The purpose of extrenal memory cards is to make it possible to take your saved games with you.
For example, if you go to a friend's house and want to take Timesplitters 2 with you, you want to bring your memory card with you because it has all of the unlocked goodies on it. Otherwise, you will have to start from scratch (which really sux).
The same goes for any sports games where you have your own customized teams and such.
They should just save themselves the trouble of making a special HD setup or memory cards for the PS3 and just use their awesome memory sticks instead (up to 1GB now I do believe).
That way they could add the ability to view pictures as well as video clips from the memory sticks onto your TV.
That is great that Bill donated that money and all. I just wonder why he doesn't just open his own schools. Aside from donating to universities, he throws all this money/computers at failing rundown schools. A lot of those schools should be rebuilt from the ground up with that money. Throwing a few new PCs in a school that's falling apart isn't going to help much. New schools need to be built altogether. Those kids need a nice new happy place to go, not some rat infested hole in the ground with a shiny PC in the corner which is probably the only thing keeping the classroom warm in the winter.
"Will Code For Food!"-sign being held by a homeless techie standing on the corner.
I'm getting tired of all of this propaganda from both sides. These people are so closed minded and ignorant. They don't have any opinions of their own, they do what they are told by whatever side they follow. They need to wake up, both parties are driven by the almighty dollar. Neither care about anyone other than themselves. This system is broken.
I had something more aesthetically pleasing in mind than a PDA with an expansion slot. As I mentioned before, each piece would be able to function on its own. I would design each piece to be flat like a small calculator. They would be stacked like a deck of cards to connect to each other in any configuration the user sees fit. They would also auto-detect each other, network together and share resources.
Unlike the HandSpring Visor, you wouldn't have to juggle around modules, being able to use only one at a time. You could use any or all of them at once and as I mentioned before, each could stand alone, unlike the Visor which needed a core unit.
Anyways, thats my design idea. Maybe I should patent it or something.:-P
They should make a system of components that each have a function (MP3 player, Cell Phone, etc). These could stand alone on their own that can be assembled together "Voltron Style" to combine their abilities, processing power, memory, etc to form an all-in-one super device.
This could different options for components/functionality and perhaps leave plenty of room for upgradability.
2600, 5200, Intellivision, Coleco nostalgia I can see... As well as NES, of course... But wasn't the 7800 a terrible flop?
Eh. Good luck, Atari. You'll need it. Nintendo can sell us Excitebike, Zelda and Super Mario again because they always were and will be great games. Anything that could be considered "great" on the 2600 was only because we didn't have anything better.
I know I'll probably get modded for being offtopic, but there is a comparable mini-console for NES games. They have a kiosk over the mall near where I live, I think the device is called "SuperJoy" or something like that. Anyways, its $50 and claims to have 2000 NES games built in (in reality its closer to 100 or so games). It comes with 2 gamepads and a lightgun. Everytime I pass their display, I'm tempted to buy one. I'm sure if you google "Superjoy" or "PowerJoy", you might find one of these gray market devices.
Recently when I was over there, I noticed that have a new device they are selling. It's a stand-alone DDR pad (also $50), but the stupid thing is 8-bit and I can't imagine who would want to play DDR to old midi music.:-P
That would not be such a wrong thing to do. What America needs, is a multi party system, with parties having public balance books and vastly reduced and law-enforced budgets, that come from the government, and are based on the number of voters for that party. Dompanies helping or donnating to the party would be considered highly illegal, and all campaign spending should be officially declared.
I agree, but how do we (as American citizens) break up this Duopoly that runs our country? I think Perot was the only person that close enough to threatening its existance so they swiftly destroyed his credibility. Same thing happened with Nader. Immediately after announcing his running for president, the republicans started to get people to think of him as a joke, whereas the democrats started calling him a 'spoiler' and went after him with litegation, anytime he made any progress (I'm not much of a Nader fan but I hope you can see where I'm going with this).
IMHO, I think both parties are really working as one. They still pretend to be separate just to distract us with their promises/lies. They both point fingers at each other when things go wrong, when in reality as our so-called leaders. They are equally responsible. I have yet to see a politician truly take responsibility for any wrongs they have made against our country. But then, they would get voted out of office and lose all that money and power.
When they get tired of pointing fingers at each other, they start blaming the media, claiming the other party controls the whole thing. Yes, I know the media isn't with some bias, but this whole thing that the liberals or conservatives control the whole media is ridiculous, more smoke and mirrors.
Then there is the whole talk radio thing. They are there to get people riled up and destract them from the ugly truths I mentioned above. Each side takes turns seeing who can shout the loudest and get more people (who already sway their way or are total against them) riled up.
'Freedom' as the politicians like to call it, is just an illusion. If they don't like you have to say, you will be silenced. If you aren't part of the upper class, you will be ignored or squashed. They go out of their way to make sure that lower class or middle-class Americans never make it to the upper-class and if by some miracle, you do, you better follow their rules or they will take it all away from you.
The government is arguing that this secret rule should be discussed in a secret court, so secret that the plaintiff in the case will not be allowed to hear the government's argument.
Are you scared yet or do you want to wait till the news starts referring to Bush as "Great Leader".
I fear that this is above Bush's head. The man just does as he's told by whoever is really pulling the strings. Also, whether Bush or Kerry wins the election, nothing is going to change. It's all smoke and mirrors. We will lose our rights and there's nothing we can really do about it, short of revolution.
"So, which party is like the funny mod and doesn't affect your karma?"
I would say moderates like myself, most right and left wingers seem to think of us as a joke because we aren't 'extreme' enough in one direction or the other.:-P
There would have to be 24hour GM's (or automated ones, I suppose) making new events happening all the time. Or perhaps, one time events that are triggered by entering certain areas or doing certain things. Random events would be nice as well (temporal anomalies, unstable wormholes, mysterious aliens popping in from other dimensions, perhaps encountering a duplicate of yourself from another timeline, possibilities are endless)
None of this preset adventures that anyone can go through at anytime stuff(aside from maybe training for noobs).
Also, giving a player complete control of a starship seems ridiculious. They should make them have to have an entire (bridge) crew to run a big ship. Shuttles could get away with a one or two person crew.
Then there's the concept of logging in/out. How will that work? You can't have your Captain or some other vital crewman suddenly falls asleep. Would you have command automatically goto the next ranking officer? What happens if the ship you're on gets destroyed while you are logged off? Do you die or do you automatically end up in an escape pod?
If your character does get killed, what happens to your character? This isn't a D&D type world, there isn't resurection in this environment. I could understand the concept of having auto-escape pods for destroyed ships, but what happens if you are vaporized by a phaser or decapitated by a klingon's blade? Do they just have you wake up in some infirmiry or do they make you start from scratch?
Anyways, I'm done rambling.
There's something to think about.
I had a college instructor say that was caused by storing your floppies standing up. Apparently, time and gravity will warp the disk, making them unreadable. He said the only way to even out the warping is to stand them on their side for a while. So basically, he was saying that we should store our floppies laying flat.
I wonder if they have some sort of helicopter simulator that they practice this manuvuer on or do they shoot something into the air and try it with a real helicopter?
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The purpose of extrenal memory cards is to make it possible to take your saved games with you.
For example, if you go to a friend's house and want to take Timesplitters 2 with you, you want to bring your memory card with you because it has all of the unlocked goodies on it. Otherwise, you will have to start from scratch (which really sux).
The same goes for any sports games where you have your own customized teams and such.
They should just save themselves the trouble of making a special HD setup or memory cards for the PS3 and just use their awesome memory sticks instead (up to 1GB now I do believe).
That way they could add the ability to view pictures as well as video clips from the memory sticks onto your TV.
maybe if you crossed it with a RealDoll, you might be onto something. ;-)
if animals can do it, why should we be suprised to see humans do it?
Diabetic kid: "MOM! If I don't keep playing, I'll die!"
That is great that Bill donated that money and all. I just wonder why he doesn't just open his own schools. Aside from donating to universities, he throws all this money/computers at failing rundown schools. A lot of those schools should be rebuilt from the ground up with that money. Throwing a few new PCs in a school that's falling apart isn't going to help much. New schools need to be built altogether. Those kids need a nice new happy place to go, not some rat infested hole in the ground with a shiny PC in the corner which is probably the only thing keeping the classroom warm in the winter.
"Will Code For Food!"-sign being held by a homeless techie standing on the corner.
What about the manufacturers of these devices?
Does anyone really think they would just sit on their hands and take this big of a hit?
It's way too late to outlaw current and past technologies that are already all over the place.
Future technologies on the other hand....
I know Zombified Humans tend to call out "Brains! Brains!"
Now does that mean that Zombified PC's call out "CPU Cycles! Need CPU Cycles!"?
or perhaps "Bandwidth! Need Bandwidth!"?
If they made one that ate mosquitos, they'd make a fortune cashing in on the annual West Nile Disease scare. :)
No, that was the Matrix that used humans for power. Not the Terminator. :)
With its dual tuners, this would be a great addition to a video surveillance system...
...or a hidden camera operation. ;-)
I'm getting tired of all of this propaganda from both sides. These people are so closed minded and ignorant. They don't have any opinions of their own, they do what they are told by whatever side they follow. They need to wake up, both parties are driven by the almighty dollar. Neither care about anyone other than themselves. This system is broken.
Monty Brewster had the right idea!
Vote! None of the Above!
I had something more aesthetically pleasing in mind than a PDA with an expansion slot. As I mentioned before, each piece would be able to function on its own. I would design each piece to be flat like a small calculator. They would be stacked like a deck of cards to connect to each other in any configuration the user sees fit. They would also auto-detect each other, network together and share resources.
:-P
Unlike the HandSpring Visor, you wouldn't have to juggle around modules, being able to use only one at a time. You could use any or all of them at once and as I mentioned before, each could stand alone, unlike the Visor which needed a core unit.
Anyways, thats my design idea. Maybe I should patent it or something.
They should make a system of components that each have a function (MP3 player, Cell Phone, etc). These could stand alone on their own that can be assembled together "Voltron Style" to combine their abilities, processing power, memory, etc to form an all-in-one super device.
:-)
This could different options for components/functionality and perhaps leave plenty of room for upgradability.
Just a thought..
I think this website has a more interesting message about this election.
2600, 5200, Intellivision, Coleco nostalgia I can see... As well as NES, of course... But wasn't the 7800 a terrible flop? Eh. Good luck, Atari. You'll need it. Nintendo can sell us Excitebike, Zelda and Super Mario again because they always were and will be great games. Anything that could be considered "great" on the 2600 was only because we didn't have anything better.
:-P
I know I'll probably get modded for being offtopic, but there is a comparable mini-console for NES games. They have a kiosk over the mall near where I live, I think the device is called "SuperJoy" or something like that. Anyways, its $50 and claims to have 2000 NES games built in (in reality its closer to 100 or so games). It comes with 2 gamepads and a lightgun. Everytime I pass their display, I'm tempted to buy one. I'm sure if you google "Superjoy" or "PowerJoy", you might find one of these gray market devices.
Recently when I was over there, I noticed that have a new device they are selling. It's a stand-alone DDR pad (also $50), but the stupid thing is 8-bit and I can't imagine who would want to play DDR to old midi music.
The Anthology has 18 arcade games and 62 Atari 2600 games. And the mini-console is going to be a mixture of 2600 and 7800 games.
That would not be such a wrong thing to do. What America needs, is a multi party system, with parties having public balance books and vastly reduced and law-enforced budgets, that come from the government, and are based on the number of voters for that party. Dompanies helping or donnating to the party would be considered highly illegal, and all campaign spending should be officially declared.
I agree, but how do we (as American citizens) break up this Duopoly that runs our country? I think Perot was the only person that close enough to threatening its existance so they swiftly destroyed his credibility. Same thing happened with Nader. Immediately after announcing his running for president, the republicans started to get people to think of him as a joke, whereas the democrats started calling him a 'spoiler' and went after him with litegation, anytime he made any progress (I'm not much of a Nader fan but I hope you can see where I'm going with this).
IMHO, I think both parties are really working as one. They still pretend to be separate just to distract us with their promises/lies. They both point fingers at each other when things go wrong, when in reality as our so-called leaders. They are equally responsible. I have yet to see a politician truly take responsibility for any wrongs they have made against our country. But then, they would get voted out of office and lose all that money and power.
When they get tired of pointing fingers at each other, they start blaming the media, claiming the other party controls the whole thing. Yes, I know the media isn't with some bias, but this whole thing that the liberals or conservatives control the whole media is ridiculous, more smoke and mirrors.
Then there is the whole talk radio thing. They are there to get people riled up and destract them from the ugly truths I mentioned above. Each side takes turns seeing who can shout the loudest and get more people (who already sway their way or are total against them) riled up.
'Freedom' as the politicians like to call it, is just an illusion. If they don't like you have to say, you will be silenced. If you aren't part of the upper class, you will be ignored or squashed. They go out of their way to make sure that lower class or middle-class Americans never make it to the upper-class and if by some miracle, you do, you better follow their rules or they will take it all away from you.
The government is arguing that this secret rule should be discussed in a secret court, so secret that the plaintiff in the case will not be allowed to hear the government's argument.
Are you scared yet or do you want to wait till the news starts referring to Bush as "Great Leader".
I fear that this is above Bush's head. The man just does as he's told by whoever is really pulling the strings. Also, whether Bush or Kerry wins the election, nothing is going to change. It's all smoke and mirrors. We will lose our rights and there's nothing we can really do about it, short of revolution.
KVB (Kerry Vs. Bush)
Whoever wins, WE LOSE!
"So, which party is like the funny mod and doesn't affect your karma?"
:-P
I would say moderates like myself, most right and left wingers seem to think of us as a joke because we aren't 'extreme' enough in one direction or the other.
Now I have somewhere to vent my feelings about our (the US) broken down 2 party system. :-)
:-P
I just need an appropriate article to reply to it with so that I don't get modded 'offtopic'.
How about a poll or something?
There would have to be 24hour GM's (or automated ones, I suppose) making new events happening all the time. Or perhaps, one time events that are triggered by entering certain areas or doing certain things. Random events would be nice as well (temporal anomalies, unstable wormholes, mysterious aliens popping in from other dimensions, perhaps encountering a duplicate of yourself from another timeline, possibilities are endless)
None of this preset adventures that anyone can go through at anytime stuff(aside from maybe training for noobs).
Also, giving a player complete control of a starship seems ridiculious. They should make them have to have an entire (bridge) crew to run a big ship. Shuttles could get away with a one or two person crew.
Then there's the concept of logging in/out. How will that work? You can't have your Captain or some other vital crewman suddenly falls asleep. Would you have command automatically goto the next ranking officer? What happens if the ship you're on gets destroyed while you are logged off? Do you die or do you automatically end up in an escape pod?
If your character does get killed, what happens to your character? This isn't a D&D type world, there isn't resurection in this environment. I could understand the concept of having auto-escape pods for destroyed ships, but what happens if you are vaporized by a phaser or decapitated by a klingon's blade? Do they just have you wake up in some infirmiry or do they make you start from scratch?
Anyways, I'm done rambling. There's something to think about.
I had a college instructor say that was caused by storing your floppies standing up. Apparently, time and gravity will warp the disk, making them unreadable. He said the only way to even out the warping is to stand them on their side for a while. So basically, he was saying that we should store our floppies laying flat.
I wonder if they have some sort of helicopter simulator that they practice this manuvuer on or do they shoot something into the air and try it with a real helicopter?
crashing a computer....
:-P
If someone else beats them to this, they could be in big trouble.