The Nintendo Revolution controller is one-handed in its default state. Adding tilt sensors (or a touchpad like the DS) and rearranging the buttons a little could actually make a mobile phone into a usable game controller.
The other problem is publishing support - plently of other handhelds have come and gone, the market seems to make it pretty clear that without Nintendo, Sony, or some other big name in gaming behind it a portable console isn't going to do well.
Well, firstly, the news was actually happening in the US so I imagine the US correspondents were updating the US BBC site directly. The link with Europe was probably either something simple like telephone, or via one of the satellites they have access to and use for remote cameras etc.
And we heard that a semi-sequel to Total Annihiliation is coming out, called Supreme Commander. Just reading a preview gave me as much enjoyment as many actual games manage. Battalion Wars on the GC too.
Empire Earth 2 (demo). Allows true co-op play, with two people controlling the same side. Lots of fun, and I'd never seen that in an RTS before (not that I play that many of them).
If you play games a lot, cutting the 30 second level load time down to 15 will save you 6 minutes a day of staring at a loading screen. (Based on 4 hours of 10 minute rounds). Ghosting to/from a USB hard drive takes a few minutes to set up, then you can walk away (probably to a games console). Using a RAID and backing up weekly will save you a noticable amount of time.
Personally, I'd rather have the extra space - I never uninstall anything, still have my original Wolfenstein 3D:)
Yeah, real mouse here, moved with fingertips. If I moved my whole arm I might actually develop some muscles in it and lose geek cred.
p.s. I thought that Apple-style mouse interaction was all about fast, long distance movement, hence big menus at the screen edge for the mouse to slam into. Fingertip style is good at short distance and precise, so Apple promoting fingertip mouse movement seems contradictory.
"While many physicists and the like may look down on environmental science"
Physicists are reductionists who like to break a problem down into small, simple parts which can be investigated, and completely understood. Ecology, biology and medicine tend to deal with subjects that are so complex that coming up with a solid conclusion is extrememly difficult. I think physicists have the greatest respect for people who manage that, but less for people who don't and publish anyway.
(I'm not implying that all physics is rock-solid either.)
It's already trivial to do this with CDs and DVDs, but it's pretty rare to see it happening.
Possibly people care about the shiny box, or possibly the industries don't want to remind people how easy it is to reproduce digital stuff. I'd rather take the savings on distribution.
I kid, I kid. I mean one of us must have gotten laid right?
Depends if you count RMS arse-raping CmdrTaco while he sucks off ESR. -- Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
Sooooo, was that naive and idealistic or harsh and realistic?
Someone else using your machine can grab the serial number, put it on the net and get it potentially banned from windows update by MS.
Of course, physical access breaks most security measures, but it didn't have to break this one. But given that a fair number of machines have a Microsoft sticker on them with the key in plain view, and that recovering a lost key you own is potentially pretty useful, it's hard to complain about this.
Yes, but I've read that they aren't engineered to handle the stresses of a high-speed drive so I'd copy them to CD-Rs or the hard drive. I've used my original PS1 discs in my 24-speed drive with no problem (using ePSXe), but they could shatter in a 52-speed.
The image looks like it might be largely symmetrical. It'd be worth combining the two halves, though I'm not sure what procedure would give the best results.
Maybe average the colours in 16x16 blocks (does that eliminate the jpeg noise?) then average the two halves. Or just check for pixels that are the same shade on each side, this throws out most of the data but even more of the noise.
There will be an xbox 360 vga cable for $30. Which is pretty cool, I loved the vga output on the dreamcast. Hopefully all the other consoles will have vga out, since HDTV hasn't happened in Europe yet.
p.s. I love PC gaming, console gaming and handheld gaming. And when you're thinking of the cost of PC gaming, don't forget that there are tons of great free games, lately I've played the FEAR demo, Nexuiz , Wesnoth and the Battlefield 2 demo, all of which are lots of fun. I spend more on my gamecube for less playing time (though better social multiplayer).
But unlike a religion the idea is to find out. The religious interpretation of the data would be "It's Intelligent Gravity! Now lets go over the Bible again and see if we can interpret this in somehow."
Seriously, not only are games full-screen most of the time, but I would much rather have my graphics card working on my framerate than transparent jiggly menus.
Look, it's easy. You get people to pay you to make the movie. People who want to see it will pay, see all the money they raised for Star Trek: Enterprise for instance. Once the technique goes mainstream it can only get easier - assuming you can impress people that something you create will be worth watching.
Profiting from controlling distribution is being made increasingly difficult by technology, irrespective of everyone on the internet going to hell or not. But getting paid to create cannot be technologically circumvented, it's where a lot of things will probably end up.
Yeah. It seems it was too ambitious, I'd have settled for fixing and extending the old game (better AI, more interesting tech, better management etc.).
There's always freestars, but that doesn't seem to be moving very fast.
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The Nintendo Revolution controller is one-handed in its default state. Adding tilt sensors (or a touchpad like the DS) and rearranging the buttons a little could actually make a mobile phone into a usable game controller.
The other problem is publishing support - plently of other handhelds have come and gone, the market seems to make it pretty clear that without Nintendo, Sony, or some other big name in gaming behind it a portable console isn't going to do well.
"if you're the type of collector who is proud of their collection you wouldn't want this"
Wait, collecting movies or collecting shiny boxes? Because I have lots of very pretty DVD cases I can sell, maybe even for a discount!
A bigger question is about the inclusion of DVD extras.
Well, firstly, the news was actually happening in the US so I imagine the US correspondents were updating the US BBC site directly. The link with Europe was probably either something simple like telephone, or via one of the satellites they have access to and use for remote cameras etc.
The beeb has a New York data centre, with a variety of US mirrors.
Network map.
Empire Earth 2 (demo). Allows true co-op play, with two people controlling the same side. Lots of fun, and I'd never seen that in an RTS before (not that I play that many of them).
Your time, I agree.
:)
If you play games a lot, cutting the 30 second level load time down to 15 will save you 6 minutes a day of staring at a loading screen. (Based on 4 hours of 10 minute rounds). Ghosting to/from a USB hard drive takes a few minutes to set up, then you can walk away (probably to a games console). Using a RAID and backing up weekly will save you a noticable amount of time.
Personally, I'd rather have the extra space - I never uninstall anything, still have my original Wolfenstein 3D
I don't, because the referrer system is crap and I want them to stop it. It encourages spam referrer links.
I've watched Counter Strike games on TV. It's getting people to care that would need to happen.
Yeah, real mouse here, moved with fingertips.
If I moved my whole arm I might actually develop some muscles in it and lose geek cred.
p.s. I thought that Apple-style mouse interaction was all about fast, long distance movement, hence big menus at the screen edge for the mouse to slam into. Fingertip style is good at short distance and precise, so Apple promoting fingertip mouse movement seems contradictory.
"While many physicists and the like may look down on environmental science"
Physicists are reductionists who like to break a problem down into small, simple parts which can be investigated, and completely understood.
Ecology, biology and medicine tend to deal with subjects that are so complex that coming up with a solid conclusion is extrememly difficult.
I think physicists have the greatest respect for people who manage that, but less for people who don't and publish anyway.
(I'm not implying that all physics is rock-solid either.)
It's already trivial to do this with CDs and DVDs, but it's pretty rare to see it happening.
Possibly people care about the shiny box, or possibly the industries don't want to remind people how easy it is to reproduce digital stuff.
I'd rather take the savings on distribution.
Sooooo, was that naive and idealistic or harsh and realistic?
Someone else using your machine can grab the serial number, put it on the net and get it potentially banned from windows update by MS.
Of course, physical access breaks most security measures, but it didn't have to break this one. But given that a fair number of machines have a Microsoft sticker on them with the key in plain view, and that recovering a lost key you own is potentially pretty useful, it's hard to complain about this.
Timesplitters 3 doesn't do that, presumably because it annoyed everyone in TS2. The only thing you seem to unlock is extra skins.
Yes, but I've read that they aren't engineered to handle the stresses of a high-speed drive so I'd copy them to CD-Rs or the hard drive. I've used my original PS1 discs in my 24-speed drive with no problem (using ePSXe), but they could shatter in a 52-speed.
See cdexplode, at the bottom.
AKA playing Elite 2 :)
The image looks like it might be largely symmetrical. It'd be worth combining the two halves, though I'm not sure what procedure would give the best results.
Maybe average the colours in 16x16 blocks (does that eliminate the jpeg noise?) then average the two halves. Or just check for pixels that are the same shade on each side, this throws out most of the data but even more of the noise.
There will be an xbox 360 vga cable for $30. Which is pretty cool, I loved the vga output on the dreamcast. Hopefully all the other consoles will have vga out, since HDTV hasn't happened in Europe yet.
p.s. I love PC gaming, console gaming and handheld gaming. And when you're thinking of the cost of PC gaming, don't forget that there are tons of great free games, lately I've played the FEAR demo, Nexuiz , Wesnoth and the Battlefield 2 demo, all of which are lots of fun. I spend more on my gamecube for less playing time (though better social multiplayer).
Yes, sorry, I misinterpreted your post.
Halo 2 had over 1.5 million preorders in the US, and presumably sold more in the first week. So I could believe 2 million in that week.
Anyway, your point stands. Nintendogs is a huge seller, and certainly has one of the highest game/console sales ratios out there.
But unlike a religion the idea is to find out. The religious interpretation of the data would be "It's Intelligent Gravity! Now lets go over the Bible again and see if we can interpret this in somehow."
A gamer craves not these things.
Seriously, not only are games full-screen most of the time, but I would much rather have my graphics card working on my framerate than transparent jiggly menus.
Halo was a launch title, which he's excluding.
Halo 2 is in the same league though, it's sold over 5 million and there are about 20 million xboxes worldwide, IIRC.
Look, it's easy. You get people to pay you to make the movie. People who want to see it will pay, see all the money they raised for Star Trek: Enterprise for instance. Once the technique goes mainstream it can only get easier - assuming you can impress people that something you create will be worth watching.
Profiting from controlling distribution is being made increasingly difficult by technology, irrespective of everyone on the internet going to hell or not. But getting paid to create cannot be technologically circumvented, it's where a lot of things will probably end up.
Oh, it was nothing.
Yeah. It seems it was too ambitious, I'd have settled for fixing and extending the old game (better AI, more interesting tech, better management etc.).
There's always freestars, but that doesn't seem to be moving very fast.