I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms your implication that there is a health hazard from using 4G communication devices. Many of my friends use them and only a few have had their heads explode.
Sincerely, Brig. Gen. Brian O'Connell (Scanner). P.S. And don't call me baby
What is it with the trend towards designing MMOs with consoles in mind? Age of Conan supposedly was made with the idea of porting it to consoles... Champions Online is being co-developed for Xbox 360 and now this one as well, with the PS3 controller. Hell its even spreading to non MMOs, now Witcher is going to be redone for consoles, and they're having to scrap the combat system and redo it for controllers..
I think designing around such a model is going to hinder somewhat what you can allow in a game. But the console market is just a holy grail out there, everyone thinks if they can just combine the rampant success of World of Warcraft and apply that to the larger console market, they'll be crapping gold bricks for years to come...
Basically such interaction is going to mean being limited to certain numbers of active powers that you load onto buttons of the controller (whether or not it is an actual controller or they are mapped to keyboard keys) at a time (or adding a mortal-combat style combos to activate them), and having chat geared sharply to voice chat. Now, look, while I know voice chat has a big role in things like parties, raids, etc, general chat is not it. The idea of something like a barrens voice chat is just an abomination. You take out the focus of a text chat and it really hinders an important element IMO...
Are probably pushing 50, probably 40 at least, right?
Is there really a good demographic to target with an MMO? I know there are people in that demo that play MMOs (I'm one) but overall I think you're getting a pretty small slice of the pie by going after that crowd with a nostalgia angle.
It can (regrettably) work for movies recycling old TV shows, but the time and money commitment for someone to partake of that is much, much less.
I just don't see it. I always figured those TV show remakes are easy to pitch to studio producers who might themselves be part of that nostalgia market.
There is a wealth of stuff like old tv shows, documentaries, etc, but in terms of recent movies that you missed in theaters, forget it. Its not going to be there 95% of the time. You'd have better luck selecting their instant movies as a search item and hope there's something there you want to see.
In terms of video quality... its not great. I have a pretty good connection (okay, the fastest that is offered in my area in terms of DSL), I usually get 4 or 5 bars (out of 5) in rating quality. It is definitely watchable, but no one's going to confuse it with high-def. Maybe if you had an older non-hd tv.
There is an option to view it in "original size", and when you do you get a small box, less than a quarter of your screen, so you see the resolution you're actually streaming at.
That being said, its a pretty good deal if you're someone like me, who already had a 360 and a netflix membership.
I wouldn't pay a ton extra to get a TV just because they offered this, even if I didn't have a 360. But I'd use it if it were there.
They refer to how many more bars you will seek out to drink after dealing with it;)
I've also had no problems with the RDP on the Fuze, and at 640x480 I can at least see what I'm working on. About the only annoying thing is that for some reason world of warcraft won't let you run via an RDP session via my home computer (not that I'd use it for actual playing the game, but it would suffice for auction house and doing cooldowns and stuff). I haven't tried VNC for this yet.
But seriously everything else I need to do on my servers for normal work is terrific...
As for the citrix thing, I mean, why not? They have to know the resolution they're working with, I imagine they could do a scrolling/zooming type interface just like you do for browsing, why wouldn't you want it available? No one is forcing you to use it if you don't want it.
I had played Dune II on the Amiga, I think the biggest difference between that and later games is you had to click over on the actions buttons ("attack", "move", etc) instead of it being context-based on what you clicked on next (e.g., enemy = attack, ground = move to).
But in terms of influence the second I played C&C I felt that their whole concept of the Tiberium resource was taken directly from the Spice in Dune II. It almost even looked similar...
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to an existing bike? Just put a sensor on the wheel, similar to speedometers that you can add on to any bike (I think they detect the spokes crossing in front of them or actually touch the wheel), a couple buttons you can attach to the handlebars, and then just some software that can read that and affix your own monitor in front of the bike?
The advantage is that you wouldn't be bound do the bike they include with it. Platform independent, as it were. So not liking the shifter or the seat wouldn't be as big a problem.
You could perhaps input info on the bike system you have so it can take your gears into account or perhaps even some of the programs they have available. The same could be done with treadmills, stair climbers, elliptical and so on.
Heck, I'd even see a market for some kind of addon that could work with a small portable device (or heck, sell it as a device), that way you could just take it to your gym and use their equipment with it...
(hrm. iphone has a motion detector, wonder if that could some how pick up on enough to do some of this...)...
You have a week long of serious reflection about ramifications of piracy, confessions of piracy and penances paid like no playing pirated games for 40 days.
You precede this with a week long festival of piracy where you get it all out of your system prior to that.
an then afterwards you celebrate getting through anti-piracy week with a bunch of piracy!
Joe needs to pass, but he wants to spend the minimum effort doing so, so he can farm gold in world of warcraft the rest of the time. Every minute he spends in world of warcraft he can earn 5 gold.
He has five tests, and every five minutes of studying will result in a one percent grade improvement on each test, from a baseline of zero. However, any test score below 50 will be scored as 50.. Each test is worth an equal amount of his final grade.
Given he has 50 hours available to split between studying and world of warcraft, what is the most gold he can earn and still have a passing grade of 60%?
(the answer is 12,500 gold, devoting 8 hours, 20 minutes to one test and zero on the other four, leaving him 41 hours, 40 minutes to farm. If it were not for the policy, he would have had to devote a minimum of 25 hours to study and only earned 7500 gold. This policy nets him a profit of 5000 gold.)
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would illiteracy be an asset for a would-be patent troll?
Filter or no filter, its just bad for them especially at that age.
Dear sir:
I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms your implication that there is a health hazard from using 4G communication devices. Many of my friends use them and only a few have had their heads explode.
Sincerely, Brig. Gen. Brian O'Connell (Scanner). P.S. And don't call me baby
Seriously, if it were going to be sabotaged, China would be a prime suspect. More so than the automakers or even the oil industry...
How else are we supposed to keep the moon clear of moondust farmers?
What is it with the trend towards designing MMOs with consoles in mind? Age of Conan supposedly was made with the idea of porting it to consoles... Champions Online is being co-developed for Xbox 360 and now this one as well, with the PS3 controller. Hell its even spreading to non MMOs, now Witcher is going to be redone for consoles, and they're having to scrap the combat system and redo it for controllers..
I think designing around such a model is going to hinder somewhat what you can allow in a game. But the console market is just a holy grail out there, everyone thinks if they can just combine the rampant success of World of Warcraft and apply that to the larger console market, they'll be crapping gold bricks for years to come...
Basically such interaction is going to mean being limited to certain numbers of active powers that you load onto buttons of the controller (whether or not it is an actual controller or they are mapped to keyboard keys) at a time (or adding a mortal-combat style combos to activate them), and having chat geared sharply to voice chat. Now, look, while I know voice chat has a big role in things like parties, raids, etc, general chat is not it. The idea of something like a barrens voice chat is just an abomination. You take out the focus of a text chat and it really hinders an important element IMO...
Offhand I think they're hoping for a William Hung moment...
Is that a bad sign?
Are probably pushing 50, probably 40 at least, right?
Is there really a good demographic to target with an MMO? I know there are people in that demo that play MMOs (I'm one) but overall I think you're getting a pretty small slice of the pie by going after that crowd with a nostalgia angle.
It can (regrettably) work for movies recycling old TV shows, but the time and money commitment for someone to partake of that is much, much less.
I just don't see it. I always figured those TV show remakes are easy to pitch to studio producers who might themselves be part of that nostalgia market.
oh.
Agora. Never mind.
Why?
Charlie don't surf!
Plus, it would create jobs!
Can't apple just hire some actor to play Steve Jobs at conventions and press announcements?
Michael McDonald already has experience at it and could do it quite nicely I think...
(this is based on using it on my 360...)
at least in terms of "name" movies.
There is a wealth of stuff like old tv shows, documentaries, etc, but in terms of recent movies that you missed in theaters, forget it. Its not going to be there 95% of the time. You'd have better luck selecting their instant movies as a search item and hope there's something there you want to see.
In terms of video quality... its not great. I have a pretty good connection (okay, the fastest that is offered in my area in terms of DSL), I usually get 4 or 5 bars (out of 5) in rating quality. It is definitely watchable, but no one's going to confuse it with high-def. Maybe if you had an older non-hd tv.
There is an option to view it in "original size", and when you do you get a small box, less than a quarter of your screen, so you see the resolution you're actually streaming at.
That being said, its a pretty good deal if you're someone like me, who already had a 360 and a netflix membership.
I wouldn't pay a ton extra to get a TV just because they offered this, even if I didn't have a 360. But I'd use it if it were there.
They refer to how many more bars you will seek out to drink after dealing with it ;)
I've also had no problems with the RDP on the Fuze, and at 640x480 I can at least see what I'm working on. About the only annoying thing is that for some reason world of warcraft won't let you run via an RDP session via my home computer (not that I'd use it for actual playing the game, but it would suffice for auction house and doing cooldowns and stuff). I haven't tried VNC for this yet.
But seriously everything else I need to do on my servers for normal work is terrific...
As for the citrix thing, I mean, why not? They have to know the resolution they're working with, I imagine they could do a scrolling/zooming type interface just like you do for browsing, why wouldn't you want it available? No one is forcing you to use it if you don't want it.
The sound effect of the shields in Tabula Rasa was almost 100% identical to the sound effect of the force field bubbles in City of Heroes/Villains.
I assumed it was just borrowed from there.
If this is typical of stuff used throughout... then open sourcing would be very difficult, you'd have to separate everything like that.
I wouldn't recommend bright young kids get into programming, or at the very least not pursue a career in it.
I had played Dune II on the Amiga, I think the biggest difference between that and later games is you had to click over on the actions buttons ("attack", "move", etc) instead of it being context-based on what you clicked on next (e.g., enemy = attack, ground = move to).
But in terms of influence the second I played C&C I felt that their whole concept of the Tiberium resource was taken directly from the Spice in Dune II. It almost even looked similar...
Keanu Reeves not on the list.
to an existing bike? Just put a sensor on the wheel, similar to speedometers that you can add on to any bike (I think they detect the spokes crossing in front of them or actually touch the wheel), a couple buttons you can attach to the handlebars, and then just some software that can read that and affix your own monitor in front of the bike?
The advantage is that you wouldn't be bound do the bike they include with it. Platform independent, as it were. So not liking the shifter or the seat wouldn't be as big a problem.
You could perhaps input info on the bike system you have so it can take your gears into account or perhaps even some of the programs they have available. The same could be done with treadmills, stair climbers, elliptical and so on.
Heck, I'd even see a market for some kind of addon that could work with a small portable device (or heck, sell it as a device), that way you could just take it to your gym and use their equipment with it...
(hrm. iphone has a motion detector, wonder if that could some how pick up on enough to do some of this...)...
The fact that a videogame publisher beat iTunes
They're not still bitter over that Apple Corpse/Music legal fight are they?
The city is planned to be built west of the city of Brisbane, in Queensland.
Instead of building it west of Brisbane, they should build it east of Brisbane, where they can be free from outside influence.
It could become just like say holy week.
You have a week long of serious reflection about ramifications of piracy, confessions of piracy and penances paid like no playing pirated games for 40 days.
You precede this with a week long festival of piracy where you get it all out of your system prior to that.
an then afterwards you celebrate getting through anti-piracy week with a bunch of piracy!
oh, wait, we have a clear case of prior usage by the Romans...
never mind...
Heck, that could be a math problem on a test.
Joe needs to pass, but he wants to spend the minimum effort doing so, so he can farm gold in world of warcraft the rest of the time. Every minute he spends in world of warcraft he can earn 5 gold.
He has five tests, and every five minutes of studying will result in a one percent grade improvement on each test, from a baseline of zero. However, any test score below 50 will be scored as 50.. Each test is worth an equal amount of his final grade.
Given he has 50 hours available to split between studying and world of warcraft, what is the most gold he can earn and still have a passing grade of 60%?
(the answer is 12,500 gold, devoting 8 hours, 20 minutes to one test and zero on the other four, leaving him 41 hours, 40 minutes to farm. If it were not for the policy, he would have had to devote a minimum of 25 hours to study and only earned 7500 gold. This policy nets him a profit of 5000 gold.)