How do you figure that?
You can run any GBA-title on the DS. Besides that I think most the the DS games I have fit that game perfectly. Feel the Magic XX/XY (aka Project Rub), Yoshi Touch & Go, Meteos, Another Code: Two Memories. Besides that if I have 5 minutes or more I can always grab a quick race in Ridge Racer DS or Need for Speed Underground 2. If you don't manage to finish a game you just close the DS and it goes into sleep mode and lets you continue when you open it again. I'd say it's damn close to perfect in that regard.
I just wish the homebrew stuff was easier to use on the road (at the moment I can only have one title on my MovieAdvance at a time even though I have a big CF card in it).
Here's a list of Stuff That Doesn't Suck (TM) Neon Genesis Evangelion (some won't get it, but it's still massively awesome) Tokyo Godfathers Serial Experiment Lain Berserk Gunbuster Escaflowne FLCL Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade Memories Perfect Blue Spring and Chaos Macross Plus Paranoia Agent
Now these are all very different, but I'm sure you'll be able to find at least something you'll like in there. On the other hand I also like Bebop, even though it's not among my favourite series, so...
You say it's shooting yourself in the foot, but GPL isn't always a Good Thing(TM). We all like interoperability, right? I guess most programmers would also like their work to be used as much as possible.
Take some of the smaller commercial operating systems. Code that is BSD-licensed can be used to help these smaller systems on their way. Sometimes problems pop up when porting to another platform (including bugs in the original code) and if the porter sends these changes back (often coders are surprisingly polite in this regard) the original code gets better. Of course it may also not get sent back and nothing is different really. No holes in the foot.
In cases where there is a mix of licensed code (former commercial systems or niche commercial systems) GPL can be impossible to use, because it infects the code it touches legally. LGPL is of course also a possible compromise, but really, BSD needn't be shooting yourself in the foot. It just means more people can use your code.
(And yes, I realize some may also make other products and not send the code back, but it's still in more widespread use which is a good thing generally, right?).
If you have a Mac available with Office etc. you can just print and save the output as pdf. Pages may also do a good job of making web pages. It has worked well for me so far at least with various formats.
Look no further than Another Code: Two Memories. It's sort of a mix between the old adventures and Myst. You will have to use both screens to solve mysteries - including making wood prints, using reflections, super-imposing images and much more. There is some really innovative stuff going on in that game. It seems that recently games have gotten better and better. Yoshi Touch & Go was a great game too and the second screen is certainly put to good use (shooting range part of the time and sometimes it allows you to see what's coming down towards you). I bet the screens will come in handy in Advance Wars DS - I mean, it's pretty great to have an extra screen for a turn-based strategy game.
Uhm, no. That's just blatantly wrong. You can use retargetable graphics and audio and hardly ever touch chipmem. In fact you can pretty much upgrade the machine, so that the only reason why the custom chips are still onboard is for compatibility issues. The A1000 could be hacked to use Zorro 2 hardware (like the A2000 could from the start). But I'll give you that the A1000 is the least expandable bigbox-Amiga. The A2000, 3000 and 4000 (in various versions) offered far better expandability.
Wow. You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a friggin' medium - not a genre. Basically it's animated movies. That's all anime means. Nothing pedophilic about that. Nor does it necessarily involve any idolizing - although some of the very best certainly deserve it.
You might as well just have said "If I didn't loathe your disgusting pedophilic movies, I'd stick around just to make fun of you for idolizing moving images".
Neon Genesis Evangelion truly is a work of art. As are Memories, Akira and many others.
Do not confuse anime and hentai (hentai is pornographic anime - often involving VERY disturbing things that couldn't happen in real life).
Some people have so much self-confidence that they don't need to distance themselves from everything animated. Many of these productions are NOT meant for children. Neon Genesis Evangelion is certainly not something I'd want a child of mine to see.
I'd advise against getting the audio book though. I bought that and had a very hard time keeping track of the personas. Large parts of the book was also just cut out. Totally frustrating.
I believe this to be universally applicable. The more music I've listened to, the more I appreciate different kinds. I've slowly expanded to the point where I am now. I can listen to anything from Wagner, Mozart to Prince, Sting to Slayer, Manowar to The Time, D-A-D, to Bad Religion, Exploited and so on. When people ask me "what do you listen to?" I usually answer "good music" - it's the only bulletproof answer, since good/bad music is not a constant. I have stuff I can't listen to any more due to over exposure such as Nirvana, Veruca Salt, Strauss and many others. But the journey is the exciting bit.
I suspect he's like me, hates the violence in video games and doesn't want to support it. But who knows? Maybe he's just arrogant and doesn't want to use other people's standards.
Well, that's the thing, though, isn't it? He is using other peoples' standards by using OpenGL.
In a word: Specialization. I enjoy The Rock and Roll Geek Show where Michael Butler interviews celebs, plays lots of cool music and he even does a podcast with all indie stuff. I've also enjoyed the show Voices in my Head which deals with many of the same issues that/. deals with - only there are actual interviews and they manage to make the show very interesting. For me.
The last two words are important. There are shows out there for everyone. It's much like the web: There's so much out there, that some of it is bound to be good - and also to be liked by you. I'm subscribing to the two I just mentioned, but when I feel adventurous I go search for more stuff through podcast review sites.
I haven't yet met a site that convinced me to download whatever the webmaster thought was appropriate (often IE). It didn't work in '96 (NS) and it doesn't work now. Especially since IE is a horribly crippled browser unless you add at least a couple of plugins - and even then I'd rather use a browser that can actually render CSS correctly.
I suppose it's about time to have a quick detection on one's site: "Oops. It appears you're using an outdated browser. Please consider upgrading to Firefox, Opera or one of the other, safer alternatives. It's really for your own sake you know. It hurts me even more than it hurts you."
That said, who cares if someone wants to play around with the latest technology. As long as the information on the site isn't important and something everyone should be allowed access to, who really cares? And who would want to see the site anyway - except for the sake of geeky curiousity that is.
I've written many such letters over the years. The worst part is when government sites or other tax-funded things only work with specific browsers/players.
Science fiction is not just entertainment for geeks. Sure, it does that well, because geeks are attracted to technology, and science fiction is per definition related to new technology. Historically, though, sci-fi has been about what mankind will do with new inventions. About the dilemma of the individual obtaining god-like powers (see some of the early Star Trek or the excellent Forbidden Planet as an example). The earliest sci-fi was basically typical western stories set in space (frontier stories). Later on it was used to paraphrase political problems like during the red scare. When sci-fi has nothing better to do it tends to preach morality - like newer Star Treks that have a tendency to deal with basic human issues, diplomacy and so on, when it doesn't stray from the beaten path. Note that I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm just talking generally here.
Great sci-fi makes us think about issues that actually involve ourselves. Because they're set in an alien setting it's easier to be detached from normal prejudice. Take Planet of the Apes as an example. No, it's not an opiate for the masses. It's a wake-up call for the masses.
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I'd recommend you to grab VLC too. It's very nice on all platforms and arguably the OS X interface is the nicest of them all (although the preference panes are somewhat lacking on this platform).
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How do you figure that? You can run any GBA-title on the DS. Besides that I think most the the DS games I have fit that game perfectly. Feel the Magic XX/XY (aka Project Rub), Yoshi Touch & Go, Meteos, Another Code: Two Memories. Besides that if I have 5 minutes or more I can always grab a quick race in Ridge Racer DS or Need for Speed Underground 2. If you don't manage to finish a game you just close the DS and it goes into sleep mode and lets you continue when you open it again. I'd say it's damn close to perfect in that regard. I just wish the homebrew stuff was easier to use on the road (at the moment I can only have one title on my MovieAdvance at a time even though I have a big CF card in it).
Ooooh. I was waiting for a new Web.it-like machine. Can't wait to play those C=64 games in glorious high resolution. Scaled of course.
Actually Nintendo has been making games since 1889. Just not the electronic kind.
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Here's a list of Stuff That Doesn't Suck (TM)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (some won't get it, but it's still massively awesome)
Tokyo Godfathers
Serial Experiment Lain
Berserk
Gunbuster
Escaflowne
FLCL
Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade
Memories
Perfect Blue
Spring and Chaos
Macross Plus
Paranoia Agent
Now these are all very different, but I'm sure you'll be able to find at least something you'll like in there. On the other hand I also like Bebop, even though it's not among my favourite series, so
I bet the real reason why it even took so long, was because it bothered Apple so much that Dvorak would be right for a change.
You say it's shooting yourself in the foot, but GPL isn't always a Good Thing(TM). We all like interoperability, right? I guess most programmers would also like their work to be used as much as possible.
Take some of the smaller commercial operating systems. Code that is BSD-licensed can be used to help these smaller systems on their way. Sometimes problems pop up when porting to another platform (including bugs in the original code) and if the porter sends these changes back (often coders are surprisingly polite in this regard) the original code gets better. Of course it may also not get sent back and nothing is different really. No holes in the foot.
In cases where there is a mix of licensed code (former commercial systems or niche commercial systems) GPL can be impossible to use, because it infects the code it touches legally. LGPL is of course also a possible compromise, but really, BSD needn't be shooting yourself in the foot. It just means more people can use your code.
(And yes, I realize some may also make other products and not send the code back, but it's still in more widespread use which is a good thing generally, right?).
If you have a Mac available with Office etc. you can just print and save the output as pdf. Pages may also do a good job of making web pages. It has worked well for me so far at least with various formats.
The DS and the PSP are both toys. The DS is outselling the PSP by a quite large factor though...
Look no further than Another Code: Two Memories. It's sort of a mix between the old adventures and Myst. You will have to use both screens to solve mysteries - including making wood prints, using reflections, super-imposing images and much more. There is some really innovative stuff going on in that game. It seems that recently games have gotten better and better. Yoshi Touch & Go was a great game too and the second screen is certainly put to good use (shooting range part of the time and sometimes it allows you to see what's coming down towards you). I bet the screens will come in handy in Advance Wars DS - I mean, it's pretty great to have an extra screen for a turn-based strategy game.
Uhm, no. That's just blatantly wrong. You can use retargetable graphics and audio and hardly ever touch chipmem. In fact you can pretty much upgrade the machine, so that the only reason why the custom chips are still onboard is for compatibility issues.
The A1000 could be hacked to use Zorro 2 hardware (like the A2000 could from the start). But I'll give you that the A1000 is the least expandable bigbox-Amiga. The A2000, 3000 and 4000 (in various versions) offered far better expandability.
The additional stack is included in the game cartridges that support full 802.11b games.
Not to mention the hugely successful Pikmin which was SUCH a rehash of.. oh ... wait. It's not.
the proprietary tf is basically an ad-hoc 802.11b network. I believe Nintendo calls it "nifi".
Wow. You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a friggin' medium - not a genre. Basically it's animated movies. That's all anime means. Nothing pedophilic about that. Nor does it necessarily involve any idolizing - although some of the very best certainly deserve it. You might as well just have said "If I didn't loathe your disgusting pedophilic movies, I'd stick around just to make fun of you for idolizing moving images". Neon Genesis Evangelion truly is a work of art. As are Memories, Akira and many others. Do not confuse anime and hentai (hentai is pornographic anime - often involving VERY disturbing things that couldn't happen in real life). Some people have so much self-confidence that they don't need to distance themselves from everything animated. Many of these productions are NOT meant for children. Neon Genesis Evangelion is certainly not something I'd want a child of mine to see.
I'd advise against getting the audio book though. I bought that and had a very hard time keeping track of the personas. Large parts of the book was also just cut out. Totally frustrating.
I believe this to be universally applicable. The more music I've listened to, the more I appreciate different kinds. I've slowly expanded to the point where I am now. I can listen to anything from Wagner, Mozart to Prince, Sting to Slayer, Manowar to The Time, D-A-D, to Bad Religion, Exploited and so on. When people ask me "what do you listen to?" I usually answer "good music" - it's the only bulletproof answer, since good/bad music is not a constant. I have stuff I can't listen to any more due to over exposure such as Nirvana, Veruca Salt, Strauss and many others. But the journey is the exciting bit.
Well, that's the thing, though, isn't it? He is using other peoples' standards by using OpenGL.
In a word: Specialization. I enjoy The Rock and Roll Geek Show where Michael Butler interviews celebs, plays lots of cool music and he even does a podcast with all indie stuff. I've also enjoyed the show Voices in my Head which deals with many of the same issues that /. deals with - only there are actual interviews and they manage to make the show very interesting. For me.
The last two words are important. There are shows out there for everyone. It's much like the web: There's so much out there, that some of it is bound to be good - and also to be liked by you. I'm subscribing to the two I just mentioned, but when I feel adventurous I go search for more stuff through podcast review sites.
I haven't yet met a site that convinced me to download whatever the webmaster thought was appropriate (often IE). It didn't work in '96 (NS) and it doesn't work now. Especially since IE is a horribly crippled browser unless you add at least a couple of plugins - and even then I'd rather use a browser that can actually render CSS correctly.
I suppose it's about time to have a quick detection on one's site: "Oops. It appears you're using an outdated browser. Please consider upgrading to Firefox, Opera or one of the other, safer alternatives. It's really for your own sake you know. It hurts me even more than it hurts you."
That said, who cares if someone wants to play around with the latest technology. As long as the information on the site isn't important and something everyone should be allowed access to, who really cares? And who would want to see the site anyway - except for the sake of geeky curiousity that is.
I've written many such letters over the years. The worst part is when government sites or other tax-funded things only work with specific browsers/players.
I guess I would have been on Fidonet having a long-winded discussion with some crazy trolls called Socrates, Plato or something like that.
...and what a difference an extremely long battery life makes too. Even with fairly heavy use I charge my DS about 1 time a week.
Meet LNG - formerly known as Lunix.
Science fiction is not just entertainment for geeks. Sure, it does that well, because geeks are attracted to technology, and science fiction is per definition related to new technology. Historically, though, sci-fi has been about what mankind will do with new inventions. About the dilemma of the individual obtaining god-like powers (see some of the early Star Trek or the excellent Forbidden Planet as an example). The earliest sci-fi was basically typical western stories set in space (frontier stories). Later on it was used to paraphrase political problems like during the red scare. When sci-fi has nothing better to do it tends to preach morality - like newer Star Treks that have a tendency to deal with basic human issues, diplomacy and so on, when it doesn't stray from the beaten path. Note that I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm just talking generally here.
Great sci-fi makes us think about issues that actually involve ourselves. Because they're set in an alien setting it's easier to be detached from normal prejudice. Take Planet of the Apes as an example. No, it's not an opiate for the masses. It's a wake-up call for the masses.
I'd recommend you to grab VLC too. It's very nice on all platforms and arguably the OS X interface is the nicest of them all (although the preference panes are somewhat lacking on this platform).