Bit of a jump of course is an understatement. Rumors here in the Bay Area was that YouTube's bandwidth bill was 1 million a month at the end and growing fast. A lot of us drew a sigh of relief when Google stepped in because their burn rate was getting close to the end of their last round of investment. There was a distinct possibility of implosion or some kind of major site revamp to contain the drain.
Love to see how they cope with those kinds of bills - but I'd also have to publicaly ask what the rates are for Europe. They can be pretty dodgy in that regards (higher or lower). Where are they located and how are they set for upteen gigs per day? Terabytes per month? Petabytes?
Um - yah - if by "interesting" you mean utterly horrible. Aside from killing off as many characters as possible to bring in a new line of toys the rest of that pile-o-flop was painfully bad. Below MST3K bad. I downloaded a copy and watched it (I recalled it being "poor", but wasn't going to risk 5 bucks to double check at the BlockBuster video) only to delete it as soon as the last scene passed. My hard drive still feels dirty.
If you're worried that this could suck worse? Um - watch "the origonal" again and taste-the-suck!
It was the unmistakable sound of someone's large meaty ass smacking the pavement outside Apple HQ in Santa Clara. Anyone got a web-cam of the in-flight trajectory? YouTube demands it.
Agreed. Years ago they were showing what's my line re-runs on GAME, and they showcased Baer and his console. It was very spartan and the paddles were only slightly larger than the ball. Even less sound than Pong - if you can imagine that - and the controllers (and the control scheme) looked horrible people playing were having trouble making simple moves. Yech.
Yes - RF adapters were pretty - um - leechy. The reason the signal spewed up the 3 story tower (2 stories over the height of the house) was because we screwed down the flat leads to the RF box on top of the flat leads coming in from the tower mating the two lines basically.
As a post-script, a similar thing happened with my Atari 7800 in college when I was throwing clear images of channel 3 to my neighbors - through cinderblock walls - clear as a bell. It didn't interfere with chanell 3 signals being piped from other student's VCRs but one reported seeing my game action when they were getting ready to watch a movie.
There was also a lot - and I mean a LOT of chaff. First there were a million space-shooters that were clones of Space Invaders, Galaxian and Galaga. Then there were Maze-Games galore. Each winning game had sequals - lots of them in the case of games like Asteroids. And oh yes - plenty of games that sucked. I collect games and the most rabid contingent is the Laser-Disc game group and 90 percent of those games were terrible.
First system I had back in 76 was a Odyssey 300 Pong system. Interesting thing at the time, the RF adapters back then were wholesale FCC fraud (something in common with Apple's first RF modulators). Basically, no FCC violations occured - until the consumer hooked them up. We were living south of St. Louis in St. Genevive MO at the time where to pull in TV - you had to have a very tall tv antenna. Once that system was hooked up - we were spraying PONG TV on channel 3 to the entire town - or a sizable portion of it from our 2 story high aerial.
I didn't discover this until kids were asking me in school "who was on the left". I replied that was my brother. "He was kicking your ASS last night dude". I replied "wait - you weren't around yesterday - hell I didn't even know you knew I had a system!". After he told me he was watching us on tv I rode after school on my bike - several miles from my house - to his and wached my Odyssey (which I left on) beaming in crystal-clear to his tv.
I have no idea what our ratings were, but given the state of mid 70s television - I wouldn't be surprised if our audience-share wasn't substantial.
Then there must be a wealth of great games for it right? Uh - nope. The PC game market has good titles - but the number of titles and variety are lacking. I find this hillarious because compared to 11 years ago, the market is actually dry as a bone. But "they're still better". Saying it doesn't mean it's true.
50 thousand is a drop in the bucket for some crimes. Better to make it much higher and use the income to draft a process & org to regulate and oversee all of the applicants on a yearly or monthly basis from application to use. That way even address harvesters who score names from invalidated accounts can't sneak by. There's no way to automate such a system - you have to have some form of regulatory eyeballs - and that takes money.
But if you're charging enough for those eyeballs, that shouldn't be a problem. Getting all this approved by every financial regulatory system on the planet might be tricky though.
this is a total off-track one of those but it interests me so meh to mods...
What about interference? I used to get headaches when dealing with slow refresh and the refresh from overhead flourencent lights. In a dim office - or sunlit - no problems. Well lit office - I can't tolerate less than 75hz. Could that be the problem?
50-50 on SA's openness. Hard to fly a jet in a fishbowl. Even harder to fly a JUMBOJET in a fishbowl (you DID check the hanger in Las Venturas didn't you?).
Granted, it makes walking around on foot exploring pointless, but jumping out of the 747 over the virtual transamerica bld almost makes it worth it.
Well, there could also be branding carry-over - people say "GTA" in the same breath they say "Playstation". That REALLY sounds like a stretch - but Hilary Clinton and others keep saying the two together as well so you have that out there in the public. I think the fact there hasn't been a new GTA game (apart from the "stories") in 3 years and a new engine in 6 years, is going to have some kind-of traction. And since I don't expect massive changes in the gameplay - it's going to be the grapics that sell. IF Sony was smart, they'd be damn sure there's a bit of visible difference between the two versions.
In a perfect world, you'd hope the engine Rockstar North use scales for however much firepower is behind it - in which case this wouldn't be so speculative.
Still the demo looks great. It'll be a nice boost for Sony and Microsoft regardless if the damn company doesn't go tits-up before it's released.
This could be a stretch, but at the moment GTA4 seems to be the next killer app that will move it into the public's hands - regardless of cost. The first inkling I had that GTA wasn't just another series was hearing an audience respond - loudly - during the Daily Show back in 2001 during a segment they showed. The sales of couse spoke for themselves. Now - if - and we're talking a big if, IF the Sony PS3 version is appreciably better looking than the Xbox360 version - then I don't see why people wouldn't step up to the plate to get the most capable GTA platform available much in the same way gamers shop for PC's. The high-end wins out in those instances so I'm waiting till the fall before I give any arguments credit.
The last pop-culture artifact that made my ears perk up, was the Mayor of NYC making a sound-bite over a GTA4 DEMO. Think historically. Has this EVER happened before? A fucking DEMO?
I'm addicted - really addicted - to the series so your millage may vary on this post, but the sales numbers were astounding for this franchise so with a wildcard like this, who knows.
Quite true - in fact it goes into promotional material as well. At the last Warhol exhibition at SFSOMA, all of the posters promoting the collection had copy which stated the province of the trademark and the permissions. I'm working on some re-contextualizing pieces myself (bigass project, 3 years in the making - I don't want to digress for 10 pages) - but I'm in NO FUCKING WAY claiming authorship of the images - in FACT - I'll be exhibiting the ACTUAL SOURCES at the same time to make DAMN SURE there's no confusion.
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Bit of a jump of course is an understatement. Rumors here in the Bay Area was that YouTube's bandwidth bill was 1 million a month at the end and growing fast. A lot of us drew a sigh of relief when Google stepped in because their burn rate was getting close to the end of their last round of investment. There was a distinct possibility of implosion or some kind of major site revamp to contain the drain.
Love to see how they cope with those kinds of bills - but I'd also have to publicaly ask what the rates are for Europe. They can be pretty dodgy in that regards (higher or lower). Where are they located and how are they set for upteen gigs per day? Terabytes per month? Petabytes?
re:"the original movie was interesting"
Um - yah - if by "interesting" you mean utterly horrible. Aside from killing off as many characters as possible to bring in a new line of toys the rest of that pile-o-flop was painfully bad. Below MST3K bad. I downloaded a copy and watched it (I recalled it being "poor", but wasn't going to risk 5 bucks to double check at the BlockBuster video) only to delete it as soon as the last scene passed. My hard drive still feels dirty.
If you're worried that this could suck worse? Um - watch "the origonal" again and taste-the-suck!
It was the unmistakable sound of someone's large meaty ass smacking the pavement outside Apple HQ in Santa Clara. Anyone got a web-cam of the in-flight trajectory? YouTube demands it.
Agreed. Years ago they were showing what's my line re-runs on GAME, and they showcased Baer and his console. It was very spartan and the paddles were only slightly larger than the ball. Even less sound than Pong - if you can imagine that - and the controllers (and the control scheme) looked horrible people playing were having trouble making simple moves. Yech.
Yes - RF adapters were pretty - um - leechy. The reason the signal spewed up the 3 story tower (2 stories over the height of the house) was because we screwed down the flat leads to the RF box on top of the flat leads coming in from the tower mating the two lines basically.
As a post-script, a similar thing happened with my Atari 7800 in college when I was throwing clear images of channel 3 to my neighbors - through cinderblock walls - clear as a bell. It didn't interfere with chanell 3 signals being piped from other student's VCRs but one reported seeing my game action when they were getting ready to watch a movie.
There was also a lot - and I mean a LOT of chaff. First there were a million space-shooters that were clones of Space Invaders, Galaxian and Galaga. Then there were Maze-Games galore. Each winning game had sequals - lots of them in the case of games like Asteroids. And oh yes - plenty of games that sucked. I collect games and the most rabid contingent is the Laser-Disc game group and 90 percent of those games were terrible.
First system I had back in 76 was a Odyssey 300 Pong system. Interesting thing at the time, the RF adapters back then were wholesale FCC fraud (something in common with Apple's first RF modulators). Basically, no FCC violations occured - until the consumer hooked them up. We were living south of St. Louis in St. Genevive MO at the time where to pull in TV - you had to have a very tall tv antenna. Once that system was hooked up - we were spraying PONG TV on channel 3 to the entire town - or a sizable portion of it from our 2 story high aerial.
I didn't discover this until kids were asking me in school "who was on the left". I replied that was my brother. "He was kicking your ASS last night dude". I replied "wait - you weren't around yesterday - hell I didn't even know you knew I had a system!". After he told me he was watching us on tv I rode after school on my bike - several miles from my house - to his and wached my Odyssey (which I left on) beaming in crystal-clear to his tv.
I have no idea what our ratings were, but given the state of mid 70s television - I wouldn't be surprised if our audience-share wasn't substantial.
Stunned that no one linked to a recent Doonesbury strip about this:
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http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db070506
So they're going to hire 20,000 more workers and then quickly FIRE them?
Wow - and we thought Microsoft was evil!
re:"Or the Apache killing these unarmed men in a farmers field, working on a tractor"
There's no tractor in that video. You're a fucking moron who is listing off bullshit "talking points" from your propoganda ministry.
Nice stylus. Doesn't look wonky or tacked on at all.
re:"PCs are still better"
Then there must be a wealth of great games for it right? Uh - nope. The PC game market has good titles - but the number of titles and variety are lacking. I find this hillarious because compared to 11 years ago, the market is actually dry as a bone. But "they're still better". Saying it doesn't mean it's true.
re:""Fuzzy Math" is a Bushism."
Bullshit. As a metaphor it's been around longer than Bush - so fuck you.
I lived in Utah for 2 years and it's a very nice place. Far from a hellhole. Now the PEOPLE on the other hand....
*FUN FACT*
Did you know that the word Thai means "Freedom"?
Irony is always fun. As fun as a barrel full of royaly-edited composite-rendered monkeys.
Ook Eek.
50 thousand is a drop in the bucket for some crimes. Better to make it much higher and use the income to draft a process & org to regulate and oversee all of the applicants on a yearly or monthly basis from application to use. That way even address harvesters who score names from invalidated accounts can't sneak by. There's no way to automate such a system - you have to have some form of regulatory eyeballs - and that takes money.
But if you're charging enough for those eyeballs, that shouldn't be a problem. Getting all this approved by every financial regulatory system on the planet might be tricky though.
this is a total off-track one of those but it interests me so meh to mods...
What about interference? I used to get headaches when dealing with slow refresh and the refresh from overhead flourencent lights. In a dim office - or sunlit - no problems. Well lit office - I can't tolerate less than 75hz. Could that be the problem?
"or something"
Hey - you convinced me. Just curious - what technical acronym is that? I'm guessing it's for:
"Origonally random sentence offers more eccentrically toned hubris in naive grammar".
50-50 on SA's openness. Hard to fly a jet in a fishbowl. Even harder to fly a JUMBOJET in a fishbowl (you DID check the hanger in Las Venturas didn't you?).
Granted, it makes walking around on foot exploring pointless, but jumping out of the 747 over the virtual transamerica bld almost makes it worth it.
re:"It's understood that these people are not just training to switch to real weapons"
I disagree. I'm training for my future plasma gun, rail gun, and rocket launcher puchases right now. Rocket jumps here we come - woot!
What the fuck does that have to do with GTA being one of the most - if not THE most - popular platform games out there? You're a fucking moron.
Quick question - does anyone who walks into Best Buy give a shit how many empty words you type? Did they ever?
Fuck I hate games.slashdot.org. Fucking mind screaming waste of time.
Ya go in to read news, and it's more pissing in the wind circular logic bullshit.
Whoop - de - shit. Almost bad enough to make me go to Digg.
Well, there could also be branding carry-over - people say "GTA" in the same breath they say "Playstation". That REALLY sounds like a stretch - but Hilary Clinton and others keep saying the two together as well so you have that out there in the public. I think the fact there hasn't been a new GTA game (apart from the "stories") in 3 years and a new engine in 6 years, is going to have some kind-of traction. And since I don't expect massive changes in the gameplay - it's going to be the grapics that sell. IF Sony was smart, they'd be damn sure there's a bit of visible difference between the two versions.
In a perfect world, you'd hope the engine Rockstar North use scales for however much firepower is behind it - in which case this wouldn't be so speculative.
Still the demo looks great. It'll be a nice boost for Sony and Microsoft regardless if the damn company doesn't go tits-up before it's released.
This could be a stretch, but at the moment GTA4 seems to be the next killer app that will move it into the public's hands - regardless of cost. The first inkling I had that GTA wasn't just another series was hearing an audience respond - loudly - during the Daily Show back in 2001 during a segment they showed. The sales of couse spoke for themselves. Now - if - and we're talking a big if, IF the Sony PS3 version is appreciably better looking than the Xbox360 version - then I don't see why people wouldn't step up to the plate to get the most capable GTA platform available much in the same way gamers shop for PC's. The high-end wins out in those instances so I'm waiting till the fall before I give any arguments credit.
The last pop-culture artifact that made my ears perk up, was the Mayor of NYC making a sound-bite over a GTA4 DEMO. Think historically. Has this EVER happened before? A fucking DEMO?
I'm addicted - really addicted - to the series so your millage may vary on this post, but the sales numbers were astounding for this franchise so with a wildcard like this, who knows.
Quite true - in fact it goes into promotional material as well. At the last Warhol exhibition at SFSOMA, all of the posters promoting the collection had copy which stated the province of the trademark and the permissions. I'm working on some re-contextualizing pieces myself (bigass project, 3 years in the making - I don't want to digress for 10 pages) - but I'm in NO FUCKING WAY claiming authorship of the images - in FACT - I'll be exhibiting the ACTUAL SOURCES at the same time to make DAMN SURE there's no confusion.