The same platform would open up cross-platform integration opportunities, letting PC and Xbox owners play in the same world, though each would have different experience. (PC gamers, for example, could act as virtual generals in a strategy game, coordinating troop movements, while Xbox players playing an action version of the same title would fight the battles.)
Oh you mean like Natural Selection did over a year and a half ago?
Nice innovation there CNN/Microsoft. (Not the cross-platform bit, the "general" and "soldier" bit)
Of course they would - just think of all those technologically deprived holocaust survivors they could sue for "p2p file sharing" with smoke signals. Of course Apple would still be running iTunes via carrier pigeon.
Um how about in most Australian capital cities where there are still many suburbs which can't even get broadband due to crappy wiring. I'm about a 15 minute drive from the central business district and I have 1500/256 adsl. A mate of mine who's literally a 10 minute walk down the road can't get it in his area, even though he's in a brand new development area (ie. under 5 years old) and the exchange supports it. He gets about 28800 baud with his dialup account.
Another friend of mine just bought a new house in a recent development area and he can't get broadband there either. He's actually sharing the cost of broadband with someone just down the road who CAN get it, and they've got wireless set up between their houses.
Telstra have a lot of bloody answering to do. And I don't mean phone calls:)
Still not the same:/ Plus DDR really is a social event too. Playing at home ruins the atmos. DDR arcade machines are fucking expensive here too, not to mention hard to find (to buy). I saw some site online that sells them in Australia, and it was something like AU$6000 for an Extreme machine.
It really isn't the same.
There's a huge difference between playing on a
plastic
/
foam
/
metal
/
milrith
pad and playing on the real machine.
If you're not interested in getting good, just in keeping fit, the home version will do fine. As has been previously mentioned, the game is addictive, and you may find yourself wanting to enter tournaments:)
I disagree. If you play ddr twice a week for a year, average 1 hour per session, average AU$12 per hour (ie. 6 credits @ 10mins or so each), that's over AU$1000 a year. I'm sure you can get a year membership at a gym for much less than that (I'm not up with prices but I'd guess about AU$150?) plus you can work out whenever you want for as long as you want. That and the whole point of this topic is exercise, not just entertainment value, so your comment regarding movies and/.'ing are void.
Yeah DDR is/was fun for me. I still enjoy playing it occasionally, but about 6 months ago I hit a brick wall where I stopped getting any better. I played for about a year, and there's only a few songs on Extreme (arcade version) I can't pass (most of the 10-footers except for Sakura, Bag and Paranoia Survivor which are quite achievable with practice).
The problem is that it's really expensive if you want to get good. I've pumped at least AU$300-400 into DDR both at lock-ins (ie. 6 hours of unlimited play for AU$13 etc.) and just normally (AU$2 for 4 songs). No doubt about it being a good workout. After playing for 6 months I went down from about 85kg to 74kg. I stopped playing and started eating pizza again and I've put so much weight back on (ie. almost 20kg).
It kinda got boring for me as I found a new game (Beatmania IIDX).
By all means, don't just pass DDR off as lame like many of my "friends". God knows the number of payouts and sexual preference innuendo I've received from them for playing it ("not that there's anything wrong with that!").
It is fun in moderation, and if you're determined to get into it (and you have a lot of kesh), it WILL keep you fit.
Good endurance songs (not necessarily difficult): So Deep (Heavy) Can't Stop Fallin' In Love/Speed Mix (Heavy) Rhythm and Police (Heavy)
At a computer repair place I was working at a few years back, I recall one of the techs there explaining to a customer that the reason his power supply had stopped working was that the "flux capacitor" had blown. Mind you this tech wasn't an idiot (or an ID ten T), he just wanted to get rid of the customer:)
At uni a couple years back my mates and I found this one temp file on the solaris server in/var/tmp that made a rather awesome repetitive tune. Seriously we all used to play it and it'd get stuck in your head so bad:)
By "dedicated" I don't mean people who are dedicated to writing OSS, I mean people are dedicated to do something about the misinformed slander thrown about by some institutions (ie. AdTI). Anyone in the development community who wishes to see OSS given a decent moral chance rather than be trodden on by companies with money to waste (ie. Microsoft) on "years of extensive research" into why OSS sucks, would have the ethics to give a non-biased view. Even if there were the occasional overly biased article produced (probably unavoidable), that's the point of a committee, and editors. Read between the lines next time please.
As mentioned in a previous comment, perhaps there DOES need to be some kind of PR department for open source. Perhaps a group of dedicated OSS developers needs to form some kind of committee to produce non-biased articles re: open source, and pass those on to the media. Think about it - it could work, and if it was committee-based, unbiased views could be maintained. Factual (rather than MS-funded/manufactured) data could be used to generate anti-FUD articles which, if advertised/promoted correctly, could reveal to the public some of Microsoft's baseless attacks in the name of profit, and could sway the masses' views of OSS in general.
A couple years back when I was still in University, one of my mates and I worked out that we could play sounds on other people's sunray terminals if they had write permissions.
So, when they walked off to the bathroom and forgot to lock their workstation, I conveniently added "chmod a+w $AUDIODEV" to their ~/.bashrc (they were a unix noob and didn't notice)
A few weeks later I was at home and had ssh'd into the uni's unix server. I noticed that this person whose bashrc I had modded was logged in to one of the sunray terminals at uni.
Stored in my home directory I had the file "libala.au", which was a recording of Timmy (South Park) yelling "libala!". You can see what happened...:)
cat ~/libala.au > (their audiodev)
A few days later I met this person and they said that they had been showing a tutor some of their work when the sound played at full volume - oh how special that moment was for me. =)
Actually I believe that Max300 IS a 9-footer, but only on its original machine - DDRMAX. DDRMAX2 and Extreme mark it as being a 10-footer, and rightly so. On the other hand, Sakura heavy is marked as a 10-footer, when it should really be an 8 or something like that, and IMO bag is only really worth 9-feet (even at 1x). Who cares if it's squished up - so's Orion 78, and that's not hard to full combo.
Slashdot Mirror
Sif they cancelled that show - the bad guys were AI grey goo too!
...that way all future non-MS applications would be bugfree for fear of infringing patents. :)
Suddenly no-one uses MS's bugged products anymore!
The same platform would open up cross-platform integration opportunities, letting PC and Xbox owners play in the same world, though each would have different experience. (PC gamers, for example, could act as virtual generals in a strategy game, coordinating troop movements, while Xbox players playing an action version of the same title would fight the battles.)
Oh you mean like Natural Selection did over a year and a half ago?
Nice innovation there CNN/Microsoft.
(Not the cross-platform bit, the "general" and "soldier" bit)
Of course they would - just think of all those technologically deprived holocaust survivors they could sue for "p2p file sharing" with smoke signals. Of course Apple would still be running iTunes via carrier pigeon.
They're alive I tell you! ^_^
This article proves it!!!
Remote New Zealand Volcano Sees Dinosaur Alert?
Um how about in most Australian capital cities where there are still many suburbs which can't even get broadband due to crappy wiring. I'm about a 15 minute drive from the central business district and I have 1500/256 adsl. A mate of mine who's literally a 10 minute walk down the road can't get it in his area, even though he's in a brand new development area (ie. under 5 years old) and the exchange supports it. He gets about 28800 baud with his dialup account.
:)
Another friend of mine just bought a new house in a recent development area and he can't get broadband there either. He's actually sharing the cost of broadband with someone just down the road who CAN get it, and they've got wireless set up between their houses.
Telstra have a lot of bloody answering to do.
And I don't mean phone calls
I wonder if they use IRC over their wireless so they can have a good "yak"...
Still not the same :/
Plus DDR really is a social event too.
Playing at home ruins the atmos.
DDR arcade machines are fucking expensive here too, not to mention hard to find (to buy). I saw some site online that sells them in Australia, and it was something like AU$6000 for an Extreme machine.
It really isn't the same. :)
There's a huge difference between playing on a plastic / foam / metal / milrith pad and playing on the real machine.
If you're not interested in getting good, just in keeping fit, the home version will do fine. As has been previously mentioned, the game is addictive, and you may find yourself wanting to enter tournaments
Are you enjoy?
I disagree. /.'ing are void.
If you play ddr twice a week for a year, average 1 hour per session, average AU$12 per hour (ie. 6 credits @ 10mins or so each), that's over AU$1000 a year. I'm sure you can get a year membership at a gym for much less than that (I'm not up with prices but I'd guess about AU$150?) plus you can work out whenever you want for as long as you want.
That and the whole point of this topic is exercise, not just entertainment value, so your comment regarding movies and
Yeah DDR is/was fun for me.
I still enjoy playing it occasionally, but about 6 months ago I hit a brick wall where I stopped getting any better.
I played for about a year, and there's only a few songs on Extreme (arcade version) I can't pass (most of the 10-footers except for Sakura, Bag and Paranoia Survivor which are quite achievable with practice).
The problem is that it's really expensive if you want to get good. I've pumped at least AU$300-400 into DDR both at lock-ins (ie. 6 hours of unlimited play for AU$13 etc.) and just normally (AU$2 for 4 songs).
No doubt about it being a good workout. After playing for 6 months I went down from about 85kg to 74kg.
I stopped playing and started eating pizza again and I've put so much weight back on (ie. almost 20kg).
It kinda got boring for me as I found a new game (Beatmania IIDX).
By all means, don't just pass DDR off as lame like many of my "friends". God knows the number of payouts and sexual preference innuendo I've received from them for playing it ("not that there's anything wrong with that!").
It is fun in moderation, and if you're determined to get into it (and you have a lot of kesh), it WILL keep you fit.
Good endurance songs (not necessarily difficult):
So Deep (Heavy)
Can't Stop Fallin' In Love/Speed Mix (Heavy)
Rhythm and Police (Heavy)
At a computer repair place I was working at a few years back, I recall one of the techs there explaining to a customer that the reason his power supply had stopped working was that the "flux capacitor" had blown. :)
Mind you this tech wasn't an idiot (or an ID ten T), he just wanted to get rid of the customer
Hmm seems to be working now...
At uni a couple years back my mates and I found this one temp file on the solaris server in /var/tmp that made a rather awesome repetitive tune. Seriously we all used to play it and it'd get stuck in your head so bad :)
/var/tmp > $AUDIODEV
cat
=)
After following some links, here's some cool human-assisted mathematically-generated music:
;)
/.'d already =)
http://www.geocities.com/vienna/9349/
The first prime number and pi midi files are awesome
Might hafta wait til tomorrow tho - looks like the guy's geocities account got
By "dedicated" I don't mean people who are dedicated to writing OSS, I mean people are dedicated to do something about the misinformed slander thrown about by some institutions (ie. AdTI).
Anyone in the development community who wishes to see OSS given a decent moral chance rather than be trodden on by companies with money to waste (ie. Microsoft) on "years of extensive research" into why OSS sucks, would have the ethics to give a non-biased view. Even if there were the occasional overly biased article produced (probably unavoidable), that's the point of a committee, and editors.
Read between the lines next time please.
As mentioned in a previous comment, perhaps there DOES need to be some kind of PR department for open source.
Perhaps a group of dedicated OSS developers needs to form some kind of committee to produce non-biased articles re: open source, and pass those on to the media.
Think about it - it could work, and if it was committee-based, unbiased views could be maintained.
Factual (rather than MS-funded/manufactured) data could be used to generate anti-FUD articles which, if advertised/promoted correctly, could reveal to the public some of Microsoft's baseless attacks in the name of profit, and could sway the masses' views of OSS in general.
...had better get proactive :)
/. to help out its fellow OSDN member*
God knows it took them ages to get their CVS server problems resolved a few years back.
*points
Doh! :)
You beat me to it while I was typing
Don't know if anyone noticed the "feedback" bit at the bottom, but there's a link to another review on the Seiko Epson 40" OLED display.
i re/2004/05/18/rtr1374939.html
http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/newsw
A couple years back when I was still in University, one of my mates and I worked out that we could play sounds on other people's sunray terminals if they had write permissions. ... :)
So, when they walked off to the bathroom and forgot to lock their workstation, I conveniently added "chmod a+w $AUDIODEV" to their ~/.bashrc (they were a unix noob and didn't notice)
A few weeks later I was at home and had ssh'd into the uni's unix server. I noticed that this person whose bashrc I had modded was logged in to one of the sunray terminals at uni.
Stored in my home directory I had the file "libala.au", which was a recording of Timmy (South Park) yelling "libala!". You can see what happened
cat ~/libala.au > (their audiodev)
A few days later I met this person and they said that they had been showing a tutor some of their work when the sound played at full volume - oh how special that moment was for me. =)
Actually I believe that Max300 IS a 9-footer, but only on its original machine - DDRMAX. DDRMAX2 and Extreme mark it as being a 10-footer, and rightly so. On the other hand, Sakura heavy is marked as a 10-footer, when it should really be an 8 or something like that, and IMO bag is only really worth 9-feet (even at 1x). Who cares if it's squished up - so's Orion 78, and that's not hard to full combo.