Virtual console will be like a walk down memory lane, but (un)fortunately, most of the people I shared that lane with have all gone in different geographical directions(I'm in Europe and they are all in the US) Will I be able to play virtual console games across the internet like the person was sitting across the room? Furthermore, will I actually be able to use the Wii microphone to converse with the person? The "same room" experience can never be completely recreated, I think that game companies should try to replicate it as much as possible. I was was unimpressed by the DS online play for Mario Kart. If you are playing against a friend you cannot communicate with them in-game, really all you do is do a post-game aim conversation..bleh. And playing against strangers was pretty much like playing against the computer but only more frustrating as the computer never dropped out of the race when it was losing.
It is possible to play old games across the internet, zsnes for example does it but I couldn't get their system to work the one time I tried and it still doesn't solve the problem of convenient in-game communication.
Well, from the looks of it, the Wii should be able to connect to a computer monitor. I am in the same position as you, I don't have a TV and my only computer is a laptop, but I will probably end up buying a 20" lcd for both my laptop(only 15" and not high def, so I could use the extra screen real estate anyway) and a potential wii.
Only on slashdot is that a) a sentence and b) a sentence that won't get you labeled as a pervert. Though Google's lawyers might take you out back and rough you up a bit...
Let me know where I can get a dual core small form factor PC for significantly less than $800. Not from Dell, not from HP. HPs offering comes in at $650 after the rebate, but doesn't include things like wireless or even a dvd burner, it eats more power, and is huge. Dell rings in at 1200 but does come with a 20" monitor that you can buy for $400, so total cost is about $800, same as a mac mini. Both have shared mem video cards, again the Dell lacks a dvd writer(but it makes up for that by coming with a gig of ram standard) but it is a bigger case and uses the Pentium D chip. You would be hard pressed to even build one from newegg for that amount(you can if you don't mind the behemoth case, but I do). So yeah, you are right, Apple doesn't even come close on price:P
I knew, I knew it along. The terrorists are in cahoots with Bowser, the Koopa Caliph! Think about all the abuse the lizard goes through every time bored airplane passengers bust out their gameboys and play a little Mario. With gameboys now being forced to sit in stowed luggage, Koopa will be free to terrorize the mushroom kingdom.
Remember, if Koopa can kidnap the princess with impunity, the terrorists have already won!
Hmm..dual core for multiprocessing, big screen, nice video card, gobs of memory....this dude must be doing some massively parallel porn! Imagine being able to watch 10 porn movies at once. With Dell Technology, we can help make this dream a reality!
Not to mention the lag. I used to have the iTunes widget in my dashboard thinking it would be a quick way to change tracks, pause it if I need to etc. Instead I found that the time it took to summon dashboard and for the widget to become responsive(keep in mind the only other widget I had was calculator) I could have just as easily clicked on iTunes in the dashboard and paused it from there. Even with just calculator on my G4 powerbook 1.5Ghz it's just too slow!
I consider it a bit of a double standard to be criticizing Microsoft for "photocopying" on one hand and then unveiling a bunch of features that have been done before. Virtual desktop yes, but also the whole "time machine" which is really just a versioning system from the looks of it. VMS had that years and years ago, it's nothing new.
It just seems like they are stretching with Leopard. They promoted the hell out of tiger before the WWDC where it was first shown off, and for good reason. I personally will be sticking with Tiger till my next mac, which won't be till 2008 provided my powerbook doesn't get stolen.
Am I the only one that predicts that the PS2 may very well come out the winner again? PS3 will fail because well, it's way too friggin' expensive considering the fact that it offers what Microsoft and Nintendo do(Xbox live and the motion sensors respectively), only they don't do it as well, and they add in a blue-ray player that nobody wants. Microsoft is doing some interesting things, but I see nothing to suggest they will be as dominant as Sony once was, but I don't see them crashing either. The Wii could very well take the cake, but only time will tell(Nintendo is the #5 holding in my Fidelity Pacific Basin mutual fund, so I do have a vested interest in it but..).
However, the PS2 already has a large install base, and provided Sony keeps on manufacturing them, are only getting cheaper. Plus, save for the hardest of the hardcore, the PS2 is more than capable, and I don't really forsee any of the next-gen consoles knocking it off it's throne as king console till at least the end of '07, but that is just me talking.
Um, this is the same Japanese space agency that has yet to successfully launch a single private satellite.....Call my cynical but I don't have much faith in them succeeding.
Heh, even if you are reasonably diligent in protecting your email address, 9/10 it will still get out(though maybe not as bad). All it takes is one recipient with a compromised windows box and your address can be all over the spammers lists in no time.
Or, as in my case, you could assume that a university you apply to will not send out a giant mass email to all the incoming graduate students inviting them to the graduate orientation. So now I have the email address of every grad student entering the University of Minnesota this year(and probably a few that aren't) and they have mine. All it takes is one infected box and my previously spam-free gmail account will no longer stay that way. The kicker is that I decided not to go to UMN because they didn't offer me funding...oy!
the number of porn titles has exploded since the 70's, so the sources will have plenty of names to pick from....Though I doubt journalists will be very pleased at having to write "my source 'Asian anal adventure volume 5' has informed me that..."
I would say gamers with rich parents, because that game requires one to invest a lot of time in it as well as money. The cards are constantly changing and what may be a decent deck one year will get smashed the next(provided you aren't playing with the uber-powerful, uber expensive cards)
Money and time are the reasons I gave it up.
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till genitals start showing up? I give about a week before someone's "poker face" mysteriously only has 1 eye...
I know all your foes are spelling nazis, but I have to know: was "upshit" intentional? I certainly hope so because it is my new favorite word.
Virtual console will be like a walk down memory lane, but (un)fortunately, most of the people I shared that lane with have all gone in different geographical directions(I'm in Europe and they are all in the US) Will I be able to play virtual console games across the internet like the person was sitting across the room? Furthermore, will I actually be able to use the Wii microphone to converse with the person? The "same room" experience can never be completely recreated, I think that game companies should try to replicate it as much as possible. I was was unimpressed by the DS online play for Mario Kart. If you are playing against a friend you cannot communicate with them in-game, really all you do is do a post-game aim conversation..bleh. And playing against strangers was pretty much like playing against the computer but only more frustrating as the computer never dropped out of the race when it was losing.
It is possible to play old games across the internet, zsnes for example does it but I couldn't get their system to work the one time I tried and it still doesn't solve the problem of convenient in-game communication.
Well, from the looks of it, the Wii should be able to connect to a computer monitor. I am in the same position as you, I don't have a TV and my only computer is a laptop, but I will probably end up buying a 20" lcd for both my laptop(only 15" and not high def, so I could use the extra screen real estate anyway) and a potential wii.
google wii
Only on slashdot is that a) a sentence and b) a sentence that won't get you labeled as a pervert. Though Google's lawyers might take you out back and rough you up a bit...
What if you pound your head on the keyboard instead? Or, *shudder* your butt?
Meh, be happy with your bargain basement PCs till the power bill comes. Then you can tell me how much cheaper the PCs you bought really are.
Let me know where I can get a dual core small form factor PC for significantly less than $800. Not from Dell, not from HP. HPs offering comes in at $650 after the rebate, but doesn't include things like wireless or even a dvd burner, it eats more power, and is huge. Dell rings in at 1200 but does come with a 20" monitor that you can buy for $400, so total cost is about $800, same as a mac mini. Both have shared mem video cards, again the Dell lacks a dvd writer(but it makes up for that by coming with a gig of ram standard) but it is a bigger case and uses the Pentium D chip. You would be hard pressed to even build one from newegg for that amount(you can if you don't mind the behemoth case, but I do). So yeah, you are right, Apple doesn't even come close on price :P
But there are plenty of sex shops.
I knew, I knew it along. The terrorists are in cahoots with Bowser, the Koopa Caliph! Think about all the abuse the lizard goes through every time bored airplane passengers bust out their gameboys and play a little Mario. With gameboys now being forced to sit in stowed luggage, Koopa will be free to terrorize the mushroom kingdom.
Remember, if Koopa can kidnap the princess with impunity, the terrorists have already won!
or did that robot really say "I got an itching bowling barf"?
Hmm..dual core for multiprocessing, big screen, nice video card, gobs of memory....this dude must be doing some massively parallel porn! Imagine being able to watch 10 porn movies at once. With Dell Technology, we can help make this dream a reality!
Steve Jobs is a reverse-Sampson, the more hair he gets the less charismatic he is. For the common good, shave it off Steve!
How can you index a site where 90% of the words are one or 2 meaningless letters?
Not to mention the lag. I used to have the iTunes widget in my dashboard thinking it would be a quick way to change tracks, pause it if I need to etc. Instead I found that the time it took to summon dashboard and for the widget to become responsive(keep in mind the only other widget I had was calculator) I could have just as easily clicked on iTunes in the dashboard and paused it from there. Even with just calculator on my G4 powerbook 1.5Ghz it's just too slow!
I consider it a bit of a double standard to be criticizing Microsoft for "photocopying" on one hand and then unveiling a bunch of features that have been done before. Virtual desktop yes, but also the whole "time machine" which is really just a versioning system from the looks of it. VMS had that years and years ago, it's nothing new.
It just seems like they are stretching with Leopard. They promoted the hell out of tiger before the WWDC where it was first shown off, and for good reason. I personally will be sticking with Tiger till my next mac, which won't be till 2008 provided my powerbook doesn't get stolen.
So are you telling me that Gil Gerard DIDN'T go back in time and ejaculate into the primordial ooze?
with obscure Simpsons references in them!
nothing beats it!
Am I the only one that predicts that the PS2 may very well come out the winner again? PS3 will fail because well, it's way too friggin' expensive considering the fact that it offers what Microsoft and Nintendo do(Xbox live and the motion sensors respectively), only they don't do it as well, and they add in a blue-ray player that nobody wants. Microsoft is doing some interesting things, but I see nothing to suggest they will be as dominant as Sony once was, but I don't see them crashing either. The Wii could very well take the cake, but only time will tell(Nintendo is the #5 holding in my Fidelity Pacific Basin mutual fund, so I do have a vested interest in it but..).
However, the PS2 already has a large install base, and provided Sony keeps on manufacturing them, are only getting cheaper. Plus, save for the hardest of the hardcore, the PS2 is more than capable, and I don't really forsee any of the next-gen consoles knocking it off it's throne as king console till at least the end of '07, but that is just me talking.
Um, this is the same Japanese space agency that has yet to successfully launch a single private satellite.....Call my cynical but I don't have much faith in them succeeding.
Heh, even if you are reasonably diligent in protecting your email address, 9/10 it will still get out(though maybe not as bad). All it takes is one recipient with a compromised windows box and your address can be all over the spammers lists in no time.
Or, as in my case, you could assume that a university you apply to will not send out a giant mass email to all the incoming graduate students inviting them to the graduate orientation. So now I have the email address of every grad student entering the University of Minnesota this year(and probably a few that aren't) and they have mine. All it takes is one infected box and my previously spam-free gmail account will no longer stay that way. The kicker is that I decided not to go to UMN because they didn't offer me funding...oy!
the number of porn titles has exploded since the 70's, so the sources will have plenty of names to pick from....Though I doubt journalists will be very pleased at having to write "my source 'Asian anal adventure volume 5' has informed me that..."
I would say gamers with rich parents, because that game requires one to invest a lot of time in it as well as money. The cards are constantly changing and what may be a decent deck one year will get smashed the next(provided you aren't playing with the uber-powerful, uber expensive cards)
Money and time are the reasons I gave it up.
Obligatory Simpsons: They are speed holes! They make the computer go faster.