasting time with this output paradigm. There are far more clever and subtle ways of relating game input that actually work....
-zeromous
Slashdot Mirror
Its definately a challenge.
People are barely talking about it in my country as well and they are extremely apathetic.
Perhaps an approach is to invoke visions of a similar device that in practice, has gotten a lot of press lately as being unsafe.
Diebold does not just make voting machines. They make ATMs, and it has been shown time and time again that they can be subverted from the inside or outside with relative ease.
People lose money and their identities all the time. Fortunately this one's life! Authenticity is easy to prove.
A voting machine is precisely no different, since there is no way authenticity can be proven at any time- only this time instead of losing your savings or identity- you lose your freedom to choose.
I live in Canada, and these things will be in use here soon if they aren't already. I am going to start collecting info, for my own propoganda, re-educate myself on the issues, and go pass out some homemade fliers.
I suggest each and every one of you Americans do the same, if you are real patriots.
You're right I mixed up my names...Gary Kitchen is Battlezone correct?
Actually they do.
Nintendo practically pioneered digital rights management via hardware in the late 1980s.
Fortunately, they've been bypassed in short order on a fairly regular basis.
This is great and of course, as Hong Kong has once again proven: only a matter of time before you are Hax0red
No way.
I'm through with every Mario game. that doesn't change the fact that they are still funner than many games that come out today.
Pitfall is a good example. The original Gary Kitchen pitfall was way more fun than the 3d demo I just played a few days ago. It also played better despite being simpler.
The only nostalgia I ever experience I find is based around small cues like music phrases (like swinging on vines in pitfall), or specific scenes that have come to represent classic gaming moments ("but our princess is in another castle"...or hooker depending on how old u are")
"Mario dies way too easy. Oh, grab the umbrella. Those are cool. Unfashionable, gay, but cool. Oh, 300 points. That's it? All you get is points? That's lame. Can't you do something with the umbrella?" - Tim, 11 years old
... wait maybe it IS written in its entirety by an EGM writer! No wonder it was my favorite magazine when I was 12.
I dunno sounds like a normal retarded 11 year old to me. Note the vernacular of the word "gay" (or "ghey").
Sure sure, we've all said a game is sort of "gay" at one time or another no matter our personal sexual preference or gregarious mood. But really, is this something that should be attributed to an 11 year old in a large magazine?
Hmm
of smaller buckets, bigger pipes rather than bigger buckets. Anyway no time to rtfa It is very interesting. What if you could do incremental backups to the network bandwidth and do wider full backups throughout the week? Someone mentioned, what if the power goes down? Any datacenter worth speaking of, should have a backup deisel generator. Would then at least data held over the network here, be unaffected?
AS IF you got modded up and *I'm* "Offtopic" :D
I know Kung-Fu...
How about the rest of you grow some large hairy nads and go protest?! This journalist is trying to do his part, now stop whining about your liberty on ./ and go do something about it.
Most days here in Canada, someone is protesting on the 'hill. Maybe even two or three different groups.
Of course its much easier to trade farscape episodes, take out the garbage for mom, and drink mountain dew all day. :)
Speaking of mountain dew, I'm going to go protest laws that prevent the Dew from being caffinated in the great white north....because I still can.
Actually, the shuttle TPS has to be refurbished every flight. It is also more important than other components which have an operating range. The TPS must be inspected, replaced and checked repeatedly.
If it is not, they burn up. All it takes is the wrong SINGLE tile to be damaged.
Yes, thats just like slashdot to mark this as insightful, yet completely dismiss my post where I pointed this out on the last thread.
This is propoganda aimed at children, attempting to set an example, via this little girl.
Its so obvious, that they never intended to fine her anyway- like someone else pointed out, I thought they were going after top sharers too.
I seriously doubt this 12yo girl moved any sort of digital media on par with the average user.
I'm surprised, I don't see anyone mentioning that this is obviously blatent propoganda aimed at younger kids. They went after a 12 yo on purpose to make a big story. I'm willing to bet they'll even back off once things quiet down. Thats my 2cents anyway
These same users are the ones who end up configuring their webserver with passwords such as "god" or "admin." A secure O/S is fine and dandy, but it doesn't help all that much against the same general stupidity that afflicts windows and linux users alike. How many servers are defaced because they're either very behind on security, or simply easy to get into?
You can mod this down as a troll if you like but let's face something here:
So long as the linux crowd holds on to generalizations such as this, the linux crowd shall remain easily marginalized.
I sure as hell noticed that I received NO email on a heavily spammed address of mine for almost a week!
.au
It's also not the least bit strange anymore- since my mailserver is
One down......
I don't think their next box is coming in 2005.
Did their announcment not specifically state that they were thinking more along the lines of "outside the box"? ie Something revolutionary.
That's some cool stuff.
Those glasses are quite affordable too (99$).
Would go nicely with the detached joystick they also hawk.. Thanks for the info!
JERK
:)
thanks
Neat trick, but its pretty obvious.
Now, with all this GPU power and speedy ram we have to drool over these days on our videocards, why doesnt someone just hack together a driver that calculates and displays a stereoscopic image? Or does this already exist?
I seem to remember SMS games that used the 3d glasses, though I have never played one, so I don't know how it worked exactly....
Then these stupid glasses I got from the 7-11 years ago, would be useful.
Can I use all my mod points on one post? :)
While I feel strongly, Media by nature expires. It becomes either becomes assimilated into culture or loses its shelf life.
Very few media releases outlast this cycle of assimilation or rejection.
A few ground rules for "Media Copyrights" needs to be set. Ideally, a standard copyright should expire after 25 years, and in special cases where the product is a) still available in unlimited release and b) establishes that a profit is still derived from its copyright holder.
All other work that does not the two conditions above, should be freely distributed provided they are not for profit.
But sadly, that will never happen...
I agree that first is usually worst, but I'm not speaking in terms of the next system. I'm talking in gaming in general.
Nintendo has successfully caused these paradigm shifts several times over the last 25 years either through action or inaction.
Donkey Kong Mario changed the games we play. NES and once again the Gameboy in the late 80s changed how and where we play them (ie with lots of friends and not in arcades although this effect was gradual. The SNES CDROM begat the Playstation, and toppled Sega through total inaction and FUD. Then, they changed the games we play again when Mario64 showed how a 3d platformer should be done. More recently they put 32bit processors in the palm of your hand and created a market for practical wireless interaction. The GBA is more pervasive than most PDAs, all in the name of entertainment rather than business.
All of the above has been introduced first by Nintendo in their respective moments in time, or have changed gaming in general. The lone exception being the SNES CD-ROM, which never came out.
It is a fact Nintendo squashes misfires such as as the virtual boy, superscopre, power pad, rob quickly and actually minimizes its losses rather than prop up dead hardware.
I feel your concerns are unfounded in respect to Nintendo.
I hope that this "new thing" they speak of is another classic trail blazed by Nintendo.
I love all games, but I will forever respect and believe in Nintendo. For Nintendo, setting the mark has always been their best (if only) strategy.
I'm sick of being ridiculed by my partial allegiance to Nintendo. It escalated when there were obscure comments from Nintendo that the GCN may be their last system.
But anyone who knows the industry well enough knows: They are a well run company, have loads of cash, and despite not meeting expectations in the last two generations, Nintendo is not hemmoraging money like Sega did for well over a decade.
They are a Franchise building company. The Cube is just a home for their real cash cow. Nintendo will make videogame systems as long as they wish to retain absolute control over their franchises
If I was Nintendo, after the last two "disappointments" I would get a jump on the next generation or next big thing. Seems to me that is exactly what they are doing.
Bravo!
---Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B
I'm not huge on Microsoft, but it seems these days, thats a pretty darn good business plan. :)
Canadian support is most definately crucial. We are one of the most connected countries on earth (per capita). Broadband penetration here is as wide if not more than South Korea (which I believe most recently was named "tops" in broadband) depending on how you measure. The advice on offering a more expensive lossless option is also a good one. Whoever said guitar tabs is also thinking on a different level, what a great idea! Now thats Opensource Music.
This review brought up the point of disabled playing games. While there are some features one mentioned is a little far fetched: Qaudrapalegics playing with their eyes. This is just not possible for anything more complicated than Pitfall. And even then... Hangman or word games are probably better suited for this purpose. Eyes get tired much faster than our more robust thumb and hand muscles. More importantly, watch someone's eyes as they play a Mario game (arguably simplistic compared to quake). They wouldn't have a hope of controlling any action. Eyes are input only. I hope researchers stop wasting time with this output paradigm. There are far more clever and subtle ways of relating game input that actually work.... -zeromous