Go get this game and fiish it, You won't be sorry.
I bought it for my 8 yr old daughter. Mostly non-violent and witty characters. Main objective in the game is to take photographs for a news agency. She loved it. I played right along side her taking turns (SinglePlayer Only) until we finished it.
When I watch things now that I watched as a child I cringe at how bad the effects (and often acting) are but my memory of them is quite different.
Funny you say that, I caught Flash Gordon last night on basic cable. I asked my wife if she had ever seen it, She said no. How could you miss that movie in the 80s, You have to watch it.
We didn't last 5 minutes. My god that was awful. Funny I don't remember it being so bad. Maybe I was more easily distracted by breasts back then.
If you were a 3rd party looking to develop games for the 360, then a sell out is not what you're looking for. What you want to see is everyone who wants an X-Box gets one as soon as possible, so your game has more people to sell to. A shortage means people who might have bought your game won't, as they have nothing to play it on
Well I don't know about that, I think if I were a 3rd party developer, I'd rather have people lined up waiting to get thier hands on the platform than see a stack of PSP's at Best Buy. If they are selling out, you know you have at least that many potentially game-starved customers. And if it creates a rush on the consoles by Xmas then you get the rush too. You see.
Or You could have a pile of your software sitting next to the stack of unsold PSPs.
Sooner or Later (Read Decemer 21) MS will get XBox 360s to every single person who has the want and cash, don't let there be any doubt about that. Almost every new Console purchase brings at least one game purchase. And thats a much better place to be if you are a 3rd party developer.
There are advantages to being a MS only title, mainly the boat load of cash, but MS has to want you not the other way around. If you're lucky you trade in your 3rd party uniform for a 1st. Ship 1 or 2 games and quit to start a new 3rd party dev house.
Maybe they should have been as prepared as say SEGA with the DreamCast Launch.
No I think emptying stock from store shelves long before christmas is a good thing. Especially if you can fill them back up before Xmas morn. Even if it was carefully calculated to give the appearance of a shortage it was well played.
The Only thing I can fault them for is not covering ALL pre-Orders.
My Local WalMart said they had 20 that lasted the for about an hour that first Night.
Everybody I've talked to (if they had no power supply issue and most of them) wanted to get off the phone and get back to the console.
A single checkbox option.
[ ] Don't Ask about installing Microsoft's Location Finder.
Is it asking you if you want it installed without asking. Or if you don't want to even know the feature is available, or Just not installed, or (as I believe) its a subliminal message intended to disarm you.
I'd have no problem giving up 5$ per month just for the SciFi channel.
You're off your rocker dude. I get 340 channels, 5 bucks a month for each at half the channels is twice the current cable bill. Maybe you could just spend that 5 bucks a month on your own rubber snakes thus eliminating the need for SCI-FI. Oh I forgot you'd be willing to part with $60 a year just for the pleasure of watching Stargate, plus purchase the box dvd set. Oh well,to each his own.
the single sysadmin the school hired was seriously overworked and underpaid,
Don't forget Underqualified.
and it took all of the district's entire efforts to keep a web server and an exchange server on our domain (all systems were Windows NT/2000/XP).
I think i will just quietly chuckle to myself here.
Regarding the rest of your post. The MIT initiative is not to introduce them into schools. But to children and by extension into the homes of families in the third world. Do you have any idea how many children do not attend a classroom? How many more only attend religous studies? Giving PEOPLE access to information is the ultimate goal. Information turns into knowledge and with that, opportunity is much easier to recognize.
Also, let us not underestimate the beneficial impact of a large portion of the world "growing up" with TUX. I know I'm overworked, I could use some help from bright people that haven't been swallowed the MS certification pills. It would just be nice to not have to re-train another VB programmer.
My children have grown up around PCs and technology, It has been nothing but beneficial. My daughter taught herself to read, Multiply, speak spanish, using educational software. She's 9 but she has read more books than most adults I come in contact with. Computers are an integral part of her schoolday in her regular classes and gifted. Computerized Education is amazingly adaptive to different children. It never tires of repeating itself, and nothing is ever more important than the task at hand, it also never goes on strike.
Oh I just remembered, there is one drawback. My daughter used Reader Rabbit software in the beginning. It had all kinds of animals on every page, after it read the page aloud, it would play a sound from the story. To this day she hates the sound of elephants. It was loud as hell, thereafter she would refuse to read ant story with the elephant in it and she cringed at the turn of every page if she hadn't read it before.
They fought (and survived) through player pianos, sheet music, record players, radio stations, juke boxes and casette tapes. They'll still be around, greedily fighting the direct-neural-interface players 100 years hence.
According to the TFAOtto Z. Stern is a director at The Institute of Technological Values - a think tank dedicated to a more moral digital age. He has closely monitored the IT industry's intersection with America's role as a world leader for thirty years. You can find Stern locked and loaded, corralling wounded iLemmings, nursing an opal-plated prostate, spanking open source fly boys, wearing a smashing suit, dropping a SkyCar on the Googleplex, spitting on Frenchmen, vomiting in fear with a life-sized cutout of Hilary Rosen at his solar-powered compound somewhere in the Great American Southwest.
Not clear enough?
Acoording to a Jinx Forum Post entitled "I'd like to kick Otto Z. Stern in the balls "https://www.jinx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=417 30: All i can say to desribe this guy, is he is just a rat bastard. I'd like to fight him, and show him how 'tuff us "geeks' ARE. Throw him through a g0dd@/\/\n window.
So, he is universally loved by all.
As an aside, I found the piece sarcastically funny.
My objective has never been to perpetuate the myth of goodness within the annals of respectability but rather to grab goodness by the gonads and then splatter these nuts of decency against the public wall of justice. In short, I'm after progress, while these others are happy to wallow in the filth of achievements past.
When this study was originally posted, many of you slashbots rushed to dismiss it solely on the basis of funding.
When I brought it to your attention that doing so is fallacious, I was modded down into oblivion.
You were appropriately modded -1 Troll.According to the all knowing WIKIPEDIA:
In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages on the internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to post such messages, and "trolling" (the gerund) is also commonly used to describe the activity.
Yep that pretty much sums it up, go back and read the entire discussion instead of just your posts.
We made no excuses last time, we make none now. The criticism of his methodology is warranted. The specifics are laid bare in this thread and the last one.
The question is: Do you agree with his findings? Why or why not?
You attacking us for disagreeing is the very thing you started complaining about.
I don't know what this guy is using for sound (although the Java Media Framework might work), or input, but presumably all of the pieces are already there.
Maybe I'm being harsh, Maybe Jack Thompson has a point, Maybe SCO has a case, Maybe Netcraft is right and I should upgrade to living distro. Or maybe, just maybe you could take the time to consider the source."
Yeah, and maybe none of those things represent themselves as research, so maybe thay aren't relevant
You are quite the troll aren't you.
Ok eat up.
According to netcraft:
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
* Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.
From the All knowing Wikipedia on Jack Thompson:
Thompson frequently refers to medical studies that he claims scientifically prove that there is a link between violent media and aggressive behavior. Although he has used several variations of this argument, a statement on his website is typical of the approach taken:
"Recent medical brain scan studies at Harvard and Indiana University prove... children's brain functions are damaged by a steady diet of violent images and messages."
The Indiana University study makes no mention of children's brain functions being "damaged" by exposure to violent media. It is mentioned that "there is a difference in the brain activation patterns of youths with Disruptive Behaviour Disorder and those without when exposed to a specific stimulus," but it is not explicitly claimed that there is a correlation between exposure to violent media and brain activity. (The study was funded by "Center for Successful Parenting", a lobby group campaigning against media violence.)
OK, You got me on SCO, nobody but Darl believes they do any real research.
This is not that hard to grasp, I owe you no rationalization. You requested it. Specifically you asked why I and others hold this opinion about MS Funded studies. You know the answer but want to prove an unprovable point. Funding is not an issue. Bullocks my friend, Bullocks. You must ALWAYS consider the source. Not only must consider who did the research (and in this case it appears to be done by a respectable team), but also Who defined the Scope, The Setup, The Methodology. If you craft a question in order to achieve a known good result just to publish the known good result, those results should be discounted. I've said it before in this thread (I notice you did not quote that part) Reputation is a factor in reading research. The rep of the Research Team, of the commisioner, even of the publication publishing the results.
If MUFON published a study saying that 1 in 3 americans have been abducted and they showed the pretty graph of all the people they interviewed, complete with spreadsheets and the math added up, You would consider it credible evidence? No Of course not, not unless it was verifiable, and representative of the population. But you don't have to Verify the statement you can dismiss it almost out of hand (After Reading it). You seem to think we all woke up one morning distrusting Microsoft. Not true. It takes many a wipe & Reinstall/ Server Crash/SEcurityBreach/Broken Uppgrade/Spyware Removals/OverPriced Licenses/BSODs to develop this distrust.
You can rationalize your flawed thinking all you want. It's still flawed, and you're still rationalizing.
Maybe you are just young yet in "IT" years. Of course there is a possibility that you are just rationalizing your decision to pay vast amounts of cash over and above the cost of the hardware before it will function.
I'll speak for myself on this issue. Still, Props to Maxo for a well thought out argument.
How many MS Funded "Facts" have you been spoonfed that are completely false or carefully fabricated"
It doesn't matter. Do you understand, IT DOES NOT MATTER. The credibilty of a study is a function of it's design, NOT its funder. No part of this study should be influenced by the funding source. If it IS, then that's evidence. But where, oh where is said evidence in ANY of the dozens of copycat posts about MS funding this?
You discredit this study by providing credible counter evidence. The funder is NOT credible counter evidence. Saying it was a single data point, or not rigorously controlled, IS credible evidence.
If you need eveidence gather it bro. I gathered mine and my conclusion is still valid and my confidence in MS funded studies is lowered yet another notch. Check the methodology if you need a hint. If you ever upgraded a SUSE server (or pretty much any linux server) it would be obvious to you.
Maybe I'm being harsh, Maybe Jack Thompson has a point, Maybe SCO has a case, Maybe Netcraft is right and I should upgrade to living distro. Or maybe, just maybe you could take the time to consider the source.
for example; suppose there was an article stating GWBush was sleeping with Condi. If its in (read Funded by) the washington post versus the DNC or worse the Star. Who is likely to be telling the truth.
Why just because the DNC funded it, or the Star/Enquirer printed it? I fail to see how the analogy breaks down.
I read the damn study too. Just disagree with it. Not the results mind you, they seem reasonable, just never likely to be a real scenario. No long term stability data, Spurious staffing requirements. I could go on.
I am not an Anti-MS Linux Zealot. I prefer linux on my desk and in my embedded devices because of REAL WORLD FIRST HAND EXPERIMENTS! I work with both Linux and Windows. Some places Windows makes more sense. But YOU should decide which is going to work better not MS. People come here to discuss IT issues with KNOWLEDGABLE people. My experiences are freely shared with all who care to know, even people who must try to categorize anyone they don't agree with.
In other news....
Tobacco cures cancer brought to you by Phillip Morris
Men who eat Doritos last longer in bed brought to you by Frito Lay
Iraq has weapons of Mass Destruction brought to you by GWB
Slashdot Mirror
Do they know about this?
On aside note, its Good to see lawyers have work during this Holiday season. I always worry about them during the cold months.
Let me take a stab.
Non Geek Experience
Not Good Entertainment
Never Gonna Expand (Userbase)
No Greedo Ears
NerfHerders Get Exiled
Now Game's Exciting
Ok, enough, I could go on all day.
Wait Just One More New Greed Exercise
I bought it for my 8 yr old daughter. Mostly non-violent and witty characters. Main objective in the game is to take photographs for a news agency. She loved it. I played right along side her taking turns (SinglePlayer Only) until we finished it.
Our review: Fun Flop.
Too bad too would make a great franchise.
Funny you say that, I caught Flash Gordon last night on basic cable. I asked my wife if she had ever seen it, She said no. How could you miss that movie in the 80s, You have to watch it.
We didn't last 5 minutes. My god that was awful. Funny I don't remember it being so bad. Maybe I was more easily distracted by breasts back then.
If I had to pay 50 bucks a copy, there'd be 5 games on the shelf.
Mark me down as a resale advocate then. (Even though I have NEVER Sold a game.)
Well I don't know about that, I think if I were a 3rd party developer, I'd rather have people lined up waiting to get thier hands on the platform than see a stack of PSP's at Best Buy. If they are selling out, you know you have at least that many potentially game-starved customers. And if it creates a rush on the consoles by Xmas then you get the rush too. You see.
Or You could have a pile of your software sitting next to the stack of unsold PSPs.
Sooner or Later (Read Decemer 21) MS will get XBox 360s to every single person who has the want and cash, don't let there be any doubt about that. Almost every new Console purchase brings at least one game purchase. And thats a much better place to be if you are a 3rd party developer.
There are advantages to being a MS only title, mainly the boat load of cash, but MS has to want you not the other way around. If you're lucky you trade in your 3rd party uniform for a 1st. Ship 1 or 2 games and quit to start a new 3rd party dev house.
No I think emptying stock from store shelves long before christmas is a good thing. Especially if you can fill them back up before Xmas morn. Even if it was carefully calculated to give the appearance of a shortage it was well played.
The Only thing I can fault them for is not covering ALL pre-Orders.
My Local WalMart said they had 20 that lasted the for about an hour that first Night.
Everybody I've talked to (if they had no power supply issue and most of them) wanted to get off the phone and get back to the console.
S0Oo...It's Fiction then.
Be Vehwey Vehwey qwyit I'm twacking Celw phones. Hu huh huh huhhhhh
A single checkbox option.
[ ] Don't Ask about installing Microsoft's Location Finder.
Is it asking you if you want it installed without asking. Or if you don't want to even know the feature is available, or Just not installed, or (as I believe) its a subliminal message intended to disarm you.
The end is nigh....
Found Located in the settings box.
[]Don't ask about installing Microsoft Location Finder
You're off your rocker dude. I get 340 channels, 5 bucks a month for each at half the channels is twice the current cable bill. Maybe you could just spend that 5 bucks a month on your own rubber snakes thus eliminating the need for SCI-FI. Oh I forgot you'd be willing to part with $60 a year just for the pleasure of watching Stargate, plus purchase the box dvd set. Oh well,to each his own.
Don't forget Underqualified.
and it took all of the district's entire efforts to keep a web server and an exchange server on our domain (all systems were Windows NT/2000/XP).
I think i will just quietly chuckle to myself here.
Regarding the rest of your post. The MIT initiative is not to introduce them into schools. But to children and by extension into the homes of families in the third world. Do you have any idea how many children do not attend a classroom? How many more only attend religous studies? Giving PEOPLE access to information is the ultimate goal. Information turns into knowledge and with that, opportunity is much easier to recognize.
Also, let us not underestimate the beneficial impact of a large portion of the world "growing up" with TUX. I know I'm overworked, I could use some help from bright people that haven't been swallowed the MS certification pills. It would just be nice to not have to re-train another VB programmer.
My children have grown up around PCs and technology, It has been nothing but beneficial. My daughter taught herself to read, Multiply, speak spanish, using educational software. She's 9 but she has read more books than most adults I come in contact with. Computers are an integral part of her schoolday in her regular classes and gifted. Computerized Education is amazingly adaptive to different children. It never tires of repeating itself, and nothing is ever more important than the task at hand, it also never goes on strike.
Oh I just remembered, there is one drawback. My daughter used Reader Rabbit software in the beginning. It had all kinds of animals on every page, after it read the page aloud, it would play a sound from the story. To this day she hates the sound of elephants. It was loud as hell, thereafter she would refuse to read ant story with the elephant in it and she cringed at the turn of every page if she hadn't read it before.
Damn just used the last point. Somebody else out there Mod Parent Up this app is great and so simple I thought it was a Unix/Linux app.
My first thought was OMG What have you done now Harlan.
Ohh, it's that Oracle guy. Good.
Also, may I suggest contibutions in part goto "The Help MrCopilot keep the Lights on Fund" PayPal Accepted.
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Oh man, I'm glad I'm not one of those guys who can't stay away.I'd have to really quit
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. But, since I don't have a problem, why should I?
You forgot MTV,VH1, CMT, FUSE, & MTV2!
Not clear enough?
Acoording to a Jinx Forum Post entitled "I'd like to kick Otto Z. Stern in the balls "https://www.jinx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=417 30: All i can say to desribe this guy, is he is just a rat bastard. I'd like to fight him, and show him how 'tuff us "geeks' ARE. Throw him through a g0dd@/\/\n window.
So, he is universally loved by all.
As an aside, I found the piece sarcastically funny.
Ewwwwwwwwww. Amusing but ewwww.
When I brought it to your attention that doing so is fallacious, I was modded down into oblivion.
You were appropriately modded -1 Troll.According to the all knowing WIKIPEDIA :
In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages on the internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to post such messages, and "trolling" (the gerund) is also commonly used to describe the activity.
Yep that pretty much sums it up, go back and read the entire discussion instead of just your posts.
We made no excuses last time, we make none now. The criticism of his methodology is warranted. The specifics are laid bare in this thread and the last one.
The question is: Do you agree with his findings? Why or why not?
You attacking us for disagreeing is the very thing you started complaining about.
You certainly got more bites this time Troll.
How many were "UnPublishable" in MSFT's eyes?
If this issue is covered by an NDA, We understand but, we'd like to know that.
https://joal.dev.java.net/joal for Sound according to his site.
https://jogl.dev.java.net/jogl for OpenGL
http://www.lwjgl.org/ Light Wieght Java Game Library
Man this guy is good, he won't even let you copy paste his web text.
Seriously, good work, Are you aware Q3 has been liberated?
I got the Core System.
Oh you mean RC1?
Ok eat up.
According to netcraft:
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
* Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.
From the All knowing Wikipedia on Jack Thompson: Thompson frequently refers to medical studies that he claims scientifically prove that there is a link between violent media and aggressive behavior. Although he has used several variations of this argument, a statement on his website is typical of the approach taken:
"Recent medical brain scan studies at Harvard and Indiana University prove ... children's brain functions are damaged by a steady diet of violent images and messages."
The Indiana University study makes no mention of children's brain functions being "damaged" by exposure to violent media. It is mentioned that "there is a difference in the brain activation patterns of youths with Disruptive Behaviour Disorder and those without when exposed to a specific stimulus," but it is not explicitly claimed that there is a correlation between exposure to violent media and brain activity. (The study was funded by "Center for Successful Parenting", a lobby group campaigning against media violence.)
OK, You got me on SCO, nobody but Darl believes they do any real research.
This is not that hard to grasp, I owe you no rationalization. You requested it. Specifically you asked why I and others hold this opinion about MS Funded studies. You know the answer but want to prove an unprovable point. Funding is not an issue. Bullocks my friend, Bullocks. You must ALWAYS consider the source. Not only must consider who did the research (and in this case it appears to be done by a respectable team), but also Who defined the Scope, The Setup, The Methodology. If you craft a question in order to achieve a known good result just to publish the known good result, those results should be discounted. I've said it before in this thread (I notice you did not quote that part) Reputation is a factor in reading research. The rep of the Research Team, of the commisioner, even of the publication publishing the results.
If MUFON published a study saying that 1 in 3 americans have been abducted and they showed the pretty graph of all the people they interviewed, complete with spreadsheets and the math added up, You would consider it credible evidence? No Of course not, not unless it was verifiable, and representative of the population. But you don't have to Verify the statement you can dismiss it almost out of hand (After Reading it). You seem to think we all woke up one morning distrusting Microsoft. Not true. It takes many a wipe & Reinstall/ Server Crash/SEcurityBreach/Broken Uppgrade/Spyware Removals/OverPriced Licenses/BSODs to develop this distrust.
You can rationalize your flawed thinking all you want. It's still flawed, and you're still rationalizing.
Maybe you are just young yet in "IT" years. Of course there is a possibility that you are just rationalizing your decision to pay vast amounts of cash over and above the cost of the hardware before it will function.
How many MS Funded "Facts" have you been spoonfed that are completely false or carefully fabricated" It doesn't matter. Do you understand, IT DOES NOT MATTER. The credibilty of a study is a function of it's design, NOT its funder. No part of this study should be influenced by the funding source. If it IS, then that's evidence. But where, oh where is said evidence in ANY of the dozens of copycat posts about MS funding this?
You discredit this study by providing credible counter evidence. The funder is NOT credible counter evidence. Saying it was a single data point, or not rigorously controlled, IS credible evidence. If you need eveidence gather it bro. I gathered mine and my conclusion is still valid and my confidence in MS funded studies is lowered yet another notch. Check the methodology if you need a hint. If you ever upgraded a SUSE server (or pretty much any linux server) it would be obvious to you.
Maybe I'm being harsh, Maybe Jack Thompson has a point, Maybe SCO has a case, Maybe Netcraft is right and I should upgrade to living distro. Or maybe, just maybe you could take the time to consider the source.
for example; suppose there was an article stating GWBush was sleeping with Condi. If its in (read Funded by) the washington post versus the DNC or worse the Star. Who is likely to be telling the truth.
Why just because the DNC funded it, or the Star/Enquirer printed it? I fail to see how the analogy breaks down. I read the damn study too. Just disagree with it. Not the results mind you, they seem reasonable, just never likely to be a real scenario. No long term stability data, Spurious staffing requirements. I could go on.
I am not an Anti-MS Linux Zealot. I prefer linux on my desk and in my embedded devices because of REAL WORLD FIRST HAND EXPERIMENTS! I work with both Linux and Windows. Some places Windows makes more sense. But YOU should decide which is going to work better not MS. People come here to discuss IT issues with KNOWLEDGABLE people. My experiences are freely shared with all who care to know, even people who must try to categorize anyone they don't agree with.
In other news....
Tobacco cures cancer brought to you by Phillip Morris
Men who eat Doritos last longer in bed brought to you by Frito Lay
Iraq has weapons of Mass Destruction brought to you by GWB