Very true, in places in Europe most often Texting is so much cheaper than voice communication, so people become very fast at it. Becoming efficient with the T9 feature on phones is very important. I can send quick messages while I drive without even looking at my phone. Different phones have different methods of how you compose, read and send messages. Most new model phones come with T9(R) Predictive Text - when you start entering a word, you only have to press the key once for each letter and the phone will anticipate what word you are typing. T9(R) Predictive Text provides: Easy and fast text entry - just one key press per letter
Nearly twice as fast as "multi-tap" text entry
Ability to add custom words to your T9 dictionary
Full punctuation and symbol capabilities
Available in all major languages
I think Karnov was one of the most underrated games on the NES. I logged countless hours on it. It was a true classic, and didn't get the recognition it deserved. As well as R.C.Pro Am. I loved the graphics for the time, and the control scheme was weird too remember it, the car didn't steer in relation to itself, it steered kind of like a tomb raider game, where up was always up, etc.
No, we all know that PC games are better, especially better for online play. For many mant reasons which I will not go into and are also obvious to anyone who has played Xbox Live. There were several articles written by Wired Magazine about MS's real motivation for making the Xbox. And it was to get a new breed of online gamers hooked, and also to incorporate themselves into the living room by adding a DVD player to it. MS knows that the xbox live games and service is not as good as PC online games. But it does have fairly good graphics, full voice chat with headset, and friends list and many chat and game features that in my opinion are well worth 50 dollars a year to play all of their LIVE titles online as much as I want. It is also nice to sit on my couch sometimes and hold a controller, I am an old school gamer, so I dig it. But the games are not as nice and Gaming Clan friendly as PC games are, and MS knows it. They are trying to get people to but more computers, and that is what the Xbox has done. They aim it at the 15-17 year old kid who lives at home and cannot use mommy and daddy's computer for games, but can plug his xbox into their router or the cable modem when they are not using it, and can go to a retailer and pay 50 bucks and play some online games. These are the same gamers who will withyin a year or two will end up migrating over to PC games after a taste of the online environment.:)
I love that picture also. Doesn't it look like a threatening carnivorous predator? The other thing I wonder when they render pictureas of dinosaurs is....who gets to decide what color they think it was? "It was probably brown Bob!" "No way Jim, not all brown, it probably had white under it's chin and some black specks on it's chest!" Ha Ha HA.
I have read other places that there is deposits of water deep below the surface of Antarctica. Huge pockets of water surrounded by Ice that are as big as some of the great lakes they imagine. And whatever life, if any, is in them, has been there existing for possibly millions of years isolated from everything. They had huge debates about wether or not to eventually drill down and tap into these vast pockets of water for fear of what they may contain. Has anyone else read anything about that?
I somewhat agree. It would be nice to play them on the original gamepad. I don't see how it would be played on some of the handheld PDA's. I love the Gameboy Advance SP, if you have a serious interest in playing Nintendo games on the go, get that. Awesome screen, you cna play it fine in the dark, amazing battery life, comes with the rechargable batteries, it is amazing.
Nice! I will do that for sure. Thanks for the info!:) I read an awesome article on www.gamespot.com once about the history of the NES and it's japanese version that came out a little earlier called the SuperFamicon. I think that the NES was Nintendos best system to date. I have all of their consoles. I also love the Gameboy Advance SP. In my opinion, for a handheld to be worh while to purchase, it needs to be backlit, I swear, I could not see anything on the first gameboys and on the Gameboy color, or the advance, you had to almost have on of those miners helmets with the light on them to play the thing. lmao.
I disagree, most of us were raised on that damned thing. Let me say a few things that will trigger some huge memories for a lot of people. Karnov, Ikari Warriors, Captain Skyhawk, Spy Hunter, R.C.Pro AM, and many many more. Anyone between 21-30 right now most likely spent a reasonable amount of time playing this system. I was born in 1979, so I did get to play on the Atari beifly, but this was really my original, the first system I was hard-core on. In my opinion the best consoles ever, in no order are, The NES, the Genesis, the Dreamcast, and the Xbox. Yes I know you hate MS, but the Xbox rules, and it did a lot for online gaming.
That's right! I forgot that the warp on world 1-2 doesn't go past level 4! And then he has to do a few of ther world 4 maps, and then can go to world 8. 5 Minutes is still pretty insane. Nice work to him for that one!
I agree, more time should be spent on developing software that provides lots of functionality with ease of use. Not all people NEED to know everything about the technology that they use. Most people use computers at work and that is it. They see only one screen of one program, send a word document once in a while and that is it. The trick is trying to balance the software between making it easy for those people to use, and also in the process not making people like you and I feel frustrated about getting asked if we are sure 10 times before doing everything and listening to that liottle paper clip pop up.:) (yes I know you can turn him off easily, but still.):)
That is a really amazing time. (Now correct me if I am wrong here.) He would have had to go all the way through world 1-1, and then he can warp to world 8-2 or 8-4 in world 1-2 by using the lifts to jump on top of the ceiling and run past the tube and fall down into the sectret warp area, and then he had to do one or two levels on world 8 and the castle. And he would have to be running and holding B the whole time to go fast, and make that tricky part in 8-2 I think with the little ledge and the big double jump. Anyone else remembering this stuff?:) Oh..and he had the castle maze in the final castle memorized.
I agree. I think that the Xbox controller S is the best controller ever for a console. I think the black and white buttons worked great for online play and will be sorry to see them go. They were conviniently placed and didn't interfere with anything, they should have kept them. The platstation controller is good also. I think the Dreamcast was second place though. The two analog thumb sticks being staggered slightly works great for shooters, and I am a shooter junky.:) The old school Xbox controller that most refer to as DUKE, was a tad to big, although I still found it really comfortable to use. I can deal with the loss of the black and white button (because they will think up button Combinations to replace the use of them) as long as they don't change the overall shape of the S controller.
One of the things that people need to realize is that simple handheld pieces of electronics are getting more and more complex in their features and functions. And as they do this they will start to require just as much maintenance and patchwork as a regular desktop computer does. True, knowledge is power, and I watch all the time as my parents get frustrated with technology, but if you take it slow, read the help files and pay attention, people would be a lot better off. Things like AOL and Microsoft make people dumb, they need to realize that not all computer processes are automated and that sometimes things take some investigation.:)
I love being told to use an alternate route while I am 5 feet from the sign. lol. And also, if it is information that has to do with my positio on the road, then cool, like if it says car tipped on left side, merge right. Great, but when it just says "Accident ahead" and things like that I go nuts. Who else lives in an area with Metered on ramps that have stop lights that change red to green for getting onto the freeway?
If I only had a dollar for everytime I was asked "Are you sure?" DAMMMMIT YES I AM SURE!!!!!
And seriously. Whoever had the idea for the office paperclip helper ranks right up there with all of the people responsible for Jar Jar Binks.
IN THE WAR AGAINST CRAP......Microsoft is an ENEMY BLITZKRIEG!
I think technology makes intelligent peoples lives more stressful because it has to be dumbed down to the level of your average office worker.
Seriously, everyime I see someone highlight something, and then I see that mouse moving up to the edit menu because they want to cut or copy...I bang my head against the table.
It is the little things like that that stress me out.
The current Xbox has a hard drive, so I think that as much as MS would want to not have the next Xbox have a HD, they will have ot if they want the games to be backwards compatible. All of the games that are out right now for their console depend on having that HD, unless they figure out a way around that. I think that all of the talk about it NOT having a HD will be exactly that, just talk and speculation, I bet when it comes down ot it, it will have one.
Exactly, a lot of "Big Box" retailers like Best Buy are very ignorant to things regarding technology, and the people at the return counter don't know much about tech things, I would give it a shot.
I don't think anything will be under warranty if they can tell it has been opened. If you can reassemble it and make it seem as though it hasn't been taken apart, and just simply doesn't work, take it back to the 16 year old girl at the return counter and try to exchange it.;)
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Very true, in places in Europe most often Texting is so much cheaper than voice communication, so people become very fast at it. Becoming efficient with the T9 feature on phones is very important. I can send quick messages while I drive without even looking at my phone. Different phones have different methods of how you compose, read and send messages. Most new model phones come with T9(R) Predictive Text - when you start entering a word, you only have to press the key once for each letter and the phone will anticipate what word you are typing. T9(R) Predictive Text provides: Easy and fast text entry - just one key press per letter Nearly twice as fast as "multi-tap" text entry Ability to add custom words to your T9 dictionary Full punctuation and symbol capabilities Available in all major languages
I think Karnov was one of the most underrated games on the NES. I logged countless hours on it. It was a true classic, and didn't get the recognition it deserved. As well as R.C.Pro Am. I loved the graphics for the time, and the control scheme was weird too remember it, the car didn't steer in relation to itself, it steered kind of like a tomb raider game, where up was always up, etc.
We R Sry, but U R Fired. gtg, TTYL.
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No, we all know that PC games are better, especially better for online play. For many mant reasons which I will not go into and are also obvious to anyone who has played Xbox Live. There were several articles written by Wired Magazine about MS's real motivation for making the Xbox. And it was to get a new breed of online gamers hooked, and also to incorporate themselves into the living room by adding a DVD player to it. MS knows that the xbox live games and service is not as good as PC online games. But it does have fairly good graphics, full voice chat with headset, and friends list and many chat and game features that in my opinion are well worth 50 dollars a year to play all of their LIVE titles online as much as I want. It is also nice to sit on my couch sometimes and hold a controller, I am an old school gamer, so I dig it. But the games are not as nice and Gaming Clan friendly as PC games are, and MS knows it. They are trying to get people to but more computers, and that is what the Xbox has done. They aim it at the 15-17 year old kid who lives at home and cannot use mommy and daddy's computer for games, but can plug his xbox into their router or the cable modem when they are not using it, and can go to a retailer and pay 50 bucks and play some online games. These are the same gamers who will withyin a year or two will end up migrating over to PC games after a taste of the online environment. :)
I love that picture also. Doesn't it look like a threatening carnivorous predator? The other thing I wonder when they render pictureas of dinosaurs is....who gets to decide what color they think it was? "It was probably brown Bob!" "No way Jim, not all brown, it probably had white under it's chin and some black specks on it's chest!" Ha Ha HA.
I have read other places that there is deposits of water deep below the surface of Antarctica. Huge pockets of water surrounded by Ice that are as big as some of the great lakes they imagine. And whatever life, if any, is in them, has been there existing for possibly millions of years isolated from everything. They had huge debates about wether or not to eventually drill down and tap into these vast pockets of water for fear of what they may contain. Has anyone else read anything about that?
I somewhat agree. It would be nice to play them on the original gamepad. I don't see how it would be played on some of the handheld PDA's. I love the Gameboy Advance SP, if you have a serious interest in playing Nintendo games on the go, get that. Awesome screen, you cna play it fine in the dark, amazing battery life, comes with the rechargable batteries, it is amazing.
Nice! I will do that for sure. Thanks for the info! :) I read an awesome article on www.gamespot.com once about the history of the NES and it's japanese version that came out a little earlier called the SuperFamicon. I think that the NES was Nintendos best system to date. I have all of their consoles. I also love the Gameboy Advance SP. In my opinion, for a handheld to be worh while to purchase, it needs to be backlit, I swear, I could not see anything on the first gameboys and on the Gameboy color, or the advance, you had to almost have on of those miners helmets with the light on them to play the thing. lmao.
I disagree, most of us were raised on that damned thing. Let me say a few things that will trigger some huge memories for a lot of people. Karnov, Ikari Warriors, Captain Skyhawk, Spy Hunter, R.C.Pro AM, and many many more. Anyone between 21-30 right now most likely spent a reasonable amount of time playing this system. I was born in 1979, so I did get to play on the Atari beifly, but this was really my original, the first system I was hard-core on. In my opinion the best consoles ever, in no order are, The NES, the Genesis, the Dreamcast, and the Xbox. Yes I know you hate MS, but the Xbox rules, and it did a lot for online gaming.
That's right! I forgot that the warp on world 1-2 doesn't go past level 4! And then he has to do a few of ther world 4 maps, and then can go to world 8. 5 Minutes is still pretty insane. Nice work to him for that one!
I agree, more time should be spent on developing software that provides lots of functionality with ease of use. Not all people NEED to know everything about the technology that they use. Most people use computers at work and that is it. They see only one screen of one program, send a word document once in a while and that is it. The trick is trying to balance the software between making it easy for those people to use, and also in the process not making people like you and I feel frustrated about getting asked if we are sure 10 times before doing everything and listening to that liottle paper clip pop up. :) (yes I know you can turn him off easily, but still.) :)
That is a really amazing time. (Now correct me if I am wrong here.) He would have had to go all the way through world 1-1, and then he can warp to world 8-2 or 8-4 in world 1-2 by using the lifts to jump on top of the ceiling and run past the tube and fall down into the sectret warp area, and then he had to do one or two levels on world 8 and the castle. And he would have to be running and holding B the whole time to go fast, and make that tricky part in 8-2 I think with the little ledge and the big double jump. Anyone else remembering this stuff? :) Oh..and he had the castle maze in the final castle memorized.
I agree. I think that the Xbox controller S is the best controller ever for a console. I think the black and white buttons worked great for online play and will be sorry to see them go. They were conviniently placed and didn't interfere with anything, they should have kept them. The platstation controller is good also. I think the Dreamcast was second place though. The two analog thumb sticks being staggered slightly works great for shooters, and I am a shooter junky. :) The old school Xbox controller that most refer to as DUKE, was a tad to big, although I still found it really comfortable to use. I can deal with the loss of the black and white button (because they will think up button Combinations to replace the use of them) as long as they don't change the overall shape of the S controller.
One of the things that people need to realize is that simple handheld pieces of electronics are getting more and more complex in their features and functions. And as they do this they will start to require just as much maintenance and patchwork as a regular desktop computer does. True, knowledge is power, and I watch all the time as my parents get frustrated with technology, but if you take it slow, read the help files and pay attention, people would be a lot better off. Things like AOL and Microsoft make people dumb, they need to realize that not all computer processes are automated and that sometimes things take some investigation. :)
I love being told to use an alternate route while I am 5 feet from the sign. lol. And also, if it is information that has to do with my positio on the road, then cool, like if it says car tipped on left side, merge right. Great, but when it just says "Accident ahead" and things like that I go nuts. Who else lives in an area with Metered on ramps that have stop lights that change red to green for getting onto the freeway?
If I only had a dollar for everytime I was asked "Are you sure?" DAMMMMIT YES I AM SURE!!!!! And seriously. Whoever had the idea for the office paperclip helper ranks right up there with all of the people responsible for Jar Jar Binks. IN THE WAR AGAINST CRAP......Microsoft is an ENEMY BLITZKRIEG! I think technology makes intelligent peoples lives more stressful because it has to be dumbed down to the level of your average office worker. Seriously, everyime I see someone highlight something, and then I see that mouse moving up to the edit menu because they want to cut or copy...I bang my head against the table. It is the little things like that that stress me out.
Millenium Edition, as we all know was horrid. That is what I was referring to in my last post. ;)
The current Xbox has a hard drive, so I think that as much as MS would want to not have the next Xbox have a HD, they will have ot if they want the games to be backwards compatible. All of the games that are out right now for their console depend on having that HD, unless they figure out a way around that. I think that all of the talk about it NOT having a HD will be exactly that, just talk and speculation, I bet when it comes down ot it, it will have one.
Exactly, a lot of "Big Box" retailers like Best Buy are very ignorant to things regarding technology, and the people at the return counter don't know much about tech things, I would give it a shot.
MS XP Reloaded will be like an all day pass to the crap carnival. Remember ME? OWN3D!
I don't think anything will be under warranty if they can tell it has been opened. If you can reassemble it and make it seem as though it hasn't been taken apart, and just simply doesn't work, take it back to the 16 year old girl at the return counter and try to exchange it. ;)