HA! I saw a prototype of e-Ink in 1994 at Monstanto's HQ. Try 13! Damn thing's been gestating longer than a snail fetus. And yes that's a lousy analogy because I can't begin to fathom any organism taking a decade and a half to get some press.
Right. So why couldn't they draw a horse to save their lives? The damn thing looks like the horse of the living dead ripped from the N64. Come on. It's not a PS3 - but they can do better than GameCube right?
As we all know those bombs would have to be truck sized, cylindrical with all kinds of cool (but functionless) steel and chrome doo-dads sticking out of it, some chambers filled with backlit bubbling green liquid, a few hoses spewing smoke or CO2, and of course a big honking LED panel with wires placed just below it ready for clipping with no shielding and careful color coding for each one (just once how about painting all the wires the same color - wouldn't that be a shocker) and last but not least a count down timer that shifts from one method of counting down to a hyper-paced to the 10,000ths of a second when anyone good looking shows up with a pair of wirecutters.
Of course a real bomb couldn't be defused until the clock reached.005 - even if it was running faster than a hummingbird at that point.
Don't forget - the bomb wouldn't start ticking until it was found, and then it would always show 2:00 because any longer and they'd run into the upcoming commerical.
There's been one shooter to date that IGN accused of having worse graphics than an N64 game, but yes - I'm amazed at what older engines can do in the right hands. It's really dated but RTCW on the Quake 3 engine is still nice (mostly because it's fast and runs on everything but a Commodore 64). I'm more concerned that Nintendo's tighter than tight grip on internet access will shun some developers off in that relm.
Since not one online shooter has emerged yet I don't think that fear is ungrounded. I'm hoping that EA's next Medal of Honor effort for the Wii addresses this, but I haven't heard diddly-squat on the mutliplayer aspects at present.
Naw. GTA mini-game. A roomfull of cloned Thompsons in a rogue genetic's lab. The twist - there's a door and entrance ramp large enough for a car to drive through and into.
Wet sloppy gibby meat fountains ensue with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound of bone crushing sound effects. Instant 100 million seller. Rockstar finally shores up Take 2's horrible financials, Thompon bumps into a pitcher of water in Flordia and dies screaming "I'm melting - what a world what a world". Then I wake up. Damn. Someone do this already.
My eyebrows raised on that too. Almost as bad as "develop for NeXT - I'd sooner piss on it". 10 fucking years later, what OS with NeXT underpinnings is Microsoft developing for?
I'd go hyper negative, but considering the fiscal buffet the planet just got from him and Warren Buffet (ha!) he gets a (few) free "be weird today" cards.
Yeah - that was a weird suit. I believe it occured during the Scully years, and is odd considering the XEROX INVESTED in Apple specifically on terms that Apple get a glimpse "under PARC's skirt". The fact that there were two demos to the Mac team were specifically because Apple complained that XEROX was getting 14 million pre-public offering shares and they were getting the short shift demonstration.
XEROX cleaned up a tidy penny on this exchange, made billions from the laser publishing tech they invented, and yet they still sued. Very weird.
Water is also wet motherfucker. Got anything else that has never changed in the history of the fucking world? What color is your magic wand and pixie dust assfuck?
Alive and well doesn't compare to what they once were. Japan closed hundreds of arcades and Namco took such a severe beating that Bandi aquired them after they failed to close as many centers as fast as Sega. My book on the hard numbers is at home, but I can throw you the numbers or give you the source - it was from "First Quarter" (aka:The ultimate history of video games) from Steve Kent.
Granted they didn't pancake as bad as here - but there was a stunning rollback.
Actually there's been about 3 crashes each one bigger than the last. Atari got the most press, but Sega lost half a billion dollars in one year before dropping the dreamcast during the transition to the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era. Sega only stuck around after a billion dollars worth of loan forgiveness and stock tranfers. The money lost when Turbographix, Neo Geo and 3DO tanked was also very significant.
Also don't forget the arcade crash of the mid to late 90s. After a last surge in the early 90s, Sega, Dreamworks, and Namco all lost their shirts and arcade games are all but dead now. Even the 80s crash couldn't accomplish this.
This transition will also have some interesting numbers, but they haven't come in yet or been as severe. Most players have spread their incomes across portable game systems and the like so crashes in of themselves might be a thing of the past.
Particularly since Sony like most (but not all) console makers were taking losses on their hardware at the outset. That means Sony lost double. They lost the negative margin on the hardware sale, and no software revenue to pick up the slack. Brazil was hitting them two-fold.
Perhaps if they write a book. Steve Kent and David Sheff come to mind, but they don't end their work with "Sucks", "Pee your pants", or "I give it a 9.5175521".
re:"See, for instance, how Intel is ready to push Xeons to 45nm within a year, but is mum as far as 65nm Itanics are concerned."
Mum. That's a funny word for a development that's been COVERED IN THE POPULAR FUCKING PRESS:
"Intel appears the farthest along in bringing a product based on the technology to market.
The Santa Clara-based company said it has created working microprocessors using the new materials that will go into mass production in the second half of 2007.
Intel also said the chips will be built using its new manufacturing process that involves shrinking parts of the chips down to 45 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, from the 65-nanometer process the company uses now."
Seems you're an expert at ignoring blattent headlines in an effort to run FUD. Good troll trollfucker. You look like a massive moron. I say look - but it really should read "are".
What 5 year deal - USA Today's "Exclusive"? I'll wait for some confirmation from a real news source - thx.
And as far as apologist, you're speaking to the author of the long-running "apple doomsday clock" (once the NeXT tech was integrated and they stopped their tailspin, I stopped trolling for hits, and once Microsoft started crashing more than OSX, (or spambots, or viri bla bla) then I started buying Apple tech again). I'm just basking in the on-target glow of Slashdot prognostication. Lessie - iPod; there's a laugh factory. Sony - that one is always great when the consumers keep buying anything in spite of a short-lived DRM blow-up. Don't get me started on Snakes on a Plane or Serenity - those are great honkin' trendsetting examples there....
I would seriously love to put cash on the barrel and buy stocks 100% against Slashdot because I think the returns would beat most market indicators. In which case, you can see why it makes for an addictive read around here.
Yes, I did a double take on the TOP OF THE FRIGGING ARTICLE which got the years wrong. And let's get real. Verizon is the king of nickel and dime. I'm still hacking my RAZR to turn on all the crap they turned off. And these are the guys that have it all over Cingular? Puleeze.
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I've seen more life from the Dragons/Ducks in the origonal Atari Adventure. You're telling me that black-eyed corpse of a horse looks GOOD to you?
A corpse of a horse of course of course...
I thought that was potato chips made with Olestra?
HA! I saw a prototype of e-Ink in 1994 at Monstanto's HQ. Try 13! Damn thing's been gestating longer than a snail fetus. And yes that's a lousy analogy because I can't begin to fathom any organism taking a decade and a half to get some press.
Right. So why couldn't they draw a horse to save their lives? The damn thing looks like the horse of the living dead ripped from the N64. Come on. It's not a PS3 - but they can do better than GameCube right?
Next play-thru I'm naming it "ZombieHorsie".
As we all know those bombs would have to be truck sized, cylindrical with all kinds of cool (but functionless) steel and chrome doo-dads sticking out of it, some chambers filled with backlit bubbling green liquid, a few hoses spewing smoke or CO2, and of course a big honking LED panel with wires placed just below it ready for clipping with no shielding and careful color coding for each one (just once how about painting all the wires the same color - wouldn't that be a shocker) and last but not least a count down timer that shifts from one method of counting down to a hyper-paced to the 10,000ths of a second when anyone good looking shows up with a pair of wirecutters.
.005 - even if it was running faster than a hummingbird at that point.
Of course a real bomb couldn't be defused until the clock reached
Don't forget - the bomb wouldn't start ticking until it was found, and then it would always show 2:00 because any longer and they'd run into the upcoming commerical.
Here you go:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3N36Qy2tZdY
Is this an announcement or a threat? I've seen wars started over less.
There's been one shooter to date that IGN accused of having worse graphics than an N64 game, but yes - I'm amazed at what older engines can do in the right hands. It's really dated but RTCW on the Quake 3 engine is still nice (mostly because it's fast and runs on everything but a Commodore 64). I'm more concerned that Nintendo's tighter than tight grip on internet access will shun some developers off in that relm.
Since not one online shooter has emerged yet I don't think that fear is ungrounded. I'm hoping that EA's next Medal of Honor effort for the Wii addresses this, but I haven't heard diddly-squat on the mutliplayer aspects at present.
Naw. GTA mini-game. A roomfull of cloned Thompsons in a rogue genetic's lab. The twist - there's a door and entrance ramp large enough for a car to drive through and into.
Wet sloppy gibby meat fountains ensue with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound of bone crushing sound effects. Instant 100 million seller. Rockstar finally shores up Take 2's horrible financials, Thompon bumps into a pitcher of water in Flordia and dies screaming "I'm melting - what a world what a world". Then I wake up. Damn. Someone do this already.
Wow - 80 bucks!?
You're one broke motherfucker. Where are you typing this from the homeless shelter?
My eyebrows raised on that too. Almost as bad as "develop for NeXT - I'd sooner piss on it". 10 fucking years later, what OS with NeXT underpinnings is Microsoft developing for?
I'd go hyper negative, but considering the fiscal buffet the planet just got from him and Warren Buffet (ha!) he gets a (few) free "be weird today" cards.
Yea - we're only getting one side of this conversation. If the customer was being a prick I'd probably cut the agent some slack.
Yeah - that was a weird suit. I believe it occured during the Scully years, and is odd considering the XEROX INVESTED in Apple specifically on terms that Apple get a glimpse "under PARC's skirt". The fact that there were two demos to the Mac team were specifically because Apple complained that XEROX was getting 14 million pre-public offering shares and they were getting the short shift demonstration.
XEROX cleaned up a tidy penny on this exchange, made billions from the laser publishing tech they invented, and yet they still sued. Very weird.
re: "Starving in the streets"
Water is also wet motherfucker. Got anything else that has never changed in the history of the fucking world? What color is your magic wand and pixie dust assfuck?
Alive and well doesn't compare to what they once were. Japan closed hundreds of arcades and Namco took such a severe beating that Bandi aquired them after they failed to close as many centers as fast as Sega. My book on the hard numbers is at home, but I can throw you the numbers or give you the source - it was from "First Quarter" (aka:The ultimate history of video games) from Steve Kent.
Granted they didn't pancake as bad as here - but there was a stunning rollback.
Actually there's been about 3 crashes each one bigger than the last. Atari got the most press, but Sega lost half a billion dollars in one year before dropping the dreamcast during the transition to the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era. Sega only stuck around after a billion dollars worth of loan forgiveness and stock tranfers. The money lost when Turbographix, Neo Geo and 3DO tanked was also very significant.
Also don't forget the arcade crash of the mid to late 90s. After a last surge in the early 90s, Sega, Dreamworks, and Namco all lost their shirts and arcade games are all but dead now. Even the 80s crash couldn't accomplish this.
This transition will also have some interesting numbers, but they haven't come in yet or been as severe. Most players have spread their incomes across portable game systems and the like so crashes in of themselves might be a thing of the past.
Particularly since Sony like most (but not all) console makers were taking losses on their hardware at the outset. That means Sony lost double. They lost the negative margin on the hardware sale, and no software revenue to pick up the slack. Brazil was hitting them two-fold.
re:"Jesus Saves"
But Hersheld SCORES ON THE REBOUND!
And we all know shallow bullshit arguments are made good by putting the fucking word "period" on the end of it. Period motherfucker!
Perhaps if they write a book. Steve Kent and David Sheff come to mind, but they don't end their work with "Sucks", "Pee your pants", or "I give it a 9.5175521".
re:"See, for instance, how Intel is ready to push Xeons to 45nm within a year, but is mum as far as 65nm Itanics are concerned."
Mum. That's a funny word for a development that's been COVERED IN THE POPULAR FUCKING PRESS:
"Intel appears the farthest along in bringing a product based on the technology to market.
The Santa Clara-based company said it has created working microprocessors using the new materials that will go into mass production in the second half of 2007.
Intel also said the chips will be built using its new manufacturing process that involves shrinking parts of the chips down to 45 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, from the 65-nanometer process the company uses now."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16839253/
Seems you're an expert at ignoring blattent headlines in an effort to run FUD. Good troll trollfucker. You look like a massive moron. I say look - but it really should read "are".
What 5 year deal - USA Today's "Exclusive"? I'll wait for some confirmation from a real news source - thx.
And as far as apologist, you're speaking to the author of the long-running "apple doomsday clock" (once the NeXT tech was integrated and they stopped their tailspin, I stopped trolling for hits, and once Microsoft started crashing more than OSX, (or spambots, or viri bla bla) then I started buying Apple tech again). I'm just basking in the on-target glow of Slashdot prognostication. Lessie - iPod; there's a laugh factory. Sony - that one is always great when the consumers keep buying anything in spite of a short-lived DRM blow-up. Don't get me started on Snakes on a Plane or Serenity - those are great honkin' trendsetting examples there....
I would seriously love to put cash on the barrel and buy stocks 100% against Slashdot because I think the returns would beat most market indicators. In which case, you can see why it makes for an addictive read around here.
re:"IBM decided Apple wasn't worth the pain."
That explains Apple rejecting IBM and going with Intel. No wait - no it doesn't - your remark doesn't make any sense at all.
Is this the latest from the Wintel trollforums? What insights they're coming up with these days. Amazing.
Yes, I did a double take on the TOP OF THE FRIGGING ARTICLE which got the years wrong. And let's get real. Verizon is the king of nickel and dime. I'm still hacking my RAZR to turn on all the crap they turned off. And these are the guys that have it all over Cingular? Puleeze.
Wrong price trollfucker. Although the price you mentioned was what the RAZR was introduced in 2004 at without a plan.