Okay, this one's hilariously bad, to the point of hurting anyone that even thinks about trying to sell it. I can only presume this might be intended for some sort of distribution of classified... no, that doesn't make sense either. But it's just a patent application, a good example of people throwing every idea against the wall to see what sticks. Hint: This won't.
Same story, os on new consoles upgradeable. Shock (that's sarcasm in case you don't own an Xbox 1 or 360).
Nintendo Wii: It runs linux (according to submitter, it won't)! You can upgrade it to reach the apex of civilization! It's brilliant and never thought of before!
Sony PS3: Look at what a piece of crap it is! Constantly fixing bugs! Sony just wants force the DRM on us!
The anti-Sony bias has traveled beyond obvious, turned the corner at hilarious, and is now getting on the on-ramp to conspiracy theory land. With Microsoft people trying to sell the Nintendo Wii, I don't have to tell you where the next exit is.
Well, keep in mind the Gamecube has one DDR game, the Xbox has three, and the PS2 has five as of this week, and that's just the US releases. Add in Japan and the PS1 DDR releases there's probably close to fifteen DDR games for Sony systems. I guess no one wants to toss in something that could be seen as pro-Sony on Slashdot these days.
Unless it's a Guitar Hero story, but now that it's coming out for the 360 we don't need the exception anymore.
And yes, I definitely see DDR as a game that can take advantage of the storage space of Blu-Ray if they can get enough video rights (and some really nice surround sound too).
Console makers have been threat... err, promising to do this since Xbox Live first came out, but no one's been stupid enough to actually go all out on a title people actually want.
Enter Sony. The one console maker stupid enough to actually believe the crap that comes out of the marketing department. I'm a big Sony fan, and I'm still looking forward to the PS3 if for no other reason it has a lot of potential for homebrew app development. But the only thing good I see coming out of this is the inevitable penny-arcade comic. Come on, combine a next-gen console with stupid microtransaction crap, and Gabe and Tycho must be salivating at the possibilities even now.
Sony's mentioned many, many times that you can use any 2.5" laptop hard drive in any PS3. What's not upgradeable is the internal wireless (I got gigabit, don't care), the internal card slots (I got usb and, guess what, a lan), and the HDMI (I hate it too, but might be collecting blu-ray if it takes off). Sony reps have said outright they don't want to sell HD for the PS3.
Really looking forward to playing Xbox Media Center on a 360. The only real intellectual property problems with the original is it was only legal if you already had the compiler, which pretty much nobody had. But would I pay $100 a year for XBMC on a 360? Maybe, depends on how Sony handles the PS3 homebrew development.
Wow. Three pages to explain why when Sony does something, it's evil, but when Nintendo does the same thing, it's good. And when Sega does one thing, it's brilliant, and when it does the exact opposite, it's still brilliant. Seriously, try to find the Sega Saturn in a bin full of Genesis' (Genesii?) and Master Systems. Apparently the Dreamcast look, opposite of the early Sega consoles was brilliant. Oddly, I see no mention of the white(-ish) toploading PS1 in the article. Cough.
Can't believe he made excuses for the Nintendo Cable Modem... err, I mean Wii.
That's it, I am so starting my own blog to talk about consoles. At least I now know I need to do exactly zero research and not come anywhere near an objective point.
Of course geeks can handle a coherent plot, they're called Babylon 5 fans. DS9 gets all the fans that like coherent plots but didn't like B5 for whatever reasons. It's like saying people who don't like Ferrari kit cars (based on a VW Beetle) can't handle an Italian sports car.:) Star Trek was just not meant to do epic plots, Rodenberry put far too many restrictions on what could be done with characters in the Star Trek universe. Until those restrictions are fully lifted, Star Trek is going to continue to run into the ground.
But otherwise, I agree, the original series cannot stand up to modern scrutiny. The only way to fully appreciate it is to inflict oneself with some of the other shows of the time period.
Exactly. What's more, is not only are there real-world versions of this now (I also own both DDR Extreme and Extreme 2), but with the forthcoming xbox 360 stereo eye-toy that can see in 3d space, the possibility for far more interesting gameplay modes is near at hand. Add in whatever funky eyetoy sequel Sony is going to have (supposed to be hi-definition, rumored to be able to see in 3d space with just one camera somehow), and the Nintendo Wii is going to be in third place for unique and/or realistic controllers, let alone graphics.
People, especially on slashdot, keep promoting Nintendo as being THE gameplay company, as if Sony and MS have done nothing. I'd think the Guitar Hero stories alone would help cancel that out, but would these geeks stop forgetting about the eyetoy, for crying out loud? You can think of it as a $20 webcam that runs in linux, but it's also the first step towards some really interesting games. It's not perfect, granted, it can be prety picky sometimes about the background. But I've already played eyetoy games that work best while holding a wooden practice katana, who needs the Wii?
Okay, so the eyetoy games on the bundled Play disc are horrible and stupid, but if a lowly ps2 can do that, I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with the next gen. Now if only Sony bundled every PS3 with whatever the new eyetoy is, then we'd be getting somewhere.
This sounds more like a fun assignment for a high-level undergraduate comp-sci course. Give the students a library to read raw data from a webcam, have it match motion (against a bright white background, sheesh) with a predetermined animation.
Actually, even though it was the first series to use a lot of CGI, jms constantly bragged on the newsgroups about how he was bringing in costs under budget, and the budget was significantly less than the various Star Treks that were running during B5's run. I think B5 was running just under a million an episode, while Star Trek was well over, sometimes pushing two million (iirc).
The whole five year arc was planned ahead of time, but there weren't scripts written for hardly any of it when he was pitching it to the studios (including Paramount, who spontaniously had the idea for Deep Space 9 a while after they heard the B5 pitch). It was meant for five years, but when the production company that B5 was running under folded part way through season 4, they had good reason to think they weren't getting a fifth season. Then, right at the end, they were picked up by TBS. Go figure. Still wish I knew the truth behind Claudia Christian leaving (too much he-said she-said now).
Anyway, the real reason for this post is most anime series get planned out ahead of time also, and it shows. When a series will run for a set amount of time and is planned to end, there's so many more creative possibilities. I guess the big difference is pre-planned anime almost never runs as long as five years, it's usually 26 episodes, sometimes as many as 52. Some series, like Naruto, are long running and based on a current manga, so it seems pre-planned... until they run out of manga. The filler episodes tend to be quite painful.
You have to be carefull with the HardOCP benchmarks. I only read the first several pages, but they're doing their usual "real-world" stuff... which means leaning on the video card to do most of the work. Naturally, CPU differences aren't going to show up much here. I appreciate them doing something to put a real-world perspective on things, but what I read doesn't change the fact that the Core2Duos (I hate typing that) are really stinking fast. But playing games that do most of the work on the video card won't matter, big surprise... it really looks like a clever yet still desperate attempt to be a raving AMD fanboy and prop them up.
Uh-oh, rant ahead, I tried to avoid it, I swear...;)
I am a raving AMD fanboy, but I'm a raving AMD fanboy because they've made the best CPUs for a long time. They also have a wonderful motherboard architecture that makes very high bandwidth applications much easier to deal with. I find myself wishing I could plug the Core2Duos into an AMD motherboard... on-chip motherboard controllers would help Intel also. Ah, what do I care, I want to see a real motherboard built around a Cell, the overall system bandwidth is almost as exciting as the cpu. Too bad that means buying everything from Rambus...:(
I'm a little surprised one of science's most ardent survivors (Hawking was given 6 months to live... sometime in the late 1960's iirc) would ask a question like this. I would ask, if you were an evil genius, how could you go about making sure humanity didn't survive? Nuclear war? Well, that's what we have underground bunkers for, and looking at animals around Chernobyl the second or third generation of survivors might be able to adapt very nicely (sucks to be the first few generations, obviously). Besides, even with all the nukes that are around, you can't nuke the whole planet, especially now that most of the nukes in Russia and even some American ones will probably be duds. Biological warefare might work too, but there's always going to be small group of people that are mysteriously immune to whatever it is. You also have to take into account that whatever you do is going to be resisted... not all nukes are in the form of ICBMs, and even some of those can be shot down. Any biological agent will have the remaining scientists scrambling for a cure. Terrorists will have anti-terrorists. Giant fusion rockets meant to slow Earth's orbit until we fall into the sun will get sabotaged and/or bombed. Alien invaders will have to deal with networking with a Macintosh laptop (May God have mercy on whatever kind of souls they may have).
If he meant civilization when he said humanity, well, just hope for the best.
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Okay, this one's hilariously bad, to the point of hurting anyone that even thinks about trying to sell it. I can only presume this might be intended for some sort of distribution of classified... no, that doesn't make sense either. But it's just a patent application, a good example of people throwing every idea against the wall to see what sticks. Hint: This won't.
Same story, os on new consoles upgradeable. Shock (that's sarcasm in case you don't own an Xbox 1 or 360). Nintendo Wii: It runs linux (according to submitter, it won't)! You can upgrade it to reach the apex of civilization! It's brilliant and never thought of before! Sony PS3: Look at what a piece of crap it is! Constantly fixing bugs! Sony just wants force the DRM on us! The anti-Sony bias has traveled beyond obvious, turned the corner at hilarious, and is now getting on the on-ramp to conspiracy theory land. With Microsoft people trying to sell the Nintendo Wii, I don't have to tell you where the next exit is.
Well, keep in mind the Gamecube has one DDR game, the Xbox has three, and the PS2 has five as of this week, and that's just the US releases. Add in Japan and the PS1 DDR releases there's probably close to fifteen DDR games for Sony systems. I guess no one wants to toss in something that could be seen as pro-Sony on Slashdot these days.
Unless it's a Guitar Hero story, but now that it's coming out for the 360 we don't need the exception anymore.
And yes, I definitely see DDR as a game that can take advantage of the storage space of Blu-Ray if they can get enough video rights (and some really nice surround sound too).
Console makers have been threat... err, promising to do this since Xbox Live first came out, but no one's been stupid enough to actually go all out on a title people actually want. Enter Sony. The one console maker stupid enough to actually believe the crap that comes out of the marketing department. I'm a big Sony fan, and I'm still looking forward to the PS3 if for no other reason it has a lot of potential for homebrew app development. But the only thing good I see coming out of this is the inevitable penny-arcade comic. Come on, combine a next-gen console with stupid microtransaction crap, and Gabe and Tycho must be salivating at the possibilities even now.
Sony's mentioned many, many times that you can use any 2.5" laptop hard drive in any PS3. What's not upgradeable is the internal wireless (I got gigabit, don't care), the internal card slots (I got usb and, guess what, a lan), and the HDMI (I hate it too, but might be collecting blu-ray if it takes off). Sony reps have said outright they don't want to sell HD for the PS3.
Really looking forward to playing Xbox Media Center on a 360. The only real intellectual property problems with the original is it was only legal if you already had the compiler, which pretty much nobody had. But would I pay $100 a year for XBMC on a 360? Maybe, depends on how Sony handles the PS3 homebrew development.
Wow. Three pages to explain why when Sony does something, it's evil, but when Nintendo does the same thing, it's good. And when Sega does one thing, it's brilliant, and when it does the exact opposite, it's still brilliant. Seriously, try to find the Sega Saturn in a bin full of Genesis' (Genesii?) and Master Systems. Apparently the Dreamcast look, opposite of the early Sega consoles was brilliant. Oddly, I see no mention of the white(-ish) toploading PS1 in the article. Cough. Can't believe he made excuses for the Nintendo Cable Modem... err, I mean Wii. That's it, I am so starting my own blog to talk about consoles. At least I now know I need to do exactly zero research and not come anywhere near an objective point.
Of course geeks can handle a coherent plot, they're called Babylon 5 fans. DS9 gets all the fans that like coherent plots but didn't like B5 for whatever reasons. It's like saying people who don't like Ferrari kit cars (based on a VW Beetle) can't handle an Italian sports car. :) Star Trek was just not meant to do epic plots, Rodenberry put far too many restrictions on what could be done with characters in the Star Trek universe. Until those restrictions are fully lifted, Star Trek is going to continue to run into the ground.
But otherwise, I agree, the original series cannot stand up to modern scrutiny. The only way to fully appreciate it is to inflict oneself with some of the other shows of the time period.
People, especially on slashdot, keep promoting Nintendo as being THE gameplay company, as if Sony and MS have done nothing. I'd think the Guitar Hero stories alone would help cancel that out, but would these geeks stop forgetting about the eyetoy, for crying out loud? You can think of it as a $20 webcam that runs in linux, but it's also the first step towards some really interesting games. It's not perfect, granted, it can be prety picky sometimes about the background. But I've already played eyetoy games that work best while holding a wooden practice katana, who needs the Wii?
Okay, so the eyetoy games on the bundled Play disc are horrible and stupid, but if a lowly ps2 can do that, I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with the next gen. Now if only Sony bundled every PS3 with whatever the new eyetoy is, then we'd be getting somewhere.
This sounds more like a fun assignment for a high-level undergraduate comp-sci course. Give the students a library to read raw data from a webcam, have it match motion (against a bright white background, sheesh) with a predetermined animation.
Actually, even though it was the first series to use a lot of CGI, jms constantly bragged on the newsgroups about how he was bringing in costs under budget, and the budget was significantly less than the various Star Treks that were running during B5's run. I think B5 was running just under a million an episode, while Star Trek was well over, sometimes pushing two million (iirc). The whole five year arc was planned ahead of time, but there weren't scripts written for hardly any of it when he was pitching it to the studios (including Paramount, who spontaniously had the idea for Deep Space 9 a while after they heard the B5 pitch). It was meant for five years, but when the production company that B5 was running under folded part way through season 4, they had good reason to think they weren't getting a fifth season. Then, right at the end, they were picked up by TBS. Go figure. Still wish I knew the truth behind Claudia Christian leaving (too much he-said she-said now). Anyway, the real reason for this post is most anime series get planned out ahead of time also, and it shows. When a series will run for a set amount of time and is planned to end, there's so many more creative possibilities. I guess the big difference is pre-planned anime almost never runs as long as five years, it's usually 26 episodes, sometimes as many as 52. Some series, like Naruto, are long running and based on a current manga, so it seems pre-planned... until they run out of manga. The filler episodes tend to be quite painful.
Uh-oh, rant ahead, I tried to avoid it, I swear... ;)
I am a raving AMD fanboy, but I'm a raving AMD fanboy because they've made the best CPUs for a long time. They also have a wonderful motherboard architecture that makes very high bandwidth applications much easier to deal with. I find myself wishing I could plug the Core2Duos into an AMD motherboard... on-chip motherboard controllers would help Intel also. Ah, what do I care, I want to see a real motherboard built around a Cell, the overall system bandwidth is almost as exciting as the cpu. Too bad that means buying everything from Rambus... :(
Well, everyone (except the Wii) has extra cores to play with now, looks like someone may have found a decent use for one of them. :)
I'm a little surprised one of science's most ardent survivors (Hawking was given 6 months to live... sometime in the late 1960's iirc) would ask a question like this. I would ask, if you were an evil genius, how could you go about making sure humanity didn't survive? Nuclear war? Well, that's what we have underground bunkers for, and looking at animals around Chernobyl the second or third generation of survivors might be able to adapt very nicely (sucks to be the first few generations, obviously). Besides, even with all the nukes that are around, you can't nuke the whole planet, especially now that most of the nukes in Russia and even some American ones will probably be duds. Biological warefare might work too, but there's always going to be small group of people that are mysteriously immune to whatever it is. You also have to take into account that whatever you do is going to be resisted... not all nukes are in the form of ICBMs, and even some of those can be shot down. Any biological agent will have the remaining scientists scrambling for a cure. Terrorists will have anti-terrorists. Giant fusion rockets meant to slow Earth's orbit until we fall into the sun will get sabotaged and/or bombed. Alien invaders will have to deal with networking with a Macintosh laptop (May God have mercy on whatever kind of souls they may have).
If he meant civilization when he said humanity, well, just hope for the best.