You have to understand that the demographic targeted was not business users, if you think I'm wrong here then watch the original commercials and see the "enterprise" apps they showed. The iphone at launch sucked compared to blackberry and other smartphones for purpose of business. I still do not consider the iphone business class even though it can do it. With all of that said, tethering has not been something that really caught on with your typical cellphone user but is something that business people and geeks like to use. The EDGE network was no where near that great of speeds that people would accept for tethering.
In short, if you expected to use the iphone to tether then you picked the wrong device.
Or it could be that the network at the time could not support it, its wasnt 3g at the time. Its also quite possible that tethering was not added in till 3.1.
What I love more than anything else are the geeks that fall on their sword when you insult their chosen princess.
Princess? I think you're the only one fantasizing here.
Have you ever met her personally, or does she just inhabit your fantasies?
I'd have to say no to both, I'm not a profile stalker (nor do I need to be) and I dont live on the west coast to attend any BSD convention. However, if you would like to try again, you're so welcome to do so.
Or are you just defending your own princess who can "talk shop" with you but happens to be pulling a good-sized caboose?
I dont know man, the way you're talking about her looks, makes you to sound like your escor...err hook...girlfriend is better looking. In either case, atleast she probably knows more than you do, and probably has a less negative attitude towards peoples looks and personalities.
Her face isn't all that pretty, her figure is simply OK and I've seen better hair on Kansas farm girls. There's two girls that work at the freakin' Microcenter that look better than her, and the Microcenter seems to make ugly a hiring criteria.
I'm sure alot of that can be said about you too. However, I'm sure Microcenter still hired you.
Is it just that she isn't one of the usual obese, dumpy, homely hangers-on at the weekend D&D session, like the blonde woman in the background of the photo?
Its probably the fact that she is a geek, and despite your opinions on her looks, she is very attractive. I'm sorry if you're just not interested in women, but what you said is really uncalled for either Ceren or the blonde, consider that you're probably far worse than the blonde. I'm sure a lot of geeks wouldnt mind having a sexy girlfriend who could talk shop with them...apparently you're wanting to spend your nights alone with a cat or dog, maybe a doll if you dont insult it.
So please, don't assume I'm saying this is a bad thing when all I'm doing is pointing out the relative scale of the situation. You can not use a relative scale since the cost of the products being sold for this venture do not scale to the donatations of an average person.
The last part of my comment was a way of pointing out that if this were anyone besides BG, it wouldn't have even been a story on here. Even with this amount of money.
Yes but considering how everyone speaks negatively on him and his companies business practices, this is a reason he is making the news. Hell look at the icon for the microsoft topics, thats enough right there to prove my point.
Linux community gives 100% up front. Microsoft takes 100% and gives a little - a very little - back. Which is more generous?
As one person said in one of the comments further above. If your kid is dying you're last priority is what operating system you are going to use. Your priority will be to save your child by getting them the medicine they need. You cant really compare the contributions from the linux community to the contributions other organizations make.
That's true, but on the other hand we're talking $750 million USD over the next ten years working out to $75 million USD per year. Something tells me that's less than he makes in interest/dividends per year. It's a nice gesture. But, when one scales this seemingly large amount against the funds available, it's more like me donating $100.00 as someone else already said.
Nice, but not a big deal really.
On a vaguely related note, when I was in the Navy I gave around 10% of my income to various causes through the CFC. Can I get a front page story on slashdot now? Hmmmm?
First off, you have a warped view on this perspective. One man donating 100 dollars does not even remotely compare to one man donating 750 million dollars. Yes it is a big deal since kids are dying in 3rd world countries where their parents cant even afford to pay for them to see a doctor, let alone get vacinations. That 750 million can help a lot of kids, where as your puny 100 dollars wouldnt be able to vacinate one kid.
One person did something really great and donated a large sum of money,that doesnt involve selling his product down the people he donating to, and everyone finds something wrong with it.
Isn't that about what they said about the Titanic?
No they said the Titanic was not possible to sink. What the parent is stating that the containment of the RTG is rugged enough that the possiblity of a breach is high unlikely, not that it cant happen.
That's not an accurate statement. Every generation has added new features to the ring, and just about every console has thrown in their own specialties that were later adopted by other companies. Analog sticks, shoulder buttons, wireless controllers, rumble feedback, memory cards, CD/DVD storage, voice input, camera input... all of these (and more) have popped up over the course of video game console development. To say that everything prior to Xbox has been the same (except for graphics) is nonsense and reeks of fanboyism.
I dont count media as being innovative since it really didnt enhance the system, it was just a new storage system.
How about increasing the caliber and size of the Xbox library? That's what they need to concentrate on... Halo and Xbox Live have totally supported them in this generation (and Live is primarily only a marketing bullet point, since most Xbox owners don't even use it.) How much longer? That's Microsoft's shortcoming, not Nintendo's or Sony's. Neither Nintendo nor Sony has to respond to that, in the way that Sony is responding to Microsoft by simply making an HD available and getting their games online. The Xbox has a handful of AAA titles amid overwhelming mediocrity. It's feast or famine, and mostly famine.
Microsoft can not do it, developers have to want to develop for that system. Microsoft has been trying to get people to develop for the Xbox but if a company is paying a license to develop PS2 games, they're not really going to want to pay an additional license to make Xbox games.
That was my initial point. Everybody (particularly the "mature" Xbox/PC crowd) goes to great lengths to slam Nintendo for all the Mario titles and all the re-released old Mario titles with minor enhancements. And now the Xbox's critical darling Halo is doing the same thing. Why? Because it will sell. Why does it sell? Because people want it. Why does Nintendo do the same thing - even while continually producing brand new titles and directions for the franchise - they do the same thing for the same reason. I realize that 50 is quite a bit more games than 2, but Nintendo has been around longer, and has 20 years of nostalgia to take advantage of. I was preparing to laugh outwardly at all the Xbox fans who are already drooling over Halo 2.5, yet scoffed at Mario Advance/SMB3, Mario Party X, etc.
You're comparing all those Mario Kart games to Halo??? Come on, there is a big difference between halo 1 and halo 2, maybe not in the type of game, but story wise its much different with a whole different objective in the game. Halo 2.5 or 3 will be different in the sense that now that Bungie has the time they're putting in things that were cut from the game, kind of like a directors cut of a movie. The only thing you can really compare the mario kart games to is the Star Wars racer games which the newer one just had new graphics and new drivers, otherwise the same.
Seriously though, the Mario Party series is damn good stuff.
Yeah maybe but after a while it becomes redundant. As far as I'm concerned gamecube is like 60% mario games. Halo cant be compared to Mario because it hasnt reached 50 variants of the franchise. And till Halo franchise spawns a horrible movie, then you can say Halo is like Mario.
I just named more advantages than you could. I never said they were useless, just that they're not especially revolutionary and not a "huge advantage." Just a nice feature... it remains to be seen if every other company will jump on it.
Oh really? Then why is the PS3 coming out with a hard drive, while also a PVR device? We look at revolutionary as in cutting edge technology, while what is revolutionary is the ideas that change how things are done. Every console up till the Xbox have all been the same, only extending the graphics of the games. While these "features" may not change the platform, it has changed future consoles in what they provide. As I stated before, Xbox maybe a microsoft product but they're changing the consoles.
As for the memory issue, you can buy a memory card for Xbox. The only reason I brought it up before was because to be able to play a playstation game and continue it later is to pay an extra 25 dollars for a memory card, which thus completes the system. Where as Xbox you buy it, you have a complete system.
That's genius. Nice to hear you're such a good little soldier with your finger on the pulse of Microsoft's marketing and business practices. Go shoot someone now while listening to your stolen Eminem collection. Get that wallet ready to buy your One Game again on your brand new dedicated Halo2.5/3 system. Asshat.
Microsoft actually has it right, because they see the short comings of nintendo and sony. While I bought an Xbox to play Halo, I have a couple other games...maybe not as many as I have of playstation though. I will buy an Xbox 2 to play Halo 2.5 or 3, cause I'm hoping to get an ending to that story.
Oh and about his "Popular Opinion" of Mario games. You really want to talk about trying to milk a cow, there are like 50 Mario games for all nintendo products, where as 2 Halo games on just one platform (3 if you count the PC version of Halo).
Then the obvious solution would have been to simply give Halo 2 more time for development, and probably make it a Xenon launch title. We'll find out in May, but it seems ever more certain MS plans on launching the Xenon in late 2005.
What would another year have meant to people who wanted a full fledged sequel to Halo, and on a system that can do more than the Xbox? Maybe on the Xenon the in-game engine cinemas wouldn't have so much pop-in and textures would also not just pop into existance when you get close enough to them (or at least not as noticeably).
Look at it this way, Bungie is a development group and Microsoft is the execs. Besides if they waited another year, Halo 2 would have been on par with Half Life 2 and Duke Nukem Forever. Dont get me wrong I didnt enjoy the cinemas with the clipping either.
I know I was disappointed in Halo 2, overall; especially when it became known that Bungie didn't even freaking check their geomotry in levels to make sure you couldn't reach through what should be solid objects and grab weapons and flags for multiplayer maps.I wouldnt say I was disappointed, the game took a "different" direction with the story then from what they had in the first game. I just wish they wouldnt have said they werent going to be making a Halo 3, but they give us a cliffhanger that is on par with a fantasy/scifi tv show. Another issue, these developers are rushing the games and that leads to the geomotry issues you are seeing.
8 gig? better than 8 meg memory cards. I like playstation but it kills me to get a complete system costs me $225. Where as the Xbox was 200. And if I run out of space on a wimpy 8 meg card, I need to buy another one for 25 dollars...See my point?
Yeah, but what has it done for me lately? Not having to buy memory cards is great, but I know that if I'm going to a friend's house, I can bring along my mem card and play my personal GTA game using his PS2 and his copy of the game. Can you do that with a hard drive? Only if it's removable, I suppose.
You can actually, you just need to buy a memory card to do so, however its not required to own the system.
I'm just not buying that the Xbox hard drive is revolutionizing gaming... and I don't think Microsoft is either, since they're toying with releasing an Xbox2 model that doesn't even have one. (Terrible idea, by the way. How are game developers supposed to make full-featured Xbox games when they can't even be assured which Xbox consumers will own?)
You're thinking its exactly like a computer, theres no difference between an Xbox 2 with or without a hard drive, its all APIs when it comes to saving games.
Others have pointed this out, but the problem with the Xbox is that Halo is it, more or less. Without Halo, Xbox would never have survived. So of course bundling a Halo 2.5 makes business sense, but doesn't it also seem a little bit sad? I mean, Halo is it, fin, nothing else. They don't even have Halo Tennis, Halo Kart, Halo Party, or any sub-franchises to pimp.
Yeah so? big deal, one game made the Xbox, no need to bash it. You're lucky they even made it this far because of the establishment of PS2 and Gamecube.
My bigger point was that Halo fans are going to gush over this, even though nearly everyone has spent the last three years ripping apart Nintendo for all those Super Mario Advance re-releases. (Especially SMB3 with eReader support, where the typical angry quote was "they're holding back content unless I buy an eReader to unlock it!") Well, now Halo is pulling a similar trick. Buy Halo 2 now, buy the slightly upgraded Halo 2 port later.
Wrong again buddy, there is always like 50 mario games for the nintendo platforms. They're redoing halo 2 because they were pressed for time and it didnt have all they wanted in it. Now that they have time, they're making a 2.5 release to add in the stuff missing. Not to mention Xbox couldnt handle Halo 2 correctly.
You are more than likely trolling, so I'll bite...
Halo 3 must be taking too long, so a panicked Board has Bungie re-doing #2
First off, Halo 2 just came out. Bungie was working Halo 2 probably a week or two before it went gold, implying that it was not finished. To some its not a complete game. So if anything, if they're doing it, Halo 3 just began in development.
I eagerly await Xboxers falling all over themselves to get this while simultaneously bashing Nintendo for the latest re-release of Super Mario Whatever. Irony.
Lets look at it this way...The Xbox, although a microsoft product, has changed console systems in that it was the first to have a hard drive (that I know of). Playstation, Gamecube, Dreamcast all didnt have a hard drive. It also has built in networking. The only thing that got me with playstation is each memory card costed 25 dollars for an 8 mb chip. Xbox came with a 50 gig hard drive with over 45000+ blocks for saving games. All other console systems are finally catching up to the Xbox in these aspects, but in their next generation.
This has got to be an Xbox2 launch title, which Microsoft knows is the only game they've got that stands a chance of selling system.
And yes they need a launch title because why would you buy a system if all the games you want to play are on one system. They have to hook you, thus a little thing we on earth call Marketing.
What a useless preview. No alien walking machines destroying whole cities. No panic in the streets. No water towers with shotgun holes! So why should I see this and not just rent the 1950's version? Should I get it just because the same guy made E.T.? Give us some reason to spend $7++ for this.
Thats why its called a "teaser" trailer. Its to peak your interest in the movie enough to make you remember it. Expect a new trailer to come out in a couple of months once it gets closer to the theater release date.
90% isn't a lot (anti-retroviral do a lot better than that)
Sure it is. You're probably living with a dormant virus right now. If you're blood contains "CMV" then you have a virus that will never go away.
You're bashing an experimental technique that is just being tested in humans. Give it a couple of years and it will be refined. You're also looking at this from a single point of view, if you read the entire article they're looking to use this technique to treat other infections that to this day will never leave once you have it.
I wish people would stop being quick to bash ideas that are a giant step in the right direction.
Like, why isn't it forbidden for Christians to eat pork, while Jews don't because of the OT.
The reason Jews dont eat pork is they view pigs as unclean animals, they roll around and sleep in their own filth and such. As for christians I dont know why we are allowed to eat pork.
WTF are you talking about? I have played D3. That's what this whole topic is about - impressions of playing the game!
First off dude, you're playing a Marine on Mars. Last time I checked Mars is not a very good place for humans to live without some sort of building with an atmosphere. Otherwise theres not much scenery that can be done. Sure you can go outside but without an EVA suit you're screwed.
And? Does this affect the game in any way? No. Nothing I learn will change the outcome of the game. Nothing I learn will change the routes I take to get to the next destination. Yes, they flesh-out the story a bit, but it's inconsequential to the game.
Ok then dont complain because all other games do the samething, they give you something that cant change the game. Half-Life, you either accepted the G-Man's offer or didnt, otherwise you're stuck doing one objective (ie no choice).
Yah! Yellow and blue keys have ben replaced with "You need Joe Schmoe's PDA to update your security clearance." Big, innovative change.
yeah its big innovation since it makes you have to get more of the story. Like I said, have you played Doom 3? Cause it seems like you played it for 20 minutes got homesick for half-life where you're destined to do everything by the book.
Uh, yeah. And if they said, "This game is nothing other than Half-Life with newer graphics," it wouldn't be hyped as much. Doom III was hyped all to hell and back as the greatest FPS to grace your hard drive. It was supposed to be innovative and ground-breaking. Unfortunately, all these apply to the graphics and nothing else.
Well you're a fool if you believe it would innovate FPS in the gameplay portion because NO ONE SAID IT WAS INNOVATIVE IN GAMEPLAY!!! Get that in your head. They said it was innovative on technology. They said the graphics were that good that it would make you feel like you're there. Not "the gameplay is so good that you feel like the marine". If you're saying Doom 3 gameplay is ok because it was hyped to be better, even though you need to READ better because NO ONE hyped the gameplay, then you bought the game for the wrong reasons. iD software did not hype it to be the best gameplay, they hyped the graphics. Reviewers said the gameplay was good.
Most newer games at least attempt to do something different. Original HL has some nice scripted events and fancy "AI" enemy tactics. Plus it had an engaging story. Some games experiment with varying levels - huge outdoor levels mixed with cramped indoor ones. Some mix stealth tactics with pure run-n-gun. Jedi Knight II had cool transitions from FPS to 3rd-person saber battles. Call of Duty has you storming beaches, being a sniper, infiltrating buildings, driving a tank, etc.
You havent played Doom 3? Ok how about this, most people I know havent play Halo, and that has a really indepth story that makes you question a lot about whats going on in the game, but they dont know this when you ask them. The "PDA thing" allows you to get more back story to what has been going on. And while you dont have a big tentacle monster that you need to go here and there to power up the rocket engine to destroy, you do have situations where you need to do something to get somewhere (because frankly the tentacle monster needed to be destroyed to progress in the game). You also have choices in Doom 3. The PDA replaced the need to get keys or keycards as in the game it handles your security clearance. The one true thing about Half-Life that everyone enjoyed was that you played the game through Gordon's Eyes, meaning you didnt get anymore information then the character had. While Doom 3 deviates from this slightly (cut scenes show you instead of what you see through the marines eyes), you still dont think its an engaging story game because you know what its about. If they re-made half-life with newer graphics it be the same story.
Yeah I know them, I used to be one. My response is they wont be at QuakeCon because if they're devoting that much time to playing the game to master it, it means they dont have jobs and cant afford the plane ticket, much less the hotel, and etc.
Lets use your original post concept. The people that said about no one having a chance to master it are the QuakeCon people, not ID Software. I believe it will be the first doom 3 tournament, but the release of Doom 3 can be a week or two before QuakeCon or (what I really think) the day QuakeCon starts. Infact the QuakeCon people may think Doom 3 isnt coming out till after the event because Doom 3 hasnt gone gold yet. However, there is still plenty of time for it to go gold and also ship on August 3rd.
Also the first time someone played Doom 3, excluding the crappy beta leak (which you mentioned), was at QuakeCon 2003. Granted it wasnt a tournament.
No...DID YOU READ the press release? Read these below.
"We're having a DOOM 3 party this year, and want to offer our fans the first opportunity to compete in a DOOM 3 tournament," Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software said
First Doom 3 Tournament
Yes, you read that correctly. DOOM 3 Deathmatch is coming to QuakeCon 2004, and there has never been a more level playing field. With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game,
Look at the phrasing again. "Who has had time", which could mean that when it comes out there maybe only a week time for anyone to play it and thats not enough to master multiplaying.
However....you MAY be correct if you trust NVIDIA over ID Software.
"For gamers, QuakeCon is the most exciting happening of the year, and this year it marks the arrival of DOOM 3 - which is one event we wouldn't miss!" said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing for NVIDIA
What does it all mean? It means that Doom 3 will be out by the start of QuakeCon or shortly(week or two) before QuakeCon.
The deflector shields though, are different from the shield shields, which protect from phasers and torpedoes etc, not sure where those are generated from.
To answer your question, the sheilds were generated from emmitters all over the ship. When they said something like "forward shields flucutating" it means one or more emmitters was having problems (ie, not enough energy to cope with attack, emmitter was lost and others had to compensate, etc). Atleast thats what I think I remember reading from my friends star trek ship manual. Which makes perfect sense, if you had one huge emmitter covering the ship and it was lost you get blown up, you have many small emmitters then you lose one the ones near it will pick it up.
For the same reasons why NYC took away the proton packs from the Ghostbusters after the first movie --- TOO dangerous. Not to mention, not enough plutonium for each and every person Not to mention, do we really want people getting their hands on radioactive material that, at best, will give the person cancer, at worstthis stuff makes a really big BOOM?
Sir, firstly you shouldnt use scifi as a basis of an arguement, especially this one, we're talking plutonium pellets the size of a penny not a backpack with its own nuclear reactor the size of 2 or 3 car batteries. Lastly, on this part, I believe the ghostbusters had something much stronger then a pellet size plutonium running their proton packs.
Now to the real debate. The plutonium would be sheilded by lead accordingly so there goes your cancer point out the window. Secondly anyone stupid enough to manufacture batteries with weapons grade plutonium is looking for prison time. As for it going boom, I doubt it likely.
My point was that tftp can transfer files via udp and re-arrange them without scrambling the file which is what the parent poster had stated was not doable over udp.
UDP can transfer files correctly, but there is no error correction so if a packet gets lost there goes the file. All TFTP can do is perform a check on the file vs the CRC it was given before the actual transfer begins. Its rare for a packet to get dropped on the same subnet, atleast not as rare as it is on the internet or dial up.
There are other things that TCP has that UDP doesn't such as actually establishing a connection.
Uhh last time I checked any type of protocol needs some sort of handshake, I could see a lot more problems if UDP didnt do a handshake. Like for example not knowing where to send or what to send back.
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You have to understand that the demographic targeted was not business users, if you think I'm wrong here then watch the original commercials and see the "enterprise" apps they showed. The iphone at launch sucked compared to blackberry and other smartphones for purpose of business. I still do not consider the iphone business class even though it can do it. With all of that said, tethering has not been something that really caught on with your typical cellphone user but is something that business people and geeks like to use. The EDGE network was no where near that great of speeds that people would accept for tethering. In short, if you expected to use the iphone to tether then you picked the wrong device.
Or it could be that the network at the time could not support it, its wasnt 3g at the time. Its also quite possible that tethering was not added in till 3.1.
What I love more than anything else are the geeks that fall on their sword when you insult their chosen princess.
Princess? I think you're the only one fantasizing here.
Have you ever met her personally, or does she just inhabit your fantasies?
I'd have to say no to both, I'm not a profile stalker (nor do I need to be) and I dont live on the west coast to attend any BSD convention. However, if you would like to try again, you're so welcome to do so.
Or are you just defending your own princess who can "talk shop" with you but happens to be pulling a good-sized caboose?
I dont know man, the way you're talking about her looks, makes you to sound like your escor...err hook...girlfriend is better looking. In either case, atleast she probably knows more than you do, and probably has a less negative attitude towards peoples looks and personalities.
Her face isn't all that pretty, her figure is simply OK and I've seen better hair on Kansas farm girls. There's two girls that work at the freakin' Microcenter that look better than her, and the Microcenter seems to make ugly a hiring criteria.
I'm sure alot of that can be said about you too. However, I'm sure Microcenter still hired you.
Is it just that she isn't one of the usual obese, dumpy, homely hangers-on at the weekend D&D session, like the blonde woman in the background of the photo?
Its probably the fact that she is a geek, and despite your opinions on her looks, she is very attractive. I'm sorry if you're just not interested in women, but what you said is really uncalled for either Ceren or the blonde, consider that you're probably far worse than the blonde. I'm sure a lot of geeks wouldnt mind having a sexy girlfriend who could talk shop with them...apparently you're wanting to spend your nights alone with a cat or dog, maybe a doll if you dont insult it.
So please, don't assume I'm saying this is a bad thing when all I'm doing is pointing out the relative scale of the situation.
You can not use a relative scale since the cost of the products being sold for this venture do not scale to the donatations of an average person.
The last part of my comment was a way of pointing out that if this were anyone besides BG, it wouldn't have even been a story on here. Even with this amount of money.
Yes but considering how everyone speaks negatively on him and his companies business practices, this is a reason he is making the news. Hell look at the icon for the microsoft topics, thats enough right there to prove my point.
Linux community gives 100% up front. Microsoft takes 100% and gives a little - a very little - back. Which is more generous?
As one person said in one of the comments further above. If your kid is dying you're last priority is what operating system you are going to use. Your priority will be to save your child by getting them the medicine they need. You cant really compare the contributions from the linux community to the contributions other organizations make.
That's true, but on the other hand we're talking $750 million USD over the next ten years working out to $75 million USD per year. Something tells me that's less than he makes in interest/dividends per year. It's a nice gesture. But, when one scales this seemingly large amount against the funds available, it's more like me donating $100.00 as someone else already said. Nice, but not a big deal really. On a vaguely related note, when I was in the Navy I gave around 10% of my income to various causes through the CFC. Can I get a front page story on slashdot now? Hmmmm?
First off, you have a warped view on this perspective. One man donating 100 dollars does not even remotely compare to one man donating 750 million dollars. Yes it is a big deal since kids are dying in 3rd world countries where their parents cant even afford to pay for them to see a doctor, let alone get vacinations. That 750 million can help a lot of kids, where as your puny 100 dollars wouldnt be able to vacinate one kid.
One person did something really great and donated a large sum of money,that doesnt involve selling his product down the people he donating to, and everyone finds something wrong with it.
Isn't that about what they said about the Titanic?
No they said the Titanic was not possible to sink. What the parent is stating that the containment of the RTG is rugged enough that the possiblity of a breach is high unlikely, not that it cant happen.
That's not an accurate statement. Every generation has added new features to the ring, and just about every console has thrown in their own specialties that were later adopted by other companies. Analog sticks, shoulder buttons, wireless controllers, rumble feedback, memory cards, CD/DVD storage, voice input, camera input... all of these (and more) have popped up over the course of video game console development. To say that everything prior to Xbox has been the same (except for graphics) is nonsense and reeks of fanboyism.
I dont count media as being innovative since it really didnt enhance the system, it was just a new storage system.
How about increasing the caliber and size of the Xbox library? That's what they need to concentrate on... Halo and Xbox Live have totally supported them in this generation (and Live is primarily only a marketing bullet point, since most Xbox owners don't even use it.) How much longer? That's Microsoft's shortcoming, not Nintendo's or Sony's. Neither Nintendo nor Sony has to respond to that, in the way that Sony is responding to Microsoft by simply making an HD available and getting their games online. The Xbox has a handful of AAA titles amid overwhelming mediocrity. It's feast or famine, and mostly famine.
Microsoft can not do it, developers have to want to develop for that system. Microsoft has been trying to get people to develop for the Xbox but if a company is paying a license to develop PS2 games, they're not really going to want to pay an additional license to make Xbox games.
That was my initial point. Everybody (particularly the "mature" Xbox/PC crowd) goes to great lengths to slam Nintendo for all the Mario titles and all the re-released old Mario titles with minor enhancements. And now the Xbox's critical darling Halo is doing the same thing. Why? Because it will sell. Why does it sell? Because people want it. Why does Nintendo do the same thing - even while continually producing brand new titles and directions for the franchise - they do the same thing for the same reason. I realize that 50 is quite a bit more games than 2, but Nintendo has been around longer, and has 20 years of nostalgia to take advantage of. I was preparing to laugh outwardly at all the Xbox fans who are already drooling over Halo 2.5, yet scoffed at Mario Advance/SMB3, Mario Party X, etc.
You're comparing all those Mario Kart games to Halo??? Come on, there is a big difference between halo 1 and halo 2, maybe not in the type of game, but story wise its much different with a whole different objective in the game. Halo 2.5 or 3 will be different in the sense that now that Bungie has the time they're putting in things that were cut from the game, kind of like a directors cut of a movie. The only thing you can really compare the mario kart games to is the Star Wars racer games which the newer one just had new graphics and new drivers, otherwise the same.
Seriously though, the Mario Party series is damn good stuff.
Yeah maybe but after a while it becomes redundant. As far as I'm concerned gamecube is like 60% mario games. Halo cant be compared to Mario because it hasnt reached 50 variants of the franchise. And till Halo franchise spawns a horrible movie, then you can say Halo is like Mario.
I just named more advantages than you could. I never said they were useless, just that they're not especially revolutionary and not a "huge advantage." Just a nice feature... it remains to be seen if every other company will jump on it.
Oh really? Then why is the PS3 coming out with a hard drive, while also a PVR device? We look at revolutionary as in cutting edge technology, while what is revolutionary is the ideas that change how things are done. Every console up till the Xbox have all been the same, only extending the graphics of the games. While these "features" may not change the platform, it has changed future consoles in what they provide. As I stated before, Xbox maybe a microsoft product but they're changing the consoles.
As for the memory issue, you can buy a memory card for Xbox. The only reason I brought it up before was because to be able to play a playstation game and continue it later is to pay an extra 25 dollars for a memory card, which thus completes the system. Where as Xbox you buy it, you have a complete system.
That's genius. Nice to hear you're such a good little soldier with your finger on the pulse of Microsoft's marketing and business practices. Go shoot someone now while listening to your stolen Eminem collection. Get that wallet ready to buy your One Game again on your brand new dedicated Halo2.5/3 system. Asshat.
Microsoft actually has it right, because they see the short comings of nintendo and sony. While I bought an Xbox to play Halo, I have a couple other games...maybe not as many as I have of playstation though. I will buy an Xbox 2 to play Halo 2.5 or 3, cause I'm hoping to get an ending to that story.
Oh and about his "Popular Opinion" of Mario games. You really want to talk about trying to milk a cow, there are like 50 Mario games for all nintendo products, where as 2 Halo games on just one platform (3 if you count the PC version of Halo).
Then the obvious solution would have been to simply give Halo 2 more time for development, and probably make it a Xenon launch title. We'll find out in May, but it seems ever more certain MS plans on launching the Xenon in late 2005.
What would another year have meant to people who wanted a full fledged sequel to Halo, and on a system that can do more than the Xbox? Maybe on the Xenon the in-game engine cinemas wouldn't have so much pop-in and textures would also not just pop into existance when you get close enough to them (or at least not as noticeably).
Look at it this way, Bungie is a development group and Microsoft is the execs. Besides if they waited another year, Halo 2 would have been on par with Half Life 2 and Duke Nukem Forever. Dont get me wrong I didnt enjoy the cinemas with the clipping either.
I know I was disappointed in Halo 2, overall; especially when it became known that Bungie didn't even freaking check their geomotry in levels to make sure you couldn't reach through what should be solid objects and grab weapons and flags for multiplayer maps.I wouldnt say I was disappointed, the game took a "different" direction with the story then from what they had in the first game. I just wish they wouldnt have said they werent going to be making a Halo 3, but they give us a cliffhanger that is on par with a fantasy/scifi tv show. Another issue, these developers are rushing the games and that leads to the geomotry issues you are seeing.
8 gig? better than 8 meg memory cards. I like playstation but it kills me to get a complete system costs me $225. Where as the Xbox was 200. And if I run out of space on a wimpy 8 meg card, I need to buy another one for 25 dollars...See my point?
Yeah, but what has it done for me lately? Not having to buy memory cards is great, but I know that if I'm going to a friend's house, I can bring along my mem card and play my personal GTA game using his PS2 and his copy of the game. Can you do that with a hard drive? Only if it's removable, I suppose.
You can actually, you just need to buy a memory card to do so, however its not required to own the system.
I'm just not buying that the Xbox hard drive is revolutionizing gaming... and I don't think Microsoft is either, since they're toying with releasing an Xbox2 model that doesn't even have one. (Terrible idea, by the way. How are game developers supposed to make full-featured Xbox games when they can't even be assured which Xbox consumers will own?)
You're thinking its exactly like a computer, theres no difference between an Xbox 2 with or without a hard drive, its all APIs when it comes to saving games.
Others have pointed this out, but the problem with the Xbox is that Halo is it, more or less. Without Halo, Xbox would never have survived. So of course bundling a Halo 2.5 makes business sense, but doesn't it also seem a little bit sad? I mean, Halo is it, fin, nothing else. They don't even have Halo Tennis, Halo Kart, Halo Party, or any sub-franchises to pimp.
Yeah so? big deal, one game made the Xbox, no need to bash it. You're lucky they even made it this far because of the establishment of PS2 and Gamecube.
My bigger point was that Halo fans are going to gush over this, even though nearly everyone has spent the last three years ripping apart Nintendo for all those Super Mario Advance re-releases. (Especially SMB3 with eReader support, where the typical angry quote was "they're holding back content unless I buy an eReader to unlock it!") Well, now Halo is pulling a similar trick. Buy Halo 2 now, buy the slightly upgraded Halo 2 port later.
Wrong again buddy, there is always like 50 mario games for the nintendo platforms. They're redoing halo 2 because they were pressed for time and it didnt have all they wanted in it. Now that they have time, they're making a 2.5 release to add in the stuff missing. Not to mention Xbox couldnt handle Halo 2 correctly.
You are more than likely trolling, so I'll bite...
Halo 3 must be taking too long, so a panicked Board has Bungie re-doing #2
First off, Halo 2 just came out. Bungie was working Halo 2 probably a week or two before it went gold, implying that it was not finished. To some its not a complete game. So if anything, if they're doing it, Halo 3 just began in development.
I eagerly await Xboxers falling all over themselves to get this while simultaneously bashing Nintendo for the latest re-release of Super Mario Whatever. Irony.
Lets look at it this way...The Xbox, although a microsoft product, has changed console systems in that it was the first to have a hard drive (that I know of). Playstation, Gamecube, Dreamcast all didnt have a hard drive. It also has built in networking. The only thing that got me with playstation is each memory card costed 25 dollars for an 8 mb chip. Xbox came with a 50 gig hard drive with over 45000+ blocks for saving games. All other console systems are finally catching up to the Xbox in these aspects, but in their next generation.
This has got to be an Xbox2 launch title, which Microsoft knows is the only game they've got that stands a chance of selling system.
And yes they need a launch title because why would you buy a system if all the games you want to play are on one system. They have to hook you, thus a little thing we on earth call Marketing.
What a useless preview. No alien walking machines destroying whole cities. No panic in the streets. No water towers with shotgun holes! So why should I see this and not just rent the 1950's version? Should I get it just because the same guy made E.T.? Give us some reason to spend $7++ for this.
Thats why its called a "teaser" trailer. Its to peak your interest in the movie enough to make you remember it. Expect a new trailer to come out in a couple of months once it gets closer to the theater release date.
90% isn't a lot (anti-retroviral do a lot better than that)
Sure it is. You're probably living with a dormant virus right now. If you're blood contains "CMV" then you have a virus that will never go away.
You're bashing an experimental technique that is just being tested in humans. Give it a couple of years and it will be refined. You're also looking at this from a single point of view, if you read the entire article they're looking to use this technique to treat other infections that to this day will never leave once you have it.
I wish people would stop being quick to bash ideas that are a giant step in the right direction.
Like, why isn't it forbidden for Christians to eat pork, while Jews don't because of the OT.
The reason Jews dont eat pork is they view pigs as unclean animals, they roll around and sleep in their own filth and such. As for christians I dont know why we are allowed to eat pork.
+1 Insightful?! havent you heard of a joke!?
WTF are you talking about? I have played D3. That's what this whole topic is about - impressions of playing the game!
First off dude, you're playing a Marine on Mars. Last time I checked Mars is not a very good place for humans to live without some sort of building with an atmosphere. Otherwise theres not much scenery that can be done. Sure you can go outside but without an EVA suit you're screwed.
And? Does this affect the game in any way? No. Nothing I learn will change the outcome of the game. Nothing I learn will change the routes I take to get to the next destination. Yes, they flesh-out the story a bit, but it's inconsequential to the game.
Ok then dont complain because all other games do the samething, they give you something that cant change the game. Half-Life, you either accepted the G-Man's offer or didnt, otherwise you're stuck doing one objective (ie no choice).
Yah! Yellow and blue keys have ben replaced with "You need Joe Schmoe's PDA to update your security clearance." Big, innovative change.
yeah its big innovation since it makes you have to get more of the story. Like I said, have you played Doom 3? Cause it seems like you played it for 20 minutes got homesick for half-life where you're destined to do everything by the book.
Uh, yeah. And if they said, "This game is nothing other than Half-Life with newer graphics," it wouldn't be hyped as much. Doom III was hyped all to hell and back as the greatest FPS to grace your hard drive. It was supposed to be innovative and ground-breaking. Unfortunately, all these apply to the graphics and nothing else.
Well you're a fool if you believe it would innovate FPS in the gameplay portion because NO ONE SAID IT WAS INNOVATIVE IN GAMEPLAY!!! Get that in your head. They said it was innovative on technology. They said the graphics were that good that it would make you feel like you're there. Not "the gameplay is so good that you feel like the marine". If you're saying Doom 3 gameplay is ok because it was hyped to be better, even though you need to READ better because NO ONE hyped the gameplay, then you bought the game for the wrong reasons. iD software did not hype it to be the best gameplay, they hyped the graphics. Reviewers said the gameplay was good.
Most newer games at least attempt to do something different. Original HL has some nice scripted events and fancy "AI" enemy tactics. Plus it had an engaging story. Some games experiment with varying levels - huge outdoor levels mixed with cramped indoor ones. Some mix stealth tactics with pure run-n-gun. Jedi Knight II had cool transitions from FPS to 3rd-person saber battles. Call of Duty has you storming beaches, being a sniper, infiltrating buildings, driving a tank, etc.
You havent played Doom 3? Ok how about this, most people I know havent play Halo, and that has a really indepth story that makes you question a lot about whats going on in the game, but they dont know this when you ask them. The "PDA thing" allows you to get more back story to what has been going on. And while you dont have a big tentacle monster that you need to go here and there to power up the rocket engine to destroy, you do have situations where you need to do something to get somewhere (because frankly the tentacle monster needed to be destroyed to progress in the game). You also have choices in Doom 3. The PDA replaced the need to get keys or keycards as in the game it handles your security clearance. The one true thing about Half-Life that everyone enjoyed was that you played the game through Gordon's Eyes, meaning you didnt get anymore information then the character had. While Doom 3 deviates from this slightly (cut scenes show you instead of what you see through the marines eyes), you still dont think its an engaging story game because you know what its about. If they re-made half-life with newer graphics it be the same story.
you know how hardcore gamers are nowadays.
Yeah I know them, I used to be one. My response is they wont be at QuakeCon because if they're devoting that much time to playing the game to master it, it means they dont have jobs and cant afford the plane ticket, much less the hotel, and etc.
Lets use your original post concept. The people that said about no one having a chance to master it are the QuakeCon people, not ID Software. I believe it will be the first doom 3 tournament, but the release of Doom 3 can be a week or two before QuakeCon or (what I really think) the day QuakeCon starts. Infact the QuakeCon people may think Doom 3 isnt coming out till after the event because Doom 3 hasnt gone gold yet. However, there is still plenty of time for it to go gold and also ship on August 3rd.
Also the first time someone played Doom 3, excluding the crappy beta leak (which you mentioned), was at QuakeCon 2003. Granted it wasnt a tournament.
No...DID YOU READ the press release? Read these below.
"We're having a DOOM 3 party this year, and want to offer our fans the first opportunity to compete in a DOOM 3 tournament," Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software said
First Doom 3 Tournament
Yes, you read that correctly. DOOM 3 Deathmatch is coming to QuakeCon 2004, and there has never been a more level playing field. With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game,
Look at the phrasing again. "Who has had time", which could mean that when it comes out there maybe only a week time for anyone to play it and thats not enough to master multiplaying.
However....you MAY be correct if you trust NVIDIA over ID Software.
"For gamers, QuakeCon is the most exciting happening of the year, and this year it marks the arrival of DOOM 3 - which is one event we wouldn't miss!" said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing for NVIDIA
What does it all mean? It means that Doom 3 will be out by the start of QuakeCon or shortly(week or two) before QuakeCon.
The deflector shields though, are different from the shield shields, which protect from phasers and torpedoes etc, not sure where those are generated from.
To answer your question, the sheilds were generated from emmitters all over the ship. When they said something like "forward shields flucutating" it means one or more emmitters was having problems (ie, not enough energy to cope with attack, emmitter was lost and others had to compensate, etc). Atleast thats what I think I remember reading from my friends star trek ship manual. Which makes perfect sense, if you had one huge emmitter covering the ship and it was lost you get blown up, you have many small emmitters then you lose one the ones near it will pick it up.
For the same reasons why NYC took away the proton packs from the Ghostbusters after the first movie --- TOO dangerous. Not to mention, not enough plutonium for each and every person Not to mention, do we really want people getting their hands on radioactive material that, at best, will give the person cancer, at worstthis stuff makes a really big BOOM?
Sir, firstly you shouldnt use scifi as a basis of an arguement, especially this one, we're talking plutonium pellets the size of a penny not a backpack with its own nuclear reactor the size of 2 or 3 car batteries. Lastly, on this part, I believe the ghostbusters had something much stronger then a pellet size plutonium running their proton packs.
Now to the real debate. The plutonium would be sheilded by lead accordingly so there goes your cancer point out the window. Secondly anyone stupid enough to manufacture batteries with weapons grade plutonium is looking for prison time. As for it going boom, I doubt it likely.
My point was that tftp can transfer files via udp and re-arrange them without scrambling the file which is what the parent poster had stated was not doable over udp.
UDP can transfer files correctly, but there is no error correction so if a packet gets lost there goes the file. All TFTP can do is perform a check on the file vs the CRC it was given before the actual transfer begins. Its rare for a packet to get dropped on the same subnet, atleast not as rare as it is on the internet or dial up.
There are other things that TCP has that UDP doesn't such as actually establishing a connection.
Uhh last time I checked any type of protocol needs some sort of handshake, I could see a lot more problems if UDP didnt do a handshake. Like for example not knowing where to send or what to send back.