System Shock 2 has been patched to run reliably in Windows XP. It's kind of a pain to set up, but there are great tutorials to walk you through the steps and afterwards it works perfectly. I've played through the game twice without problem in Windows XP.
Of course the prices will go up. This is basic economics at work. The supply of Blu-Ray players hasn't appreciably increased, but the demand for them has since HD-DVD has been discontinued. More demand + flat supply = higher prices. If prices stayed the same then the supply would sell out quicker and there would be shortages. Now that Blu-Ray has been declared the "winner" of the format war, the manufacturers will produce more since there will be more guaranteed sales. Hence, the supply will rise and the prices will fall.
... in favor of the PSP, it would seem. All the graphs and commentary seemed (to me, at least) to say, "Wow, look how much memory the PSP has! Look at how huge the screen is! Our processor runs circles around everyone else!" Then it kind of glosses over the fact that the DS is outselling it even with its "inferior" specs.
Seriously, why do people fear change so much? The new Office design is much better than any previous version, in my opinion. No more hunting around in nested menus trying to find features - everything is right there in plain sight. Sure, there's a learning curve, but is it really so steep?
I think there are valid complaints about Office 2007 (namely, the new.*x format, which has tripped my fiancee up more than once in trying to print papers at school after typing them at home), but the design shouldn't be one of them.
I was really impressed with the video until I saw the character models. They suffer from the same issues that character models on the PS2 suffered - lack of depth. The costumes looked flat and lifeless, as well as too overdesigned.
The drunken wobbling they were doing in the battle preparation sequence was pretty unintentionally funny, too.
Hopefully I won't get modded down as a spammer or whatever, but I think this is relevant. My fiancee's brother is a big-time gamer and he is current working on producing/directing a movie about games called "Wheelchair Defender." He's not trying to adapt a video game into a movie, though - he's making a movie about gamers instead. It's a 'mockumentary' (a fake documentary - look up Christopher Guest's movies such as Best In Show, This Is Spinal Tap, etc) about gamers competing in a Counter-Strike tournament. He feels that the reason video game movies always suck is because Hollywood doesn't know anything about video games; he, on the other hand, has clocked countless hours in Counter-Strike and spends lots of time in gaming forums, so he knows the community well and knows what gamers are looking for. He made a 50-minute no-budget version of the movie a couple of years ago, and he's since expanded it into a full-length feature, to be shot either on film or HD video.
He's got a Web site if anyone is interested.
Still one of the most distinctly unusual platformers ever developed. Sure, the controls were a little wonky at times, but the sense of design in that game still looks and feels fantastic, ten years after release.
This is a very solid point. While the female demographic has been gaining presence in the last few years, video gaming is still very much a male activity. Nintendo's decision to simplify the Revolution experience, by making it more natural and fluid is extremely smart - as opposed to punching an ever-increasing number of buttons and analog sticks.
Limited copyright is an essential element to maintaining a consistent creative human spirit. By allowing works to be protected for a limited amount of time, the artist can comfortably turn some profit on their creation. But by allowing that protection to lapse, another creator can pick up the work of the original artist and manipulate it, turning it into something different. The whole of human creativity depends on building upon the works of others.
It's pretty frightening to think about the incredible lengths that IP holders are going to these days to increase the length of copyright ever further, all in the name of limited, short-term profits. They represent an immeasurable threat. Think about it: if copyright never expired, where would the motivation to innovate come from? There would be none, if you could indefinitely profit from one or two ideas.
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig has some very enlightened analysis on this subject.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Many people misunderstand or underestimate the power of the subconscious mind. Your conscious being is only a small fraction of who you really are. Just as the human brain has unmeasured amounts of unrealized potential, similarly the subconscious mind has an almost immeasurable effect on your conscious decision making.
Lucid dreaming is one of the most concrete examples of the subconscious mind at work - people have solved waking problems such as phobias or unresolved stresses by encountering and questioning dream figures. It's a well-documented scientific phenomenon.
This page has some general information about lucidity and use of the subconscious.
How long could we expect something like this to last? How long would it safely archive data? This is an issue that is becoming more and more relevant, seeing as information is now almost universally stored in digital format.
I really wish I had mod points to mod this down right now. People like you are exactly representative of the market that Nintendo isn't marketing toward - people who don't understand that there is more to gaming than the same rehashed genres and sequels with ever increasing "features."
Games don't have to be overly complex affairs. Some of us just don't have time to sit and devote hours of our time to learning and mastering a complex game. I used to be into complex RPGs that required insane amounts of time when I was younger, but these days I just don't have time for that any more. I want something I can pick up and play right away, and which I can comfortably play for half an hour or so and just have fun with.
That's where Nintendo's strength is - they've figured out that there are a lot of people like me that just want simple, quick, easy-to-access fun.
I had a bag checked at BestBuy once, two or three years ago. Since then, I have never had a bag checked at BestBuy or CompUSA. Maybe the policies are different where you live.
While I use Firefox myself and believe it is marginally more immune to exploit, I suspect that the most likely reason for the results in the FA is that Web users who know how to use Firefox in the first place are more likely to be cognisant of such threats to begin with, and are also more likely to protect their computers from spyware/adware/etc.
I briefly used Google Desktop because everyone raved about its amazing versatility. I also wanted a desktop search similar to Spotlight. When Google Desktop started bookmarking sites for me and linking to things I didn't ask for, I stopped using it almost immediately. I'm not interested in having a computer moderate my life for me.
I wouldn't trust any company with personal data, even if it is Google. Hell, I don't really even trust Google that much. It seems like they're growing too big too fast, built on too many creative yet economically-tenuous technologies. When will the house of cards collapse?
This is probably the smartest analysis of the music business that I've ever read. As someone who pays attention to the way the industry operates, and the way that musicians are chewed up and destroyed by it, I'm glad there are people who really understand the truth of what the business has become. I know it hasn't always been this way, and I don't know how it got here.
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System Shock 2 has been patched to run reliably in Windows XP. It's kind of a pain to set up, but there are great tutorials to walk you through the steps and afterwards it works perfectly. I've played through the game twice without problem in Windows XP.
Of course the prices will go up. This is basic economics at work. The supply of Blu-Ray players hasn't appreciably increased, but the demand for them has since HD-DVD has been discontinued. More demand + flat supply = higher prices. If prices stayed the same then the supply would sell out quicker and there would be shortages. Now that Blu-Ray has been declared the "winner" of the format war, the manufacturers will produce more since there will be more guaranteed sales. Hence, the supply will rise and the prices will fall.
Well-written and thoughtful? That article read like an elaborate parody.
... in favor of the PSP, it would seem. All the graphs and commentary seemed (to me, at least) to say, "Wow, look how much memory the PSP has! Look at how huge the screen is! Our processor runs circles around everyone else!" Then it kind of glosses over the fact that the DS is outselling it even with its "inferior" specs.
"It's the games, stupid!"
Seriously, why do people fear change so much? The new Office design is much better than any previous version, in my opinion. No more hunting around in nested menus trying to find features - everything is right there in plain sight. Sure, there's a learning curve, but is it really so steep?
.*x format, which has tripped my fiancee up more than once in trying to print papers at school after typing them at home), but the design shouldn't be one of them.
I think there are valid complaints about Office 2007 (namely, the new
I was really impressed with the video until I saw the character models. They suffer from the same issues that character models on the PS2 suffered - lack of depth. The costumes looked flat and lifeless, as well as too overdesigned.
The drunken wobbling they were doing in the battle preparation sequence was pretty unintentionally funny, too.
Hopefully I won't get modded down as a spammer or whatever, but I think this is relevant. My fiancee's brother is a big-time gamer and he is current working on producing/directing a movie about games called "Wheelchair Defender." He's not trying to adapt a video game into a movie, though - he's making a movie about gamers instead. It's a 'mockumentary' (a fake documentary - look up Christopher Guest's movies such as Best In Show, This Is Spinal Tap, etc) about gamers competing in a Counter-Strike tournament. He feels that the reason video game movies always suck is because Hollywood doesn't know anything about video games; he, on the other hand, has clocked countless hours in Counter-Strike and spends lots of time in gaming forums, so he knows the community well and knows what gamers are looking for. He made a 50-minute no-budget version of the movie a couple of years ago, and he's since expanded it into a full-length feature, to be shot either on film or HD video. He's got a Web site if anyone is interested.
Still one of the most distinctly unusual platformers ever developed. Sure, the controls were a little wonky at times, but the sense of design in that game still looks and feels fantastic, ten years after release.
This is a very solid point. While the female demographic has been gaining presence in the last few years, video gaming is still very much a male activity. Nintendo's decision to simplify the Revolution experience, by making it more natural and fluid is extremely smart - as opposed to punching an ever-increasing number of buttons and analog sticks.
Limited copyright is an essential element to maintaining a consistent creative human spirit. By allowing works to be protected for a limited amount of time, the artist can comfortably turn some profit on their creation. But by allowing that protection to lapse, another creator can pick up the work of the original artist and manipulate it, turning it into something different. The whole of human creativity depends on building upon the works of others.
It's pretty frightening to think about the incredible lengths that IP holders are going to these days to increase the length of copyright ever further, all in the name of limited, short-term profits. They represent an immeasurable threat. Think about it: if copyright never expired, where would the motivation to innovate come from? There would be none, if you could indefinitely profit from one or two ideas.
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig has some very enlightened analysis on this subject....the number of major players will continue to shrink.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Many people misunderstand or underestimate the power of the subconscious mind. Your conscious being is only a small fraction of who you really are. Just as the human brain has unmeasured amounts of unrealized potential, similarly the subconscious mind has an almost immeasurable effect on your conscious decision making.
Lucid dreaming is one of the most concrete examples of the subconscious mind at work - people have solved waking problems such as phobias or unresolved stresses by encountering and questioning dream figures. It's a well-documented scientific phenomenon.
This page has some general information about lucidity and use of the subconscious.
How long could we expect something like this to last? How long would it safely archive data? This is an issue that is becoming more and more relevant, seeing as information is now almost universally stored in digital format.
I really wish I had mod points to mod this down right now. People like you are exactly representative of the market that Nintendo isn't marketing toward - people who don't understand that there is more to gaming than the same rehashed genres and sequels with ever increasing "features."
Games don't have to be overly complex affairs. Some of us just don't have time to sit and devote hours of our time to learning and mastering a complex game. I used to be into complex RPGs that required insane amounts of time when I was younger, but these days I just don't have time for that any more. I want something I can pick up and play right away, and which I can comfortably play for half an hour or so and just have fun with.
That's where Nintendo's strength is - they've figured out that there are a lot of people like me that just want simple, quick, easy-to-access fun.
I had a bag checked at BestBuy once, two or three years ago. Since then, I have never had a bag checked at BestBuy or CompUSA. Maybe the policies are different where you live.
While I use Firefox myself and believe it is marginally more immune to exploit, I suspect that the most likely reason for the results in the FA is that Web users who know how to use Firefox in the first place are more likely to be cognisant of such threats to begin with, and are also more likely to protect their computers from spyware/adware/etc.
I briefly used Google Desktop because everyone raved about its amazing versatility. I also wanted a desktop search similar to Spotlight. When Google Desktop started bookmarking sites for me and linking to things I didn't ask for, I stopped using it almost immediately. I'm not interested in having a computer moderate my life for me. I wouldn't trust any company with personal data, even if it is Google. Hell, I don't really even trust Google that much. It seems like they're growing too big too fast, built on too many creative yet economically-tenuous technologies. When will the house of cards collapse?
I wish I could mod this up. I would totally buy into a MPC setup where you could scroll through channels using an iPod-style scroll wheel.
This is probably the smartest analysis of the music business that I've ever read. As someone who pays attention to the way the industry operates, and the way that musicians are chewed up and destroyed by it, I'm glad there are people who really understand the truth of what the business has become. I know it hasn't always been this way, and I don't know how it got here.
Yeah, we all saw how well that worked in "Street Fighter: The Movie." One of the worst arcade fighters ever made.
When the biggest news attached to your next-gen handheld is whether or not it's possible to play 10-year-old games on it.