Worth mentioning because uk users may not have seen it. There's actually a newsstand magazine specifically for Retro gaming here going under the incredibly imaginative moniker of "Retro Gamer" magazine. They even have a pretty good forum if you're willing to do some chav dodging and can stand huge picture sigs.
There's also Retro Fusion which is only avaliable in Gamestation.
I also cannot help but wonder, faced with two contradictory and low-uptake standards, how many stores will actually want to stock hddvd or bluray discs? It seems to me that the only chance either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray has of actually getting widely stocked is by making dual-capability DVDs that can be played on either a next-gen dvd player, or a current gen dvd player
Or by getting their standard bundled with a likely to be highly popular gaming machine.
Ironic we're replying to a post entitled "third way" now I think of it. Since blu-rays only chance lies with the "Third place"
Age restricting is not banning. In fact it's a means to avoid banning and works very well in Europe where we have a lot less problems (and uncut versions of Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophercy / San Andreas and others) because there are enforced age ratings on games.
In the US, San Andreas with hot coffee was effectively banned. Yeah, much more constructive than age ratings.
Some of the responses to this were flip: "Hey, we call that a motorcycle," but in reality this vehicle and a motorcycle are radically different in many of the ways that really matter in an urban driving environment
Fair enough, haven't seen the "other responses", I was actually seriously looking for an answer.
I've never seen a uni even close to big enough in the UK to justify doing anything but walking.
As for the 2nd one, it's irrelevent because that's nothing like what's happening here.
That's like reacting to a new 30mph speedlimit by saying "Right I'm never driving again!" and when someone calls you on it saying "Well, what if they said you could only drive your car with 3 judges and a hippo in the backseat while the radio is tuned to Snoop "About as talented as timmy from south park" Dogg and you're only allowed to drive in revers"?
It's irrelevent and arguing by blowing things out of all proportion simply doesn't work.
You're seriously telling me that you'd make the choice that determines a large part of your future based entirely on the method they use to control the college email address you will probably never use?
That doesn't. It has been proved that one of the methods that crime syndicates do use to fund themselves is SELLING pirate DVDs.
Although as a proportion you're probably talking roughly on the level of "number of SUVs that have ever seen anything rockier than a slightly muddy road"
"Play games while encoding music or scanning for viruses"
Even as a desktop replacement that's just not sensible. Unless you're playing games from 1998 you're still going to need every teeny little bit of power that thing has, and you'd still be alt-tabbing out of games to check the other tasks, which will do nothing for them.
And how exactly the hell does "Dual core" help you when you're thrashing the hard drive wildly trying to virus check?
Interesting you mention AMD powered HPs. Even in the UK me, a builder by preference, has bought a desktop and a laptop in the last 3 months with that combination.
The price was near identical to building or online, the quality superb and there's a lot to be said for the 2 year "Not my problem bitch" warrenty.
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Because it's copyright theft?
And that "top100mp3s" site looks about as legit as an Iraqui WMD report.
Try finding a commercial linux distribution without firefox ;)
Worth mentioning because uk users may not have seen it. There's actually a newsstand magazine specifically for Retro gaming here going under the incredibly imaginative moniker of "Retro Gamer" magazine. They even have a pretty good forum if you're willing to do some chav dodging and can stand huge picture sigs.
There's also Retro Fusion which is only avaliable in Gamestation.
I also cannot help but wonder, faced with two contradictory and low-uptake standards, how many stores will actually want to stock hddvd or bluray discs? It seems to me that the only chance either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray has of actually getting widely stocked is by making dual-capability DVDs that can be played on either a next-gen dvd player, or a current gen dvd player
Or by getting their standard bundled with a likely to be highly popular gaming machine.
Ironic we're replying to a post entitled "third way" now I think of it. Since blu-rays only chance lies with the "Third place"
Age restricting is not banning. In fact it's a means to avoid banning and works very well in Europe where we have a lot less problems (and uncut versions of Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophercy / San Andreas and others) because there are enforced age ratings on games.
In the US, San Andreas with hot coffee was effectively banned. Yeah, much more constructive than age ratings.
Some of the responses to this were flip: "Hey, we call that a motorcycle," but in reality this vehicle and a motorcycle are radically different in many of the ways that really matter in an urban driving environment
Fair enough, haven't seen the "other responses", I was actually seriously looking for an answer.
I think you've covered it, thanks.
Like "N-Gage"
That's precisely my point, it's already in English, why restrict it to US.
Because they want to sell it to more than 3 people.
If you can't put this car on normal roads because it's "too small", why haven't you banned motorbikes?
Then why is Britain not in the list of countries?
I've never seen a uni even close to big enough in the UK to justify doing anything but walking.
As for the 2nd one, it's irrelevent because that's nothing like what's happening here.
That's like reacting to a new 30mph speedlimit by saying "Right I'm never driving again!" and when someone calls you on it saying "Well, what if they said you could only drive your car with 3 judges and a hippo in the backseat while the radio is tuned to Snoop "About as talented as timmy from south park" Dogg and you're only allowed to drive in revers"?
It's irrelevent and arguing by blowing things out of all proportion simply doesn't work.
Judging by the utter lack of moderating on the original post, no-one found that one funny.
You're seriously telling me that you'd make the choice that determines a large part of your future based entirely on the method they use to control the college email address you will probably never use?
That doesn't. It has been proved that one of the methods that crime syndicates do use to fund themselves is SELLING pirate DVDs.
Although as a proportion you're probably talking roughly on the level of "number of SUVs that have ever seen anything rockier than a slightly muddy road"
THPS actually has the Europe equivilent of an american MA rating.
I've always assumed it was a language issue.
The same way a Pentium III made your internet connection faster
That actually worked for me. I stuck my brother on the P3 to play games which stopped him eating up all my bandwidth.
"Play games while encoding music or scanning for viruses"
Even as a desktop replacement that's just not sensible. Unless you're playing games from 1998 you're still going to need every teeny little bit of power that thing has, and you'd still be alt-tabbing out of games to check the other tasks, which will do nothing for them.
And how exactly the hell does "Dual core" help you when you're thrashing the hard drive wildly trying to virus check?
Well that one won't last simply because if I owned a network I'd simply turn it on permenantly and blame "Technical difficulties"
Go go gadget 100% audience share!
What, they couldn't find one named Duke Nukem to really make him mad?
That would take Forever.
There's a program called "Ultramon"
You will learn to love it.
Both aren't for me but yes they're 64bit cpus and 1gig ram. The laptop will probably be expanded as it's prime use will be as a music station.
Good point Steve.
Ooh shit, sorry man.
Interesting you mention AMD powered HPs. Even in the UK me, a builder by preference, has bought a desktop and a laptop in the last 3 months with that combination.
The price was near identical to building or online, the quality superb and there's a lot to be said for the 2 year "Not my problem bitch" warrenty.
Indeed, but if you're smart enough to do that and paitient enough to wait you're probably not the target demographic for 95% of the ads anyway.
And if you're FFing rather than skipping you might still spot a logo and stop for a look.
It does occur to me though that if they're forcing their own player thay can disable FF during the ads.