The group of 6 people better include more then one female, otherwise they will have at least one if not 3+ dead when they come back. If it's a group of 6 men, odds are still someone will not make it out alive.
Have they not seen the last 15 years of MTV? The Real World will tell them all they need to know about putting a group of strangers together in a tight space for an extended time.
When I had a MSI NVidia video card, I found the drivers were always about 6 months behind what was at the NVidia site directly. However, when I had the MSI system board, I found the drivers for the board to be fairly up to date, surpassing the ones MS had for things like the on board NIC and sound.
Why does everybody bring up the $100 wireless dongle for the 360? Someone invited something called a cable a long time ago, it links items together, it even comes with the damn thing. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has the xbox very near the TV, which is also where my cable connection comes into the house, which is next to my damn modem/router. I don't need wireless when the router is sitting 2 feet from the system. Wireless is not the only why to access the internet, despite what starbucks tells you.. Why don't you compare the $300 xbox with the $300 PS3? Both come with 120gig HD, null point. The system is not required to be online, so online connectivity/wi-fi is a null point. Blu-Ray, ok, point there. Then again, if you do have your system networked in any way, it can most likely stream from your computer, which can store the HD content, so Blu-Ray gets nulled out. Live has a fee of $55 a year, A YEAR, people with a $200-300 system that has new games costing $60, should not be allowed to bitch about a low cost fee that charged YEARLY. That's what, 3 outings to McD's for a family of 4, a weeks worth of starbucks every morning, or a night to the bar? Gaming is a hobby, hobbies incur cost. Check with a female family member about the cost of gardening or knitting or scrap booking, then complain about a one time a year fee that's fairly cheap. Really, the only winning point the PS3 has over 360 as a user cost standpoint is the ability to pop in just about any HD, which is a very nice point, which would be the only relevent point to the whole thread.
So, you use Xbox live, get the update, it cripples your ability to use the device offline, with no why to undo the change after the fact. Sounds like an issue to me.
I fully expect them a few years later to outlaw the glass or have a warning on it stating it is known to the state of California to cause cancer in 1:10000000 lab mice when injected in it's stem cells directly while being genetically altered in a petri dish or some such.
I totally agree with the last few sentences there, about not jumping around to play an RPG. I've not played more then 2-3 hours of metroid three due to the fact I have to move my arm around, that gets tiring after a while. I wish they had classic of GC controller scheme for it. Sometimes I want to lay on the couch, under a nice warm blanket playing a game. Not positioned directly in front of my TV with my arm outstretched. The novelty of the wiimote is nice, and it worked really well for some things, like Wii Sports or Punch Out, but sometimes I want to turn it off and use traditional controls. Same goes for the DS, I got the Wizard of Oz game, and it MAKES you use the touch screen to move, select, everything. Was it too hard to make it also use the d-pad and the ABXY buttons? Again, the touch feature is nice and works for some things, a la Phantom Hourglass, but when it's forced because it's there, and the traditional controls would work better, the novalty sucks.
They should do this with some of the other "dead" MMOs. I'd love to play Earth and Beyond again. Tabula Risa would have been a gold mine with this style. Granted, all games wouldn't work with this. Some do, and do it well. As other's have mentioned, Maple Story and Silk Road Online are some of the most successful MMO's to use this style, and they make a ton of money.
Nintendo said, repeatably, the DS was not a replacement for the GBA, they will exist concurrently and continue to have game developed on them. One year later, the GBA was dead.
I can see Sony completely killing the "old" PSP model in favor of the 100% Sony controlled PSP Go, even if it is an utter failure.
They will take my PSP-2001 from my old dead hands.
I wonder if this isn't just a test to see how a device will do without physical media for the user. PS4 maybe 100% digital downloads? Sell one time use usb device to upload games to the device, then it shorts itself out, never to be used again? It will kill the second hand market for sure, but how will Wal-mart react?
These overlords must be the ones that have taken over my back yard. Fire, bleach, anti-freeze, roto-tiller, sll no affect. These overlords will rule us all.
I think you have the correct idea with where the current generation is going. Only thing to add is, newspapers print day old news reported first on the net then on TV. I used to subscribe to both the Denver Post and Colorad Springs Gazette, they had different comics. I started to see that the Gazette would reprint the same stories that were in the Post, 1-3 days after they were in the Post. Then I started reading online news. I found the newspaper was printing 1-2 day old news as it was, unless it was super current(a disaster or some sort of political thing), then a day old at most. THey are a fossil of when it was ok for the newspaper to take a week to get to you in the Ohio valley from the east coast. Doom on them.
For, wait even a few more years, wait for optical media to die, and pick up micro flash media players. One player on the shelf will do it all. Play videos, music, the card from your camera, display your files from your thumb drive. Also, no moving parts except for cooling fan, so it should last forever.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
Take all records off line. Require a photo be placed in the file at the home/main office you visit most. You must present a photo ID and signature for any transaction, and it must match what is in the profile, or the transaction/whatever will not be processed.
This is highly inconvienent to everyone involved, but will reduce security issues.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
An individual, up to a government backed hack group, can break into your system. All that is required is time, or an idiot forgetting a laptop in the front seat of the car.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
You can have privacy/security, or you can have easy. Pick one.
Protocol, and current law, requires fingerprinting for incoming foreigners. I think DNA should be a good alternative if fingerprints are not available. I wonder what the protocol is for a double arm amputee. What if they had just said, "Oh well, you look sick and you won't do anything, so we'll let you in."
What if they find out he's on cancer drugs because he's some sort of commie biochem guy and is now sick from that. He's dying and wants to do damage to America. He blows up a school. Oh, well, after a few years they'll find he wasn't printed coming into the country. Parents of kids killed sue because protocol wasn't followed, allowing a dangerous wanted person in the country, just because he was sick. Sickness does not beget special treatment. A plan B should be in place for this sort of thing.
Your comment, sir, should be made sticky and sent to every person in the world who uses a computer. I do tech support part time, and I get to field calls from people who don't know that if the building doesn't have internet, they can't check their email. They work on a computer all day, every day, and have no idea how to turn it off. They think the monitor IS the computer. I know that some PCs, like Dell and Gateway, and Apple has for a long time, have the computer built into the monitor, they don't use those kind. Some times, they call to say the printer is broken, but then they don't know where the printer is. Once I even had a guy tell me the printer is broken and is beeping, and asks what a printer is when I ask for the serial number.
There are some people who just don't care, and will call things whatever they want to call them.
Theory and reality are two different things. In theory, one would get a fair trial, regardless of attitude. In reality, if you're an ass in court, the jury will most likely think less of you, and that you are more apt to commit whatever the prosecution says you did. Granted, the defense can motion for a mistrial, at least in the US, if they think the outcome was because of it.
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I am interested in your experiment and wish to partake in it, where do I send the check?
The group of 6 people better include more then one female, otherwise they will have at least one if not 3+ dead when they come back. If it's a group of 6 men, odds are still someone will not make it out alive.
Have they not seen the last 15 years of MTV? The Real World will tell them all they need to know about putting a group of strangers together in a tight space for an extended time.
See: Biodome. The failed movie or the failed experiment.
When I had a MSI NVidia video card, I found the drivers were always about 6 months behind what was at the NVidia site directly. However, when I had the MSI system board, I found the drivers for the board to be fairly up to date, surpassing the ones MS had for things like the on board NIC and sound.
Why does everybody bring up the $100 wireless dongle for the 360? Someone invited something called a cable a long time ago, it links items together, it even comes with the damn thing.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has the xbox very near the TV, which is also where my cable connection comes into the house, which is next to my damn modem/router. I don't need wireless when the router is sitting 2 feet from the system. Wireless is not the only why to access the internet, despite what starbucks tells you..
Why don't you compare the $300 xbox with the $300 PS3? Both come with 120gig HD, null point. The system is not required to be online, so online connectivity/wi-fi is a null point. Blu-Ray, ok, point there. Then again, if you do have your system networked in any way, it can most likely stream from your computer, which can store the HD content, so Blu-Ray gets nulled out.
Live has a fee of $55 a year, A YEAR, people with a $200-300 system that has new games costing $60, should not be allowed to bitch about a low cost fee that charged YEARLY. That's what, 3 outings to McD's for a family of 4, a weeks worth of starbucks every morning, or a night to the bar? Gaming is a hobby, hobbies incur cost. Check with a female family member about the cost of gardening or knitting or scrap booking, then complain about a one time a year fee that's fairly cheap.
Really, the only winning point the PS3 has over 360 as a user cost standpoint is the ability to pop in just about any HD, which is a very nice point, which would be the only relevent point to the whole thread.
So, you use Xbox live, get the update, it cripples your ability to use the device offline, with no why to undo the change after the fact. Sounds like an issue to me.
I fully expect them a few years later to outlaw the glass or have a warning on it stating it is known to the state of California to cause cancer in 1:10000000 lab mice when injected in it's stem cells directly while being genetically altered in a petri dish or some such.
I totally agree with the last few sentences there, about not jumping around to play an RPG. I've not played more then 2-3 hours of metroid three due to the fact I have to move my arm around, that gets tiring after a while. I wish they had classic of GC controller scheme for it. Sometimes I want to lay on the couch, under a nice warm blanket playing a game. Not positioned directly in front of my TV with my arm outstretched. The novelty of the wiimote is nice, and it worked really well for some things, like Wii Sports or Punch Out, but sometimes I want to turn it off and use traditional controls. Same goes for the DS, I got the Wizard of Oz game, and it MAKES you use the touch screen to move, select, everything. Was it too hard to make it also use the d-pad and the ABXY buttons? Again, the touch feature is nice and works for some things, a la Phantom Hourglass, but when it's forced because it's there, and the traditional controls would work better, the novalty sucks.
The original PS1 controller didn't have analog control sticks. Sony copied it from the N64, and has used the DualShock controller since.
They should do this with some of the other "dead" MMOs. I'd love to play Earth and Beyond again. Tabula Risa would have been a gold mine with this style. Granted, all games wouldn't work with this. Some do, and do it well. As other's have mentioned, Maple Story and Silk Road Online are some of the most successful MMO's to use this style, and they make a ton of money.
Please EA, bring back Earth and Beyond.
Nintendo said, repeatably, the DS was not a replacement for the GBA, they will exist concurrently and continue to have game developed on them. One year later, the GBA was dead. I can see Sony completely killing the "old" PSP model in favor of the 100% Sony controlled PSP Go, even if it is an utter failure. They will take my PSP-2001 from my old dead hands.
I wonder if this isn't just a test to see how a device will do without physical media for the user. PS4 maybe 100% digital downloads? Sell one time use usb device to upload games to the device, then it shorts itself out, never to be used again? It will kill the second hand market for sure, but how will Wal-mart react?
I like your idea and wonder what kind of book I could find this in, or what I would need to look for for a project like this.
This will now become my rally cry everytime I hear someone mention Social Medicine in the US. I think you kind citizen.
These overlords must be the ones that have taken over my back yard. Fire, bleach, anti-freeze, roto-tiller, sll no affect. These overlords will rule us all.
Ya, just like Napster and Kazaa. Cash out on a good name, company turns it to trash.
I think you have the correct idea with where the current generation is going. Only thing to add is, newspapers print day old news reported first on the net then on TV. I used to subscribe to both the Denver Post and Colorad Springs Gazette, they had different comics. I started to see that the Gazette would reprint the same stories that were in the Post, 1-3 days after they were in the Post. Then I started reading online news. I found the newspaper was printing 1-2 day old news as it was, unless it was super current(a disaster or some sort of political thing), then a day old at most. THey are a fossil of when it was ok for the newspaper to take a week to get to you in the Ohio valley from the east coast. Doom on them.
For, wait even a few more years, wait for optical media to die, and pick up micro flash media players. One player on the shelf will do it all. Play videos, music, the card from your camera, display your files from your thumb drive. Also, no moving parts except for cooling fan, so it should last forever.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
Take all records off line. Require a photo be placed in the file at the home/main office you visit most. You must present a photo ID and signature for any transaction, and it must match what is in the profile, or the transaction/whatever will not be processed.
This is highly inconvienent to everyone involved, but will reduce security issues.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
An individual, up to a government backed hack group, can break into your system. All that is required is time, or an idiot forgetting a laptop in the front seat of the car.
If it is online, it is not secure in todays world.
You can have privacy/security, or you can have easy. Pick one.
Protocol, and current law, requires fingerprinting for incoming foreigners. I think DNA should be a good alternative if fingerprints are not available. I wonder what the protocol is for a double arm amputee. What if they had just said, "Oh well, you look sick and you won't do anything, so we'll let you in."
What if they find out he's on cancer drugs because he's some sort of commie biochem guy and is now sick from that. He's dying and wants to do damage to America. He blows up a school. Oh, well, after a few years they'll find he wasn't printed coming into the country. Parents of kids killed sue because protocol wasn't followed, allowing a dangerous wanted person in the country, just because he was sick.
Sickness does not beget special treatment. A plan B should be in place for this sort of thing.
Your comment, sir, should be made sticky and sent to every person in the world who uses a computer. I do tech support part time, and I get to field calls from people who don't know that if the building doesn't have internet, they can't check their email. They work on a computer all day, every day, and have no idea how to turn it off. They think the monitor IS the computer. I know that some PCs, like Dell and Gateway, and Apple has for a long time, have the computer built into the monitor, they don't use those kind. Some times, they call to say the printer is broken, but then they don't know where the printer is. Once I even had a guy tell me the printer is broken and is beeping, and asks what a printer is when I ask for the serial number.
There are some people who just don't care, and will call things whatever they want to call them.
Ships councilor as bridge personal because she's a freaking empath.
Theory and reality are two different things. In theory, one would get a fair trial, regardless of attitude. In reality, if you're an ass in court, the jury will most likely think less of you, and that you are more apt to commit whatever the prosecution says you did.
Granted, the defense can motion for a mistrial, at least in the US, if they think the outcome was because of it.
I think a lot of it has to do with the quality of the lawyers silver tongue as well.