I'm just hoping that Take Two does what they did about Driver: Put in a character named Jack (or maybe John) Thompson (rather than Tanner). Didn't Tanner get shot? Yes... that would be fun.
Agreed, the price is a big stopper for some people and, I also agree, there are not a ton of must-have games on the Xbox 360.
However, it does have Perfect Dark: Zero, Project Gotham 3, Kameo (don't knock it 'till you try it) and soon, DOA4 and Battlefield.
Battlefield + Xbox Live = Heaven.
Granted, I don't know a whole lot about what games are coming soon to the Xbox 360 for lack of time, but by the time the Playstation 3 comes out, Xbox 360 will have a lot more games by great developers and I'm going to venture a guess and say the premium system won't cost as much as the PS3 will.
That was my point, was that waiting for a PS3 was stupid. You get less (no unified online service, which is a BIG, BIG portion of why you should get an Xbox 360 over PS3, no titles from Rare or Bungie) and get some things that are somewhat unpleasant (blu-ray: Who really wants a disc format that can brick your system of the manufacturer tells it to? How long before it's cracked and a virus is written? Who really would be angry about getting up every few hours to change a disc? Big deal. None of us had problems with it in the PSX days.)
Just forget for one second that Microsoft makes the Xbox. It's one of the products of theirs I really, really like and is well put-together by a great team.
"PS3 will have better graphical performance, up to 2x. High definition. Blu-ray. Up to 7 wireless controllers - those actually mean something. Xbox 360, will just have improved graphics over the original Xbox."
Who says the PS3 will have two times the graphical performace? Speculation does, perhaps.
The Xbox 360 is high definition out of the box.
The Xbox 360 does NOT use proprietary disc formats that can, at the vendor or manufacturers will, brick your box.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!? Jesus. What average Joe with a TV is going to be able to support seven players? Maybe the rare Super Smash Bros. style game, but nothing big.
The Xbox 360 has several things the PS3 does NOT have:
1) Xbox Live. The Playstation 3 has no unified online service at all and has no plans to. Xbox Live is an awesome way to play your video games online. One fee. No ten bucks a month here, five bucks a month there... $50 a year.
2) Time. Xbox 360 is here now whereas the PS3 is going to offer comparable hardware and games in a year.
3) Developer backing. Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360, and that's only naming two big name developers. Also Final Fantasy will be coming to Xbox 360 too. EA is also signed on.
The question is why NOT buy an Xbox 360? Would you rather wait and get less for the same, or maybe more, amount of money?
Ah yes. Microsoft created, designed, and developed this application in the time after the Google Base announcement. Yes, that is right. They weren't working on this before Google announced Base at all. Nope.
"Fremont has been in the works for quite a while, as has the entire Windows Live effort.
It's a classic logical error to confuse proximity in time (or sequence in time) with cause and effect. Yet so many people continue to make that error, expecially if they're industry journalists needing to write copy." -Bruce Morgan, Microsoft employee
When you breathe in air (O2 with some other minute elements), you exhale CO2, right? You took a certain amount of air and turned it into energy, which then gave off CO2 (or something like that). That CO2 is then recycled by plants back into O2.
Now what if we took that CO2 and launched it into space? The plants have nothing to recycle. That CO2 that would be turned back into air has now left the planet for good, and isn't coming back. By doing this, you turn O2 into a limited resource, since it can't be recycled since it is just launched off into space. Eventually you'll just run out of O2 and all HELL will break loose.
"And lets go to Tom on Florida's coast with more on Hurricane Linux. Tom?"
"Hi, Bob. The scene here is just horrific. Linux has taken the coast by storm, you could say, and already it has devastated thousands of homes and killed hundreds of people. This storm is like someone gzipping a season DVD with verbose on! Just awful. Bob?"
I noticed most of these ideas were pretty... not really scary (e.g., the screensaver), so I came up with my own.
Now, this requires some preparation and some timing... but I'm sure the effects would pay off.
1) The first guests to arrive, make sure there's about two of them or so. Leave the door open and all the lights off inside. Upon entering, someone who was hiding near/behind/around the door (on the outside of the house) slams it shut and holds it there. In the opening room:
a) Paint things like 'HELP ME' or things in latin in big, red, sketchy letters on your wall, or something similar that you can remove easily. When the lights are turned on, this will help to create the effect for our big finale.
---OR---
b) Disconnect the light switches so they can't be turned on since you chose not to paint on your walls.
--THEN--
c) Leave some sort of marker leading them into a hallway that leads to one room (the rest are locked) with (optionally) the the big red letters from above spelling "HELL AWAITS".
2) Then once they enter the room, yet another person hiding (maybe in a pantry locked from the inside using two pegs and a stick or something) will slam that door shut, locking it and holding it shut.
This is where the REAL fun starts.
In that room you'll have a TV. Using the infrared motion detector mentioned earlier, have a TV and a VCR hooked up to the detector. Make sure the VCR is cued to the tape I'll mention in a second. When they enter the room and the door has locked behind them, the VCR will begin playing our tape we will create later. The first bits of the tape will need to be white noise, about 15 seconds of it, before snapping into a video of strange things in black and white. Not necissarily scary by themselves, but downright AWFUL in a house decorated like that with the events that have happened up to that point (think the tape from The Ring).
After the section of the tape has stopped, the remainder of our white noise will continue (lets say... five minutes of it). Someone in the closet of that room, dressed as some awful humanoid monster (like the pyramid head guy from Silent Hill 2) will calmly walk out carrying a blunt long object like a pole, but enough so that if you were to hit someone with it in the stomach, say, it wouldnt hurt too much.
This is where a friend of the group comes into play. He'll have some sort of blood-packet on his chest, on top of a vest preferably so the strike to his chest/stomach doesn't hurt so much. The monster person will stand facing the visitors, and after a few seconds snap into action and hit the friend in the stomach with the spear, we'll call it, causing fake 'blood' to erupt from his chest section.
Proceed to go after the remaining people, who should now be THOROUGHLY scared. Maybe leave a chainsaw in the closet for after the first 'killing'.
I'm an asshole, I know. If someone attempts this, or portions of this, leave a hidden camera SOMEWHERE, PLEASE. Hehe. After the initial scaring, you can open up whatever remaining rooms decorated how you like and have your party:)
-Eric
P.S.: I think I'm going to make a tape described like above. Who wants in/to help?
Why Netscape? Why not Mozilla Firefox, which, to me, is easier for users to adapt to from Internet Explorer? Netscape throws all kinds of things at you and it's not all that good looking from the first run.
This is awesome. I am already excited at the idea of building several of these and having a large scale airsoft battle in my woods behind my house over several acres.
Though, I wonder how well it tracks for people who aren't wearing white;) If I'm wearing camo or something and I'm out in the woods, will it pick me up? If I'm wearing a green shirt and its out on my lawn will it still target me or maybe just my pants?
I'll tell you why there will never be a video iPod:
No one wants to sit there and hold an iPod up so they can watch a video. Think about it, whenever we watch video, the source is something like a computer monitor or a TV screen -- stationary things.
Now imagine trying to hold up and be able to view it comfortably for any period longer than five minutes. It would just get tiring. Who wants to hold an iPod to their face for two hours?
Suppose thread-count is on a zero-based index. In that case, his post would be number 0. At least in the language I code in, all arrays and collections are zero-based indices.
It's not just geeks. Even my friends (not techies) do this stuff. I correct them most of the time and they do tend to learn. I don't think it's got anything to do with technology, I believe it's more part of the English classes in school. Rather than learning how to spell more advanced words and things like that this year (or rather, last year), we spent a good 8 weeks learning about how to write an outline. Come on, I learned that in computers class in three days.
Schools in America are getting worse and worse by the year. They've got very skewed views of how things should be handled and things like that, and 9/11 didn't exactly help that. I had to stay after school for an hour because my friend and I said the word "bomb" in a sentence and the teacher overheard. But that's for another website, another thread, another time.
Schools need to kick their English departments in their asses. In fact, I didn't even have to take my English final this year. No one did. How are English departments supposed to know how they're doing?
How do you know Longhorn doesn't have a bunch of cool, unannounced features? How do you know that a lot of what was taken out wont be put back in? You can call me crazy, but Monad wasn't supposed to be put in. It was supposed to take 7 years to develop, according to slashsdot, and now they've got a beta release.
Hopefully not. That would be kind of stupid and wouldn't help to kill Bittorrent, but that doesnt seem to be their intention (just to improve the idea, which has the likely end result of killing BT if they succeed).
I can't see why they'd do this, especially if its going to be a free product (and I'm going to guess it will be).
I've been reading slashdot for a while now and I must say, it's a great news site.
That said, I don't know WHY I bother to read the comments on stories now. Microsoft is trying to improve an awesome technology and overcome the existing problems said technology has. Therefore, using Slashdot User Logic(tm), it is an evil scheme to make money and monopolize the whole market.
They looked at Bittorrent. They saw problems. They figured out a way to improve upon the idea of Bittorrent and ended up creating a new protocol/program/whatever. But, of course, it's Microsoft and everything they do is inherently evil.
As for Linux support, I'm sure the protocol will be easy enough for some Linux developer to implement so don't worry about not having Linux support.
Pilots probably wont use this. Pilots dont use the autoland available to them now for STOLs, so why would they for VTOLs (Vertical Take-off and Landing)? Some pride thing.
It is pretty neat though./reads Tom Clancy books too much//got above info from a non-fiction one, back off
Look at what else Microsoft has done to welcome other competitor's products! In WMP you can buy music with services other than MSN Music. In MSN Messenger, the Now Playing feature works for not only WMP but iTunes also. WinAmp, too, if I'm not mistaken. Sure, it's all music related, but it's a step in the right direction.
I'm sure if Google started favoring Apache-based websites, no one would complain.
I don't even want to think about someone hacking the subways. What a nightmarish hell that'd be for passengers. Almost could be a terrorist target: get the trains stopped or something, put men on board who were waiting in the tunnels at predefined positions... thats one hell of a lot of hostages.
I dont know about you but I'm more comfortable with things the old way.
Amen.
This x000+ crap has got to stop. I'm t hinking we need some sort of ISO standard for clock speed, something we can compare PowerPCs, AMDs, Intels, and the like together without having to pull out a calculator and Google for benchmark tests.
However it wont happen due to some stupid reason or other.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm just hoping that Take Two does what they did about Driver: Put in a character named Jack (or maybe John) Thompson (rather than Tanner). Didn't Tanner get shot? Yes... that would be fun.
Agreed, the price is a big stopper for some people and, I also agree, there are not a ton of must-have games on the Xbox 360.
:)
However, it does have Perfect Dark: Zero, Project Gotham 3, Kameo (don't knock it 'till you try it) and soon, DOA4 and Battlefield.
Battlefield + Xbox Live = Heaven.
Granted, I don't know a whole lot about what games are coming soon to the Xbox 360 for lack of time, but by the time the Playstation 3 comes out, Xbox 360 will have a lot more games by great developers and I'm going to venture a guess and say the premium system won't cost as much as the PS3 will.
That was my point, was that waiting for a PS3 was stupid. You get less (no unified online service, which is a BIG, BIG portion of why you should get an Xbox 360 over PS3, no titles from Rare or Bungie) and get some things that are somewhat unpleasant (blu-ray: Who really wants a disc format that can brick your system of the manufacturer tells it to? How long before it's cracked and a virus is written? Who really would be angry about getting up every few hours to change a disc? Big deal. None of us had problems with it in the PSX days.)
Just forget for one second that Microsoft makes the Xbox. It's one of the products of theirs I really, really like and is well put-together by a great team.
Go Microsoft?
"PS3 will have better graphical performance, up to 2x. High definition. Blu-ray. Up to 7 wireless controllers - those actually mean something. Xbox 360, will just have improved graphics over the original Xbox."
Who says the PS3 will have two times the graphical performace? Speculation does, perhaps.
The Xbox 360 is high definition out of the box.
The Xbox 360 does NOT use proprietary disc formats that can, at the vendor or manufacturers will, brick your box.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!? Jesus. What average Joe with a TV is going to be able to support seven players? Maybe the rare Super Smash Bros. style game, but nothing big.
The Xbox 360 has several things the PS3 does NOT have:
1) Xbox Live. The Playstation 3 has no unified online service at all and has no plans to. Xbox Live is an awesome way to play your video games online. One fee. No ten bucks a month here, five bucks a month there... $50 a year.
2) Time. Xbox 360 is here now whereas the PS3 is going to offer comparable hardware and games in a year.
3) Developer backing. Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360, and that's only naming two big name developers. Also Final Fantasy will be coming to Xbox 360 too. EA is also signed on.
The question is why NOT buy an Xbox 360? Would you rather wait and get less for the same, or maybe more, amount of money?
I'm not exactly sure, but this is what I think:
When you breathe in air (O2 with some other minute elements), you exhale CO2, right? You took a certain amount of air and turned it into energy, which then gave off CO2 (or something like that). That CO2 is then recycled by plants back into O2.
Now what if we took that CO2 and launched it into space? The plants have nothing to recycle. That CO2 that would be turned back into air has now left the planet for good, and isn't coming back. By doing this, you turn O2 into a limited resource, since it can't be recycled since it is just launched off into space. Eventually you'll just run out of O2 and all HELL will break loose.
They didn't erase it, the photos are just from before the Cupertino campus was built. Note the dirt and whatnot.
"And lets go to Tom on Florida's coast with more on Hurricane Linux. Tom?" "Hi, Bob. The scene here is just horrific. Linux has taken the coast by storm, you could say, and already it has devastated thousands of homes and killed hundreds of people. This storm is like someone gzipping a season DVD with verbose on! Just awful. Bob?"
I noticed most of these ideas were pretty... not really scary (e.g., the screensaver), so I came up with my own.
:)
Now, this requires some preparation and some timing... but I'm sure the effects would pay off.
1) The first guests to arrive, make sure there's about two of them or so. Leave the door open and all the lights off inside. Upon entering, someone who was hiding near/behind/around the door (on the outside of the house) slams it shut and holds it there. In the opening room:
a) Paint things like 'HELP ME' or things in latin in big, red, sketchy letters on your wall, or something similar that you can remove easily. When the lights are turned on, this will help to create the effect for our big finale.
---OR---
b) Disconnect the light switches so they can't be turned on since you chose not to paint on your walls.
--THEN--
c) Leave some sort of marker leading them into a hallway that leads to one room (the rest are locked) with (optionally) the the big red letters from above spelling "HELL AWAITS".
2) Then once they enter the room, yet another person hiding (maybe in a pantry locked from the inside using two pegs and a stick or something) will slam that door shut, locking it and holding it shut.
This is where the REAL fun starts.
In that room you'll have a TV. Using the infrared motion detector mentioned earlier, have a TV and a VCR hooked up to the detector. Make sure the VCR is cued to the tape I'll mention in a second. When they enter the room and the door has locked behind them, the VCR will begin playing our tape we will create later. The first bits of the tape will need to be white noise, about 15 seconds of it, before snapping into a video of strange things in black and white. Not necissarily scary by themselves, but downright AWFUL in a house decorated like that with the events that have happened up to that point (think the tape from The Ring).
After the section of the tape has stopped, the remainder of our white noise will continue (lets say... five minutes of it). Someone in the closet of that room, dressed as some awful humanoid monster (like the pyramid head guy from Silent Hill 2) will calmly walk out carrying a blunt long object like a pole, but enough so that if you were to hit someone with it in the stomach, say, it wouldnt hurt too much.
This is where a friend of the group comes into play. He'll have some sort of blood-packet on his chest, on top of a vest preferably so the strike to his chest/stomach doesn't hurt so much. The monster person will stand facing the visitors, and after a few seconds snap into action and hit the friend in the stomach with the spear, we'll call it, causing fake 'blood' to erupt from his chest section.
Proceed to go after the remaining people, who should now be THOROUGHLY scared. Maybe leave a chainsaw in the closet for after the first 'killing'.
I'm an asshole, I know. If someone attempts this, or portions of this, leave a hidden camera SOMEWHERE, PLEASE. Hehe. After the initial scaring, you can open up whatever remaining rooms decorated how you like and have your party
-Eric
P.S.: I think I'm going to make a tape described like above. Who wants in/to help?
Why Netscape? Why not Mozilla Firefox, which, to me, is easier for users to adapt to from Internet Explorer? Netscape throws all kinds of things at you and it's not all that good looking from the first run.
That's absurd.
;)
Office 12 has no menus.
This is awesome. I am already excited at the idea of building several of these and having a large scale airsoft battle in my woods behind my house over several acres.
;) If I'm wearing camo or something and I'm out in the woods, will it pick me up? If I'm wearing a green shirt and its out on my lawn will it still target me or maybe just my pants?
Though, I wonder how well it tracks for people who aren't wearing white
I'll tell you why there will never be a video iPod:
No one wants to sit there and hold an iPod up so they can watch a video. Think about it, whenever we watch video, the source is something like a computer monitor or a TV screen -- stationary things.
Now imagine trying to hold up and be able to view it comfortably for any period longer than five minutes. It would just get tiring. Who wants to hold an iPod to their face for two hours?
BeerBox Live
it's good to drink together.
Suppose thread-count is on a zero-based index. In that case, his post would be number 0. At least in the language I code in, all arrays and collections are zero-based indices.
It's not just geeks. Even my friends (not techies) do this stuff. I correct them most of the time and they do tend to learn. I don't think it's got anything to do with technology, I believe it's more part of the English classes in school. Rather than learning how to spell more advanced words and things like that this year (or rather, last year), we spent a good 8 weeks learning about how to write an outline. Come on, I learned that in computers class in three days.
Schools in America are getting worse and worse by the year. They've got very skewed views of how things should be handled and things like that, and 9/11 didn't exactly help that. I had to stay after school for an hour because my friend and I said the word "bomb" in a sentence and the teacher overheard. But that's for another website, another thread, another time.
Schools need to kick their English departments in their asses. In fact, I didn't even have to take my English final this year. No one did. How are English departments supposed to know how they're doing?
How do you know Longhorn doesn't have a bunch of cool, unannounced features? How do you know that a lot of what was taken out wont be put back in? You can call me crazy, but Monad wasn't supposed to be put in. It was supposed to take 7 years to develop, according to slashsdot, and now they've got a beta release.
Hopefully not. That would be kind of stupid and wouldn't help to kill Bittorrent, but that doesnt seem to be their intention (just to improve the idea, which has the likely end result of killing BT if they succeed).
I can't see why they'd do this, especially if its going to be a free product (and I'm going to guess it will be).
I've been reading slashdot for a while now and I must say, it's a great news site.
That said, I don't know WHY I bother to read the comments on stories now. Microsoft is trying to improve an awesome technology and overcome the existing problems said technology has. Therefore, using Slashdot User Logic(tm), it is an evil scheme to make money and monopolize the whole market.
They looked at Bittorrent. They saw problems. They figured out a way to improve upon the idea of Bittorrent and ended up creating a new protocol/program/whatever. But, of course, it's Microsoft and everything they do is inherently evil.
As for Linux support, I'm sure the protocol will be easy enough for some Linux developer to implement so don't worry about not having Linux support.
Lighten up, guys.
Pilots probably wont use this. Pilots dont use the autoland available to them now for STOLs, so why would they for VTOLs (Vertical Take-off and Landing)? Some pride thing.
/reads Tom Clancy books too much //got above info from a non-fiction one, back off
It is pretty neat though.
Why do you think they call it 'code'?
Look at what else Microsoft has done to welcome other competitor's products! In WMP you can buy music with services other than MSN Music. In MSN Messenger, the Now Playing feature works for not only WMP but iTunes also. WinAmp, too, if I'm not mistaken. Sure, it's all music related, but it's a step in the right direction.
I'm sure if Google started favoring Apache-based websites, no one would complain.
Who's really the biased here?
I don't even want to think about someone hacking the subways. What a nightmarish hell that'd be for passengers. Almost could be a terrorist target: get the trains stopped or something, put men on board who were waiting in the tunnels at predefined positions... thats one hell of a lot of hostages.
I dont know about you but I'm more comfortable with things the old way.
if I had mod points.. this would go away..
That dumb "I, for one..." joke or the sharks?
I, for one, welcome our new robotic shark overlords.
Amen. This x000+ crap has got to stop. I'm t hinking we need some sort of ISO standard for clock speed, something we can compare PowerPCs, AMDs, Intels, and the like together without having to pull out a calculator and Google for benchmark tests. However it wont happen due to some stupid reason or other.