Burnout Legends lets you share a multiplayer demo of the game with other PSP owners. While we're wildly speculating on what the DS is/isn't going to do with what might or might not be called the Nintendo Revolution, we should also speculate as to how the wireless aspect of the PSP allows you to use it as part of the game, and not just for transferring information.
Proving once again that OMM really had a time machine and weren't just fucking around, a quote from way back in 1999:
American game developers are too chickenshit to touch a violent, button pushing property like The Warriors. I guess they're afraid it might inspire fights outside Electronics Boutique. Fine, we say, make your goddamn KISS games. We'll see you in bankruptcy court.
It's not an American game dev bringing us hot Warrior vs. Mime vs. Baseball Gang action, since Rockstar North is based out of Edinburgh. I can't wait.
The smart thing to do isn't to sell to the consumer. License it to the shoemaker.
The problem is, you'd have to fine-tune the length of time the shine stuff actually works. If every Nike shoe had built-in NikeShine, and NikeShine expired after 6 months of wear, Nike could possibly get you to buy more shoes per year than you do now, assuming you're the kind of person who likes clean-looking footwear, which is a majority of Nike's basketball shoe consumer.
The ending to the version of Minority Report I saw probably differs from what others saw, so here it is(**SPOILER WARNING APPLIES**):
Anderton gets the halo, gets put in prison. Remember the gimp in the wheelchair? He said that while you're in the prison, you see all sorts of things including, and I somewhat-quote, "...even the world as it could have been."
Anderton never leaves prison. The tidy package that the movie creates is a construct of Anderton's mind. Lamar goes on to launch the pre-crime unit nationwide. The precogs don't move to a log cabin, Anderton doesn't get back with the missus, and there's no bun in the missus' oven, and if there is, it ain't Anderton's batter that caused it.
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That's comparable to PC games, but many tend to wait until they get discounted. This isn't as common in the console 'hot game' market.
Untrue. Sony regularly relaunches hit titles with low price points, as does Nintendo to a lesser extent. Microsoft has already dropped the price on several of their 1st party launch titles, including Oddworld.
A good chunk is bought by the over 18s, but lets be honest, parents buying these for their kids is the largest market.
Are you doing this on purpose, or are you just talking about something you don't understand? While consoles may have been for kids a dozen years ago, the fact of the matter today is that men AND women are buying consoles in the 18-34 age range.
... tied up phone lines...
Have you ever seen an Xbox? Where's the part that ties up the phone lines?
Shame on you for using a public forum to spout lies and half-truths in order to justify your decision not to purchase a console.
Order in which items entered the anomaly:
1. Chimp
2. Chi...Marky Mark (soon after Chimp)
3. Big Ship (an hour later?)
Order in which items left the anomaly:
3. Big Ship (it's occupants populate the Planet)
2. Chi...Marky Mark
1. Chimp
The anomaly reverses the order, so that First In -> Last Out.
At the end of the movie:
1. Marky Mark enters the anomaly
...time passes
2. Tim Roth enters the anomaly, the human uprising being thwarted, he escapes his prison and has his craft legion of human slaves repair Marky Mark's original ship, or mayhap another vehicle that crashed inside the orbiter
THEREFORE:
2. Tim Roth gets to Earth anywhere from 1 to 30 years before Marky Mark does, siezing control of Earth.
The 500Mhz iBook has a 12.1"-ish screen with a resolution of 1024x768. The new 600Mhz iBook has a 14.1"-ish screen with a resolution of 1024x768. Same pixel depth, you just have your choice on how big you want your pixels, I guess:)
Funding ION Storm was a sound business decision at the time. EIDOS has 3 of the top game designers forming their own company, and a 4th bringing a "nearly finished" game that expands on the gameplay styles of Starcraft/Warcraft, which at the time were selling like mad. $30 Million was money well spent at the time.
Flash forward a few years, and a little company that has had VERY little commercial success comes looking to be bought. Why the fuck would EIDOS throw more money @ Looking Glass? Let them crumble, and once they do, let Warren Spector (who obviously has a little knowledge of the situation) hand pick the gems from the group. There were a lot of shitty titles that came out of Looking Glass, you know...or does it break your heart that you won't see another Looking Glass golf game?
Time will tell if the fall of Looking Glass was the best thing to happen to the Thief series or not. IMHO I'm happy to see it back under Warren's control.
As the story goes, Romero was introduced to the term "Daikatana" being used to describe a large, powerful sword during a game of D&D being DM'ed by John Carmack.
"meiken" sounds like a shitty name for a videogame. "Daikatana" at least implies to the casual listener that a sword is involved.
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The last I checked, PalmAmp hadn't been updated in almost a year. You'd need a hell of a serial cable, too (PalmAmp requires a serial cable link to a PC. No USB support). Plus, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but PalmAmp has a PC side component to query the serial port, which eats up 96% of your CPU.
If you have a twelve foot serial cable, a spare machine, a palm you don't use and a lot of batteries (You're in almost constant communication with the PC), go for it.
That's why closed-source software is so successful. If more people DON'T know what the code does, the better. Keep your cards close to your chest, and all. The best decision would have been to report directly to Microsoft, then keep quiet until a patch got released, and hope that nobody else found the hole...after all, nobody else would be clever enough to find it, right?
Do people actually buy stuff from all of those pop-unders* you guys have ON EVERY STINKING WEB PAGE?!?? Does it really fit in the palm of your hand? Neat!
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*Yes, I know that is X10. It is a joke. Live a little.
Sencha = Chinese tea. Notice on the 'letter' page over on Salla's website that the letter is 'signed' by an image of a woman holding c up of tea? At first I thought SENCHA = E. S. CHAN, but Evan's middle name is Jasper.
The Red King = Alice in wonderland. Things are starting to take a slight Alice bend. Mother talks about us crawling through the looking-glass, and that hell, she MADE the looking-glass. Red King is on par with Red Queen.
The question I have is, who is wind?
Evan Chan - Water
Nancy Chan - Earth
Anti-Robot Militia - Fire
?????? - Wind
?????? - ??????? (more???)
You think that Jeanine Salla's web page, inourimage.com and maybe, *maybe* the ARM stuff is it? Hahaha...
A friend pointed out the Sentient Machine Therapist credit, then we started with JeanineSalla.com. The path then splits into several different directions. A big cookie goes to the first slashdotter who can get into Evan and Nancy Chan's voicemail...or, hell...get mother to force you to email her (the last thing I did today was get mother's attention...apparently, she's leaving crumbs as we speak).
Oh, don't forget to view source. Some crazy stuff hidden if you know where to look..."UP AGAINST THE WALL!"
I submitted this yesterday, when we were about 4 hours in. Rejected. Later, we found the aintitcool.com thread, but avoided looking at it (except for 'aphrodite'...that was a bitch, I'd never figure that part out).
Best part is, this has nothing, nothing to do with the movie itself. Takes place ~50 years after the film. The 'game' does take into consideration many ideas put forth in Aldiss's 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' such as the concept of supertoys, the fact that the coastal cities are all flooded (thus the coast being in Durham, NC, the lagoons of Central Park, the vacation in the Mississippi Islands), the wearing of the plastic masks, and the flesh fares (I think Aldiss mentions these)...except the technology has taken a huge step since the days of little David Swinton.
I use Edna. Written in python, needs no apache, no mysql. Installs on anything that runs python, as far as I can tell (runs on NT, redhat, *bsd, debian). Sexy, template-based interface.
We serve up over 90 gig of MP3's to 110 users in the workplace with edna. Why don't you?
The manual indicates (under miracles: wood and miracles: grain) that repeatedly clicking the mouse button when casting these miracles will increase their production. If you position your hand over the little 'hut' part of the village store and rapidly click the action button, you'll wind up with about 30,000 units of wood per spell (rough estimate). That's enough that I've rarely seen my people cutting down trees, and in fact have only need for a single wood-cutter in a far off town I took over.
Well then. I mean, if it's on the internet then it HAS to be true, right?
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I'm not sure it's scientific ignorance. I think the concern is that we'll enslave hordes of helpless mammals to act as chemical factories for our own purposes.
And how exactly is this different from say, an orchard or dairy farm? We breed specific types of cattle, down to genetic tinkering, and milk them on an industrial scale. Is it bad because the goat milk could cover your cheerios and help stop a bullet?
When I read the story, I saw that they removed the 'Home' Button, but allowed for full customization of the toolbar with any icon you want pointing to any URL you want. Instead of having 'Home' point to a blank page, I could have an icon of a blank page to click on, right?
How this is sabotaging AOL/TW, proving AOL users are inferior, showing that our online rights are being taken away, etc. is lost on me.
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...considering the Windows 95 startup sound was created by Brian Eno, a one-time frequent collaborator with Fripp.
Burnout Legends lets you share a multiplayer demo of the game with other PSP owners. While we're wildly speculating on what the DS is/isn't going to do with what might or might not be called the Nintendo Revolution, we should also speculate as to how the wireless aspect of the PSP allows you to use it as part of the game, and not just for transferring information.
It's not an American game dev bringing us hot Warrior vs. Mime vs. Baseball Gang action, since Rockstar North is based out of Edinburgh.
I can't wait.
The smart thing to do isn't to sell to the consumer. License it to the shoemaker.
The problem is, you'd have to fine-tune the length of time the shine stuff actually works. If every Nike shoe had built-in NikeShine, and NikeShine expired after 6 months of wear, Nike could possibly get you to buy more shoes per year than you do now, assuming you're the kind of person who likes clean-looking footwear, which is a majority of Nike's basketball shoe consumer.
The ending to the version of Minority Report I saw probably differs from what others saw, so here it is(**SPOILER WARNING APPLIES**):
Anderton gets the halo, gets put in prison. Remember the gimp in the wheelchair? He said that while you're in the prison, you see all sorts of things including, and I somewhat-quote, "...even the world as it could have been."
Anderton never leaves prison. The tidy package that the movie creates is a construct of Anderton's mind. Lamar goes on to launch the pre-crime unit nationwide. The precogs don't move to a log cabin, Anderton doesn't get back with the missus, and there's no bun in the missus' oven, and if there is, it ain't Anderton's batter that caused it.
That's comparable to PC games, but many tend to wait until they get discounted. This isn't as common in the console 'hot game' market.
... tied up phone lines...
Untrue. Sony regularly relaunches hit titles with low price points, as does Nintendo to a lesser extent. Microsoft has already dropped the price on several of their 1st party launch titles, including Oddworld.
A good chunk is bought by the over 18s, but lets be honest, parents buying these for their kids is the largest market.
Are you doing this on purpose, or are you just talking about something you don't understand? While consoles may have been for kids a dozen years ago, the fact of the matter today is that men AND women are buying consoles in the 18-34 age range.
Have you ever seen an Xbox? Where's the part that ties up the phone lines?
Shame on you for using a public forum to spout lies and half-truths in order to justify your decision not to purchase a console.
No No NO.
** SPOILERS **
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Order in which items entered the anomaly:
1. Chimp
2. Chi...Marky Mark (soon after Chimp)
3. Big Ship (an hour later?)
Order in which items left the anomaly:
3. Big Ship (it's occupants populate the Planet)
2. Chi...Marky Mark
1. Chimp
The anomaly reverses the order, so that First In -> Last Out.
At the end of the movie:
1. Marky Mark enters the anomaly
...time passes
2. Tim Roth enters the anomaly, the human uprising being thwarted, he escapes his prison and has his craft legion of human slaves repair Marky Mark's original ship, or mayhap another vehicle that crashed inside the orbiter
THEREFORE:
2. Tim Roth gets to Earth anywhere from 1 to 30 years before Marky Mark does, siezing control of Earth.
1. Marky Mark arrives on Earth and says, "Woah."
The 500Mhz iBook has a 12.1"-ish screen with a resolution of 1024x768. The new 600Mhz iBook has a 14.1"-ish screen with a resolution of 1024x768. Same pixel depth, you just have your choice on how big you want your pixels, I guess :)
Funding ION Storm was a sound business decision at the time. EIDOS has 3 of the top game designers forming their own company, and a 4th bringing a "nearly finished" game that expands on the gameplay styles of Starcraft/Warcraft, which at the time were selling like mad. $30 Million was money well spent at the time.
Flash forward a few years, and a little company that has had VERY little commercial success comes looking to be bought. Why the fuck would EIDOS throw more money @ Looking Glass? Let them crumble, and once they do, let Warren Spector (who obviously has a little knowledge of the situation) hand pick the gems from the group. There were a lot of shitty titles that came out of Looking Glass, you know...or does it break your heart that you won't see another Looking Glass golf game?
Time will tell if the fall of Looking Glass was the best thing to happen to the Thief series or not. IMHO I'm happy to see it back under Warren's control.
"meiken" sounds like a shitty name for a videogame. "Daikatana" at least implies to the casual listener that a sword is involved.
The last I checked, PalmAmp hadn't been updated in almost a year. You'd need a hell of a serial cable, too (PalmAmp requires a serial cable link to a PC. No USB support). Plus, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but PalmAmp has a PC side component to query the serial port, which eats up 96% of your CPU.
If you have a twelve foot serial cable, a spare machine, a palm you don't use and a lot of batteries (You're in almost constant communication with the PC), go for it.
That's why closed-source software is so successful. If more people DON'T know what the code does, the better. Keep your cards close to your chest, and all. The best decision would have been to report directly to Microsoft, then keep quiet until a patch got released, and hope that nobody else found the hole...after all, nobody else would be clever enough to find it, right?
I think you're a moron.
Do people actually buy stuff from all of those pop-unders* you guys have ON EVERY STINKING WEB PAGE?!?? Does it really fit in the palm of your hand? Neat!
.
.
*Yes, I know that is X10. It is a joke. Live a little.
Sencha = Chinese tea. Notice on the 'letter' page over on Salla's website that the letter is 'signed' by an image of a woman holding c up of tea? At first I thought SENCHA = E. S. CHAN, but Evan's middle name is Jasper.
The Red King = Alice in wonderland. Things are starting to take a slight Alice bend. Mother talks about us crawling through the looking-glass, and that hell, she MADE the looking-glass. Red King is on par with Red Queen.
The question I have is, who is wind?
Evan Chan - Water
Nancy Chan - Earth
Anti-Robot Militia - Fire
?????? - Wind
?????? - ??????? (more???)
You think that Jeanine Salla's web page, inourimage.com and maybe, *maybe* the ARM stuff is it? Hahaha...
...that was a bitch, I'd never figure that part out).
A friend pointed out the Sentient Machine Therapist credit, then we started with JeanineSalla.com. The path then splits into several different directions. A big cookie goes to the first slashdotter who can get into Evan and Nancy Chan's voicemail...or, hell...get mother to force you to email her (the last thing I did today was get mother's attention...apparently, she's leaving crumbs as we speak).
Oh, don't forget to view source. Some crazy stuff hidden if you know where to look..."UP AGAINST THE WALL!"
I submitted this yesterday, when we were about 4 hours in. Rejected. Later, we found the aintitcool.com thread, but avoided looking at it (except for 'aphrodite'
Best part is, this has nothing, nothing to do with the movie itself. Takes place ~50 years after the film. The 'game' does take into consideration many ideas put forth in Aldiss's 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' such as the concept of supertoys, the fact that the coastal cities are all flooded (thus the coast being in Durham, NC, the lagoons of Central Park, the vacation in the Mississippi Islands), the wearing of the plastic masks, and the flesh fares (I think Aldiss mentions these)...except the technology has taken a huge step since the days of little David Swinton.
I use Edna. Written in python, needs no apache, no mysql. Installs on anything that runs python, as far as I can tell (runs on NT, redhat, *bsd, debian). Sexy, template-based interface.
We serve up over 90 gig of MP3's to 110 users in the workplace with edna. Why don't you?
The manual indicates (under miracles: wood and miracles: grain) that repeatedly clicking the mouse button when casting these miracles will increase their production. If you position your hand over the little 'hut' part of the village store and rapidly click the action button, you'll wind up with about 30,000 units of wood per spell (rough estimate). That's enough that I've rarely seen my people cutting down trees, and in fact have only need for a single wood-cutter in a far off town I took over.
Hope that helps.
And how exactly is this different from say, an orchard or dairy farm? We breed specific types of cattle, down to genetic tinkering, and milk them on an industrial scale. Is it bad because the goat milk could cover your cheerios and help stop a bullet?
When I read the story, I saw that they removed the 'Home' Button, but allowed for full customization of the toolbar with any icon you want pointing to any URL you want. Instead of having 'Home' point to a blank page, I could have an icon of a blank page to click on, right?
How this is sabotaging AOL/TW, proving AOL users are inferior, showing that our online rights are being taken away, etc. is lost on me.