They should deffinitely do it, they should port it to PC, sell it online (via STEAM or whatever) and then push a huge campaign about the game ("This is the game they DID NOT WANTED YOU TO PLAY" and all that) until they get millions and millions in revenue and then the three console makers will be salivating to get the exclusiveness and then give them two fingers... (most likely only to Microsoft and Sony, as usually Nintendo is not as desperate as these two)
Fuck them, if it is a game, another type of game and if it is good then it should stay as it is, if they have to modify it to release then it will mean censorship. Is similar to porn movies, the fact that it is not for everyone does not mean that the ones [they] who like it can not enjoy of a good pr0n movie while masturbating[themselves]...
And what about this, a player controls the team in the standard way (as with fifa 1990 through 2050 games), but you can use an extra Wiimote to control the crowd and other factors which might give more or less handicap to the playing player. This way, while my I am playing football my girlfriend can help me by doing whatnot with the crowd (like cheerleading) and she doesn't have to just keep watching the ball come and go.
After releasing Generic Football Game 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, really do something inovative, surprise the public and release...... GFG2007.5!
I propose to make a Generic Football game where the player controls the crowd! yeah, the crowd AND even the narrator! he can make the crowd be very pissed off and throw things to the field, even punch and kick other people in the crowd while narrating the game.
"Oh, look, there's good sides to smoking." [there is good side or there are good sides or what?]
Actually there are good sides to smoking like anxiety control among others, the problem is that the bad sides are more dangerous than the good you can get. It is like coffee, there are good and bad outcomes from taking coffee but you do not see government banning it, and like mariguana, there are good and bad sides from using it (in this case, more good than bad) and yet, the government is all for prohibiting it.
I agree with GP, science is science, if someone finds that eating some kind of extract from horse shit combined with bull's cum is good to kill cancer then let them do it, you do not know how many lives could be saved, or at least made peoples QOL a hell better of a lot better (this coming from an IBS sufferer who used to smoke in the past).
BTW, it is funny to see the differences in timezones being reflected in the labels... now that the UK is mainly on the day you've got "NoShitSherlock" label, whereas if it was the USA time it would only be "noshit".
Perhaps looking beyond yearly updates to established franchises might be a way to go too.
Franchises can be good. The fact that you have got a character, universe or general idea does not mean you can not innovate over it. Just look at the Mario franchise and all the games that have exploited it, from standard side scrolling games to puzzles and strategy (mario is missing, mario picross, mario & yoshi) to football (super mario strikers) etc. The devil is in the details, which are the ones that define the gameplay. Or what about exploiting the Final Fantasy VIII universe with another type of gameplay ?
After SimCity 2000 came out, I saw a lot of side games available which "interacted" with your worlds. The one I bought was one where you could drive/inside/ your city (or a representation of your city). I found it quite cool, as I could play one game (SimCity) and after I got bored of building my dream city I could just fire the other and destroy my city driving and launching missiles. That is the same franchise (SimCity) but exploiting different kinds of gameplay!
Fox is an idiot. I agree with you 200%, it seems that we( Mexico) and USA have something in common which is to elect the most stupid and corrupt people for presidents... the good news (for us) is that our "founding fathers" made sure our idiots could only stay in power for one (although 6 years...) term and could not re-elect.
If he were less of an idiot he would put his own house in order. Fortunately he is no longer the president of Mexico, now we have a guy who is keeping busy trying to destroy the drug cartels who have been active for more than 10 years in 6 months... I have read it is getting very nasty over there =o(
A "Linux user" could be anything from a hardcore Gentoo-compiling mad man of a Linux user to somebody who uses a phone or other device which has embedded Linux..
That is very true. I think the first step in measuring something is defining/exactly/ what do you want to measure. I could argue that/everyone/ is using Linux each time they go to www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or one of the thousands of servers running Linux. But I guess when referring to "running linux" articles usually refer to desktop computers and about using Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linspire, Xandros or any of the very user-friendly Linux distributions. How can we measure that?, I am certain that you can not get the *exact* number but you can take a sample via telephone poll for example. I am no expert on that but I know there *are* mechanisms developed for polling and other kinds of population data gathering .
I used to use Winamp as my media player (also used MMJB around the 1990s I think) and, after trying several Media players to replace Winamp (I dont like Winamp media library management) I kept returning to Winamp + folders. That is until I read here on slashdot about MediaMonkey, I *really* really recommend it, I have been using it for about 1 year and I do not regret it. I still have Winamp installed but never really use it. I use MediaMonkey for my music library and VLC for video.
Of course if you are on linux amarok might work for you... I have always felt it is very unstable and "fragile" as it keeps crashing on me whenever I use it.
Now that I think about it, the PS3 is very similar to the Homer. Really cool in concept, with everything you would like to have but not really usable and of course overpriced.
Furthermore, where the PS2 was a giant leap from the PS1 and where DVD was a giant leap from VHS, the same cannot be said of this new generation. Consequently they're stuffed..
And I continue to see tons of new releases for the PS2... Some of them I wish would be available for the Wii (the one I've got).
If I had more time for playing, no doubt I would get an Xbox360, as it is now. It is just completely crazy to think of paying £400 for a videogame console... (to play on my Crapo(R) tv)
You start with: And you did what MS fanboys always do. You assumed someone can play games on the $299 Core.
and after a random anti-Microsoft rant you finish with: So yes, you can play games on the Xbox 360 Core system for $299, assuming...
So, your rant is completely out of place, if someone wants to play the new Xbox-360 games he just have to pay the $299 + a memory stick which as someone else state is about $20...
Not that I care about the systems being discussed in this flamewar... I am a happy Wii user which only plays each odd weekend
Lovely reply, I am a Mexican and I can not get it...
On a side note, you might think that all the brown-skinned spanish-speaking people washing your dishes and carpets in California are Mexicans but there is a *very* high percentage of the emigrating Latin Americans who come from South America we as Mexicans have a similar problem to yours(illegal immigrants) in the border of the Yucatan Peninsula border.
As for the reason? I think our last monkey president (Vicente Fox) put it very well: "Mexicans do jobs [in the USA] that not even black people want to do"
I agree with lots of the posts from Americans I have seen here in slashdot before that state that if USA is *this* terrible why are people still willing to live there? I really can not understand it, what is it there in the USA that people, even some Britons (I live in Britain today) want to live there??
I'll tell you the place is really amazing. For 15 years I lived very close their place (in Campeche) and I went a couple of times. As a building is really beautiful and as an architecture achievement is really awesome. As I have seen with previous posts on slashdot, people a lot of people who doesn't know these places are fast to judge them.
From the 7 winners I have only seen Chichen Itza, but my father has seen the Wall of China and the Machu Pichu and my girlfriend have seen the Coliseum, and both agree that they *really* are wonderful. Of course I can think that according to some of the USA thinking, a lot of individuals here in slashdot will think that, because certain construction was on included in that list, it makes the list less valuable or accurate but then again, they fail to understand the concept of voting.
I agree with the person that said that the Easter Island Heads (Moais) should have been into the list (personally instead of the Christ), but I haven't seen any of the two so my thought is only a guess. But it at most naïve to think that the ones selected won due to some kind of voting bias, as I am sure in the case of Chichen Itza, less than 0.01% of Mexicans voted... I am *sure* it is more appreciate by more people outside Mexico than by Mexicans.
Aaaa great movie that one! I think it is one of the few movies which portrait in a credible manner what hacking was all about in those times... of course with a hollywood cut... I used to watch that movie in open TV and 10 years after I didnt remember the name and could locate it after asking in usenet for a movie where there was a deaf guy who recognized a place after simulating the sounds =o)... pretty clever argument!
1. The company (Media Defender) was offering a program containing spyware. 2. The alleged available films where uploaded by them, hence *they* where committing the crime (illegally distributing copyrighted content... unless they had the right to do it).
What probably happened is they thought that they had a great idea and didn't bother to run it through the legal dept.
Well I do not really know... when Sony made available their Rootkit encumbered CDs I am sure they had it very well planned, of course when the thinks go bad the corporations just wash their hands. I think in this case is even worst as such corporations (Sony, Universial, BMG, etc) are hiding behind the RIAA name *and* then paying companies such as Media Defender to do the dirty work...
Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application.[1] Robotics requires a working knowledge of electronics, mechanics, and software. A person working in the field is a roboticist. The word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Runaround" (1941).
Personally I prefer Mr. Isaac Asimov, his Robot short stories (some of them in the I, Robot book), his Foundation Trilogy and other books are the ones that made me an avid reader. Oh, and he invented (coined?) the term "Robotics".
Oh and Asimov and Clarke used to play saying each that the other was a better Science Fiction writer.
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They should deffinitely do it, they should port it to PC, sell it online (via STEAM or whatever) and then push a huge campaign about the game ("This is the game they DID NOT WANTED YOU TO PLAY" and all that) until they get millions and millions in revenue and then the three console makers will be salivating to get the exclusiveness and then give them two fingers... (most likely only to Microsoft and Sony, as usually Nintendo is not as desperate as these two)
Fuck them, if it is a game, another type of game and if it is good then it should stay as it is, if they have to modify it to release then it will mean censorship. Is similar to porn movies, the fact that it is not for everyone does not mean that the ones [they] who like it can not enjoy of a good pr0n movie while masturbating[themselves]...
And what about this, a player controls the team in the standard way (as with fifa 1990 through 2050 games), but you can use an extra Wiimote to control the crowd and other factors which might give more or less handicap to the playing player. This way, while my I am playing football my girlfriend can help me by doing whatnot with the crowd (like cheerleading) and she doesn't have to just keep watching the ball come and go.
After releasing Generic Football Game 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, really do something inovative, surprise the public and release...... GFG2007.5!
I propose to make a Generic Football game where the player controls the crowd! yeah, the crowd AND even the narrator! he can make the crowd be very pissed off and throw things to the field, even punch and kick other people in the crowd while narrating the game.
"Oh, look, there's good sides to smoking." [there is good side or there are good sides or what?]
Actually there are good sides to smoking like anxiety control among others, the problem is that the bad sides are more dangerous than the good you can get. It is like coffee, there are good and bad outcomes from taking coffee but you do not see government banning it, and like mariguana, there are good and bad sides from using it (in this case, more good than bad) and yet, the government is all for prohibiting it.
I agree with GP, science is science, if someone finds that eating some kind of extract from horse shit combined with bull's cum is good to kill cancer then let them do it, you do not know how many lives could be saved, or at least made peoples QOL a hell better of a lot better (this coming from an IBS sufferer who used to smoke in the past).
BTW, it is funny to see the differences in timezones being reflected in the labels... now that the UK is mainly on the day you've got "NoShitSherlock" label, whereas if it was the USA time it would only be "noshit".
Perhaps looking beyond yearly updates to established franchises might be a way to go too.
/inside/ your city (or a representation of your city). I found it quite cool, as I could play one game (SimCity) and after I got bored of building my dream city I could just fire the other and destroy my city driving and launching missiles. That is the same franchise (SimCity) but exploiting different kinds of gameplay!
Franchises can be good. The fact that you have got a character, universe or general idea does not mean you can not innovate over it. Just look at the Mario franchise and all the games that have exploited it, from standard side scrolling games to puzzles and strategy (mario is missing, mario picross, mario & yoshi) to football (super mario strikers) etc. The devil is in the details, which are the ones that define the gameplay. Or what about exploiting the Final Fantasy VIII universe with another type of gameplay ?
After SimCity 2000 came out, I saw a lot of side games available which "interacted" with your worlds. The one I bought was one where you could drive
So... the meme has changed, instead of "This is the year of Linux Desktop" now we have "Next year will be the year of Linux Desktop".
I'll keep preparing for it!
But he meant a nearly mousless interface text editor or word processor, not a whole Operating System...
I guess he will end with something like Vi
Fox is an idiot.
I agree with you 200%, it seems that we( Mexico) and USA have something in common which is to elect the most stupid and corrupt people for presidents... the good news (for us) is that our "founding fathers" made sure our idiots could only stay in power for one (although 6 years...) term and could not re-elect.
If he were less of an idiot he would put his own house in order.
Fortunately he is no longer the president of Mexico, now we have a guy who is keeping busy trying to destroy the drug cartels who have been active for more than 10 years in 6 months... I have read it is getting very nasty over there =o(
A "Linux user" could be anything from a hardcore Gentoo-compiling mad man of a Linux user to somebody who uses a phone or other device which has embedded Linux..
/exactly/ what do you want to measure. I could argue that /everyone/ is using Linux each time they go to www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or one of the thousands of servers running Linux. But I guess when referring to "running linux" articles usually refer to desktop computers and about using Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linspire, Xandros or any of the very user-friendly Linux distributions. How can we measure that?, I am certain that you can not get the *exact* number but you can take a sample via telephone poll for example. I am no expert on that but I know there *are* mechanisms developed for polling and other kinds of population data gathering .
That is very true. I think the first step in measuring something is defining
I used to use Winamp as my media player (also used MMJB around the 1990s I think) and, after trying several Media players to replace Winamp (I dont like Winamp media library management) I kept returning to Winamp + folders. That is until I read here on slashdot about MediaMonkey, I *really* really recommend it, I have been using it for about 1 year and I do not regret it. I still have Winamp installed but never really use it. I use MediaMonkey for my music library and VLC for video.
Of course if you are on linux amarok might work for you... I have always felt it is very unstable and "fragile" as it keeps crashing on me whenever I use it.
I'm about as excited about all of this, as I would be if Epson released $50 cheaper printers.
Then they will have to *pay you* $10 to get such printers... that sounds as a nice deal for me...
Now that I think about it, the PS3 is very similar to the Homer. Really cool in concept, with everything you would like to have but not really usable and of course overpriced.
Furthermore, where the PS2 was a giant leap from the PS1 and where DVD was a giant leap from VHS, the same cannot be said of this new generation. Consequently they're stuffed..
And I continue to see tons of new releases for the PS2... Some of them I wish would be available for the Wii (the one I've got).
If I had more time for playing, no doubt I would get an Xbox360, as it is now. It is just completely crazy to think of paying £400 for a videogame console... (to play on my Crapo(R) tv)
Sir, your post is really funny, stupid funny.
You start with:
And you did what MS fanboys always do. You assumed someone can play games on the $299 Core.
and after a random anti-Microsoft rant you finish with:
So yes, you can play games on the Xbox 360 Core system for $299, assuming...
So, your rant is completely out of place, if someone wants to play the new Xbox-360 games he just have to pay the $299 + a memory stick which as someone else state is about $20...
Not that I care about the systems being discussed in this flamewar... I am a happy Wii user which only plays each odd weekend
Lovely reply, I am a Mexican and I can not get it...
On a side note, you might think that all the brown-skinned spanish-speaking people washing your dishes and carpets in California are Mexicans but there is a *very* high percentage of the emigrating Latin Americans who come from South America we as Mexicans have a similar problem to yours(illegal immigrants) in the border of the Yucatan Peninsula border.
As for the reason? I think our last monkey president (Vicente Fox) put it very well:
"Mexicans do jobs [in the USA] that not even black people want to do"
I agree with lots of the posts from Americans I have seen here in slashdot before that state that if USA is *this* terrible why are people still willing to live there? I really can not understand it, what is it there in the USA that people, even some Britons (I live in Britain today) want to live there??
I'll tell you the place is really amazing. For 15 years I lived very close their place (in Campeche) and I went a couple of times. As a building is really beautiful and as an architecture achievement is really awesome. As I have seen with previous posts on slashdot, people a lot of people who doesn't know these places are fast to judge them.
From the 7 winners I have only seen Chichen Itza, but my father has seen the Wall of China and the Machu Pichu and my girlfriend have seen the Coliseum, and both agree that they *really* are wonderful. Of course I can think that according to some of the USA thinking, a lot of individuals here in slashdot will think that, because certain construction was on included in that list, it makes the list less valuable or accurate but then again, they fail to understand the concept of voting.
I agree with the person that said that the Easter Island Heads (Moais) should have been into the list (personally instead of the Christ), but I haven't seen any of the two so my thought is only a guess. But it at most naïve to think that the ones selected won due to some kind of voting bias, as I am sure in the case of Chichen Itza, less than 0.01% of Mexicans voted... I am *sure* it is more appreciate by more people outside Mexico than by Mexicans.
Aaaa great movie that one! I think it is one of the few movies which portrait in a credible manner what hacking was all about in those times... of course with a hollywood cut... I used to watch that movie in open TV and 10 years after I didnt remember the name and could locate it after asking in usenet for a movie where there was a deaf guy who recognized a place after simulating the sounds =o)... pretty clever argument!
I think there is a flaw in your argument:
1. The company (Media Defender) was offering a program containing spyware.
2. The alleged available films where uploaded by them, hence *they* where committing the crime (illegally distributing copyrighted content... unless they had the right to do it).
Saying that 80 columns is not enough is like saying 640K is not enough
655360 columns? that ought to be a really kick ass wide screen you've got there.
What probably happened is they thought that they had a great idea and didn't bother to run it through the legal dept.
Well I do not really know... when Sony made available their Rootkit encumbered CDs I am sure they had it very well planned, of course when the thinks go bad the corporations just wash their hands. I think in this case is even worst as such corporations (Sony, Universial, BMG, etc) are hiding behind the RIAA name *and* then paying companies such as Media Defender to do the dirty work...
Beautiful!
or $5 in Tepito market (or China market) :)
Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application.[1] Robotics requires a working knowledge of electronics, mechanics, and software. A person working in the field is a roboticist. The word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Runaround" (1941).
Personally I prefer Mr. Isaac Asimov, his Robot short stories (some of them in the I, Robot book), his Foundation Trilogy and other books are the ones that made me an avid reader. Oh, and he invented (coined?) the term "Robotics".
Oh and Asimov and Clarke used to play saying each that the other was a better Science Fiction writer.
Of course, I believe Mr. Clarke is more popular.