Oh slashdot... the endless puns and stories about mine hunting and not one person has questioned the validity of this anonymous submitter's story.
There are so many things wrong with this...
Why were they kept "armed"? (surely they don't live day to day with "snout-guns" attached) Why were they not evacuated alongside all their other important assets? I can go on and on...but I'd rather address the issue at hand.
First we have an urban legend about hotel room key-cards and now this steaming pile of unverified stupidity... With an audience in the millions you'd think the slashdot editors would take their jobs more seriously.
Slightly OT : How many Al Queda suicide divers have you heard about? Is there any reason to believe that a dolphin would be able to neutralize a boat carrying armed terrorists? Where the fuck are our human units when/if such a bizarre situation arises?
"Would it be worth it to me to buy their album as a way of showing my support for their being awesome?"
Not if you actually like music.
No, seriously...Stephen Baldwin (the most crazy baldwin brother) wholeheartedly endorses them on his Sci-Fi channel show Scare Tactics. What do they sound like? Well, if you took the Beach Boys and added a heaping spoonful of sub-par "alternative" mid-90's rock and then beat it with a bible, you'd have Switchfoot.
Man these rants are hard to respond to! (why do I even try)
1: The key words in that question were PORTABLE MARKET. Read it again.
2: Yes, this is Sony we are talking about. The makers of Beta, MiniDisc, and the horrible (non-mp3 playing) Network Walkman. I have owned and repaired/replaced three PS2s with faulty optics, three minidisc recorders with faulty optics and a Sony MDM-X4 portastudio that found a way to -break its own recording head off-. This is the same company that creates industry dividing proprietary formats every chance it gets. Yeah, it's Sony all right...
3: Yes, the DS is cheaper and that is a major sign that Nintendo "gets" this market. I can't tell you how many times I've seen parents plop down for 2-3 games in a trip to gamestop because the titles aren't $40-$50 each. About the selection of titles available...That is yet another example of Nintendo "getting it". Many kids and adults alike already have GBA games and probably appreciate the inclusion of backwards compatibility. (look how the Sony fanboys attacked Xbox360 for not having 100% backward compatibility and compare) Also, the fact that you would even try to single out the DS lineup as rehash city is laughable. Twisted Metal? Played it in 1996. This whole topic is irrelevant because ALL newly launched systems have their share of ports. (by far the best one on a portable, IMHO, is THUG2...although I beat it two months prior on PS2)
4: Rubbish. You will certainly not be getting anything near the PS2 experience with games like God Of War or GTA on the PSP. After suffering through Coded Arms I am convinced that the PSP is on par with "Playstation1.2" not Dreamcast as it's often compared. While price drops on the system will very likely happen, I can't see Sony allowing games to be sold for under $40...or movies for under $10. They simply think their content is worth the premium. Nintendo seems to think that price is the a major deciding factor and sells accordingly. It's still strange to me that the most affordable gaming system to own is by far the most profitable for the company producing it.
and lastly, about the dead pixel issue... We are still complaining about the dead pixel issue because Sony is not owning up to it and are getting away with selling shoddy goods. I have two PSPs (both 1.50) and one has no dead pixels but has a dark spot the size of a quarter and the other has 3 dead pixels. I would not settle for this kind of shit when choosing a monitor, tv, portable DVD player, or anything else, but when it's a Sony product I'm supposed to just allow the hype to blind me to -real- manufacturing defects? Hell, even the two DSs in the house are flawless at half the price. And no, the 'pixel-awakener' video does not fix DEAD pixels or dark spots.
It was either in their plan from the begining or Nintendo is one of the few companies that really listens to their customers. Whatever the case may be, this is great news!
Wow. One person advocating pan-and-scan and another who says he doesn't mind black bars (also known as power consuming dead space)...
And to the "maintaining control of your hardware" guy, I never said to buy fucking UMDs. I will NEVER buy one. I think Sony is really screwing up with this idea of "make everyone buy their movies twice". Don't even get me started on the completely insane notion of "Universal" media discs that only play on one device....
However I do agree with you that using SD cards is much better for the consumer. Sony loves their proprietary formats and I hate them for it. The fact that a 1GB SD card can be had for under $50 while a 1GB Memory Stick Duo is around $120 is testiment to their tendancy to fleece their customers that have no other choice.
Over 8 hours of video playback is far better than a PSP...
You realize that the screen is larger, right?
And since you mentioned ripping DVDs you are also aware that the GP has a 4:3 screen whereas the PSP has a 16:9 screen... Unless you want to squash them into frame you'd probably be better off with a PSP.
Mandatory Fanboy Declaration Statement!
I own a PSP, DS (x2), GBA SP (x2)
I'm sure the submitter noted that this devices lacks a touch screen.
(BTW, I loved the first GamePark32 but this updated model doesn't offer much more than the first.
Where is the wireless? Where is the Microdrive support? Where is rechargable battery?
In regards to emulation, aside from having much more RAM, what does the GPX2 offer that the PSP doesn't?)
It sounds like you might like the GBA! (mario is still 2D, there are plenty of games like Monkey Ball...although you would have to beware of the "money-spinning franchises" like the HUGELY successful Pokemon)
is INNOVATIVE?
If ever there was a poster boy for incrementalism it's the Zodiac.
(you act as though this thing had 15TB holographic storage, heads-up display, wireless 10Gb, and advanced teledildonics accessories....it was a beefed up palm, not a glimpse of the future)
I must not have been the only one that completely missed the point of this device... They seemed only half serious about supporting it as a game console (Doom2?! WTF!) and it lacked the features most would want in a PDA.
Much like the Ngage it was too many things and wasn't good at any of them.
I'm not quite sure what is meant when other posters say that it was ahead of its time. As far as I can see it was a palm with dual SD slots.
To those that don't 'get' the zombie genre, or think that this is just 'more of the same' I have this to say...
We like it. We will continue to buy these games until they stop making them. No one is giving you shit for buying John Fucking Madden 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002..etc... You dig?!!?!??
The cool thing about games is that (unlike movies), games get better with each iteration.
Another thing/side rant....
It's pretty much irrelevent which systems feature which games. If the game is cool, it will sell systems. Whether or not I buy a system is not important. WHEN I do, and for WHAT GAME is.
It doesn't bother me one bit that my Resident Evil collection spans two systems...
(heh, my Metal Gear collection spans FOUR systems although it doesn't need to really.... MGS (PS1), MGS:Twin Snakes (Gamecube), MGS2:Substance (Xbox), MGS3:Snake Eater (PS2)
These are really as bad as the original article! Ahem!
RE : No.1 - Fine why not make all new laptops of reinforced steel and shock mount all the internal hardware? Why not? because there are niche fillers out there that do these types of things already. GPS is available on several portable devices. Of if you require the functionality of a peripheral PLUG ONE IN and deal with the change in form factor and usability. (obviously the less obtrusive they are the less likely anyone would be to object to their inclusion.. (wifi) Also
RE : No.2 - Not to be a douche, but doesn't nearly everything have a clock on it these days? Why waste the (admittedly insignificant) power to run redundant services.
I mean I have a clock on every screen of every computer...and one on my wrist...and on my cell phone...and on my pager...and on the busses that pass by...and on the bank's sign...and on the microwave...and on the stove.......
RE: No.4 - They had attached trackballs back in the late 80's on laptops and if you had spent any time with one you wouldn't be suggesting the return of that design.
RE: No.5 - Some companies are still doing this...and other than to fill a few niche applications I fail to see why the hell anyone would want that design again.
You seem to want things that were already determined to be bad ideas 15+ years ago. Not sure how old you are but this is most disturbing for someone who has had to USE these flawed designs...
"All I know is, I'd be buying new games left right and center if they were $30 brand new."
"I'd buy MORE shitty games if only they were cheaper" is not the message I want to send developers. We should reward their good work with a surrogate form of ours... ($$)
Please don't send Sony the message that we are willing to accept overpriced and arbitrarily limited media products. No video-out, lower resolution than DVD, cost more, LAME.
You are all discussing various niche topics while the point of this thread was about a leak that not one person on slashdot could be bothered to verify its contents. I see exactly 2 posts mentioning the actual goatse image that this DVD produced and almost 900 discussing the hypotheticals of Apple's business plans... Slashdot editors have never cared about being first with a story except for this one time when not one person could TEST the image before posting a link.....think of all the bandwidth wasted for a lame prank....
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Oh slashdot... the endless puns and stories about mine hunting and not one person has questioned the validity of this anonymous submitter's story.
There are so many things wrong with this...
Why were they kept "armed"? (surely they don't live day to day with "snout-guns" attached)
Why were they not evacuated alongside all their other important assets?
I can go on and on...but I'd rather address the issue at hand.
First we have an urban legend about hotel room key-cards and now this steaming pile of unverified stupidity... With an audience in the millions you'd think the slashdot editors would take their jobs more seriously.
Slightly OT : How many Al Queda suicide divers have you heard about? Is there any reason to believe that a dolphin would be able to neutralize a boat carrying armed terrorists? Where the fuck are our human units when/if such a bizarre situation arises?
"Would it be worth it to me to buy their album as a way of showing my support for their being awesome?" Not if you actually like music. No, seriously...Stephen Baldwin (the most crazy baldwin brother) wholeheartedly endorses them on his Sci-Fi channel show Scare Tactics. What do they sound like? Well, if you took the Beach Boys and added a heaping spoonful of sub-par "alternative" mid-90's rock and then beat it with a bible, you'd have Switchfoot.
Switchfoot has fans ?!?
The switch pictured is a 3com 3300 which does have 'smarts' as you say. A lot of neat things are possible with SNMP....
Ah shit, I read it again myself...
"Handheld Market"
Oops!
Man these rants are hard to respond to! (why do I even try)
1: The key words in that question were PORTABLE MARKET. Read it again.
2: Yes, this is Sony we are talking about. The makers of Beta, MiniDisc, and the horrible (non-mp3 playing) Network Walkman. I have owned and repaired/replaced three PS2s with faulty optics, three minidisc recorders with faulty optics and a Sony MDM-X4 portastudio that found a way to -break its own recording head off-. This is the same company that creates industry dividing proprietary formats every chance it gets. Yeah, it's Sony all right...
3: Yes, the DS is cheaper and that is a major sign that Nintendo "gets" this market. I can't tell you how many times I've seen parents plop down for 2-3 games in a trip to gamestop because the titles aren't $40-$50 each. About the selection of titles available...That is yet another example of Nintendo "getting it". Many kids and adults alike already have GBA games and probably appreciate the inclusion of backwards compatibility. (look how the Sony fanboys attacked Xbox360 for not having 100% backward compatibility and compare)
Also, the fact that you would even try to single out the DS lineup as rehash city is laughable. Twisted Metal? Played it in 1996. This whole topic is irrelevant because ALL newly launched systems have their share of ports. (by far the best one on a portable, IMHO, is THUG2...although I beat it two months prior on PS2)
4: Rubbish. You will certainly not be getting anything near the PS2 experience with games like God Of War or GTA on the PSP. After suffering through Coded Arms I am convinced that the PSP is on par with "Playstation1.2" not Dreamcast as it's often compared. While price drops on the system will very likely happen, I can't see Sony allowing games to be sold for under $40...or movies for under $10. They simply think their content is worth the premium. Nintendo seems to think that price is the a major deciding factor and sells accordingly. It's still strange to me that the most affordable gaming system to own is by far the most profitable for the company producing it.
and lastly, about the dead pixel issue...
We are still complaining about the dead pixel issue because Sony is not owning up to it and are getting away with selling shoddy goods. I have two PSPs (both 1.50) and one has no dead pixels but has a dark spot the size of a quarter and the other has 3 dead pixels. I would not settle for this kind of shit when choosing a monitor, tv, portable DVD player, or anything else, but when it's a Sony product I'm supposed to just allow the hype to blind me to -real- manufacturing defects? Hell, even the two DSs in the house are flawless at half the price. And no, the 'pixel-awakener' video does not fix DEAD pixels or dark spots.
"My car wont boot!"
It was either in their plan from the begining or Nintendo is one of the few companies that really listens to their customers. Whatever the case may be, this is great news!
And to the "maintaining control of your hardware" guy, I never said to buy fucking UMDs. I will NEVER buy one. I think Sony is really screwing up with this idea of "make everyone buy their movies twice". Don't even get me started on the completely insane notion of "Universal" media discs that only play on one device....
However I do agree with you that using SD cards is much better for the consumer. Sony loves their proprietary formats and I hate them for it. The fact that a 1GB SD card can be had for under $50 while a 1GB Memory Stick Duo is around $120 is testiment to their tendancy to fleece their customers that have no other choice.
You realize that the screen is larger, right?
And since you mentioned ripping DVDs you are also aware that the GP has a 4:3 screen whereas the PSP has a 16:9 screen... Unless you want to squash them into frame you'd probably be better off with a PSP.
Mandatory Fanboy Declaration Statement!
I own a PSP, DS (x2), GBA SP (x2)
(BTW, I loved the first GamePark32 but this updated model doesn't offer much more than the first.
Where is the wireless? Where is the Microdrive support? Where is rechargable battery?
In regards to emulation, aside from having much more RAM, what does the GPX2 offer that the PSP doesn't?)
It sounds like you might like the GBA! (mario is still 2D, there are plenty of games like Monkey Ball...although you would have to beware of the "money-spinning franchises" like the HUGELY successful Pokemon)
is INNOVATIVE?
If ever there was a poster boy for incrementalism it's the Zodiac. (you act as though this thing had 15TB holographic storage, heads-up display, wireless 10Gb, and advanced teledildonics accessories....it was a beefed up palm, not a glimpse of the future)
They seemed only half serious about supporting it as a game console (Doom2?! WTF!) and it lacked the features most would want in a PDA.
Much like the Ngage it was too many things and wasn't good at any of them.
I'm not quite sure what is meant when other posters say that it was ahead of its time.
As far as I can see it was a palm with dual SD slots.
Can someone enlighten me?
This is the kind of thing I'd like to see more of slashdot... Grotesque yet practical solutions to social problems! MOD "Profane MuthaFucka" UP!
We like it. We will continue to buy these games until they stop making them.
No one is giving you shit for buying John Fucking Madden 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002..etc...
You dig?!!?!??
The cool thing about games is that (unlike movies), games get better with each iteration.
Another thing/side rant....
It's pretty much irrelevent which systems feature which games. If the game is cool, it will sell systems.
Whether or not I buy a system is not important. WHEN I do, and for WHAT GAME is.
It doesn't bother me one bit that my Resident Evil collection spans two systems...
Resident Evil 0 - Gamecube
Resident Evil - Gamecube
Resident Evil 2 - Gamecube
Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis - Gamecube
Resident Evil Code Veronica X - Gamecube
Resident Evil 4 - Gamecube
Resident Evil : Dead Aim - Playstation2
Resident Evil Outbreak - Playstation2
Resident Evil Outbreak File 2 - Playstation2
(heh, my Metal Gear collection spans FOUR systems although it doesn't need to really.... MGS (PS1), MGS:Twin Snakes (Gamecube), MGS2:Substance (Xbox), MGS3:Snake Eater (PS2)
These are really as bad as the original article!
Ahem!
RE : No.1 - Fine why not make all new laptops of reinforced steel and shock mount all the internal hardware? Why not? because there are niche fillers out there that do these types of things already. GPS is available on several portable devices. Of if you require the functionality of a peripheral PLUG ONE IN and deal with the change in form factor and usability. (obviously the less obtrusive they are the less likely anyone would be to object to their inclusion.. (wifi) Also
RE : No.2 - Not to be a douche, but doesn't nearly everything have a clock on it these days? Why waste the (admittedly insignificant) power to run redundant services.
I mean I have a clock on every screen of every computer...and one on my wrist...and on my cell phone...and on my pager...and on the busses that pass by...and on the bank's sign...and on the microwave...and on the stove.......
RE: No.4 - They had attached trackballs back in the late 80's on laptops and if you had spent any time with one you wouldn't be suggesting the return of that design.
RE: No.5 - Some companies are still doing this...and other than to fill a few niche applications I fail to see why the hell anyone would want that design again.
You seem to want things that were already determined to be bad ideas 15+ years ago. Not sure how old you are but this is most disturbing for someone who has had to USE these flawed designs...
It's always amusing when they inadvertantly help the enemy...
"I'd buy MORE shitty games if only they were cheaper" is not the message I want to send developers.
We should reward their good work with a surrogate form of ours... ($$)
We must be harshin' his buzz, man!
Please don't send Sony the message that we are willing to accept overpriced
and arbitrarily limited media products.
No video-out, lower resolution than DVD, cost more, LAME.
You are all discussing various niche topics while the point of this thread was about a leak that not one person on slashdot could be bothered to verify its contents. I see exactly 2 posts mentioning the actual goatse image that this DVD produced and almost 900 discussing the hypotheticals of Apple's business plans... Slashdot editors have never cared about being first with a story except for this one time when not one person could TEST the image before posting a link.....think of all the bandwidth wasted for a lame prank....
Go check your texts again, Mr Pendantic...
It's a heat pump.
Swamp coolers require water to evaporate to fucntion. (Hence the "evaporative" part) What exactly is evaporating here?
So much for your book learning...
You missed "prcise"