Everyone should dedicate that much time at least to stuff they enjoy.
Agreed, but should people dedicate that much time of their life to a single pastime.
From my experience the Beeb runs a large amount of linux articles. And is quite vocal about free open source alternatives (a benefit of not being funded from corporate sponsors). For evidence try typing "linux" into their search engine. It gives you 49 pages of hits for the whole of bbc.co.uk, 9 pages of which come from just the "news" section.
To get paid more you need to be promoted, and it's a fact of working life that to be promoted you need to be liked or at least known to those that do the promoting. It's a harsh fact, but a fact non-the-less, that if you only ever see someone behind there desk your not going to relate to them as much as the person you socialise after work with. And then when you get a choice to promote one or the other it isn't unfair to promote the one you *actually* know.
I agree 100%, but you are talking about current generation games. This controller has gyroscopes which change things dramtically as anyone who has played wario ware twisted will tell you. I've geeked out and numbered my views on this. See number 4.
1 Sony are lieing when they say that the rumble interfers with the gyroscopes (as they stated in E3 conference)- rumble has been removed purely because of the patent case with "these guys".
2 "These guys" are producing a case for why Sony should license the technology off them.
3 Despite the "I hate rumble" comments here - it is clearly unfair to say rumble is unwanted. It can truely add to games. But on current generation consoles the effect has never been truely "essential." Hence the sucess of the wavebird (which lacked rumble).
4Despite this Rumble is inherintly important for gyroscope control - Wario Ware Twisted for the GBA is probably the closest relative to what Sony are offering - being that you rotate a two handed controller. It uses rumble to create "tension" and "steps" in the virtual object you are rotating. This is so *very* important but so *very* hard to describe (for people like myself at least). It conveys the weight of the object brilliantly. For instance it really makes moving a heavy object (Planet Earth, Piano, Hammer) feel so different to controlling a light object (pin, pencil, leaf) - despite the fact you are moving the same controller in both cases.
5 Because of this, and this alone, it is great shame that the PS3 does not include rumble.
A street I walk down in london may have been testing some form of this. There was a white wall that to my knowledge had never been "tagged" but every time anyone would walk past it would "flash" a camera at you and tell you to "STEP AWAY FROM THE WALL - GRAFITI IS NOT TOLERATED AND YOUR IMAGE WILL BE USED TO CONVICT YOU."
As the street was next to a very popular Chinese Restaurant the number of people setting it off was huge - just for using a public footpath! People complained enough for it to be removed (I guess) but it showed me how hard it is to argue against CCTV.
FTFA: Mr Bonner said:
'It would appear that the offenders are the only ones who find the audio cameras intrusive. The vast majority of people welcome these cameras.
'Put it this way, we never have requests to remove them.'
They present these things as though if you complain your clearly one of them.
The UK can not stand for this anymore - we need to find a voice, and a way to complain, that does not make us look like criminals.
P.S. I think it's a salient point that the example used in the article is a man being shouted at to not ride his bicycle - not a mugging, not a rape, not a murder - a bicycle.
I din't mean to come accross harsh in the last comment - but something you plug into your living room console is a different world to an attachment you have to carry around with you for your PSP. It wouldn't work.
Initially, with it's relatively weak graphics, and the difficulty for developers to craft new games that utilised the touch screen the DS looked to flaunder next to the much stronger graphical power of the PSP. However the unoriginal content and expensive disk medium that was crippled with bad load times (let alone battery life issues) held the PSP back.
To me that sounds prophetic. I think the Wii will get a bad reception - based on the graphical inequality of the software and the (percieved) difficulties 3rd parties will have utilising the Remote. But as that experience grows believe developers will be able to create a catalogue of games that can't be acquired anywhere else - and the Wii will really shine.
According to both sites, the October issue of PSM contained an article announcing that a new PSP will ship in March 2007, have eight gigs of built-in flash memory, sport a slimmer form factor, include a built-in camera, and have two--count 'em--two thumbsticks!
I know Sony has been making bad decisions lately, but you can tell it's bullshit from a mile off. Are you telling me that after "shipping" millions of units with one thumbstick they will splinter their market and release a new PSP Lite with two? That would never happen.
It's obvious that they will at some point release a slimmer, brighter, better version of the original tech to fight back against the dominating DS Lite - but they can't change it fundamentally as games must work on both versions. Saying otherwise is as retarded as all the "news stories" saying the remake of the original DS would have a new thumbstick.
Oh and Sony will lie about the existance of a prettier model till just before release. Hell there is an interview on Eurogamer with the head of Nintendo UK - the day before - the announcement of the DS Lite saying it wasn't gona happen.
no matter what any company does we bitch about it. The small publishers are too small, the big publisers are to big, the inovative games are too inovative and everything else is not inovative enough... We need to grow up and quit this fanboyism and infighting, we all may have diffrent taste but we all want one thing, qualtiy entertanment.
I agree with you - despite not seeing anyone complain about innovative games, or companies being too small. And I'm totally against fanboyism, but then I'm also against Root-kits and the complete arrogance Sony has been showing towards their customers rights. I'm very excited about the PS3 only Assassins Creed, but games are a secondary consideration when it comes to supporting companies with which you have ethical troubles with.
It's not called fanboyism to abandon Yahoo because of the way they have behaved in China, and it's not called fanboyism to abandon Sony because of their stance on DRM and Piracy.
Although the telescope would have been able to detect fainter stars, none could be found- so it appears that they simply don't exist. "We checked the instruments over and over again" said Professor Richer "but we don't see any stars fainter than this".
So they could have detected much dimmer stars but didn't - so assuming a big enough sample, they discovered the minimum mass to initiate fusion. Pretty impressive.
So finally a Definitive Answer! Until someone bothers to look at a larger sample set,, finds dimmer stars, and they have to lower the minimum again.
I'm replying to the first post to get this near the top of the page (which is a dastardly thing to do, and I apologise).
But to those that are about to read this thread, please remember that people below this post who think that with the "current political climate" this will get you shot are wrong. I live in London, I was hung over and woke up late missing the tube on the first bombings. and then got stuck at work the second time. And these are my experiences.
Firstly, I suspect it is mainly Americans posting - or at least I hope so - and I truly do not want to be mean, but Britain's culture is quiet different to yours. Our parents grew up in the blitz. And I grew up with the IRA bombings. Attacks on Civilians aren't new. They are a consequence of getting to live free. Just because people die - does not mean you give up your life and your freedoms.
The point I'm trying to make is that after the bombing attempt I had to walk across london to get home. Before I left we flipped from the (relatively) informative and calm BBC 24 news to CNN - and watched the presenters talk of the ""chaos" and "panic" as "millions of londoners" have "no possible way to get home".
As I crossed most of central london through most of the effected areas what did I see? I saw a roaring Taxi trade, and I saw hundreds of people standing around every pub I walkied past - drinking, laughing, talking.
CNN, by it's comments created fear across the country and the globe. But where it happened - there was no such thing. And the tubes were full the next day.
This is people playing with water pistols in one of the hottest summers London's ever had for fucks sake. It's more important than ever they play this stupid little game - rather than sit around in fear listening to the News as it lies to them.
Dislcaimer - I'm not talking about the Blitz spirit - or any of that crap, nor am I suggesting London would have handled 11/9 better. What I am saying is ignore the fear filled retoric spewing from the news. As I know first hand how accurate that is.
My problem with the PC industry (and I mean no offence to you) is that you managed an entire page long post assuming that the only PC games that exist are FPSs.
Maybe if the PC game catalogue had a ratio of genres likes the 90s there may still be mainstream games like Xcom, and Secret of Monkey Island. Then maybe you could claw back us lapsed PC gamers.
I have a whole stack of PS games that won't play in an xbox, is that the industries fault as well?
No, but a strong element of Sony's success in maintaining paying customers is due to those PS1 games still playing on a PS2 (and soon PS3) that you can still buy today.
You don't understand the poster. People, including myself, left PC gaming because they could afford the upgrade curve to get the most out of current games, whilst at the same time, were upgrading enough to lose compatibility to the games they do have.
I don't come home from work to piss about with drivers and config settings for the hour or so I have free to relax. I want to turn on and play.
City/countywide 802.11 a/b/g is POINTLESS!!!!......You are going to waste all this time and money now, so that in 3 years you are superceeded by WiMax (which will do the job better and have less maintaince)......
The "Wait three years and then the technology will be perfect for situation X" argument is true in perpetuity.
"Your 'precious rights to an afternoon sitting on the couch' stop the moment you put somebody's life in danger. Period."
Firstly - you've used the words "an afternoon sitting on the couch" instead of the word "Freedom." This was to make it hard to argue with you without sounding like an insensitive dick who doesn't care about anyone but themselves.
Secondly - you've used the emotive words "life in danger" when "personal safety" would be more appropriate.
Thirdly, you've gone on to state that a human's safety is worth more than freedom.
As a British Citizen, It isn't my place to tell you why that is so wrong. So I will leave it up to Benjamin Franklin (Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Yeah - I know - but I was trying (badly) to make that point. Sony must realise how silly they looked with all the memes that came out of there conference. I think the same information they showed at E3 presented in press releases and "exclusives" would have worked much better for them. And I'm sure they had too.
I wasn't even bashing Sony - just pointing out all the ridicule that come to them from E3.
My personal feelings on the cancellation are actually really positive. Hopefully games like PoP; Sands of Time won't get lost amongst the crowd anymore. Which will stop more "eXtreme" remakes like Warrior Within - in order to make them more E3 friendly.
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Redundant? Hmm, ok. I thought it was a fair point - but maybe it was more obvious than I thought. Bad me.
Anyway just correcting my post that should be $599. Sony aren't that mad.
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Hmmmm,
Should I say it?
Hmmmm,
Do I dare?
So.... these rumours, I think, that maybe, the "big-player." Pulling out. Could be.
Based on no evidence other than historical battles, giant crabs and real time weapon change
....Sony?
Too much public MASSIVE DAMAGE? It pretty much provided a focus point for the interweb community (aka early adopters) to turn against them. Maybe they don't want anymore showcases where they have to say words like "six hundred and ninety nine united states dollars" to the world anymore - when a press release would be nicer.
Why even include DRM? Whats the point, these have been released on DVD already, there are plenty of rips available for those so inclined - who does this stop?
Why not release them DRM free, and pull in your geeks who care about DRM - who also happen to be your early adopters?
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Everyone should dedicate that much time at least to stuff they enjoy. Agreed, but should people dedicate that much time of their life to a single pastime.
So you are simply wrong.
So it seems the Space Arms Race is begining afresh. We just have to hope that the technology it produces outweighs the destruction.
To get paid more you need to be promoted, and it's a fact of working life that to be promoted you need to be liked or at least known to those that do the promoting. It's a harsh fact, but a fact non-the-less, that if you only ever see someone behind there desk your not going to relate to them as much as the person you socialise after work with. And then when you get a choice to promote one or the other it isn't unfair to promote the one you *actually* know.
Ooooh, someones beem playing a lot of tic-tac-toe.
Are they on the DVD version? I know they said they were making them. I emailed introversion and got no reply.
1 Sony are lieing when they say that the rumble interfers with the gyroscopes (as they stated in E3 conference)- rumble has been removed purely because of the patent case with "these guys". 2 "These guys" are producing a case for why Sony should license the technology off them. 3 Despite the "I hate rumble" comments here - it is clearly unfair to say rumble is unwanted. It can truely add to games. But on current generation consoles the effect has never been truely "essential." Hence the sucess of the wavebird (which lacked rumble). 4Despite this Rumble is inherintly important for gyroscope control - Wario Ware Twisted for the GBA is probably the closest relative to what Sony are offering - being that you rotate a two handed controller. It uses rumble to create "tension" and "steps" in the virtual object you are rotating. This is so *very* important but so *very* hard to describe (for people like myself at least). It conveys the weight of the object brilliantly. For instance it really makes moving a heavy object (Planet Earth, Piano, Hammer) feel so different to controlling a light object (pin, pencil, leaf) - despite the fact you are moving the same controller in both cases. 5 Because of this, and this alone, it is great shame that the PS3 does not include rumble.
As the street was next to a very popular Chinese Restaurant the number of people setting it off was huge - just for using a public footpath! People complained enough for it to be removed (I guess) but it showed me how hard it is to argue against CCTV.
FTFA: Mr Bonner said:
'It would appear that the offenders are the only ones who find the audio cameras intrusive. The vast majority of people welcome these cameras.
'Put it this way, we never have requests to remove them.'
They present these things as though if you complain your clearly one of them.
The UK can not stand for this anymore - we need to find a voice, and a way to complain, that does not make us look like criminals.
P.S. I think it's a salient point that the example used in the article is a man being shouted at to not ride his bicycle - not a mugging, not a rape, not a murder - a bicycle.
I din't mean to come accross harsh in the last comment - but something you plug into your living room console is a different world to an attachment you have to carry around with you for your PSP. It wouldn't work.
They would piss off everyone who already owns a PSP. It would never happen.
To me that sounds prophetic. I think the Wii will get a bad reception - based on the graphical inequality of the software and the (percieved) difficulties 3rd parties will have utilising the Remote. But as that experience grows believe developers will be able to create a catalogue of games that can't be acquired anywhere else - and the Wii will really shine.
I know Sony has been making bad decisions lately, but you can tell it's bullshit from a mile off. Are you telling me that after "shipping" millions of units with one thumbstick they will splinter their market and release a new PSP Lite with two? That would never happen.
It's obvious that they will at some point release a slimmer, brighter, better version of the original tech to fight back against the dominating DS Lite - but they can't change it fundamentally as games must work on both versions. Saying otherwise is as retarded as all the "news stories" saying the remake of the original DS would have a new thumbstick.
Oh and Sony will lie about the existance of a prettier model till just before release. Hell there is an interview on Eurogamer with the head of Nintendo UK - the day before - the announcement of the DS Lite saying it wasn't gona happen.
I agree with you - despite not seeing anyone complain about innovative games, or companies being too small. And I'm totally against fanboyism, but then I'm also against Root-kits and the complete arrogance Sony has been showing towards their customers rights. I'm very excited about the PS3 only Assassins Creed, but games are a secondary consideration when it comes to supporting companies with which you have ethical troubles with.
It's not called fanboyism to abandon Yahoo because of the way they have behaved in China, and it's not called fanboyism to abandon Sony because of their stance on DRM and Piracy.
Although the telescope would have been able to detect fainter stars, none could be found- so it appears that they simply don't exist. "We checked the instruments over and over again" said Professor Richer "but we don't see any stars fainter than this".
So they could have detected much dimmer stars but didn't - so assuming a big enough sample, they discovered the minimum mass to initiate fusion. Pretty impressive.
So finally a Definitive Answer! Until someone bothers to look at a larger sample set,, finds dimmer stars, and they have to lower the minimum again.
BINGO!
But to those that are about to read this thread, please remember that people below this post who think that with the "current political climate" this will get you shot are wrong. I live in London, I was hung over and woke up late missing the tube on the first bombings. and then got stuck at work the second time. And these are my experiences.
Firstly, I suspect it is mainly Americans posting - or at least I hope so - and I truly do not want to be mean, but Britain's culture is quiet different to yours. Our parents grew up in the blitz. And I grew up with the IRA bombings. Attacks on Civilians aren't new. They are a consequence of getting to live free. Just because people die - does not mean you give up your life and your freedoms.
The point I'm trying to make is that after the bombing attempt I had to walk across london to get home. Before I left we flipped from the (relatively) informative and calm BBC 24 news to CNN - and watched the presenters talk of the ""chaos" and "panic" as "millions of londoners" have "no possible way to get home".
As I crossed most of central london through most of the effected areas what did I see? I saw a roaring Taxi trade, and I saw hundreds of people standing around every pub I walkied past - drinking, laughing, talking.
CNN, by it's comments created fear across the country and the globe. But where it happened - there was no such thing. And the tubes were full the next day.
This is people playing with water pistols in one of the hottest summers London's ever had for fucks sake. It's more important than ever they play this stupid little game - rather than sit around in fear listening to the News as it lies to them.
Dislcaimer - I'm not talking about the Blitz spirit - or any of that crap, nor am I suggesting London would have handled 11/9 better. What I am saying is ignore the fear filled retoric spewing from the news. As I know first hand how accurate that is.
Maybe if the PC game catalogue had a ratio of genres likes the 90s there may still be mainstream games like Xcom, and Secret of Monkey Island. Then maybe you could claw back us lapsed PC gamers.
No, but a strong element of Sony's success in maintaining paying customers is due to those PS1 games still playing on a PS2 (and soon PS3) that you can still buy today.
You don't understand the poster. People, including myself, left PC gaming because they could afford the upgrade curve to get the most out of current games, whilst at the same time, were upgrading enough to lose compatibility to the games they do have.
I don't come home from work to piss about with drivers and config settings for the hour or so I have free to relax. I want to turn on and play.
Yes.
The "Wait three years and then the technology will be perfect for situation X" argument is true in perpetuity.
Firstly - you've used the words "an afternoon sitting on the couch" instead of the word "Freedom." This was to make it hard to argue with you without sounding like an insensitive dick who doesn't care about anyone but themselves.
Secondly - you've used the emotive words "life in danger" when "personal safety" would be more appropriate.
Thirdly, you've gone on to state that a human's safety is worth more than freedom.
As a British Citizen, It isn't my place to tell you why that is so wrong. So I will leave it up to Benjamin Franklin (Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I wasn't even bashing Sony - just pointing out all the ridicule that come to them from E3.
My personal feelings on the cancellation are actually really positive. Hopefully games like PoP; Sands of Time won't get lost amongst the crowd anymore. Which will stop more "eXtreme" remakes like Warrior Within - in order to make them more E3 friendly.
Anyway just correcting my post that should be $599. Sony aren't that mad.
Do I dare?
So.... these rumours, I think, that maybe, the "big-player." Pulling out. Could be.
Based on no evidence other than historical battles, giant crabs and real time weapon change
Too much public MASSIVE DAMAGE? It pretty much provided a focus point for the interweb community (aka early adopters) to turn against them. Maybe they don't want anymore showcases where they have to say words like "six hundred and ninety nine united states dollars" to the world anymore - when a press release would be nicer.
*runs and hides*
Why not release them DRM free, and pull in your geeks who care about DRM - who also happen to be your early adopters?