"We admit the PS14 was a piece of grabage, but PS15... hold onto your socks for this one!"
The sad thing is that I only bought a PS2 for DDR. How will that improve with Sony's new revolutionary machine? "Oh wow, the arrows definately look a lot sharper now".
The emotion engine was not hype at all, it was used to full effect in Gran Turismo 3;)
Every AI opponent you faced had their whole life simulated before the race. Their upbringing, how they got into racing, what happened to them in previous races, etc was generated randomly and the racer would react according to this.
For example, one racer may be brought up in a poor family, only racing to make enough money to put food on the table. Once, he almost won a 50000cr race, but spun out on turn 11 of Laguna Seca, and got injured for 5 years. Now, in the race you're competing against him in, there is a turn that resembles the turn in Laguna Seca that caused his tragic injury. But he also needs this money or his parents won't be able to afford the medical care they need. Should he risk it all at the turn, or just let you pass? So many conflicting emotions!
So he just drives in a predetermined pattern completely ignoring the position of his opponents, like the AI in Pole Position.
Not to mention the portability limitations of the hilt. I guess you can have a hilt that folds out or something, but it'd be awkward.
I can't account for anything else (I haven't even seen epIII yet), but did a skilled Sith or Jedi actually get killed from letting their lightsaber slide into their hands? If the answer is "no", then I wouldn't expect any Sith or Jedi to ever make a mistake so careless. If "yes", well, shows what I know.
I don't get it. Why are they making a sandpit to simulate the conditions on Mars? What are they going to test?
"Okay, now try to make the Rover move forward. Still stuck? All right, put it in reverse and try again. That didn't work either? Well I'm fresh out of ideas" "Perhaps if we put it on full acceleration, and then quickly switch to full reverse?" "You're an idea man, Johnson!"
Well, look out for more legitimate sites, too. I recall that Newgrounds allowed advertisers to sell their slots to other advertisers, which led NG "unable" to control the kind of stuff in their ads (including possible spyware). "Unable" as in they didn't want to threaten their sponsors by not allowing this sort of behaviour; they needed the money back then and now they're starting to clean up their ads to support growth of the site.
Lots of other sites happen to contain ads with similar stories, which is why one will likely have Spyware on their computer even if they don't download anything suspicious. Any browser, of course, has it's own unique loopholes that let spyware in, and each browser has a team that's out to fix those problems up. Firefox seems more reactive compared to IE, ironic since Microsoft is the one with all the money.
Even out of the box, FireFox is marginally better than IE, though. It is nearly impossible to argue that IE is actually better than Firefox, 'cept perhaps two points:
Some sites that I've never been to don't support FF fully (The so-called/. bug doesn't affect much)
IE comes with Windows, but Gates wouldn't want to admit that that is the reason IE is "better", would he?
Meanwhile, FF renders pages faster (it seems faster to me, anyway), doesn't accumulate Spyware as quickly (and the Open Source community reacts as fast to it as IE ever will), has tabbed browsing, more inuitive text searches (by this I mean ctrl+f), a less cluttered toolbar, uses a capable search engine by deault*, is less likely to lose time-consuming information**, and all this on top of the ability to quickly add themes and plug-ins (Forecast Fox and Tabbrowser Preferences are some of the better ones).
Gates is following Hitler's rule; people are more likely to believe a big lie (IE is better than Firefox) than a small one (IE is comparable to Firefox). Hell, they're both big lies if you ask me.
*Don't believe me? Try typing "video games" into the address bar of both browsers; Firefox does a Google I'm Feeling Lucky and brings up Gamespot. IE uses MSN search and, after 10 lines of sponsers and news, brings up the Cincinatti tourism page as a first choice. I wish I was making this shit up.
** Example: Sometimes my mom will be typing up an email for a few minutes and accidentally click on some link and leave the page. In IE, this oftentimes loses the information forever. In Firefox, click "Back" and it's almost always still there. Your mileage may vary...
Yes, that is right, dip, EA's earnings! Dip all the way the way to hell! Learn you to trick me into renting two games that are essentially the same as their prequels!
Problem is, you wouldn't even have to shoot Hitler or anything drastic like that. Just existing for any amount of time could make huge changes happen over time, which is somewhat explained by the Butterfly Effect.
Now, here's the tricky part: what if I decide not to go in the past and me going into the past is part of history? That would change history and oh I've gone crosseyed.
Since I'm not a big fan of predetermined fate, I must assume that no one may go in the past of their own dimension. The two seem to go hand-in-hand as far as I see.
... is make another campy movie like from the 60s. I mean, first, you've got the bomb. Then, you've got the costumes. And if that's not enough, you've got the quotes. Here's a quick taste of what you'd expect:
Gordon: Penguin, Joker, Riddler... and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate! Batman: We've been given the plainest warning! They're working together to take over... O'Hara: To take over what, Batman? Gotham City? Batman: Any two of them might try that! Gordon: The whole... country? Batman: If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four? Their minimum objective must be... the entire... world.
Note how angles apparantly vary from rectangle to rectangle, and the startling synergy achieved when all 4 supervillians team up as opposed to 2 or 3. Oh, and if you're curious about the "plainest warning" that the supervillians sent to Batman, go look up the full quote!
Ok, I know if they actually tried to make it campy, it would be boring and it would suck. And this whole post is just an excuse for me to bring up the 60s Batman. So......
"The game is heavily based around it's dual-analogue-stick control method."
Don't let appearances fool you. Despite the lop-sidedness between the GC's analog and C-sticks, they're actually more comfortable to use than PS2's dual sticks.
"Of course, that isn't to say that Nintendo wouldn't do their usual trick of putting an over-priced custom controller for use with this one game."
???
The last special controllers made by Nintendo that I can think of are the SNES Mouse and the Super Scope, hardly recent enough to qualify the word "usual". Examples, please.
"Oh man, this e-mail shit is the shit, man! Here, you can finish up my inbox, if I take anymore I'm gonna pass out. Watch out though, I think the dealer laced it with spam. Tommorow I'm gonna hit some of that Slashdot."
And then 314 (Pi day) becomes the new 420 where you do nothing but read geek news all day. By the end of it you'll feel music, smell colours... taste pi...
"Eh I'm so confused by this. Just 2 days ago I read that Nintendo was going to show clips of the games, but not the actual system. *Rolleyes* In any event, I wouldn't equate that with "we have nothing". Nintendo wouldn't make that bold of risk at the turn of a new generation."
Better yet, who cares at all? You're not going to buy the console either way until it launches anyway. Yes, I know the situation is more complicated than that, with shareholders and such, but as far as actual sales go, they aren't getting any until launch, and if they don't release the specs by launch, something has gone horribly wrong!
The problem is that 99% of people don't care what OS they're using becuase they haven't used a better one. It's the same reason one wouldn't care about what Internet browser they're using. If you only use IE, you think IE is decent.
Now, I've heard elsewhere that Linux can be fairly user-friendly, so that's not the problem AFAIK. The point is people know "Windows" and it gets bundled with their computers, so they take it.
Then if Joe Sixpack tries Linux and likes it more, and it spreads, then more apps and games will support it, which will get even more people to use it etc, etc. Of course, that hasn't happened.
"Would you prefer a 50Mb download, with 45Mb of stuff you don't ever need or use, or a 4Mb download where you can optionally add bits you want"
Well, the problem is that each time you try to upgrade you can either upgrade "Critical Updates" OR "Themes" OR "extensions" OR etc. It'd be nice to have the option to pick them all at once. This is the problem from my experience, anyway.
Here's an example: I have ForecastFox (entension) and Pinball (theme). Say the author of Forecast Fox made an update to his extension, and the author of Pinball made an update to his theme, and Mozilla Foundation made an update to their Firefox. I'm not made aware of small updates to extensions until Firefox needs a critical update (and with good reason, I don't care about small updates). But now that I've seen that the extensions have gone a while without updating, I wnat to update those too. Now I have to update Firefox, THEN the extension, THEN the theme. I dunno if it's still like this though.
Slashdot Mirror
"We admit the PS14 was a piece of grabage, but PS15... hold onto your socks for this one!"
The sad thing is that I only bought a PS2 for DDR. How will that improve with Sony's new revolutionary machine? "Oh wow, the arrows definately look a lot sharper now".
You, my friend, are absolutely WRONG!! ;)
;)
The emotion engine was not hype at all, it was used to full effect in Gran Turismo 3
Every AI opponent you faced had their whole life simulated before the race. Their upbringing, how they got into racing, what happened to them in previous races, etc was generated randomly and the racer would react according to this.
For example, one racer may be brought up in a poor family, only racing to make enough money to put food on the table. Once, he almost won a 50000cr race, but spun out on turn 11 of Laguna Seca, and got injured for 5 years. Now, in the race you're competing against him in, there is a turn that resembles the turn in Laguna Seca that caused his tragic injury. But he also needs this money or his parents won't be able to afford the medical care they need. Should he risk it all at the turn, or just let you pass? So many conflicting emotions!
So he just drives in a predetermined pattern completely ignoring the position of his opponents, like the AI in Pole Position.
Exactly.
Not to mention the portability limitations of the hilt. I guess you can have a hilt that folds out or something, but it'd be awkward.
I can't account for anything else (I haven't even seen epIII yet), but did a skilled Sith or Jedi actually get killed from letting their lightsaber slide into their hands? If the answer is "no", then I wouldn't expect any Sith or Jedi to ever make a mistake so careless. If "yes", well, shows what I know.
"So Ballmer, what's the most important thing we need to make sure the 360 is as successful as it can be?"
"Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"
"So we need companies that can develop good games?"
"Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"
"Well said."
I don't get it. Why are they making a sandpit to simulate the conditions on Mars? What are they going to test?
:)
"Okay, now try to make the Rover move forward. Still stuck? All right, put it in reverse and try again. That didn't work either? Well I'm fresh out of ideas" "Perhaps if we put it on full acceleration, and then quickly switch to full reverse?" "You're an idea man, Johnson!"
That's your tax dollars at work
Well, look out for more legitimate sites, too. I recall that Newgrounds allowed advertisers to sell their slots to other advertisers, which led NG "unable" to control the kind of stuff in their ads (including possible spyware). "Unable" as in they didn't want to threaten their sponsors by not allowing this sort of behaviour; they needed the money back then and now they're starting to clean up their ads to support growth of the site.
Lots of other sites happen to contain ads with similar stories, which is why one will likely have Spyware on their computer even if they don't download anything suspicious. Any browser, of course, has it's own unique loopholes that let spyware in, and each browser has a team that's out to fix those problems up. Firefox seems more reactive compared to IE, ironic since Microsoft is the one with all the money.
- Some sites that I've never been to don't support FF fully (The so-called
/. bug doesn't affect much)
- IE comes with Windows, but Gates wouldn't want to admit that that is the reason IE is "better", would he?
Meanwhile, FF renders pages faster (it seems faster to me, anyway), doesn't accumulate Spyware as quickly (and the Open Source community reacts as fast to it as IE ever will), has tabbed browsing, more inuitive text searches (by this I mean ctrl+f), a less cluttered toolbar, uses a capable search engine by deault*, is less likely to lose time-consuming information**, and all this on top of the ability to quickly add themes and plug-ins (Forecast Fox and Tabbrowser Preferences are some of the better ones).Gates is following Hitler's rule; people are more likely to believe a big lie (IE is better than Firefox) than a small one (IE is comparable to Firefox). Hell, they're both big lies if you ask me.
*Don't believe me? Try typing "video games" into the address bar of both browsers; Firefox does a Google I'm Feeling Lucky and brings up Gamespot. IE uses MSN search and, after 10 lines of sponsers and news, brings up the Cincinatti tourism page as a first choice. I wish I was making this shit up.
** Example: Sometimes my mom will be typing up an email for a few minutes and accidentally click on some link and leave the page. In IE, this oftentimes loses the information forever. In Firefox, click "Back" and it's almost always still there. Your mileage may vary...
Yes, that is right, dip, EA's earnings! Dip all the way the way to hell! Learn you to trick me into renting two games that are essentially the same as their prequels!
(NBA Street Vol 3, Timesplitters Future Perfect)
I feel better now.
Because the prisons are full from more serious crimes like drug use (/sarcasm)
Damn! Imagine how rich I'd be if I dropped out of Elementary School >:(
Problem is, you wouldn't even have to shoot Hitler or anything drastic like that. Just existing for any amount of time could make huge changes happen over time, which is somewhat explained by the Butterfly Effect.
Now, here's the tricky part: what if I decide not to go in the past and me going into the past is part of history? That would change history and oh I've gone crosseyed.
Since I'm not a big fan of predetermined fate, I must assume that no one may go in the past of their own dimension. The two seem to go hand-in-hand as far as I see.
... is make another campy movie like from the 60s. I mean, first, you've got the bomb. Then, you've got the costumes. And if that's not enough, you've got the quotes. Here's a quick taste of what you'd expect:
:D
Gordon: Penguin, Joker, Riddler... and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!
Batman: We've been given the plainest warning! They're working together to take over...
O'Hara: To take over what, Batman? Gotham City?
Batman: Any two of them might try that!
Gordon: The whole... country?
Batman: If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four? Their minimum objective must be... the entire... world.
Note how angles apparantly vary from rectangle to rectangle, and the startling synergy achieved when all 4 supervillians team up as opposed to 2 or 3. Oh, and if you're curious about the "plainest warning" that the supervillians sent to Batman, go look up the full quote!
Ok, I know if they actually tried to make it campy, it would be boring and it would suck. And this whole post is just an excuse for me to bring up the 60s Batman. So......
Bring on Batman Begins
... And not a single comment that contains the string "Duke Nukem Forever"? Boys, I'm a little disappointed.
"The game is heavily based around it's dual-analogue-stick control method."
Don't let appearances fool you. Despite the lop-sidedness between the GC's analog and C-sticks, they're actually more comfortable to use than PS2's dual sticks.
"Of course, that isn't to say that Nintendo wouldn't do their usual trick of putting an over-priced custom controller for use with this one game."
???
The last special controllers made by Nintendo that I can think of are the SNES Mouse and the Super Scope, hardly recent enough to qualify the word "usual". Examples, please.
"Oh, man. Put a little thought into these! That was as stupid as a screendoor on a battleship!"
Well those with screendoors shouldn't throw two birds with one stone.
"So there I was playing the skydiving level while I was skydiving..."
"Oh man, this e-mail shit is the shit, man! Here, you can finish up my inbox, if I take anymore I'm gonna pass out. Watch out though, I think the dealer laced it with spam. Tommorow I'm gonna hit some of that Slashdot."
And then 314 (Pi day) becomes the new 420 where you do nothing but read geek news all day. By the end of it you'll feel music, smell colours... taste pi...
Microsoft: proudly stealing from Apple since 1983.
Nah, MS just made that up and it happened to be just like their slogan. This is comparing Apples and oranges.
(Bitter, evil, digusting, thieving oranges)
"Google has released My Search History (Beta)."
:P
Yeah, that kind of goes hand-in-hand
You know, if they do ever become "the new Microsoft", it's safe to say that we can expect to see this on Google's main page:
"New! Google attempts world takeover (beta)".
You know... so they can back out if it doesn't fare well.
"Eh I'm so confused by this. Just 2 days ago I read that Nintendo was going to show clips of the games, but not the actual system. *Rolleyes* In any event, I wouldn't equate that with "we have nothing". Nintendo wouldn't make that bold of risk at the turn of a new generation."
Better yet, who cares at all? You're not going to buy the console either way until it launches anyway. Yes, I know the situation is more complicated than that, with shareholders and such, but as far as actual sales go, they aren't getting any until launch, and if they don't release the specs by launch, something has gone horribly wrong!
The problem is that 99% of people don't care what OS they're using becuase they haven't used a better one. It's the same reason one wouldn't care about what Internet browser they're using. If you only use IE, you think IE is decent.
Now, I've heard elsewhere that Linux can be fairly user-friendly, so that's not the problem AFAIK. The point is people know "Windows" and it gets bundled with their computers, so they take it.
Then if Joe Sixpack tries Linux and likes it more, and it spreads, then more apps and games will support it, which will get even more people to use it etc, etc. Of course, that hasn't happened.
Take the place where downloading illegally is probably more safe than most other places, and then charge extra to download legally.
riiiight....
Why can't I edit their memoirs :'(
"Would you prefer a 50Mb download, with 45Mb of stuff you don't ever need or use, or a 4Mb download where you can optionally add bits you want"
Well, the problem is that each time you try to upgrade you can either upgrade "Critical Updates" OR "Themes" OR "extensions" OR etc. It'd be nice to have the option to pick them all at once. This is the problem from my experience, anyway.
Here's an example: I have ForecastFox (entension) and Pinball (theme). Say the author of Forecast Fox made an update to his extension, and the author of Pinball made an update to his theme, and Mozilla Foundation made an update to their Firefox. I'm not made aware of small updates to extensions until Firefox needs a critical update (and with good reason, I don't care about small updates). But now that I've seen that the extensions have gone a while without updating, I wnat to update those too. Now I have to update Firefox, THEN the extension, THEN the theme. I dunno if it's still like this though.
Hey, seriously, bringing a towel seems like a good idea. Except it only leads to 2 possibilities:
:(
1) I'm the only one who does it and look like a total dork
2) Lots of people do it and I look like an unoriginal hack