According to the History channel special “Banned from the Bible”, the book of Thomas says that little Jesus was guilty of such crimes as robbery, blinding an older man, and pushing a child off the roof of a building where he was killed.
But, of course little Jesus rose the child from the dead, and asked him did he murder him, of course the child said no (caused he couldn’t have murdered him if he wasn’t dead) and Jesus escaped punishment.
Apparently, Jesus had to go crazy and loose his father (his mortal father), before he “got with the program.”
Anyone else played this game? It's AWESOME. Probably one of the best action/platformers of this generation. Maybe some of Sony's are better, but I haven't played them so I wouldn't know about that, but I what I do know is that Psychonauts should be played by all. Sadly it was not.
If anyone wants me to elaborate on Psychonauts I will.
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This is MUCH faster than Acrobat! Turns out the format was fine, it was the VIEWER that was terribly designed! This is about a megabyte and lets you view, edit and print PDFs just fine. So far it lacks browser integration, but that's okay for now. Printing has some glitches they are working on.
So there ya go, PDF files are no longer horrendous things I hate to ever have to deal with. They are actually a decent format now.
Sony has a portable book solution that is "open" to formats, looks a lot like paper (no flicker because the screen doesn't "refresh", the dot "holds" it's previous charge until the page changes). The backlight can be off, though I fear this means there isn't a backlight, and I don't like that.
First test, there are infinite whole numbers. Are there as many even whole numbers (2,4,6,8) as there are both even and odd whole numbers?
Both are infinite, so you'd have to conclude "yes". After all, name any whole number you can think of and I can give you an even number to match it "set for set". I'll just double your number!
You: 1
Me: 2
U 4!
M 8!
U 8
M 16
U 10000000
M 20000000
U -5
M -10
U Infinity
M Infinityx2
I'll match every unique natural number you come up with with an even number, EVERY one! It won't stop!
But, that just doesn't SEEM right does it? By all rights, the number of even numbers should be "half of infinite" or something, shouldn't it? Or, are there greater and lesser infinite sets? Seems more likely, but how defined? How about definining them by their limitations? Yes, infinite sets can have limits. The infinite set of even numbers is limited to even numbers for example. Odd numbers are absent, and yet it is still infinite.
Next riddle: is .9999~ < 1?
Same issue, that number gets closer and closer to 1 forever. Any single number you can ever list, that number will beat it. There is no "in between" number you can ever name. The only time this stops is when you name "1", so that's it's limit.
So... .999~ = 1
So then, why did I bring this up? Well, for those of you that already knew this, and I know anyone who's taken a decent math class does, never mind this. This is for a couple people who in the past didn't seem to get that infinity can have limits.
Quote:<b>A survey reveals proposed plans for Revolution's retro gaming features. Preliminary games list inside!<b>
Nintendo (through a third party) is conducting a closed survey on its Virtual Console feature for the Revolution—more specifically, proposed pricing and menu schemes. <a href="http://joystiq.com/2006/01/10/nintendo-conducts-virtual-console-service-survey/">Joystiq </a>reports details and screen captures of the survey.
Although reported content merely shows what Nintendo is considering, it is still worth noting. Three pricing schemes are proposed: purchase, rental and subscription. Gamers may pay a one-time price and download and own the game forever. Alternatively, they may rent a single game for a specified period. Finally, a monthly subscription would allow players to download a specified number of games each month—games downloaded prior months will continue to be playable (as long as Nintendo continues to get its monthly money). The images themselves are mock-ups for the survey and do not reflect the service's actual look.
Specific pricing apparently was not mentioned, but Joystiq has listed titles the survey listed as likely to be available at launch.
# NES Balloon Fight
# Baseball
# Donkey Kong
# Donkey Kong Jr.
# Dr. Mario
# Duck Hunt
# Excitebike
# Hogan's Alley
# Ice Climber
# Ice Hockey
# Kid Icarus
# Kirby
# Kung Fu
# Mario Bros.
# Mario Open Golf
# Metroid
# Pinball
# Pro Wrestling
# Punch Out
# RC Pro AM
# Soccer
# Super Mario Bros.
# Super Mario Bros. 2
# Super Mario Bros. 3
# Tennis
# Tetris
# Urban Champion
# Volleyball
# Wario's Woods
# Yoshi's Cookies
# Zelda
# Zelda (Adventure of Link)
SNES
# Battle Clash
# Donkey Kong Country
# Donkey Kong Country 2
# Earthbound
# F-Zero
# Illusion of Gaia
# Killer Instinct
# Kirby's Avalanche
# Kirby Dream Course
# Kirby Super Star
# Kirby 3
# Pilot Wings
# Sim City
# Star Fox
# Stunt Race FX
# Super Mario Kart
# Super Mario RPG
# Super Mario World
# Super Metroid
# Super Play Action Football
# Super Scope 6
# Super Soccer
# Super Tennis
# Tetris Attack
# Tetris 2
# Uniracers
# Vegas Stakes
# Wario's Woods
# Yoshi's Hunting
# Yoshi's Island
# Zelda
N64
# 1080
# Blast Corps
# Bomberman 64
# Cruisin' USA
# Goldeneye
# Mario Golf 64
# Mario Party 3
# Mario Tennis 64
# Ogre Battle 64
# Paper Mario
# Pilot Wings 64
# Pokemon Snap
# Sin & Punishment
# Star Fox 64
# Super Mario 64
# Wave Race
# Yoshi's Story
# Zelda
Once again, keep in mind that this is not confirmation of Nintendo's Virtual Console strategy or its games—Nintendo will almost certainly alter the proposed strategy above in response to the survey and internal feedback, and the game list could easily change.
Sony developer slams PS3
Here are some very sobering, if not shocking comments about the PlayStation3, made by Sony developer Josh Robinson (formatting is mine):
Well my immediate impression of the PS3 is... where is it? Seriously, where is it? They have a case, a controller and a dev kit. But the system still doesn’t even exist. So what is there to say? We received one of 5 PS3 dev kits in the United States some time ago. Several companies in the US as well as companies over seas were given the daunting task of creating a demo in less than 9 weeks on a first generation dev kit.
Now I’ll be honest with you. What most companies do is fake the entire demo. I mean they come up with some great visuals and neat tricks and scripted events. In the end however, its not a real time demo and its not running ON the actual box. We were the only company to my knowledge that showed something that ran it live on the box. Even then it was a scripted event. You could not pause the camera and fly around the scene.
So much for the ´Killzone 2´ demo, I guess. This must be regarded as proof that all the demos shown at E3 2005 were fake (with the possible exception of ´Unreal´). This qould be a huge blow to Sony´s reputation. Ever since May, there has been speculation about the authenticity of those demos. It now emerges that the console may not even have the power to output graphics of this quality.
Now I’ve spoken with people who are on the technical side of the PS3. I’ve also talked with people on the technical side of the XBOX 360. The consistent comment I am hearing from people on my end is, “The XBOX 360 is better”. They are saying that it is capable of just doing more.
I see Microsoft execs grinning from one ear to another. Sony´s claims that the PS3 boasts two teraflops computational power (apparently twice that of the Xbox360), if true, doesn´t seem to translate into a more powerful gaming machine. At the same time, development costs are truly staggering:
The game that we are creating for a launch title is a “just get it out” title in my opinion. It doesn’t look next generation. I don’t see how anyone could debate otherwise. (...) To be fair, this is a business. Sometimes you have to treat it as a business and not make the best title you can. The best title you can make usually costs 20-40million dollars/3 start overs and 4 years of your life. You just cant do that every time out. Its impossible.
This should end the speculation about just how much the development of a ´AAA´ title (i.e. a blockbuster) will cost on the PS3. At the same time, Josh is highly sceptical that even those games will really look next-gen in the near future. As a result, his closing comments sound quite gloomy.
Where is the box? Where is the final system? When is it coming out? No one knows and in the mean time people in the industry are starting to get just a little salty. I mean I was at e3 2005 and PS3 was almost no where to be seen.
In closing, I started of VERY excited about the PS3. I was very confident that it was going to just destroy the XBOX 360 just on the name SONY alone. The more time that goes by the more I am becoming doubtful. Everything I’ve developed or seen developed has yet to be “next gen”. The poly counts are not really any higher, im not seeing sub surface scattering, im not seeing much HDR lighting. (or they are faking it and not really doing it), I’m not seeing next gen fluid dynamics or object dynamics. I suspect that you’ll be able to have more dynamic objects in a scene than before. But im not seeing games doing this yet. We dont have a controller, there is no network code and there is no box. Its still the size of a normal PC.
I’m confident that the PS3 will have a few “crazy” games that show it off to its potential. But I would expect the full capabilities of the box to not show up until the system has been released PUBLICALLY for over a year. This is the extra time the developers will need with a FINAL system to truly make next gen games.
These comments are truly shocking in my opinion. Especially so, since this developer is employed by Sony. And he really is who he claims to be. His profile can be viewed on Sony Online Entertainment´s Station.com. I have been sceptical of the PlayStation3 becoming another Sony success story all along. But Sony seems to be in even bigger trouble than I thought.
Source: Down in Front
Thanks to: Joystiq
Interesting... if this is true, we're in for one hell of a system's war.
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