I was just reading an IGN article that noted RE4 will have all of its cinemas use the in-game engine for rendering, rather than using pre-rendered FMVs. This trend is sweeping through all sorts of games. The FF series, which used pre-rendered backgrounds on all of its PSX games, now uses rendered ones. Now that graphics have advanced to the point where cinemas can be processed in real time as well as they can be premade, this technique will only grow.
I think it's downright noble. I can't think of any console game an update was released for, with a few exceptions. Some XBOX live games get them, but the XBL service is practically a PC thing, anyway. I recall some games, like GT2, being rereleased because of horrendous bugs. Nothing like this, though... was there?
Using Opera, it just restores my previous session. All the web pages I was looking at last time are brought back. My homepage, however, is www.AltaVista.com Some will say it's obsolete, but it's the only homepage I've had in my ~decade of browsing, and I see no need to change::looks smug::
I can't see bad coming from this. KDE and Gnome will continue to exist and compete, but there will be yet another desktop thrown into the mix that just happens to resemble the two of them.
Seems like a good selection. Looks like it will cost ~four times as much as the specialty CD binders I mentioned, though:O Even if a different store had better prices, it couldn't be _that_ much lower.
http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/Sku.asp?Pa ge Type=1&Sku=512807
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i'm sure a lot of people are in my situation. I have over half a dozen CD spindles full of backups of music, games, data, etc. For now, they're in a cardboard box I added a makeshift shelf to. The problem is that they're a bit unorganized. Any categories I apply to them have to have contents in increments of 50 (or 100, depending on the spindle). The only solution I've found in my price range (I'm looking to spend under $100 for ~1000 CDRs) are those huge binders. I already have one that I use to cary around music. I figure I can get 5 200 CD binders for ~$20 each. I'm not sure how organized I could keep those, as adding a CD in the middle would mean rearranging every other CD in there. Does anyone have a cheaper solution that procides more flexability? Some home made project would be cool, but something commercial might be easier.
If you care about bulk, and can spare $100, try iRivers SlimX models. They're litteraly the size of 3 or 4 stacked CDs. They also come with an inline remote that rivals any interface I've seen on a portable music device. I hear the newest firmware supports Ogg, too.
I don't know how worthy the GBA is of getting 3D games, but it does. Iridion 3D, its sequel, Super Monkey Ball Jr., Doom, Wolfentstein 3D, and V-Rally 3 all come to mind, and I'm sure there are as many others. Like the NGage, it is apparentlt can process 3D graphics well through software.
I know you never mentioned Linux, weren't bashing MS, etc. I'd still like to point out that Windows isn't the only OS that has turned into a RAM hog... When I have no programs open (nothing but system background processes running), my Linux box will take something like 300MB of RAM. That's with Gnome, too, which is supposedly more light weight than KDE...
F-Zero indeed did recieve an outcry due to its difficulty. For every couple of people complaining that they couldn't beat it (as I'm sure I would), there was a person talking about the 'old days', when all games were hard to beat. I like the approach most games take. Variable difficulty. You play it on 'easy' the first time through, than come back for more on 'hard' or 'normal'. It keeps the frustrateable entertained, and those seeking challenges, as well.
That and have a library of several thousand games, and a userbase of several million... As well known as 'Playstation' is, I'll argue that 'GameBoy' is even more infused into pop-culture. Sony can't rely on its brand name to compete, this time. It will take a killer app such as GTA or a 3D Madden to get the masses to turn to it. The price will also need to be competative, in comparison to the GBA. If people are given the option of a PS2, or a PSP at twice the money, I think they'll go with a PS2. If absolutely necessary, they can strap a portable screen to it.
I'm with you. I think a few too many topics go in YRO.
I really don't mind them doing that. Using AltaVista, paid results are listed with a little divider between the rest of the results. That allows me to easily skip over the paid results without giving them undue notice. It's a good system that keeps my favorite search engine alive without annoying me.
I respect that you prefer Apple's insterface, it is well designed. I'm not willing to say it's better than those of the other players I've used, but it is nice. Still, is that worth $200 and features to you?
In the second paragraph it seems like you're suggesting that a GBA and all of that other stuff occupies the amount of space you save with an iPod... We're talking a few cubic inches here. All those things must require a few cubic feet.
Pricing the way it is, I didn't even consider an iPod when looking for a HDD based player. I decided on the Neuros (www.neurosaudio.com), and bought one Friday. I'll post a quick list of its advantages as compared to the 20GB iPod:
-Half the price, at $200 -Ogg support -Open source firmware and software, including good Linux support. -Removable HDD 'back packs', you can buy additional 20GB storage for a reasonable ~$100 -Built in FM radio reciever and broadcaster (very cool) -Hardware MP3 enocding, you can record audio from the radio or its line-in port -Longer lasting battery -etc.
The first three are huge for me, and probably a lot of Slashdot. The only major disadvantages are that it is USB 1 (upgradeable in the near future), and that it is larger (not a big deal to us large-pocketted punk whipper snappers!)...
If I had enough money for an iPod, I'd spend it on an iRiver iHP-140, Rio Karma, or maybe even a Nomad Zen Xtra 40GB player.
I'm using Suse 9. I was using a TNT 2 card (that's as specific as I remember) from NVidia until a week ago, when I got a 5900. They've both worked perfectly... I'm not sure what you mean.
It's also worth noting that I can install RPMs with two clicks and a password from Konqueror with SuSE.
At a building just a few miles away from me as I type, if that, a study was released last year about the link between VGs and hand-eye coordination. They found that gamers had better coordination than non-gamers (contrary to popular belief).
I'm of the opinion that such studies are fundamentaly flawed. Seems to me that these college students who play games have kept with the hobby since childhood because they have always had some skill in it. That is to say, they were good at games to begin with. The hand-eye coordination was natural, not developed, and this is why they play games to begin with. This was just one study, of course...
My thinking is just the opposite. I've experienced installs of XP (during a short lived dual boot experiment) and Linux on my PC. I have plenty of potentially problem causing hardware, like my Hauppage 401 capture card and Mad Dog 52x CD burner. SuSe, the only distro I've installed since acquiring the afformentioned hardware, had both of them working after the install. It even threw in KWinTV for TV viewing, and K3B for burning. With XP, I had to use the install CDs that came with those products. That added about 1/2 an hour onto my install time, factoring in reboots. My long winded point is that Linux seems to have already surpassed Windows in terms of auto-configuration for hardware. This is especially helpful during a frustring OS install.
Another good thing about Linux, it was able to make use of my fancy new NVidia 5900 as soon as I put it in. A quick configuration dialogue (two or three clicks, no settings had to be changed) and I was done with it. With Windows, I was forced to run in a very low resolution while tracking down the NVidia drivers for it. Again, Linux makes using new hardware easier and faster.
One more story, I bought a USB keyboard to replace a broken, old, PS2 one. Linux autoconfigured it, and I was done with it as quickly as I was with the video card. In Windows, I could not type a password to log on, because it did not recognize the USB keyboard. I had to borrow a working PS2 one from a friend so I could log on, and then plug in the USB KB. I then had to use the character map utility for a bit as I installed the new KB. It took me an extra two days to get a KB working under Windows!
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I was just reading an IGN article that noted RE4 will have all of its cinemas use the in-game engine for rendering, rather than using pre-rendered FMVs. This trend is sweeping through all sorts of games. The FF series, which used pre-rendered backgrounds on all of its PSX games, now uses rendered ones. Now that graphics have advanced to the point where cinemas can be processed in real time as well as they can be premade, this technique will only grow.
I think it's downright noble. I can't think of any console game an update was released for, with a few exceptions. Some XBOX live games get them, but the XBL service is practically a PC thing, anyway. I recall some games, like GT2, being rereleased because of horrendous bugs. Nothing like this, though... was there?
Using Opera, it just restores my previous session. All the web pages I was looking at last time are brought back. My homepage, however, is www.AltaVista.com Some will say it's obsolete, but it's the only homepage I've had in my ~decade of browsing, and I see no need to change ::looks smug::
I can't see bad coming from this. KDE and Gnome will continue to exist and compete, but there will be yet another desktop thrown into the mix that just happens to resemble the two of them.
Seems like a good selection. Looks like it will cost ~four times as much as the specialty CD binders I mentioned, though :O Even if a different store had better prices, it couldn't be _that_ much lower.
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i'm sure a lot of people are in my situation. I have over half a dozen CD spindles full of backups of music, games, data, etc. For now, they're in a cardboard box I added a makeshift shelf to. The problem is that they're a bit unorganized. Any categories I apply to them have to have contents in increments of 50 (or 100, depending on the spindle). The only solution I've found in my price range (I'm looking to spend under $100 for ~1000 CDRs) are those huge binders. I already have one that I use to cary around music. I figure I can get 5 200 CD binders for ~$20 each. I'm not sure how organized I could keep those, as adding a CD in the middle would mean rearranging every other CD in there. Does anyone have a cheaper solution that procides more flexability? Some home made project would be cool, but something commercial might be easier.
If you care about bulk, and can spare $100, try iRivers SlimX models. They're litteraly the size of 3 or 4 stacked CDs. They also come with an inline remote that rivals any interface I've seen on a portable music device. I hear the newest firmware supports Ogg, too.
What did Comic Book Guy say, "For most of you this will mean much less breading. For me: much, much more!"
I don't follow. The article said that the games couldn't be violent, ie. no shooting/killing.
For instance... Q: 'Is KDE faster than Windows...' A: 'Yes' Q: ', better look/feel' A: 'Yes' etc.
I don't know how worthy the GBA is of getting 3D games, but it does. Iridion 3D, its sequel, Super Monkey Ball Jr., Doom, Wolfentstein 3D, and V-Rally 3 all come to mind, and I'm sure there are as many others. Like the NGage, it is apparentlt can process 3D graphics well through software.
I know you never mentioned Linux, weren't bashing MS, etc. I'd still like to point out that Windows isn't the only OS that has turned into a RAM hog... When I have no programs open (nothing but system background processes running), my Linux box will take something like 300MB of RAM. That's with Gnome, too, which is supposedly more light weight than KDE...
Dex Drives, too...
F-Zero indeed did recieve an outcry due to its difficulty. For every couple of people complaining that they couldn't beat it (as I'm sure I would), there was a person talking about the 'old days', when all games were hard to beat. I like the approach most games take. Variable difficulty. You play it on 'easy' the first time through, than come back for more on 'hard' or 'normal'. It keeps the frustrateable entertained, and those seeking challenges, as well.
That and have a library of several thousand games, and a userbase of several million... As well known as 'Playstation' is, I'll argue that 'GameBoy' is even more infused into pop-culture. Sony can't rely on its brand name to compete, this time. It will take a killer app such as GTA or a 3D Madden to get the masses to turn to it. The price will also need to be competative, in comparison to the GBA. If people are given the option of a PS2, or a PSP at twice the money, I think they'll go with a PS2. If absolutely necessary, they can strap a portable screen to it.
I'm with you. I think a few too many topics go in YRO.
I really don't mind them doing that. Using AltaVista, paid results are listed with a little divider between the rest of the results. That allows me to easily skip over the paid results without giving them undue notice. It's a good system that keeps my favorite search engine alive without annoying me.
I respect that you prefer Apple's insterface, it is well designed. I'm not willing to say it's better than those of the other players I've used, but it is nice. Still, is that worth $200 and features to you?
In the second paragraph it seems like you're suggesting that a GBA and all of that other stuff occupies the amount of space you save with an iPod... We're talking a few cubic inches here. All those things must require a few cubic feet.
Pricing the way it is, I didn't even consider an iPod when looking for a HDD based player. I decided on the Neuros (www.neurosaudio.com), and bought one Friday. I'll post a quick list of its advantages as compared to the 20GB iPod:
-Half the price, at $200
-Ogg support
-Open source firmware and software, including good Linux support.
-Removable HDD 'back packs', you can buy additional 20GB storage for a reasonable ~$100
-Built in FM radio reciever and broadcaster (very cool)
-Hardware MP3 enocding, you can record audio from the radio or its line-in port
-Longer lasting battery
-etc.
The first three are huge for me, and probably a lot of Slashdot. The only major disadvantages are that it is USB 1 (upgradeable in the near future), and that it is larger (not a big deal to us large-pocketted punk whipper snappers!)...
If I had enough money for an iPod, I'd spend it on an iRiver iHP-140, Rio Karma, or maybe even a Nomad Zen Xtra 40GB player.
Does that have anything to do with getting iTunes/Winamp5/etc working well?
The _State_ of Electronic Voting in Georgia. It says it right there, duh... ;)
I'm either talking about a different study, or have my information wrong. My above comment is based on memory of campus buz and an NBC segment...
I'm using Suse 9. I was using a TNT 2 card (that's as specific as I remember) from NVidia until a week ago, when I got a 5900. They've both worked perfectly... I'm not sure what you mean.
It's also worth noting that I can install RPMs with two clicks and a password from Konqueror with SuSE.
Or one in even more need of a turn around.
At a building just a few miles away from me as I type, if that, a study was released last year about the link between VGs and hand-eye coordination. They found that gamers had better coordination than non-gamers (contrary to popular belief).
I'm of the opinion that such studies are fundamentaly flawed. Seems to me that these college students who play games have kept with the hobby since childhood because they have always had some skill in it. That is to say, they were good at games to begin with. The hand-eye coordination was natural, not developed, and this is why they play games to begin with. This was just one study, of course...
My thinking is just the opposite. I've experienced installs of XP (during a short lived dual boot experiment) and Linux on my PC. I have plenty of potentially problem causing hardware, like my Hauppage 401 capture card and Mad Dog 52x CD burner. SuSe, the only distro I've installed since acquiring the afformentioned hardware, had both of them working after the install. It even threw in KWinTV for TV viewing, and K3B for burning. With XP, I had to use the install CDs that came with those products. That added about 1/2 an hour onto my install time, factoring in reboots. My long winded point is that Linux seems to have already surpassed Windows in terms of auto-configuration for hardware. This is especially helpful during a frustring OS install.
Another good thing about Linux, it was able to make use of my fancy new NVidia 5900 as soon as I put it in. A quick configuration dialogue (two or three clicks, no settings had to be changed) and I was done with it. With Windows, I was forced to run in a very low resolution while tracking down the NVidia drivers for it. Again, Linux makes using new hardware easier and faster.
One more story, I bought a USB keyboard to replace a broken, old, PS2 one. Linux autoconfigured it, and I was done with it as quickly as I was with the video card. In Windows, I could not type a password to log on, because it did not recognize the USB keyboard. I had to borrow a working PS2 one from a friend so I could log on, and then plug in the USB KB. I then had to use the character map utility for a bit as I installed the new KB. It took me an extra two days to get a KB working under Windows!