I think Howard Dean just proved that three years ago, the media was still stronger than the blogosphere. He may have had the blogger's support, but after his "yippee" (or whatever) was mocked constantly on the news channels, etc. he was basically defeated.
Not to counter one tired statement with another, but he wasn't impeached for receiving a blowjob, he was impeached (by the House) because he lied under oath (committed perjury).
I read somewhere else (I believe Kotaku), that the lack of planes lead people to believe that there would be no countryside area, which is kind of disappointing (but obviously not a confirmation). One of my favorite parts of San Andreas was cruising around a mountain on a hog listening to the country station. It actually felt like I was there...
Keep in mind that MS Points are not on a 100:$1 ratio, I think it's more like 100:$1.20 but I could be wrong. So 500 points is actually $6. But you did say "around $5" so whatever.
I do agree with you that the price seems fair. Most people are not looking to buy every song from Guitar Hero 1 (or new tracks for that matter), they will pick and choose their favorites and then they'll have a party and buy a few more per guests' requests and that'll be that. The average person will probably buy only two or three packs of songs.
Because maybe said person using a proxy at work violates a code of conduct and could possibly be fired or reprimanded, and sees that asking someone to "infringe copyright" (especially of a press release) as a minor offense and would much rather perform the latter?
I've been using dual monitors for years at home, but I don't have an extra one at work yet. I'm still relatively new, and though many people do have two monitors (and waste them enormously by setting the monitors at some grotesque resolution like 800x600 or 1024x768), I need to get the balls and ask for it.
Smash Bros. is a system seller like Halo and Metal Gear Solid. If you haven't realized that by now, and to quote, "you obviously know nothing of video games and have no taste, therefore your opinion is of no value to anybody with an I.Q. over 12."
Very interesting, sounds like you really have something there. I'm asking because I'm writing a game where the main characters are introduced to a place where they don't speak the native language and I'm trying to find solutions on how to solve this without either making it really boring or have nothing to do with the game itself (ie. Bully-esque minigames where cutting a sheet of paper increases your art skill). This transition isn't supposed shouldn't take too long either (as it's not the intent of the game) and the only game I can think of that you learned another language over the course of the game is Final Fantasy X, but learning the language wasn't required and was more of a bonus. I don't want to resort to a Babelfish-in-the-ear solution either though I thought of it for a while. I'm more interested in the player's character actively learning the language and overcoming an obstacle.
My favorite DS games were the ones that used the stylus really, really well. Kirby: Canvas Curse, Trauma Center, and Elite Beat Agents to name a few. Three years ago I would have laughed at the idea of drawing lines for Kirby to walk on, playing surgeon, or playing a rhythm game by tapping circles on the screen, but these WORK and they are incredibly fun.
So yeah, I want more games like that. More stylus only games that are innovative and fun, I know that's a lot to ask from some developers, but I will buy your game if it's good.
I'm not trying to demean non-stylus DS games or games where you don't use the stylus much, as there are plenty of great games like that too (Phoenix Wright and Castlevania to name a few), but stylus only games are what make the system unique and wonderful to play.
A couple months ago, I was looking into different AJAX frameworks to leverage for an internal web app my group supports. Right now, we basically have a giant tree that is loading about 40,000 nodes from a database at once and then using CSS to show and hide our hierarchy of nodes. This was starting to become inefficient at load time, taking a couple of seconds for the tree to generate and then for the browser to render it. So I started investigating dynamic loading trees using AJAX and then doing a new database call for every node expansion.
First thing I looked at was GWT because I'm a Google fanboy. Their demo seemed great, and we started getting hyped up that our solution was right in front of us. I started tinkering around with the demos, basically hacking their tree demo into something usable for us to get started quickly. Anyways, it didn't take long to find out that to make things worked, everything had to be basically compiled into this horrendous looking Javascript (yes, worse than the usual stuff) that was obviously unreadable (not that was supposed to be). For this and a few other reasons, it didn't take me and a coworker long to realize this was not the solution for us.
I'm sure Google Web Toolkit is great for building a site from the ground up with, but didn't fit into our existing J2EE app very well.
Anyways, if you must know, we looked into the Dojo Web Toolkit and I wrote our tree using that, unfortunately, that framework seems buggy and prone to memory leaks as expanding one node can take much longer than the initial load/render for the CSS tree. We're still using the CSS tree in production, if anyone has any help, let me know! But that's my experience with the Google Web Toolkit. Short and bittersweet.
There's a great book series by Bryce Courtenay where the first book's (The Potato Factory) last story arc tells about the birth and childhood of a unique pair of semi-identical twins. The mother was a white woman who gave both a black man and an American Indian the right to have sex with her on the same night (long story, read it if you're interested) and had a pair of twins where one was black and the other white. The next book (Tommo and Hawk) was all about the boys and their teenage years living in Australia and New Zealand in the early 20th century. Great series but the really interesting part are the boys, who are technically twins, but are very different in both looks and personality.
Actually now that I think about it they might not have been semi-identical but just fraternal...
Something similar is happening in the podcast world, Scott Sigler, an author who releases all his books for free via podcast, is releasing his second novel to hardcopy in about a week. He's going through a big promotion to try to get Ancestor number one on Amazon for at least a few minutes. Here's a link to his plea. Pretty interesting, but too bad it's probably my least favorite out of all the books he has written.
What's not to say a Hummer won't last 300k miles? If the car is taken well care of, and you have a little luck, it will last that long. I drive a Toyota Tercel with 318,000 miles on it, some people just drive the heck out of their car. Though I would wager the average owner for a Prius or Hummer will only drive it for about 100k to 150k miles before their lease ends or they buy the newer edition.
$60 is nothing new for games, I remember NES and SNES games costing this much, and after inflation, that price was probably closer to 80 or 90 of today's dollars. I've probably only bought about five total $60 dollar games, and most of those were for the N64. I buy most of my games used or at the $40 price range, just requires a little patience...
Regarding God of War 2, considering the game was developed and published by SCE, did you at any time consider releasing the game exclusively for the PS3, or create an "enhanced" version similar to what Nintendo did to Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii? Even though the game obviously wasn't ready at launch in November, releasing a full 1080p version of the game alongside (or in place of) the PS2 version but also featuring motion control seems like it could have been a huge system seller for the PS3 in this relatively dry period of early spring.
I went to school at Madison and when I was there, no one bothered connecting wirelessly unless they were a guest at our house or something. It's so congested there and if you look for wireless networks you'll usually see at least five open ones, which is great for leaching but bad for everything else. We always just ran Cat5 all around the house, sometimes even as long as 100ft and going up two floors. Messy, but hey, we were in college-town. I'd say, run wired when you can, buy some cheap cables online at a site like monoprice if you're going to go this route. Otherwise, follow the suggestion of everyone else in this topic.
And don't split the cost of the (new?) equipment with your roommates. Buy it for yourself and when you move out, keep it. Then you'll have the best stuff on the block no matter where you live.
Seriously, notice the use of the acronym "PC". It's a semantic trick to exclude non-Windows systems from the analysis. Even now that Macs are x86, they're STILL don't qualify as PCs.
Blame Apple? It is their set of commercials where they pit an Apple versus a PC, isn't it?
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I think Howard Dean just proved that three years ago, the media was still stronger than the blogosphere. He may have had the blogger's support, but after his "yippee" (or whatever) was mocked constantly on the news channels, etc. he was basically defeated.
Why run the red light when the officer could just flash the sensor with their beam thing and turn the light green?
Not to counter one tired statement with another, but he wasn't impeached for receiving a blowjob, he was impeached (by the House) because he lied under oath (committed perjury).
I read somewhere else (I believe Kotaku), that the lack of planes lead people to believe that there would be no countryside area, which is kind of disappointing (but obviously not a confirmation). One of my favorite parts of San Andreas was cruising around a mountain on a hog listening to the country station. It actually felt like I was there...
Hey, this kinda reminds me of the time Slashdot hit the comment limit in its database.
Keep in mind that MS Points are not on a 100:$1 ratio, I think it's more like 100:$1.20 but I could be wrong. So 500 points is actually $6. But you did say "around $5" so whatever.
I do agree with you that the price seems fair. Most people are not looking to buy every song from Guitar Hero 1 (or new tracks for that matter), they will pick and choose their favorites and then they'll have a party and buy a few more per guests' requests and that'll be that. The average person will probably buy only two or three packs of songs.
Because maybe said person using a proxy at work violates a code of conduct and could possibly be fired or reprimanded, and sees that asking someone to "infringe copyright" (especially of a press release) as a minor offense and would much rather perform the latter?
I've been using dual monitors for years at home, but I don't have an extra one at work yet. I'm still relatively new, and though many people do have two monitors (and waste them enormously by setting the monitors at some grotesque resolution like 800x600 or 1024x768), I need to get the balls and ask for it.
So basically he tends to overestimate on the Yankees, so maybe a safer bet would be ~100 wins?
Smash Bros. is a system seller like Halo and Metal Gear Solid. If you haven't realized that by now, and to quote, "you obviously know nothing of video games and have no taste, therefore your opinion is of no value to anybody with an I.Q. over 12."
Very interesting, sounds like you really have something there. I'm asking because I'm writing a game where the main characters are introduced to a place where they don't speak the native language and I'm trying to find solutions on how to solve this without either making it really boring or have nothing to do with the game itself (ie. Bully-esque minigames where cutting a sheet of paper increases your art skill). This transition isn't supposed shouldn't take too long either (as it's not the intent of the game) and the only game I can think of that you learned another language over the course of the game is Final Fantasy X, but learning the language wasn't required and was more of a bonus. I don't want to resort to a Babelfish-in-the-ear solution either though I thought of it for a while. I'm more interested in the player's character actively learning the language and overcoming an obstacle.
Can you write up how you designed the game? I would love to know how you went about this!
My favorite DS games were the ones that used the stylus really, really well. Kirby: Canvas Curse, Trauma Center, and Elite Beat Agents to name a few. Three years ago I would have laughed at the idea of drawing lines for Kirby to walk on, playing surgeon, or playing a rhythm game by tapping circles on the screen, but these WORK and they are incredibly fun.
So yeah, I want more games like that. More stylus only games that are innovative and fun, I know that's a lot to ask from some developers, but I will buy your game if it's good.
I'm not trying to demean non-stylus DS games or games where you don't use the stylus much, as there are plenty of great games like that too (Phoenix Wright and Castlevania to name a few), but stylus only games are what make the system unique and wonderful to play.
Hoooooly crap, and all these years here I thought I was the only one to ever hear that...
and more Alpha Centauri!
A couple months ago, I was looking into different AJAX frameworks to leverage for an internal web app my group supports. Right now, we basically have a giant tree that is loading about 40,000 nodes from a database at once and then using CSS to show and hide our hierarchy of nodes. This was starting to become inefficient at load time, taking a couple of seconds for the tree to generate and then for the browser to render it. So I started investigating dynamic loading trees using AJAX and then doing a new database call for every node expansion.
First thing I looked at was GWT because I'm a Google fanboy. Their demo seemed great, and we started getting hyped up that our solution was right in front of us. I started tinkering around with the demos, basically hacking their tree demo into something usable for us to get started quickly. Anyways, it didn't take long to find out that to make things worked, everything had to be basically compiled into this horrendous looking Javascript (yes, worse than the usual stuff) that was obviously unreadable (not that was supposed to be). For this and a few other reasons, it didn't take me and a coworker long to realize this was not the solution for us.
I'm sure Google Web Toolkit is great for building a site from the ground up with, but didn't fit into our existing J2EE app very well.
Anyways, if you must know, we looked into the Dojo Web Toolkit and I wrote our tree using that, unfortunately, that framework seems buggy and prone to memory leaks as expanding one node can take much longer than the initial load/render for the CSS tree. We're still using the CSS tree in production, if anyone has any help, let me know! But that's my experience with the Google Web Toolkit. Short and bittersweet.
There's a great book series by Bryce Courtenay where the first book's (The Potato Factory) last story arc tells about the birth and childhood of a unique pair of semi-identical twins. The mother was a white woman who gave both a black man and an American Indian the right to have sex with her on the same night (long story, read it if you're interested) and had a pair of twins where one was black and the other white. The next book (Tommo and Hawk) was all about the boys and their teenage years living in Australia and New Zealand in the early 20th century. Great series but the really interesting part are the boys, who are technically twins, but are very different in both looks and personality.
Actually now that I think about it they might not have been semi-identical but just fraternal...
Not a big surprise that the weakest link of their security is the human element.
Something similar is happening in the podcast world, Scott Sigler, an author who releases all his books for free via podcast, is releasing his second novel to hardcopy in about a week. He's going through a big promotion to try to get Ancestor number one on Amazon for at least a few minutes. Here's a link to his plea. Pretty interesting, but too bad it's probably my least favorite out of all the books he has written.
I don't use iTunes but Xbox Media Center has no problem talking to iTunes.
What's not to say a Hummer won't last 300k miles? If the car is taken well care of, and you have a little luck, it will last that long. I drive a Toyota Tercel with 318,000 miles on it, some people just drive the heck out of their car. Though I would wager the average owner for a Prius or Hummer will only drive it for about 100k to 150k miles before their lease ends or they buy the newer edition.
$60 is nothing new for games, I remember NES and SNES games costing this much, and after inflation, that price was probably closer to 80 or 90 of today's dollars. I've probably only bought about five total $60 dollar games, and most of those were for the N64. I buy most of my games used or at the $40 price range, just requires a little patience...
Regarding God of War 2, considering the game was developed and published by SCE, did you at any time consider releasing the game exclusively for the PS3, or create an "enhanced" version similar to what Nintendo did to Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii? Even though the game obviously wasn't ready at launch in November, releasing a full 1080p version of the game alongside (or in place of) the PS2 version but also featuring motion control seems like it could have been a huge system seller for the PS3 in this relatively dry period of early spring.
I went to school at Madison and when I was there, no one bothered connecting wirelessly unless they were a guest at our house or something. It's so congested there and if you look for wireless networks you'll usually see at least five open ones, which is great for leaching but bad for everything else. We always just ran Cat5 all around the house, sometimes even as long as 100ft and going up two floors. Messy, but hey, we were in college-town. I'd say, run wired when you can, buy some cheap cables online at a site like monoprice if you're going to go this route. Otherwise, follow the suggestion of everyone else in this topic.
And don't split the cost of the (new?) equipment with your roommates. Buy it for yourself and when you move out, keep it. Then you'll have the best stuff on the block no matter where you live.
Blame Apple? It is their set of commercials where they pit an Apple versus a PC, isn't it?