well, maybe there would be a market if it wasnt so damn difficult to get and play games from overseas.
if there wasnt any region coding, if games that have text came with optional english/foreign subtitles or optional western/asian numbering, then I'm sure a lot more people would be importing games both ways.
Until we've solved the problem of spam, I'm not getting any kind of hardware/software combination implanted anywhere in my body. (This includes penile implants. Yes, I'm talking to you Mr Spammer.)
I hate to point out the obvious, but given the price difference between a current desktop PC and an Xbox, I'd say they cater to a different market.
People who can afford a PC, can probably afford an Xbox, but there are people who can only afford an Xbox.
Also, if you are going to let your kids play videogames, would you prefer to let them get frustrated in front of your expensive PC or let them take it out on a cheap Xbox?
I'm part of the market where I would get the emulator so I can rent the odd Xbox title, or borrow my brother's games (he owns an Xbox, but not a computer).
The console videogame rental market is also poised to profit from PC emulators.
One partial solution would be to have all cellphone manufacturers agree to make ringless vibrating cellphones.
Sure it'll take a few years before existing ringing phones are phased/worn out... then you only have to worry about the loud talkers.
Then again, it's difficult to control hardcore antisocial behavior. Take smoking for example. In most non-smoking places, no one smokes, except the occasional fscktard who needs to have his/her fix.
PM - Thursday, 12 September , 2002 00:00:00 Reporter: Ian Townsend HAMISH ROBERTSON: The West Australian coroner has taken the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to task over the way it investigated a plane crash that killed eight men two years ago.
The men were aboard a plane that left Perth and travelled more than 2,000 kilometres on autopilot, before it crashed in Queensland's remote north west.
The inquest failed to determine exactly why the men died, but the Coroner's recommended a new alarm system for pressurised planes to stop it happening again.
Ian Townsend reports.
IAN TOWNSEND: In September 2000, seven men boarded a Beechcraft Super King Air 200 plane at Perth, charted by mining company, Sons of Gwalia, to take them to the company's gold mine at Leonora in Western Australia.
Half an hour in to the flight, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane's pilot.
In the eery five hours that followed, the plane flew on autopilot across the Northern Territory before crashing when it ran out of fuel on a remote cattle station in Queensland's gulf country.
In its last hours it was shadowed by several planes trying desperately to make contact with the pilot. But it appears everyone on board was unconscious or dead. The plane crashed with no survivors.
Today the West Australian Coroner, Alistair Hope handed down his final report into the deaths of pilot, Ken Mosedale and the seven passengers.
His findings: that their deaths were an accident but that the causes of death still can't be determined. Mr Hope's report was a scathing attack on the investigators, especially the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
CORONER'S REPORT: I should stress at the outset that any comments in relation to the performance of the ATSB are made in the context where eight people have unnecessarily lost their lives, such a tragic event in my view requires careful analysis of available evidence and where answers are not forthcoming because of a lack of evidence, an examination should take place as to the way in which evidence has been obtained and possible deficiencies in obtaining evidence identified, which should be corrected in future cases if such tragedies are not to be repeated on a continuing basis.
IAN TOWNSEND: Mr Hope went on to outline what he said where deficiencies of evidence, especially a 12 month delay in getting crucial toxicology tests that could have determined how the men died, if the cabin had depressurised, or if there were toxic fumes.
Mr Hope was particularly critical of the lack of coordination between the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Queensland Police and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
He also criticised the ATSB in the way it presented its evidence and its failure to take notes when interviewing witnesses, the lack of compassion for grieving relatives by one bureau investigator and the lack of transparency in the relationship between the bureau and the aircraft manufacturers.
And there was also a blast for the ATSB executive director, Kym Bills, who wrote to the coroner during the inquest complaining about criticism of the bureau. The coroner pointed out that it was improper to attempt to influence the future course of the hearing directly.
Mr Hope recommended that in future the ATSB and Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the police coordinate their investigations. He also recommended that an audible warning system for cabin depressuristion be fitted to all pressurised aircraft, and that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority investigator sought a cheaper version of the black box flight recorder for general aviation aircraft.
Other recommendations included that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau review is procedures to ensure that if a similar tragedy happened again that the proper toxicology tests were carried out early to find out whether toxic fumes or cabin depressurisation were to blame.
If they add a miniature harddrive and mp3 playback, I think they'll have an iPod killer!
Then you could analyse your body's response relative to your favourite music... and if you put a big enough color lcd screen on the thing, you could also have a screensaver thingie that produces psychedelic swirls based on your physiological data!
In communist Vietnam, suspected criminals "are vanished".
High profile criminals (e.g. Nam Cam et al.) get a theatrical trial, then get the proverbial bullet, since the cost of a bullet is less than feeding and guarding a prisoner until death by old age.
I realize this is a broad generalisation, but this is what happens in most cases. That being said, I doubt communist countries (the few that are left) are likely to be used as bases of operations by terrorist groups.
I find the slashdot reaction funny... when the NSA is sniffing packets that basically pass through their networks, it's bad, but some guy driving around with a computer and wireless gear is cool.
And that's on top of all the arguments about whether broadcasting information through the Internet is/should be/isnt/shouldnt be private.
Can you be accused of being a voyeur if the person you're looking at is walking around in public naked?
Slashdot Mirror
well, sorry to nitpick, but your Linux isnt free if you use a non-free Linux distro as an example.
It's cheaper, yes, but not free as in warez.
Just cuz you keep repeating it doesnt make it so, otherwise, money would be growing on trees, too.
if the penguin weighs the same as a duck, it's made out of wood, and therefore...?
I read slashdot at work, where I have NO choice in the OS and browser I use.
*sigh* *mumbles something about insensitive clods*
well, maybe there would be a market if it wasnt so damn difficult to get and play games from overseas.
if there wasnt any region coding, if games that have text came with optional english/foreign subtitles or optional western/asian numbering, then I'm sure a lot more people would be importing games both ways.
There is one field of endeavour which I think is still devoid of geeks:
pr0n.
If there is one thing I havent seen yet, it's geek-looking geeks starring in pr0n movies. There's plenty of home made ones with mullets though.
Until we've solved the problem of spam, I'm not getting any kind of hardware/software combination implanted anywhere in my body. (This includes penile implants. Yes, I'm talking to you Mr Spammer.)
I hate to point out the obvious, but given the price difference between a current desktop PC and an Xbox, I'd say they cater to a different market.
People who can afford a PC, can probably afford an Xbox, but there are people who can only afford an Xbox.
Also, if you are going to let your kids play videogames, would you prefer to let them get frustrated in front of your expensive PC or let them take it out on a cheap Xbox?
I'm part of the market where I would get the emulator so I can rent the odd Xbox title, or borrow my brother's games (he owns an Xbox, but not a computer).
The console videogame rental market is also poised to profit from PC emulators.
"Sure enough, towards the end of the show, I hear some fancy ringtone. I really, truly, literally, wanted to kill the person responsible."
Well, then, it's really a good thing they dont let handguns in the symphony hall.
One partial solution would be to have all cellphone manufacturers agree to make ringless vibrating cellphones.
Sure it'll take a few years before existing ringing phones are phased/worn out... then you only have to worry about the loud talkers.
Then again, it's difficult to control hardcore antisocial behavior. Take smoking for example. In most non-smoking places, no one smokes, except the occasional fscktard who needs to have his/her fix.
Who knows, maybe Microsoft is secretly working on the "Windows XB" operating system.
Because with Xbox games, the same game can be sold to two different kind of people:
The PC owner, and
The Console owner.
Whereas at the moment, no PC owner will buy an Xbox game if he doesnt also own a console.
One development cost for two different platforms = huge savings.
If Microsoft actually released an approved Xbox emulator, it could have a win-win situation...
Sure, there would be some piracy, but I think there's still a big market for Xbox games and PC users who dont want consoles.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/s674866.htm
PM - Coroner critises NTSB following plane crash
PM - Thursday, 12 September , 2002 00:00:00
Reporter: Ian Townsend
HAMISH ROBERTSON: The West Australian coroner has taken the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to task over the way it investigated a plane crash that killed eight men two years ago.
The men were aboard a plane that left Perth and travelled more than 2,000 kilometres on autopilot, before it crashed in Queensland's remote north west.
The inquest failed to determine exactly why the men died, but the Coroner's recommended a new alarm system for pressurised planes to stop it happening again.
Ian Townsend reports.
IAN TOWNSEND: In September 2000, seven men boarded a Beechcraft Super King Air 200 plane at Perth, charted by mining company, Sons of Gwalia, to take them to the company's gold mine at Leonora in Western Australia.
Half an hour in to the flight, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane's pilot.
In the eery five hours that followed, the plane flew on autopilot across the Northern Territory before crashing when it ran out of fuel on a remote cattle station in Queensland's gulf country.
In its last hours it was shadowed by several planes trying desperately to make contact with the pilot. But it appears everyone on board was unconscious or dead. The plane crashed with no survivors.
Today the West Australian Coroner, Alistair Hope handed down his final report into the deaths of pilot, Ken Mosedale and the seven passengers.
His findings: that their deaths were an accident but that the causes of death still can't be determined. Mr Hope's report was a scathing attack on the investigators, especially the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
CORONER'S REPORT: I should stress at the outset that any comments in relation to the performance of the ATSB are made in the context where eight people have unnecessarily lost their lives, such a tragic event in my view requires careful analysis of available evidence and where answers are not forthcoming because of a lack of evidence, an examination should take place as to the way in which evidence has been obtained and possible deficiencies in obtaining evidence identified, which should be corrected in future cases if such tragedies are not to be repeated on a continuing basis.
IAN TOWNSEND: Mr Hope went on to outline what he said where deficiencies of evidence, especially a 12 month delay in getting crucial toxicology tests that could have determined how the men died, if the cabin had depressurised, or if there were toxic fumes.
Mr Hope was particularly critical of the lack of coordination between the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the Queensland Police and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
He also criticised the ATSB in the way it presented its evidence and its failure to take notes when interviewing witnesses, the lack of compassion for grieving relatives by one bureau investigator and the lack of transparency in the relationship between the bureau and the aircraft manufacturers.
And there was also a blast for the ATSB executive director, Kym Bills, who wrote to the coroner during the inquest complaining about criticism of the bureau. The coroner pointed out that it was improper to attempt to influence the future course of the hearing directly.
Mr Hope recommended that in future the ATSB and Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the police coordinate their investigations. He also recommended that an audible warning system for cabin depressuristion be fitted to all pressurised aircraft, and that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority investigator sought a cheaper version of the black box flight recorder for general aviation aircraft.
Other recommendations included that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau review is procedures to ensure that if a similar tragedy happened again that the proper toxicology tests were carried out early to find out whether toxic fumes or cabin depressurisation were to blame.
We may not have native penguins, but we have polar bears and killer whales.
Eat your heart out, Antarctica.
they combine cardiovascular and strength training.
plus, you get to use your favourite Keanu movie quote:
"I know kung fu."
If they add a miniature harddrive and mp3 playback, I think they'll have an iPod killer!
Then you could analyse your body's response relative to your favourite music... and if you put a big enough color lcd screen on the thing, you could also have a screensaver thingie that produces psychedelic swirls based on your physiological data!
Prolly not.
I bet that this unit just needed new computers, and didnt have the budget to buy them.
yea, i dont even know why i got modded, for "Lindizzle" or for my sig...
Lindizzle!
In communist Vietnam, suspected criminals "are vanished".
High profile criminals (e.g. Nam Cam et al.) get a theatrical trial, then get the proverbial bullet, since the cost of a bullet is less than feeding and guarding a prisoner until death by old age.
I realize this is a broad generalisation, but this is what happens in most cases. That being said, I doubt communist countries (the few that are left) are likely to be used as bases of operations by terrorist groups.
not at all. both genres use a similar plot device, but it works differently in each case.
I find the slashdot reaction funny... when the NSA is sniffing packets that basically pass through their networks, it's bad, but some guy driving around with a computer and wireless gear is cool.
And that's on top of all the arguments about whether broadcasting information through the Internet is/should be/isnt/shouldnt be private.
Can you be accused of being a voyeur if the person you're looking at is walking around in public naked?
well he's not dead yet... to continue the zombie analogy, he's just been bitten, and the infection is spreading.
If you can install Linux on a dead badger...
We could install Linux on a dead Darl.
Wouldnt it be alanis-morrissette-like ironic?
Imagine Darl, eyes glazed over with a bluish skintone, shuffling himself about arms outstretched, moaning "liceeeeeeeense... LICEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNSE".
Do you think cops who play Time Crisis-like games are better shootists?
I'm pretty good at lightgun games, but I've never shot a real gun, so I'm wondering...