Both of those emails were posted on the Tuttle website before. I'm not sure if the mayor's address is still listed, but Jerry pulled the citymgr one from his page a few days ago, after all of this began.
Well, y'see, both the 360 and the Revolution will have games that you can download for fairly low prices. What are you trying to get at? Make yourself clear, boy!
Shit. My bad. He didn't even link to the article. One has to wonder how much Penguin Press paid Slashdot for this ridiculously blatant advertisement. Quite honestly, this is without a doubt definitive proof that slashdot gets paid to run slashvertisements.
Why even link to the article if you're going to reprint the entire text of it? Also, as someone else mentioned, it's kind of odd that Hemos is saying "Yes, I've read the book," but then completely gets the title wrong. Something ain't quite right at slashdot...
I'd much rather have a system whereby my credit cards get credited with payments for playing more online games. If I make level 60 in WoW, I should get 10 bucks credited back or something. Of course, that goes directly against their current business model, so that will never happen.
Have a permanent, voter verifiable, auditable, and recountable paper trail (a feature Diebold and ES&S both offer)
Does Diebold offer this as an option? IIRC, the last I heard about it was that Diebold was claiming that it would be such a huge task to add this feature that they wouldn't be able to roll it out for another 3 or 4 years.
So you're basically saying that the machines should not be used in a private setting without someone from Diebold checking them after each use to make sure they're still okay? If the machines were truly secure, they should be able to leave them on a street corner for a week and know that they'd be fine when they came to pick them up.
Try the Flashblock plugin that someone else mentioned up there. The newer versions include a toolbar button that can toggle flash on/off for a page. Very handy for those product pages that contain five or six flash files. Go to a page, see nothing but boxes indicating it's Flash content, toggle it on, reload the page, and cello, all sorts of animations sucking up your processing power--and it's totally at your command!
Thanks for the info. I asked because I'm currently thinking about setting up a MediaPC. I currently have DirecTV hooked up to a newish 16:9 LCDTV. Unfortunately, the TV doesn't have a zoom mode that lets me watch 16:9 formatted TV broadcasts fullscreen (DTV mats it in a 4:3 A/R, so I end up watching it windowboxed--black bars on all four sides--or horizontally stretched for the "fathead" effect). Also, DTVs HD offerings are a bit lacking at the moment, so I'm hesitant to go that route. Anyhow, running the outputs through WinMCE, I get 4 options for zoom, including the one that I desperately want/need. I've been fiddling around with MCE, and while it's very nice in a few areas, it really lacks polish in most others. I do really like the idea of the remote-controllable 10-foot interface, though. Oh well, I'll keep fiddling, try out Sage and BeyondTV, download Knoppmyth, etc to see which way I want to go. I may just end up living with the windowboxed world...
I can't imagine why anyone would think that Microsoft would sabotage this project. After all, their past statements clearly show that they fully support it.
Okay. So you use TiVo for your PVR stuff, and a small/quiet PC for other media. You said you gave up on MCE and aren't too pleased with Myth. So what are you running on the PC? Or do you just not use a designed-for-TV-use interface on it?
But you're missing the important part. You can play NES in 480p!!! You haven't seen anything until you've seen 256x224 *upsampled* to 480p. It brings out details you never knew were there.
That's nothing. Over the years I've been the victim of some ruthless Native American terrorist organization that always seems to hack my webpage within minutes of installing the server.
So, the game that was announced five years ago that was going to run on the then "next generation consoles" (ps2, gc, xbox) is now being put on hold to decide if it will run on the current "next generation consoles" (ps3, 360, rev)? Just turn the thing into a damn PC game and get it out the door!
Eyecandy incorporated in the proper way can in fact be useful. It can provide extra visual cues to indicate what's going on. It can help new users familiarize themselves with a system. However, for the most part, the ways it's currently being implemented are more of a distraction than a useful feature.
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Both of those emails were posted on the Tuttle website before. I'm not sure if the mayor's address is still listed, but Jerry pulled the citymgr one from his page a few days ago, after all of this began.
I review games at my own site, SkorchedEarth [skorchedearth.com], it's small and personal. Sites like these are the reviews I trust
Yeah, I tend to trust reviews I write myself, too. : p
j/k. I'll hafta go check out your site when I get home.
I've heard that you can even buy editorial space on a website called slashdot. Pot, meet kettle.
Well, y'see, both the 360 and the Revolution will have games that you can download for fairly low prices. What are you trying to get at? Make yourself clear, boy!
Shit. My bad. He didn't even link to the article. One has to wonder how much Penguin Press paid Slashdot for this ridiculously blatant advertisement. Quite honestly, this is without a doubt definitive proof that slashdot gets paid to run slashvertisements.
Why even link to the article if you're going to reprint the entire text of it? Also, as someone else mentioned, it's kind of odd that Hemos is saying "Yes, I've read the book," but then completely gets the title wrong. Something ain't quite right at slashdot...
I'd much rather have a system whereby my credit cards get credited with payments for playing more online games. If I make level 60 in WoW, I should get 10 bucks credited back or something. Of course, that goes directly against their current business model, so that will never happen.
Well, who else but a 15-year-old would choose a handle like CmdrTaco? : p
Have a permanent, voter verifiable, auditable, and recountable paper trail (a feature Diebold and ES&S both offer)
Does Diebold offer this as an option? IIRC, the last I heard about it was that Diebold was claiming that it would be such a huge task to add this feature that they wouldn't be able to roll it out for another 3 or 4 years.
So you're basically saying that the machines should not be used in a private setting without someone from Diebold checking them after each use to make sure they're still okay? If the machines were truly secure, they should be able to leave them on a street corner for a week and know that they'd be fine when they came to pick them up.
Try the Flashblock plugin that someone else mentioned up there. The newer versions include a toolbar button that can toggle flash on/off for a page. Very handy for those product pages that contain five or six flash files. Go to a page, see nothing but boxes indicating it's Flash content, toggle it on, reload the page, and cello, all sorts of animations sucking up your processing power--and it's totally at your command!
"Google Pages Is Not For You." It's for your mom
But what if I am my mom?!?
That's nice. Let me know when they find a way to fix lazy butt.
Thanks for the info. I asked because I'm currently thinking about setting up a MediaPC. I currently have DirecTV hooked up to a newish 16:9 LCDTV. Unfortunately, the TV doesn't have a zoom mode that lets me watch 16:9 formatted TV broadcasts fullscreen (DTV mats it in a 4:3 A/R, so I end up watching it windowboxed--black bars on all four sides--or horizontally stretched for the "fathead" effect). Also, DTVs HD offerings are a bit lacking at the moment, so I'm hesitant to go that route. Anyhow, running the outputs through WinMCE, I get 4 options for zoom, including the one that I desperately want/need. I've been fiddling around with MCE, and while it's very nice in a few areas, it really lacks polish in most others. I do really like the idea of the remote-controllable 10-foot interface, though. Oh well, I'll keep fiddling, try out Sage and BeyondTV, download Knoppmyth, etc to see which way I want to go. I may just end up living with the windowboxed world...
I can't imagine why anyone would think that Microsoft would sabotage this project. After all, their past statements clearly show that they fully support it.
Okay. So you use TiVo for your PVR stuff, and a small/quiet PC for other media. You said you gave up on MCE and aren't too pleased with Myth. So what are you running on the PC? Or do you just not use a designed-for-TV-use interface on it?
But you're missing the important part. You can play NES in 480p!!! You haven't seen anything until you've seen 256x224 *upsampled* to 480p. It brings out details you never knew were there.
Ummm, they've been experimenting with this for about two months now. I get a results page in this layout about once a week or so.
That's nothing. Over the years I've been the victim of some ruthless Native American terrorist organization that always seems to hack my webpage within minutes of installing the server.
Foolish scientists! Don't they understand what sort of fury they'll unleash?!?
yuh, i realized that right after i hit submit. whoops.
So, the game that was announced five years ago that was going to run on the then "next generation consoles" (ps2, gc, xbox) is now being put on hold to decide if it will run on the current "next generation consoles" (ps3, 360, rev)? Just turn the thing into a damn PC game and get it out the door!
9.8 m/s^2
Eyecandy incorporated in the proper way can in fact be useful. It can provide extra visual cues to indicate what's going on. It can help new users familiarize themselves with a system. However, for the most part, the ways it's currently being implemented are more of a distraction than a useful feature.
Now that's sheer brilliance! How come I never thought about running DOS on a cluster of machines? What's that? Wrong DOS you say?