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So, why don't we all have it as a regular meals? http://thimg.dreamwiz.com/upfile/200804/1207481786152_1.jpg

Luckly for sony, that's the group with hundreds of games per console attach rate. And real hardcore gamers get the 120GB pack

"1. The unit draws 2X the current of the 360. The means the unit has to dissipate 2X the heat of the 360, so don't tell me Sony isn't going to have overheating issues. And since they (proudly) display that they don't use a brick (ever get the feeling the PS3 is just Sony trying to knock-off the Xbox1?), the heat sources are concentrated inside the unit. It is appropriate that the thing looks like a George Forman Grill."

"2. The controllers have non-removable rechargable batteries in them. Once they go, the controller has to be thrown away. I guess Sony found a place to dump their exploding lithium ion batteries..."

"3. Because of the non-removable batteries, you don't have the convenience of swapping batteries mid-game and continuing to play wireless. This is one of those features that isn't flashy, but once you've used it, you can't live without it. On the 360, if your batteries die mid-game you can quickly swap in another battery pack. Microsoft also gave you the option of using standard batteries or rechargable packs."

By the way, you don't have to throw away the controller if the battery dies; you can have the battery replaced by a technician, just like with compact MP3 players. I don't know how much that will cost, but hopefully it will be significantly less than ~$45, which is the cost of a new controller.

Here's the latest Motorstorm stuff:

http://www.theimageplace.net/uploads/3ad5a7da3f.gi f

http://www.theimageplace.net/uploads/75e17505fb.gi f

http://ruliwebfile.dreamwiz.com/mpeg3/tgs2006/ruli web_hdv_sce_ps3_motost.wmv

Ridge Racer screens 1080p 60fps:

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/735/7354 14/ridge-racer-7-20060926101953719.jpg

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/735/7354 14/ridge-racer-7-2006092610195189.jpg

PS3 games to be 60 dollars - so much for that FUD:

http://www.ps3land.com/article-687.php

Xbox 360 displays pulled from Best Buy in preparation for the PS3:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/msuman2k4/b bsps2006.jpg

One more month until the PS3 hits the shelves and all the anti-Sony FUD will turn to the usual bitterness about "Sony once again fooling gamers with teh Hype"...

When I originally saw those shots last week, it occurred to me that the design looked vaguely familiar. I didn't initially even connect it to Zelda, but taking another look, I think there could be serious trouble, especially if this one design is to be used as a "spokescharacter" for the game. Check out the direct comparison. (In Korean.) Looks like the offending shots were right out of the press release. Here's another article (in Korean) with side-by-side comparisons of the images... including the little puff of wind in the title.

And, if you'd like to take a look at some of the other upcoming releases promoted during Webzen 's Feb. 15 conference, all of which seem to be MMORPGs of different themes, look at this Japanese article. (Writer Kim Dong Wook regularly covers new games from Korea.)

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There were some efforts to create a korean programming language and its environment including the compiler in south korea a decade ago. One of the commercial product released in 1994 but died a few years later was called "SEED" named in the hope that it would be a starting point of such products. It wasn't an innovative programming language as it's an ordinary procedural programming language in which all the keywords were korean and all user-defined words could be written in korean language. Just check out seed.giffor its screen shot.

Beethoven's been dead for a long time, but you seldom listen to a pre-Steamboat-Willie performance of Beethoven's music. Usually what you listen to is some modern orchestra that performed and recorded the music in the late 20th century, either under modern copyright laws or under pre-Berne US copyright laws. So you're buying a Deutsche Grammophon recording of Furtw"angler's 1929 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's 5th(that one's listed as "dubious") or EMI's 1954 recording of the same piece with Furtw"angler conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, possibly in a form remastered by somebody else and printed by the El Cheapo Classical CD Society in 1998.
Piracy's not unknown even in classical circles... More dubious recordings