So would the infrastructure for switching to a hydrogen economy, but we're going to need something in the future. I doubt there are many if any choices that can utilize the current infrastructure.
Highway tolls are outrageous enough, but atleast I can reduce the cost of my trip by buying a more efficient car. If we had to run off highway lines like electric busses (or cars in the Super Mario Bros. movie, blech) We'd all be paying the same (likely extravegant) rate. Then you also have people who actually buy cars/trucks for work like farming, construction, or just a camping trip. I don't think they'd enjoy cars that rely on the Highway supply and ultra-capacitors that only get you from highway to home.
1up's links to summation of the interview point out: "You download a car for 50 - 100 yen (0.43 - 0.85$) and a course for 200 - 500 yen (1.71 - 4.26$). Over 750 cars and 50 tracks are available for purchase. Users can define race events freely and can hold online race events by themselves.
Not all cars and courses are available on the release date, they are added monthly. Some models may be a limited release for 1000 units. New playing modes and tuning parts may be available via download. It's still undecided if they allow trade among users in fear of real money trade."
Sounds kind of like DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office's GALE Program:
" The goal of the GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program is to develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages, eliminating the need for linguists and analysts and automatically providing relevant, distilled actionable information to military command and personnel in a timely fashion. Automatic processing "engines" will convert and distill the data, delivering pertinent, consolidated information in easy-to-understand forms to military personnel and monolingual English-speaking analysts in response to direct or implicit requests."
"Even if there was a consumer who decided to buy the PlayStation 3 perhaps as a Blu-ray player, I think that they will quickly realize the potential and the entertainment value of the fantastic content in true (high definition). Any consumer would be hard-pressed really not to try that functionality out."
Witness the awesome entertainment value enabled by Blue-Ray games disks! No cars or courses!
"We wanted to take advantage of the storage capacity that Blu-ray offers in terms of motion pictures and other content, but most importantly, for games as well. Our decision to include the Blu-ray player from day one in all of our PlayStation 3s was the right decision and, quite honestly, the only decision we can make.
Look at the massive amounts of data that's required to provide a truly immersive gaming experience in true HD. If you only have a DVD ROM drive, which can only go up to about 9GB or so, you're going to end up with a game that's going to have two or possibly even three discs. And then you're going to have to ask consumers to swap discs out or cache all the game onto the hard drive which I think is an inconvenience--not to mention the fact that you're going to fill up a 20GB hard drive very quickly with some of these games. So trying to go without a Blu-ray drive in the PlayStation 3 really is a nonstarter."
It doesn't just move air! It purifies air! It traps the dirt 'n dust particle right onto the collection plate, keeping it out of the air you breath!
Anyone else see that infomercial? Makes me wonder, is this thing going to trap more dust than a regular fan or is the infomercial a bunch of marketing bull? I'm betting on marketing bull, but it would be nice if cleaning it were as simple as removing the "collection plate" and wiping it.
They've seem more concerned about cheaters than pirates. They feel that online cheaters hurt their sales much more than piracy. They have implemented much tougher anti-cheating measures through VAC than they have for anti-piracy. Even back when steam was an little patch downloader for CS 1.4 Beta, their VAC was there.
Have you tried tech support? They are way too helpful when I need it. You might see if there's a problem that has to do with your location, especially if you connect through certain universities. I haven't been having any problems with downloading games or content.
It says right in the article that it was implied that there would be a region lock that could be flipped on by a publisher. I don't doubt it'll be used and used a lot, but atleast they made the (non) effort of not region locking the whole thing. PS3's supposed to be region free too, last time I heard; but blue-ray disks (which the games are on) are region locked by their own nature.
I think you might be a bit confused on hype. Hype is not really a couple demos explaining things you can do in a game and then your imagination building on top of it until your out of touch with reality. Its spastic advertising tricks like pre-rendered cinematics (ps2/ps3), over indulgent terms (emotion engine, umm...something not Sony...uh...oh! Revolution!) and just general streatching the truth. Then, fans minds run away with the distorted advertised image.
I wouldn't really call Spore overhyped. I rarely see or hear anything offical about it and never saw any advertisements. All I've seen is a couple demo videos and some speeches. That's not hype.The only real hype for Spore I could find was EA's overstatement of it "taking over the world" (by being on every console.) Of course, everyone took this differently and it eventually came out to sound like it'd be a darn near simeoultaneous launch. Which of course, Will Wright never said. All he said was he wanted to bring it to lots of other platforms and thought it was feasable. And then of course, things went sour when they announced (as I expected) they were focused on bring it to the PC first. A real example of hype is Sony and their PS3, it's got the advertising and marketing storm brew, rather than just the imagination.
Just as a side point, your right, it won't feature a mix between asynchronous and synchronous multiplayer. All it'll do is upload other people's content onto a central database that your game can then pull from to get a creature that matches certain search requirements. Totally asyncronous, nothing changes on the guy that made the creatures computer except possibly having a tally of total times downloaded go up.
We can't control what we do. Eventually, someone on this planet is going to have enough starving people and enough technology and GM foods will happen.
Of course, no one ever seems to bring up how much GM organisms we deal with here in America. 89% of the planted area of soybeans, 83% of cotton, and 61% maize are genetically modified varieties in America. According to wikipedia: The Grocery Manufacturers of America estimate that 75% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain a GM ingredient. Think of all those processed foods we consume all the time. It is estimated that 70% of products on U.S. grocery shelves include GM-derived ingredients. In truth, America represents the largest portion of GM Food's surface area at 68% of the world's total surface area devoted to GM crops.
This stuff has been going on for 10 years now, I don't see it stopping any time soon. Not that I think it needs to anyways.
User error happens. That's why they should make backup plans. I don't understand why they can't also have paper ballots in cases of emergency or a user who prefers not to use an electronic ballot.
Actually, That might work better than you think. Typing of the Dead. Took House of the Dead 2, put it on the dreamcast and had you type for your life! Reading of the Dead: and Edutainment game. Edutainment...now there's a real zombie.
Hmm, between the 24 hour news network's focus on 9/11, nearly all my RSS feed speiling off 9/11 headlings, my news sites providing indepth coverage, and of course any remotely entertaining channel running 9/11 specials since friday, I hadn't even noticed. I would perfer not to have a 9/11 story unless its new news; I don't want to sound insensitive but anything and everything that could possibly be said or shown has been running reel-to-reel everywhere else today.
I know birds aren't smartest creatures, but I don't remember if they can memorize there migration path (though I assume not.) Could the hightening of this magnetic sense during certain seasonal light conditions direct the birds to follow the earth's magnetic field, guiding them until they encounter an area with lighting conditions sufficient to disrupt the sense?
That seems a bit misleading, though. I'll set aside the argument that HDTVs sold in 2007-2010 will not have any significance on the % of high end PS3 units at launch, and focus on other points. First, if estimated sales are $24 billion this year and that is still only 10% of America TVs, then that's only about a 65% increase over whatever % of the 10% of TVs expected to be HDTV by 2006 was actually bought in 2006. Furthermore, the 41% of all TVs sold are HDTVs remark is also misleading. One does not buy a new TV as often as one, say, upgrades a computer. Those 75% last year and 49% this year are going to keep their SDTVs for quite a bit of time. It is reasonable to accept that TV sales are increasingly HDTVs, however it is faulty to assume that Television sales themselves will climb higher or likely even stay the same. As the transition occures, TV sales will most likely fall as the need to upgrade from analog to digital (not necessarily HD) is satisfied. In the end I do not think HDTVs will rapidly spread in a way meaningful enough for Sony's PS3 to really capitalize on it and certainly not at lauch a few months from now. Again, that's not to say HDTV penetration in America will never reach high levels, just that they won't be high enough in time to save the PS3.
Since the Space phase unlocks the prior phases (in ways that have not been fully explained) it is reasonable to think that at that point in the game any changes you wish to inact would be possible. Perhaps they have genetic engineering to change your character again. I saw a poster that advertised "space-time" manipulation, but it might just be their version of quick interstellar travel.
Rather than go off about the promised kilobytes sized avatars and fancy procedural generated content that I understand little about, I'm going to make a reasonable hypothesis based on past occurance...
I figure it'll be a trimmed down, more goal oriented-less sandboxy version like The Sims 2 for Gameboy Advanced It'd be interesting to see if anything neat is done with the DS' touch screen, although I suspect it'll just be used as a mouse during the editing process.
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Funny, I'm predicting a very large increase in gasoline prices right about... 12:01am, November 8, 2006.
So would the infrastructure for switching to a hydrogen economy, but we're going to need something in the future. I doubt there are many if any choices that can utilize the current infrastructure.
Highway tolls are outrageous enough, but atleast I can reduce the cost of my trip by buying a more efficient car. If we had to run off highway lines like electric busses (or cars in the Super Mario Bros. movie, blech) We'd all be paying the same (likely extravegant) rate. Then you also have people who actually buy cars/trucks for work like farming, construction, or just a camping trip. I don't think they'd enjoy cars that rely on the Highway supply and ultra-capacitors that only get you from highway to home.
1up's links to summation of the interview point out: "You download a car for 50 - 100 yen (0.43 - 0.85$) and a course for 200 - 500 yen (1.71 - 4.26$). Over 750 cars and 50 tracks are available for purchase. Users can define race events freely and can hold online race events by themselves.
Not all cars and courses are available on the release date, they are added monthly. Some models may be a limited release for 1000 units. New playing modes and tuning parts may be available via download. It's still undecided if they allow trade among users in fear of real money trade."
Sounds kind of like DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office's GALE Program:
" The goal of the GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program is to develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages, eliminating the need for linguists and analysts and automatically providing relevant, distilled actionable information to military command and personnel in a timely fashion. Automatic processing "engines" will convert and distill the data, delivering pertinent, consolidated information in easy-to-understand forms to military personnel and monolingual English-speaking analysts in response to direct or implicit requests."
"Even if there was a consumer who decided to buy the PlayStation 3 perhaps as a Blu-ray player, I think that they will quickly realize the potential and the entertainment value of the fantastic content in true (high definition). Any consumer would be hard-pressed really not to try that functionality out."
-- Kazuo Hirai Let the PS3 games Begin
Witness the awesome entertainment value enabled by Blue-Ray games disks! No cars or courses!
"We wanted to take advantage of the storage capacity that Blu-ray offers in terms of motion pictures and other content, but most importantly, for games as well. Our decision to include the Blu-ray player from day one in all of our PlayStation 3s was the right decision and, quite honestly, the only decision we can make.
Look at the massive amounts of data that's required to provide a truly immersive gaming experience in true HD. If you only have a DVD ROM drive, which can only go up to about 9GB or so, you're going to end up with a game that's going to have two or possibly even three discs. And then you're going to have to ask consumers to swap discs out or cache all the game onto the hard drive which I think is an inconvenience--not to mention the fact that you're going to fill up a 20GB hard drive very quickly with some of these games. So trying to go without a Blu-ray drive in the PlayStation 3 really is a nonstarter."
It doesn't just move air! It purifies air! It traps the dirt 'n dust particle right onto the collection plate, keeping it out of the air you breath!
Anyone else see that infomercial? Makes me wonder, is this thing going to trap more dust than a regular fan or is the infomercial a bunch of marketing bull? I'm betting on marketing bull, but it would be nice if cleaning it were as simple as removing the "collection plate" and wiping it.
...Ok, I don't know how they talk in the UK, but...
That made me feel dirty...
They've seem more concerned about cheaters than pirates. They feel that online cheaters hurt their sales much more than piracy. They have implemented much tougher anti-cheating measures through VAC than they have for anti-piracy. Even back when steam was an little patch downloader for CS 1.4 Beta, their VAC was there.
On the tail of that announcement, DEFCON from those independent developers who made Darwinia started preloading and purchasing today.
Have you tried tech support? They are way too helpful when I need it. You might see if there's a problem that has to do with your location, especially if you connect through certain universities. I haven't been having any problems with downloading games or content.
If you connect through a router, try here
If its after buying a game, try here
Other applications can sometimes prevent connection aswell; the test here can help identify if your running some that may cause conflicts
Server status can be found here, I have it book marked. If there's no bar; there's no service.
After the half-life series dies (may it never) that's probably what they'll be most. Digital Publishers.
The Future's looking bright for those of us who have a good internet connection.
It says right in the article that it was implied that there would be a region lock that could be flipped on by a publisher. I don't doubt it'll be used and used a lot, but atleast they made the (non) effort of not region locking the whole thing. PS3's supposed to be region free too, last time I heard; but blue-ray disks (which the games are on) are region locked by their own nature.
I think you might be a bit confused on hype. Hype is not really a couple demos explaining things you can do in a game and then your imagination building on top of it until your out of touch with reality. Its spastic advertising tricks like pre-rendered cinematics (ps2/ps3), over indulgent terms (emotion engine, umm...something not Sony...uh...oh! Revolution!) and just general streatching the truth. Then, fans minds run away with the distorted advertised image.
I wouldn't really call Spore overhyped. I rarely see or hear anything offical about it and never saw any advertisements. All I've seen is a couple demo videos and some speeches. That's not hype.The only real hype for Spore I could find was EA's overstatement of it "taking over the world" (by being on every console.) Of course, everyone took this differently and it eventually came out to sound like it'd be a darn near simeoultaneous launch. Which of course, Will Wright never said. All he said was he wanted to bring it to lots of other platforms and thought it was feasable. And then of course, things went sour when they announced (as I expected) they were focused on bring it to the PC first. A real example of hype is Sony and their PS3, it's got the advertising and marketing storm brew, rather than just the imagination.
Just as a side point, your right, it won't feature a mix between asynchronous and synchronous multiplayer. All it'll do is upload other people's content onto a central database that your game can then pull from to get a creature that matches certain search requirements. Totally asyncronous, nothing changes on the guy that made the creatures computer except possibly having a tally of total times downloaded go up.
*massive blue face appears on the silver screen*
Attention theater attendants: The occupant in seat 4a, row 5 has a bluetooth enabled video camera.
SEIZE HIM!
Now please turn off all electronic devices, or else, and enjoy our feature presentation!
I'll atleast argue one of your points:
We can't control what we do. Eventually, someone on this planet is going to have enough starving people and enough technology and GM foods will happen.
Of course, no one ever seems to bring up how much GM organisms we deal with here in America. 89% of the planted area of soybeans, 83% of cotton, and 61% maize are genetically modified varieties in America. According to wikipedia: The Grocery Manufacturers of America estimate that 75% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain a GM ingredient. Think of all those processed foods we consume all the time. It is estimated that 70% of products on U.S. grocery shelves include GM-derived ingredients. In truth, America represents the largest portion of GM Food's surface area at 68% of the world's total surface area devoted to GM crops.
This stuff has been going on for 10 years now, I don't see it stopping any time soon. Not that I think it needs to anyways.
User error happens. That's why they should make backup plans. I don't understand why they can't also have paper ballots in cases of emergency or a user who prefers not to use an electronic ballot.
"Hey, you've got a bit of dust on your clothes"
"That's not dust! That's my ipod!"
Actually, That might work better than you think. Typing of the Dead. Took House of the Dead 2, put it on the dreamcast and had you type for your life! Reading of the Dead: and Edutainment game. Edutainment...now there's a real zombie.
Hmm, between the 24 hour news network's focus on 9/11, nearly all my RSS feed speiling off 9/11 headlings, my news sites providing indepth coverage, and of course any remotely entertaining channel running 9/11 specials since friday, I hadn't even noticed. I would perfer not to have a 9/11 story unless its new news; I don't want to sound insensitive but anything and everything that could possibly be said or shown has been running reel-to-reel everywhere else today.
I know birds aren't smartest creatures, but I don't remember if they can memorize there migration path (though I assume not.) Could the hightening of this magnetic sense during certain seasonal light conditions direct the birds to follow the earth's magnetic field, guiding them until they encounter an area with lighting conditions sufficient to disrupt the sense?
That seems a bit misleading, though. I'll set aside the argument that HDTVs sold in 2007-2010 will not have any significance on the % of high end PS3 units at launch, and focus on other points. First, if estimated sales are $24 billion this year and that is still only 10% of America TVs, then that's only about a 65% increase over whatever % of the 10% of TVs expected to be HDTV by 2006 was actually bought in 2006. Furthermore, the 41% of all TVs sold are HDTVs remark is also misleading. One does not buy a new TV as often as one, say, upgrades a computer. Those 75% last year and 49% this year are going to keep their SDTVs for quite a bit of time. It is reasonable to accept that TV sales are increasingly HDTVs, however it is faulty to assume that Television sales themselves will climb higher or likely even stay the same. As the transition occures, TV sales will most likely fall as the need to upgrade from analog to digital (not necessarily HD) is satisfied. In the end I do not think HDTVs will rapidly spread in a way meaningful enough for Sony's PS3 to really capitalize on it and certainly not at lauch a few months from now. Again, that's not to say HDTV penetration in America will never reach high levels, just that they won't be high enough in time to save the PS3.
Why? Its evolution through Intelligent Design =P
Then again, that might just set both sides against it.
Since the Space phase unlocks the prior phases (in ways that have not been fully explained) it is reasonable to think that at that point in the game any changes you wish to inact would be possible. Perhaps they have genetic engineering to change your character again. I saw a poster that advertised "space-time" manipulation, but it might just be their version of quick interstellar travel.
Rather than go off about the promised kilobytes sized avatars and fancy procedural generated content that I understand little about, I'm going to make a reasonable hypothesis based on past occurance...
I figure it'll be a trimmed down, more goal oriented-less sandboxy version like The Sims 2 for Gameboy Advanced It'd be interesting to see if anything neat is done with the DS' touch screen, although I suspect it'll just be used as a mouse during the editing process.