Posts by jai 2310 publicly visible posts • joined 8 May 2007
one in the eye for the sceptics! yay! that'll teach them for dumping our tea in the harbour!!
this is more like the kind of news we expect on a friday, i was getting quite worried that so many articles on the Reg today were serious, i thought maybe it was really thursday.
now, where's our friday afternoon Playmobile Porn?
the same issue with GTA4 will apply though
i think the majority of people likely to buy a console on the strength of one title are also likely to be big enough gaming fans to have bought the PS3 already over the past year. I don't think we'll see a surge in sales just for the MGS4
i dunno - to me it sounds like IE is at fault really
wasn't there the big problem with Outlook automatically executing files and that's why there's so many infected spam-bots in the world?
and if the IE issue was really reported back in 2006, then you can't really say that a fix this week is a speedy responce
i'm sorry, but have you actually used an iPhone?
it took me all of 5 minutes to get used to typing on mine
(and yes, i spend all day at work typing on a "proper keyboard" a naff standard dell one)
i find now i'm far faster on the iphone than i used to be on my other phones - even than i was on my old psion organisers whose keyboards were larger and easier to use than today's slide out keyboards
and exactly how useful was Opera on the SE's? scaled nicely did it? easy to flick around the page to find the text you want? simple to fill in text on a form and submit it?
i had Opera running on my M600i and it was not "practical for plamtop use" it was small, cramped, pages were a pain to read. it was so bad it was preferable to view WAP versions of sites than to try and navigate their real site when rendered on the tiny screen
that said - surely this article is very badly timed
it should be updated now that we've seen that 3G is only a minor part of what the iPhone2 will bring to the consumer next month
actually, looking at our monitors here, none of the video leads are screwed in to the connectors at the back
i don't see why a quick enough grab of the monitor wouldn't cause both the video lead and the power cable to fall out the back so it'd be easy to lob it across the office
could easily be the same in that office
still, fake or not, it's impressive he manages to throw that many CRTs and all those cubicle dividers
well we'll soon be able to find out
apparently iTunes UK is now stocking movies for purchase and rental (yes yes yes i know, DRM-blah-blah-blah but so is blu-ray to an extent because it's an exclusive format etc etc)
but we'll now be able to see if the uk internet is capable of supporting streaming HD movies
yes i think they're refering to the video chat being available in the middle of a game
i'm not sure video chat is important while playing a game - but being able to send a text to someone to say you're online and do they want to give you a helping hand in a team deathmatch or something, that will be cool
i'm concerned about the limited amount of gameplay
space invaders, for example, you'd have had to have drunk a damn load of beer in order to have a chance of reaching the 2nd level.
and just as you reached the critical part and needed extra precision for aiming at the mothership, you'll run out of juice... as it were
and now i think about it.... how do you fly to the left _and_ fire at the same time? some kind of stream splitting mechanism is required?
actually - this is just crying out for a Ghostbusters game, isn't it?
don't cross the streams!!!
so in theory, you could really muck up their statistics by getting 500 people to turn up at a shopping centre (what we call malls on this side of the pond) and just aimlessly wander around for 3 hours without setting foot inside a single foot
OR worse, if a company is about to launch a new product, they could hire 500 people to turn up repeatedly throughout the day and just make a bee-line to the shop that's selling the product
i think an earlier poster was right - i think there problem isn't nearly as bad as the media makes out (obviously it's very very annoying for those few experiencing it) but since the GTA patch, i think the number of people still suffering from the freezes must be very small.
certainly, i know several people with launch day 60gb ps3's and since applying the 1.1 patch, none of us have had any trouble at all
this would suggest to me that if anyone is still having the problem, either they haven't applied the patch, or their problem is different, and as very few others have it, possibly not the fault of the game but instead down to other environmental features.
macrumors seem to be going with the idea that it'll be a 3rd type of iphone device, more like a tablet, using the current Atom chip:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/14/intel-confirms-atom-based-larger-iphone-mini-tablet/
sounds like the device would be about twice the size of an iphone - if it allowed me to screen share and control my macmini that is wired up to the tv, that would be ideal for me
but then again - with the sold-out WWDC due in just a couple of weeks, i'm expecting we'll see a lot of stories all over the web trying to guess at what will be annouced
i'm not convinced there really is such a big handheld gaming market
and what market there is, it is more than amply catered for by the DS and the PSP.
added to which, the Mac has always had a bad name for gaming - even despite evidence to the contrary - and that's an image that Apple would find hard to shake. Sony and Nintendo have a proven history of gaming so buying a portable device from them is a safe bet. they can populate the platform with well known titles from their consoles. Apple haven't got a well known back catalog of Mac games that would transition to a handheld device.
(although, i'd sell my eyeteeh to be able to play the Marathon games on my iPhone on the way to work each morning)
one thing that does lend itself towards this theory though - how come there are STILL no games for the iPhone or the iPod Touch? could it be that developers have held off from releasing big screen versions of their iPod games because they know something is around the corner?
where's the greater danger to society?
a load druggies smoking themselves into a lethargic half-awake state, too paranoid to leave the house?
or binge-drinking teenagers, getting beer'd up in the evenings, and beating the hell out of each other in the middle of the streets, wrecking property, throwing up their kebab and chips in your front garden as they stager home and walking over parked cars?
now, which is the easiest for the government to appear to be dealing with?
> The real reason she quit is that see couldn't get anything to rhyme with the title...
thought i'd give that a try
"But it's just a Quantum of Solace;
The world is not your molasc;
but your real popular on myspace;
with those pearls on your necklace..."
okay, it's getting a bit weird now.....
as you say, the adverts don't actually show any of the in-game behaviour - it's just a poxy local news trying to get themselves into the national press
and besides, there's only a _couple_ of missions where you have to track someone to the train stations and waste them on the platform
i'm not sure this is a good idea
if someone is too stupid to look up and check traffic when about to cross a road, is it not a good thing to remove them from the gene-pool?
it's for the common good of the species that the defective dna is removed by a ton of fast moving metal
and what about txt'ers - surely the same problem exists for those sending messages via mobiles?
i've been playing the ps3 version since last saturday and it looks fine to me
to be honest, yes, i could see that perhaps it's displaying in 1080i or similar - but it still looks kickass great
as Joe K says - when you're actually playing the game, you're not going to know the difference. besides - i'd rather play it in slightly lower res on the PS3 without the game hanging and freezing as it's doing on the 360 version
ps. a Reg article that mentions Sony and Microsoft together - let the flame wars begin!!!
the iPhone already makes a click sound when you type a key anyway
and to be honest, i find i type faster without the sound on, because when it is there, i tend to wait a fraction of a second for the click before pressing the next key. when it's silent, i just type without any pauses.
is this suggesting that the phone will rumble each time i type a key? will there be a different rumble for each key? otherwise, what is the difference between a vibration and a key click sound?
or is it... that when you're holding your finger down on the screen and dragging it across the keyboard to get to another key - will it rumble so you can count yourself moving from key to key?
i can see how that would work - and on the odd occasion when i'm txting and driving and trying not to get arrested by the cops, it would even be slightly useful - but really, how often is anyone going to need it?
xBox360+GTA bundle : 200quid
cost of p&p to send back 360 when it overheats and RRoDs: 10quid
cost of p&p to send back 360 when it overheats and RRoDs again: 10quid
cost of p&p to send back 360 when it overheats and RRoDs again: 10quid
cost of p&p to send back 360 when it overheats and RRoDs again: 10quid
financial loss when power brick overheats and burns down your house: priceless
techincally, it's Michael Cricton you should be leveling the accusations of poor paeliantology at, not Speilburg
it was, afterall, his book that the film was based on, and so his decision to use the velociraptor name for the medium sized killers
like most Chricton books I've read - quite a good idea, but it seems his research is never thorough enough or he just take great liberties figuring the average reader is never going to know the difference
it was the same with that one about the swarm of nanomachines that turned everyone into grey soup
if anyone wants to read the way in which each company has spun this data in their press releases, vgchartz.com has all three so you can make up your own mind:
wii:
http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1045
ps3:
http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1046
360:
http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1047
the unlimited data access period probably is per month, yes. but seeing as you pay them 35quid each month, then you get unlimited data each month too
at least, in the 5 months i've had my iphone with o2, i've used it for tons of data access and i keep checking and every bill there's never any charge for data useage
"currently implementing more effective image filters that will detect and prevent the uploading of child pornography."
but surely it would be far better if it just detected the image, then raised the alarm and sent someone round to the place from where the image is being uploaded and firebombed it? (or at least give the address to the appropiate enforcement agency so they can go around and apprehend the freaks)
if their fancy image-detecting software is going to be used to reject the images from being uploaded, then these sickos are just going to find somewhere else to upload their perverted images.
although, if they had made provisions for opening up the iphone to development, there would have been far far less articles on the web written about the iPhone. this way, everytime they release a firmware update or patch, and everytime the h4xx0rs release their tools, Apple get a bunch of free advertising
I'm also with Sony on this one - i'd like to see the iPlayer as an option in the XMB, not to be accessed via the browser.
I've got a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the ps3, but it'd be much faster and easier if the iPlayer was an app on the xmb.
between that and the freeview that my tv picks up, i'd no longer need to get tv from virgin media
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