But I don't see buying a separate DS card just to be able to browse the web - but it they did release a "web" that included Skype, IM, IRC, etc... that's definately worth buying a card, and carrying it around.
But I don't see buying a separate DS card just to be able to browse the web, and then carrying it around with my DS all the time. I think Opera and Nintendo should make a deal to bundle the web browser on a card included with the new DS Lite, or even more importantly - on the same card as the new Mario DS game. Mario will sell huge, and will be a game many will carry around (for some time at least). It would be awesome if the game just had a browser option on the main menu. And I would guess that Mario would have extra room on the card.
Too bad Apple has already teamed up with Sony. Maybe not in Sony's console market, but in the HD market. I can't recall the specifics all together, but if you watch the MacWorld keynote speach from Steve Jobs some Sony exec comes out and they make some deal about how they are working together on some HD standard.
But to me it wouldn't make sense to make any kind of deal with Nintendo when you have ties to Sony.
Pre-ordering, while it may help the market know what products are hot, is basically just a way for retailers to secure your dollars. Paying $5 to reserve a copy of a game is an impulse buy.
I am sure few people reserve games then never go in and payoff the game, and I am sure even fewer reserve a game at Store A, then go and buy it at Store B.
Then there are the insentives that come with some games (like Zelda bonus discs), these are the same thing, except you are assuring Nintendo your sale.
Personally I am a huge gaming fanboy with very little time. I still have only put in a few hours into Zelda Wind Waker, but I pre-ordered it because I wanted the bonuses. In most cases though I am in no rush to get new games when they hit the market.
Nothing Michael has said states that he is focusing only on sites regarding litigation.
He does state that Google's own Alert system is feeding the content of his blog (with his own commentary on each story).
If Google Alerts sends a link about testing for Asbestos, or what to do if you suspect you have Asbestos (or whatever), there is no stated reason for *not* posting these stories as well... hell, it's just more content for his site.
The D-pad is the only thing that keeps my wife playing games with me. She is a less-than-casual gamer, and has never embrassed the analog controls.
I agree with the other comments, some game genres like puzzles are just much better to handle with a D-pad.
I hope Nintendo doesn't make any mistakes in haste with getting this new system out and trying to break any misconceptions of their system being only for kids.
I can see the big N trying to change "too much" just to overcome the critics.
There is nother wrong with labeling the buttons "A" and "B" - so I have no clue as to why they would drop those labels, but I do have to say that when "coaching" people new to a game, I just say the "green" and "red" buttons because it's easier for them to catch on.
I personally hate the symbols used by the Playstation.
What about the idea of a controller with interchangable parts? You want dual-analog, you snap in the 2 analog controls. You want d-pad on the left, and analog on the right, you just snap in the controls into place. Or vice-versa... its up to you. That would be an interesting concept.
And on one last note: The controller ?has? to have some sorta of up,down,left,right input device, I can't see Nintendo breaking completely away from standard gaming logic. So if Nintendo doesn't come out with a controller with a d-pad, 3rd party controller suppliers will.
I have a wired network with ports at my entertainment center.
I keep my Sony Vaio notebook on my entertainment center, and have it plugged into one of my TV inputs.
I use a Logitech wireless mouse to control the Notebook from the couch.
I use Media Player Classic to play all my media files off my desktop, thats in a different room, over the network.
Media Player Classic even plays DVDs (physical or mounted ISOs).
I used to use the same setup with WiFi before I wired my house up, for the most part it worked fine with only a few hang ups here and there on downloaded media (encoded). But when I started to want to watch DVDs I hit a wall, WiFi couldn't keep up with the demand.
The statement does *not* read "allows you to simultaneously connect to an infinite number of players" - which it seems that you are interpreting them as saying.
Think of e-mail, you theoretically have an infinite number of people available to send an e-mail to.
- that doesn't mean that you have an e-mail client/server that can handle a CC with that much data.
- or that every person on the planet has e-mail
- or that an infinite number of people exist!
While it may not be true, I accept the belief that the internet has the ability to allow me to connect to an infinite number of people (again - not saying simultaneously).
Therefore, any internet enabled device that allows users to find and connect to each other could, theoretically, provide an infinite number of users to connect to.
SMS and the phone system are the same.
The Nintendo DS is just a device attaching itself to an existing network, the internet.
So I was trying to be quick and funny and the result was getting "trolled". To bad there isn't a "Greedy" or "Unfunny" modifier.
I might as well and take this change to post what I really feel about this election and voting.
I hope this sweepstakes does promote people to make sure they are currently correctly registered and results in more people voting.
I had moved before the last election and did not register and thus missed out on voting. And then I move again about 18 months ago, and it wasn't until this summer that I actually registered here at my new place.
And then this morning I realized that come November I am going to be out of state at the Macromedia MAX conference and I thought to myself "hey I need to looking into how to absentee vote". And low and behold Macromedia dedicated a page to links for every state on how to absentee vote.
I have since contacted my County Clerk and will be receiving my absentee ballot. It took my all of 5 minutes.
I personally am sick of 3rd party organizations like punkvoter.org trying to promote getting people to vote, but really they are just trying to get people to vote their way. I am glad that VOTEorNOT.org is not pushing an agenda, but just trying to get people to vote in general.
This may be too late to get much attention, but last weekend I was already going to Logan to visit family, and when I read about this last week on Slashdot, I had to stop by and snap some photos.
It's a war, but it's not going to be about storage. Gmail doesn't need to match Hotmail on the 2GB storage (at least yet).
Hotmail is offering 2GB because that's all they got up their sleves. Gmail is a *huge* improvement over Hotmail on the user interface level. And the Gmail spam filter is pretty awesome.
Storage is only a factor until a certain degree - meaning that 2MB is nearly impossible to live off of, but beyond 1 GB you are just talking wasted space for most users.
Some may disagree, but at least in the near future, as far as e-mail is concerned - 1 GB will more than suit 97% of the webmail users out there.
Right now I don't see Gmail touching their storage level. First and foremost they will focus on the user experience, new features, server availability, etc. Then maybe down the line when they see a large threshold of their users in need of more space, they will either then up the storage on all accounts, or offer paid premium accounts.
And on an extra note as a Hotmail user, I don't trust anything they are saying right now, they promised more space like months ago and still haven't delivered. I love my Gmail though.
The Screen Savers did an on-air demo of 2 pairs of identical machines (hard drives, processors, RAM), one pair with 100 NICs, and the other pair with Gigabit....
They were transfering files between the pairs, and on a 500 MB (roughly) movie file, the Gigabit was done transfering in about 1/5 the time.
It was enough to convince me that I wanted Gigabit in my home. So far I have the Cat6 wired to 4 rooms of my house, all ending in my coat closet. Next I need to purchase a router. (My Dells came with on-board Gigabit)
I agree that $20 is totally too much. They were just recently *giving* away the classic Zeldas for free with new GameCubes (or two game purchase).
There's manufacturing overhead costs of course, and with each game being packaged seperately they can't sell them too cheap. They should of done a bundle package, even if not all 8 on one cartridge they could of done 4 and 4.
I don't have a GBA yet, I am almost on the verge of buying the Game Boy Player that attaches to the bottom of the GameCube. As I understand the e-reader does work with this setup as well, but come-on it's not sexy looking at all.
I had 2 copies pre-ordered on Amazon.com over 18 months ago (when it listed as coming out in August of 2002)... after a couple of delays I cancled the order. (1 copy was a gift for a buddy)
I doubt I'll order it now... I barely play CS anymore.
My Back to the Future trilogy (on VHS) just has a 4th video in the box set.
I would hope that if a collection of additional extras was ever put together, that it would be packaged as a 4th book to match the extended DVDs.
Releasing the movies for a 3rd time just to add some more extras just seems overboard.
I know I am going to be a sucker and pay for the HD-DVDs when the time comes though.
One thing that REALLY pisses me off about the LOTR extended DVD series is that the Two Towers extended DVD does NOT contain the short film by Sean Astin "The Long and Short of It" (with making of documentary). The theatrical DVD does have this.
So now I need to either purchase the theatrical, or rent and rip it, because I have not seen it available for D/L anywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
But I don't see buying a separate DS card just to be able to browse the web - but it they did release a "web" that included Skype, IM, IRC, etc... that's definately worth buying a card, and carrying it around.
But I don't see buying a separate DS card just to be able to browse the web, and then carrying it around with my DS all the time. I think Opera and Nintendo should make a deal to bundle the web browser on a card included with the new DS Lite, or even more importantly - on the same card as the new Mario DS game. Mario will sell huge, and will be a game many will carry around (for some time at least). It would be awesome if the game just had a browser option on the main menu. And I would guess that Mario would have extra room on the card.
The Weezer video to the Buddy Holly song.
Too bad Apple has already teamed up with Sony. Maybe not in Sony's console market, but in the HD market. I can't recall the specifics all together, but if you watch the MacWorld keynote speach from Steve Jobs some Sony exec comes out and they make some deal about how they are working together on some HD standard.
But to me it wouldn't make sense to make any kind of deal with Nintendo when you have ties to Sony.
Pre-ordering, while it may help the market know what products are hot, is basically just a way for retailers to secure your dollars. Paying $5 to reserve a copy of a game is an impulse buy.
I am sure few people reserve games then never go in and payoff the game, and I am sure even fewer reserve a game at Store A, then go and buy it at Store B.
Then there are the insentives that come with some games (like Zelda bonus discs), these are the same thing, except you are assuring Nintendo your sale.
Personally I am a huge gaming fanboy with very little time. I still have only put in a few hours into Zelda Wind Waker, but I pre-ordered it because I wanted the bonuses. In most cases though I am in no rush to get new games when they hit the market.
That's a shame, Wario Touched is a blast. It's worth staking out your game store for their next shipment.
Nothing Michael has said states that he is focusing only on sites regarding litigation.
He does state that Google's own Alert system is feeding the content of his blog (with his own commentary on each story).
If Google Alerts sends a link about testing for Asbestos, or what to do if you suspect you have Asbestos (or whatever), there is no stated reason for *not* posting these stories as well... hell, it's just more content for his site.
The "news for nerds" part of the story is how Michael is using Google Alerts to SEND him the content automatically.
He gets a story into his inbox, reads it over, writes his own synopsis and provides an excerpt on his asbestos blog.
Sounds like a smooth operation to me.
The Screen Savers test showed that with several solid coats the WiFi signal only dropped about 30%. They were still able to connect no problem.
This was in a complete enclosure, like an outhouse. So with windows, etc the effectiveness of the paint would lessen even more.
They said not to buy it. Duh.
The D-pad is the only thing that keeps my wife playing games with me. She is a less-than-casual gamer, and has never embrassed the analog controls.
I agree with the other comments, some game genres like puzzles are just much better to handle with a D-pad.
I hope Nintendo doesn't make any mistakes in haste with getting this new system out and trying to break any misconceptions of their system being only for kids.
I can see the big N trying to change "too much" just to overcome the critics.
There is nother wrong with labeling the buttons "A" and "B" - so I have no clue as to why they would drop those labels, but I do have to say that when "coaching" people new to a game, I just say the "green" and "red" buttons because it's easier for them to catch on.
I personally hate the symbols used by the Playstation.
What about the idea of a controller with interchangable parts? You want dual-analog, you snap in the 2 analog controls. You want d-pad on the left, and analog on the right, you just snap in the controls into place. Or vice-versa... its up to you. That would be an interesting concept.
And on one last note: The controller ?has? to have some sorta of up,down,left,right input device, I can't see Nintendo breaking completely away from standard gaming logic. So if Nintendo doesn't come out with a controller with a d-pad, 3rd party controller suppliers will.
I have a wired network with ports at my entertainment center.
I keep my Sony Vaio notebook on my entertainment center, and have it plugged into one of my TV inputs.
I use a Logitech wireless mouse to control the Notebook from the couch.
I use Media Player Classic to play all my media files off my desktop, thats in a different room, over the network.
Media Player Classic even plays DVDs (physical or mounted ISOs).
I used to use the same setup with WiFi before I wired my house up, for the most part it worked fine with only a few hang ups here and there on downloaded media (encoded). But when I started to want to watch DVDs I hit a wall, WiFi couldn't keep up with the demand.
I think you are reading it wrong.
The statement does *not* read "allows you to simultaneously connect to an infinite number of players" - which it seems that you are interpreting them as saying.
Think of e-mail, you theoretically have an infinite number of people available to send an e-mail to.
- that doesn't mean that you have an e-mail client/server that can handle a CC with that much data.
- or that every person on the planet has e-mail
- or that an infinite number of people exist!
While it may not be true, I accept the belief that the internet has the ability to allow me to connect to an infinite number of people (again - not saying simultaneously).
Therefore, any internet enabled device that allows users to find and connect to each other could, theoretically, provide an infinite number of users to connect to.
SMS and the phone system are the same.
The Nintendo DS is just a device attaching itself to an existing network, the internet.
So I was trying to be quick and funny and the result was getting "trolled". To bad there isn't a "Greedy" or "Unfunny" modifier.
l ection/
I might as well and take this change to post what I really feel about this election and voting.
I hope this sweepstakes does promote people to make sure they are currently correctly registered and results in more people voting. I had moved before the last election and did not register and thus missed out on voting. And then I move again about 18 months ago, and it wasn't until this summer that I actually registered here at my new place.
And then this morning I realized that come November I am going to be out of state at the Macromedia MAX conference and I thought to myself "hey I need to looking into how to absentee vote". And low and behold Macromedia dedicated a page to links for every state on how to absentee vote.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/e
I have since contacted my County Clerk and will be receiving my absentee ballot. It took my all of 5 minutes.
I personally am sick of 3rd party organizations like punkvoter.org trying to promote getting people to vote, but really they are just trying to get people to vote their way. I am glad that VOTEorNOT.org is not pushing an agenda, but just trying to get people to vote in general.
I wish that my registration link got Slashdotted.
This may be too late to get much attention, but last weekend I was already going to Logan to visit family, and when I read about this last week on Slashdot, I had to stop by and snap some photos.
If interested I posted them here: http://media.ekosm.com/halo-tourney/
You'd be +5 if there was a "Extra 'Geek' Modifier" ... good idea though - I just copied you.
http://www.fallenjedi.com/thesounds.html#obiwan
It's a war, but it's not going to be about storage. Gmail doesn't need to match Hotmail on the 2GB storage (at least yet).
Hotmail is offering 2GB because that's all they got up their sleves. Gmail is a *huge* improvement over Hotmail on the user interface level. And the Gmail spam filter is pretty awesome.
Storage is only a factor until a certain degree - meaning that 2MB is nearly impossible to live off of, but beyond 1 GB you are just talking wasted space for most users.
Some may disagree, but at least in the near future, as far as e-mail is concerned - 1 GB will more than suit 97% of the webmail users out there.
Right now I don't see Gmail touching their storage level. First and foremost they will focus on the user experience, new features, server availability, etc. Then maybe down the line when they see a large threshold of their users in need of more space, they will either then up the storage on all accounts, or offer paid premium accounts.
And on an extra note as a Hotmail user, I don't trust anything they are saying right now, they promised more space like months ago and still haven't delivered. I love my Gmail though.
I just wanna see Morgan Webb, was she there?
The Screen Savers did an on-air demo of 2 pairs of identical machines (hard drives, processors, RAM), one pair with 100 NICs, and the other pair with Gigabit....
They were transfering files between the pairs, and on a 500 MB (roughly) movie file, the Gigabit was done transfering in about 1/5 the time.
It was enough to convince me that I wanted Gigabit in my home. So far I have the Cat6 wired to 4 rooms of my house, all ending in my coat closet. Next I need to purchase a router. (My Dells came with on-board Gigabit)
Going clockwise, bordering Idaho you have:
N = Canada
NE = Wyoming
E = Colorado
SE = Utah
S = Nevada
W = Oregon
NW = Washington
Can I live in the US and have a Canadian ISP?
I'm in Boise, ID...
1) Would it be worth the long distance charges?
2) Would I be able to get high-speed access?
I agree that $20 is totally too much. They were just recently *giving* away the classic Zeldas for free with new GameCubes (or two game purchase).
There's manufacturing overhead costs of course, and with each game being packaged seperately they can't sell them too cheap. They should of done a bundle package, even if not all 8 on one cartridge they could of done 4 and 4.
I don't have a GBA yet, I am almost on the verge of buying the Game Boy Player that attaches to the bottom of the GameCube. As I understand the e-reader does work with this setup as well, but come-on it's not sexy looking at all.
I had 2 copies pre-ordered on Amazon.com over 18 months ago (when it listed as coming out in August of 2002)... after a couple of delays I cancled the order. (1 copy was a gift for a buddy)
I doubt I'll order it now... I barely play CS anymore.
BTW... nothing useful about my reply.
My Back to the Future trilogy (on VHS) just has a 4th video in the box set. I would hope that if a collection of additional extras was ever put together, that it would be packaged as a 4th book to match the extended DVDs. Releasing the movies for a 3rd time just to add some more extras just seems overboard. I know I am going to be a sucker and pay for the HD-DVDs when the time comes though.
One thing that REALLY pisses me off about the LOTR extended DVD series is that the Two Towers extended DVD does NOT contain the short film by Sean Astin "The Long and Short of It" (with making of documentary). The theatrical DVD does have this.
So now I need to either purchase the theatrical, or rent and rip it, because I have not seen it available for D/L anywhere.