[Fanboy] I, along with many others would kill for a true five to be released. Phantasy Star Earth is where it is at. We need to complete the loop.[/Fanboy]
What they really need to do is create cut-scenes for PS IV. PS IV was the biggest game ever created for the 16 bit systems (proper). It used Manga cut-scenes to tell the plot at every major point, rather than just relying on a little text and a headshot talking. The other Phantasy Stars used them as well, but PS IV gave the first glimpse of the 32 bit era, and set standards. It is still a great game to play, and if done right, will be a new favorite of bargain shoppers. I say this game is equal to FF6, if not better due to a smoother use of system. (The ff6 airship ride compared to, say the ps iv hydrofoil. The airship was done in a crappy 3d, while the hydrofoil was a good 2d.)
The Outer Space Treaty forbids national claims. It ignores private claims. Thus Gates can buy the moon, but the US can't create New Chicago on Lake Armstrong under the current laws.
Of course, once someone does establish a long term colony, expect the laws to change, or expect a nation of Lunarians that will lag all the Quake servers.
Well, we can't trust anyone, and the UN would be susceptible to pressures to shut many political sites by exiles and the unrecognized. Imagine Taiwan no longer being allowed on the web. China would argue that Taiwan, as a province of China, does not have the right to have its own domains and must contract thru mainland China.
That alone makes me opposed to UN control. It will be used to hurt the rebels and make the UN line the only line.
Not completely.
Tetris is still the best in its original form for the Gameboy. I am myself a child of the 16 bit, and gotta say that it was my childhood. My favorite game then, but not now, was Super Mario All-Stars. That game was the ultimate best of disc, with everything I wanted on it at the time.
Now, however, I wish I had Chrono Trigger to complement my copy of FF6. I bought a Genesis while back in high school and was able to play many games I missed. I gotta say I loved it, despite their age.
Also suppose online makes a profit. Cause many console online games don't. Some make very nice money, but still are just getting by.
Nintendo took the easy way, and let Sega pay for it. Expect that for more games.
Online is cool, but consoles aren't the best for them. Only when you have a major player who gamers love can you get most online games to work on consoles. For now, Nintendo is right to shirk the demand. The gamble is big and requires alot of people to work. They don't want another virutal boy.
The Mac version of NWN had a small issue where it upgraded everything except the internal version number. Heck, Machall covered it a few weeks ago. The NWN mac forumns were full of complants and had many people who could not play online anymore. The upgrade flaw seemed to require a clean install with no mods in the game in order to work at all. They game out with a new replacement patch about a week later due to the outcry.( And NWN hasbeen out since the first week of August.)
I left the X box aside because it is more of a pc than a game console and has regular hidden updates performed for x live users. Such as the one that closed the bond hole. The other systems can't fix the bugs. That is such that if it is an online game, they have to make the homeversion work. You know if it does not, it becomes not a question of the game version, but the server. Bug should not exist in any game, but they do. The best way to minimize them is to have a good beta test on the hardware that will be used. Consoles have one model to worry about, and have less issues for good developers to worry about. That is why you see very few first party bugs on consoles. Nintendo has never had a game not work due to software, just hardware. I know I can go back in a year to my gamecube and play metroid and not worry about reinstalling it like I will after I delete NWN from my laptop. That is why I like consoles, with them it is little worry.
Yes a PC version may out perform, but a console will not have nearly as many stablity issues. X-box aside, consoles have usually had few bug issues compared to games. When was the last time a PS2 game had a patch that shut people out of the system? NWN did that when they created a faulty patch for the Mac version.
Consoles have lock hardware as a stable plus. A gamer can buy PSO and play it for three or so years straight without much tuning of the dreamcast, (or gamecube, the x-box is of course a bit differant). The PC version will have to deal with a myrid of changes to your computer in that time that could kill your ability to play the game for months on end. No one wants that who is into a community.
There are many good reasons to go. Space Science is key to understanding the Earth. We know what Global Warming is because of our probes to Venus. We have had geology changed due to space travel. We can see how our world could have been or will be by looking at other planets. Moon exploration gave us these rocks called Genesis rocks that show us how the moon form and how it shaped the Earth. One day we maybe able to have a real model of the Earth detailed enough to calculated earthquakes and eruptions.
Moon rocks also gave us Helium-3, a rare isotope not found on Earth ( and is the most expensive thing sold on Earth). It has its use in phosphor dies, but more importantly in Fusion experiments. Given a stable supply of Helium-3, we can produce a clean source of power forever. That ignores the potential for beam mircowave power, where giant solar collectors are place in space and beam the energy back.
We also have crystal research to do. Crystals grow better in space. That includes protein crystals. It is believed that doing some basic viral research in space should give us a clean and clear analysis of viruses, enabling cures for some nasty diseases. Metal research done on the shuttle and space stations produced new alloys that are better than any you can make on Earth. Combined with the ability to travel to Near Earth Objects, we have the knowledge to do some basic asteroid mining. One small asteroid could provide more metal then we could use for a thousand years. Metal that will be cheaper to refine in space with out pollution. Once that happens, all heavy industry can move off Earth, sparing her from the garbage. While we still get to have good living standards, and have enough flowing in to erase poverty.
Some of this might be a pipe dream for the future. If we can make any of it work, I say it is worth it.
The big danger is from some less than natural isotopes that can replace calcium in our bones with stronium. Thus milk is can actually kill your immune system via your bone marrow.
Indeed, they choose to cover issues near and dear to them rather than real issues that have been mumed in the papers, like how a few years ago their were few reports of churches burning down out west.
Bias is inherit. Real journalists try to keep it straight, but it is pervasive in the system. What really needs to happen is for a calm rational mutliple view council to form. Then maybe something that won't immediatly get slammed will come out. The way this report is, I can't trust it. It seems too much like the far left conspiracy news.
I had the honor of meeting with the head of the American Physics Society this year at a lunch. She was asked on these matters and said the organization has no stance, that these matters are best decided by the individual scientist. Uncle Sam and good old Darpa are a good source for funding, one that can be quite stable compared to other US departments, and is better boss than industry. The defense work can often be intangible, or one converted to civilan work. Like milnet and darpanet, Nuke power, IR goggles, and weather sats.
The Irish Mob has sued Direct TV for 3 Billion dollars, while annoucing a licencing plan for users of "Extortion!" that will reportedly run $699 per hoodlum.
SCO has reportedly become the first to settle with the Irish mob, giving them an undisclosed amount of money in order to end claims of improper use of Irish Mob IP in their business plans.
No comment from Microsoft, but speculation is they may move to buy out the mob to head off any potential problems.
Phantasy Star Online seems to have done alright on three different consoles, lasting longer than any other Dreamcast title. But the issue is to make it run correctly takes bandwith. That is why South Korea is so wired, they want their games to not lag, whether it be War Porch or Ragnarock. When the developers work with the next generation of consoles and design PS3 and Hypercube and Y Box games based on broadband and the tech of the machine, then we will have games that will be great and be online. PSO, I love it dearly, could be so much better.
You will when the whole thing darkens. OLEDs have their white put out by three color subpixels and the aging will make the total brightness decrease, a lot.
OLEDs have some time to go. I have seen some of the new kodak ones and they have a small issue. They can't do red or a deep blue, infact the red is orange. I load up true red from VESA standards, and I see an off Orange. The blue is pretty good, but violet is impossible for now. This doesn't began to describe aging. The Kodak camera that uses OLEDs has a life span of 1000 hours. That is total. The individual colors age differantly as well. So what was blue green will shift over time to either side.
This isn't to say they have promise. They have effectivly an infinate dark contrast ratio (white/black in a dark room is integer over zero), viewing angles are great, and the true contrast as a product of reflectance and dark room contrast is very very very good. But in order to be realistic, they need material breakthrus. That is their big issue. It could happen tomorrow and in a year everyone could have OLED clothing, or it could take 30 years, like it took blue LEDs to happen.
Europe can beat us and nothing will change much, except for some aerospace harm and maybe an leveling of the playground between us. The Chinese beat us, and the outer space treaty can kiss itself goodbye. It would give the Chinese high ground in any combat, making them a very real threat to the US. While European dominance is an economic issue, China will be a military issue. To be frank, China will abuse their powers, Europe will not. China will use their Space capabitlies to insure sucess in a Taiwanese invasion, and will move to threaten the rest of the Eastern Pacific, sparking World War Three. If China were to invoke the 5th reform before then, it won't be an issue, but if it is still a military dictatorship, then that dictatorship now has hegmony.
The shuttle is an example of a boondoggle. It became pork because the orginal purpose of a fast and cheap ship was changed to a massive space truck that could take everything and do everything. The managers should of said stop when it was no longer a reusable ship, but just a reusable frame. It reminds me of the Bradely problems, where design changes killed it and its purpose. Multitasking should only be done once a project is done. After all, a jack of all trades is a master of none.
There is a reason that LEDs will win beyond simply being better and more efficent. Mercury based lights are being phased out. By 2007 they will be banned in Europe. Xenon is the main alternative to continue with a flourence source. It is too expensive and too hard to use in a mass release. I am currently building new backlights for AMLCD moniters using LEDs and have seen what people have. Lumileds has a great white, but is a bit expensive, while ISP of Korea is not as good but very cheap.
But for a white backlight, who needs a single led? Using 2 green, a blue and a red LED array, you can mix pure white light that looks real and is even adjustable. You can take it from red to green to blue and mix and match almost all colours. The mixer also makes it possible to use a single strip of LEDs in a light guide, like most high end laptops have. The backlight can now shrink dramatically, and will become significantly cheaper soon. There was some patent mess and it has been finally cleaned up, lowering prices 30% across the board in days.
One last thing to consider is that the efficency of LEDs has been following Moore's law. If it holds true, with in a year it will trash tradtional sources.
The LCD projector is fine for that, but it is only for limited viewing. It should not be a main set, and can not be used unless in controlled settings. If you are gonna buy this and a crt HDTV, you are better off waiting.
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[Fanboy] I, along with many others would kill for a true five to be released. Phantasy Star Earth is where it is at. We need to complete the loop.[/Fanboy] What they really need to do is create cut-scenes for PS IV. PS IV was the biggest game ever created for the 16 bit systems (proper). It used Manga cut-scenes to tell the plot at every major point, rather than just relying on a little text and a headshot talking. The other Phantasy Stars used them as well, but PS IV gave the first glimpse of the 32 bit era, and set standards. It is still a great game to play, and if done right, will be a new favorite of bargain shoppers. I say this game is equal to FF6, if not better due to a smoother use of system. (The ff6 airship ride compared to, say the ps iv hydrofoil. The airship was done in a crappy 3d, while the hydrofoil was a good 2d.)
The Outer Space Treaty forbids national claims. It ignores private claims. Thus Gates can buy the moon, but the US can't create New Chicago on Lake Armstrong under the current laws. Of course, once someone does establish a long term colony, expect the laws to change, or expect a nation of Lunarians that will lag all the Quake servers.
Well, we can't trust anyone, and the UN would be susceptible to pressures to shut many political sites by exiles and the unrecognized. Imagine Taiwan no longer being allowed on the web. China would argue that Taiwan, as a province of China, does not have the right to have its own domains and must contract thru mainland China. That alone makes me opposed to UN control. It will be used to hurt the rebels and make the UN line the only line.
I heard really bad things from EGM and some other print reviews.
Not completely. Tetris is still the best in its original form for the Gameboy. I am myself a child of the 16 bit, and gotta say that it was my childhood. My favorite game then, but not now, was Super Mario All-Stars. That game was the ultimate best of disc, with everything I wanted on it at the time. Now, however, I wish I had Chrono Trigger to complement my copy of FF6. I bought a Genesis while back in high school and was able to play many games I missed. I gotta say I loved it, despite their age.
Also suppose online makes a profit. Cause many console online games don't. Some make very nice money, but still are just getting by. Nintendo took the easy way, and let Sega pay for it. Expect that for more games. Online is cool, but consoles aren't the best for them. Only when you have a major player who gamers love can you get most online games to work on consoles. For now, Nintendo is right to shirk the demand. The gamble is big and requires alot of people to work. They don't want another virutal boy.
The Mac version of NWN had a small issue where it upgraded everything except the internal version number. Heck, Machall covered it a few weeks ago. The NWN mac forumns were full of complants and had many people who could not play online anymore. The upgrade flaw seemed to require a clean install with no mods in the game in order to work at all. They game out with a new replacement patch about a week later due to the outcry.( And NWN hasbeen out since the first week of August.) I left the X box aside because it is more of a pc than a game console and has regular hidden updates performed for x live users. Such as the one that closed the bond hole. The other systems can't fix the bugs. That is such that if it is an online game, they have to make the homeversion work. You know if it does not, it becomes not a question of the game version, but the server. Bug should not exist in any game, but they do. The best way to minimize them is to have a good beta test on the hardware that will be used. Consoles have one model to worry about, and have less issues for good developers to worry about. That is why you see very few first party bugs on consoles. Nintendo has never had a game not work due to software, just hardware. I know I can go back in a year to my gamecube and play metroid and not worry about reinstalling it like I will after I delete NWN from my laptop. That is why I like consoles, with them it is little worry.
Yes a PC version may out perform, but a console will not have nearly as many stablity issues. X-box aside, consoles have usually had few bug issues compared to games. When was the last time a PS2 game had a patch that shut people out of the system? NWN did that when they created a faulty patch for the Mac version. Consoles have lock hardware as a stable plus. A gamer can buy PSO and play it for three or so years straight without much tuning of the dreamcast, (or gamecube, the x-box is of course a bit differant). The PC version will have to deal with a myrid of changes to your computer in that time that could kill your ability to play the game for months on end. No one wants that who is into a community.
...the Phantom is a Phantom.
Well there are both Dems and Republicans that have signed, including Wu who is not from an Aerospace district.
There are many good reasons to go. Space Science is key to understanding the Earth. We know what Global Warming is because of our probes to Venus. We have had geology changed due to space travel. We can see how our world could have been or will be by looking at other planets. Moon exploration gave us these rocks called Genesis rocks that show us how the moon form and how it shaped the Earth. One day we maybe able to have a real model of the Earth detailed enough to calculated earthquakes and eruptions. Moon rocks also gave us Helium-3, a rare isotope not found on Earth ( and is the most expensive thing sold on Earth). It has its use in phosphor dies, but more importantly in Fusion experiments. Given a stable supply of Helium-3, we can produce a clean source of power forever. That ignores the potential for beam mircowave power, where giant solar collectors are place in space and beam the energy back. We also have crystal research to do. Crystals grow better in space. That includes protein crystals. It is believed that doing some basic viral research in space should give us a clean and clear analysis of viruses, enabling cures for some nasty diseases. Metal research done on the shuttle and space stations produced new alloys that are better than any you can make on Earth. Combined with the ability to travel to Near Earth Objects, we have the knowledge to do some basic asteroid mining. One small asteroid could provide more metal then we could use for a thousand years. Metal that will be cheaper to refine in space with out pollution. Once that happens, all heavy industry can move off Earth, sparing her from the garbage. While we still get to have good living standards, and have enough flowing in to erase poverty. Some of this might be a pipe dream for the future. If we can make any of it work, I say it is worth it.
The big danger is from some less than natural isotopes that can replace calcium in our bones with stronium. Thus milk is can actually kill your immune system via your bone marrow.
Indeed, they choose to cover issues near and dear to them rather than real issues that have been mumed in the papers, like how a few years ago their were few reports of churches burning down out west. Bias is inherit. Real journalists try to keep it straight, but it is pervasive in the system. What really needs to happen is for a calm rational mutliple view council to form. Then maybe something that won't immediatly get slammed will come out. The way this report is, I can't trust it. It seems too much like the far left conspiracy news.
I had the honor of meeting with the head of the American Physics Society this year at a lunch. She was asked on these matters and said the organization has no stance, that these matters are best decided by the individual scientist. Uncle Sam and good old Darpa are a good source for funding, one that can be quite stable compared to other US departments, and is better boss than industry. The defense work can often be intangible, or one converted to civilan work. Like milnet and darpanet, Nuke power, IR goggles, and weather sats.
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The Irish Mob has sued Direct TV for 3 Billion dollars, while annoucing a licencing plan for users of "Extortion!" that will reportedly run $699 per hoodlum. SCO has reportedly become the first to settle with the Irish mob, giving them an undisclosed amount of money in order to end claims of improper use of Irish Mob IP in their business plans. No comment from Microsoft, but speculation is they may move to buy out the mob to head off any potential problems.
Phantasy Star Online seems to have done alright on three different consoles, lasting longer than any other Dreamcast title. But the issue is to make it run correctly takes bandwith. That is why South Korea is so wired, they want their games to not lag, whether it be War Porch or Ragnarock. When the developers work with the next generation of consoles and design PS3 and Hypercube and Y Box games based on broadband and the tech of the machine, then we will have games that will be great and be online. PSO, I love it dearly, could be so much better.
Games are suppose to be fun? Since when?
... we just are forbiden to know where it is.
You will when the whole thing darkens. OLEDs have their white put out by three color subpixels and the aging will make the total brightness decrease, a lot.
OLEDs have some time to go. I have seen some of the new kodak ones and they have a small issue. They can't do red or a deep blue, infact the red is orange. I load up true red from VESA standards, and I see an off Orange. The blue is pretty good, but violet is impossible for now. This doesn't began to describe aging. The Kodak camera that uses OLEDs has a life span of 1000 hours. That is total. The individual colors age differantly as well. So what was blue green will shift over time to either side. This isn't to say they have promise. They have effectivly an infinate dark contrast ratio (white/black in a dark room is integer over zero), viewing angles are great, and the true contrast as a product of reflectance and dark room contrast is very very very good. But in order to be realistic, they need material breakthrus. That is their big issue. It could happen tomorrow and in a year everyone could have OLED clothing, or it could take 30 years, like it took blue LEDs to happen.
Europe can beat us and nothing will change much, except for some aerospace harm and maybe an leveling of the playground between us. The Chinese beat us, and the outer space treaty can kiss itself goodbye. It would give the Chinese high ground in any combat, making them a very real threat to the US. While European dominance is an economic issue, China will be a military issue. To be frank, China will abuse their powers, Europe will not. China will use their Space capabitlies to insure sucess in a Taiwanese invasion, and will move to threaten the rest of the Eastern Pacific, sparking World War Three. If China were to invoke the 5th reform before then, it won't be an issue, but if it is still a military dictatorship, then that dictatorship now has hegmony.
The shuttle is an example of a boondoggle. It became pork because the orginal purpose of a fast and cheap ship was changed to a massive space truck that could take everything and do everything. The managers should of said stop when it was no longer a reusable ship, but just a reusable frame. It reminds me of the Bradely problems, where design changes killed it and its purpose. Multitasking should only be done once a project is done. After all, a jack of all trades is a master of none.
There is a reason that LEDs will win beyond simply being better and more efficent. Mercury based lights are being phased out. By 2007 they will be banned in Europe. Xenon is the main alternative to continue with a flourence source. It is too expensive and too hard to use in a mass release. I am currently building new backlights for AMLCD moniters using LEDs and have seen what people have. Lumileds has a great white, but is a bit expensive, while ISP of Korea is not as good but very cheap. But for a white backlight, who needs a single led? Using 2 green, a blue and a red LED array, you can mix pure white light that looks real and is even adjustable. You can take it from red to green to blue and mix and match almost all colours. The mixer also makes it possible to use a single strip of LEDs in a light guide, like most high end laptops have. The backlight can now shrink dramatically, and will become significantly cheaper soon. There was some patent mess and it has been finally cleaned up, lowering prices 30% across the board in days. One last thing to consider is that the efficency of LEDs has been following Moore's law. If it holds true, with in a year it will trash tradtional sources.
The LCD projector is fine for that, but it is only for limited viewing. It should not be a main set, and can not be used unless in controlled settings. If you are gonna buy this and a crt HDTV, you are better off waiting.