Yeah, sorry, I was thinking of DAT. All of the writable consumer digital media was slaughtered so effectively, I'd forgotten the details.
As an aside, back when these formats were being killed, I was happily downloading, enjoying and sharing freely available digital music in the form of MODs and STMs (later S3Ms and a bunch of other tracker formats). This was over 10 years ago and digital music downloads over the Internet, at least for me, haven't gotten any better than those early tunes. And the old school demos where like trippy music vidoes, all perfectly legal to download and share because the artists wanted it that way.
An old friend of mine had a modded Saturn specifically for the kids. He'd copy a game from his library and the kids would use the copy until they stepped on it or whatever, then he'd burn another copy.
I have a practical experience involving a DVD that got loose in it's case before I bought it that backs that up. It was scratched up pretty badly and I said to myself "if it skips even once I'm taking it back". It hasn't skipped. (Even in my "crappy" PS2;)
No progressive scan on either console? No 5.1 Dolby on the PS2?
You know, not all of us have HDTVs and Dolby 5.1 available. I have an ordinary old 68cm Philips Matchline TV. It's best input is S-Video and that's what I use from the PS2. My audio system is an old Yamaha Dolby Pro Logic that doesn't even have a sub-woofer. Low and behold, the PS2's audio output it perfectly adequate for such a system, in fact the fibre optic out is more than I can cope with.
And Datel's DVD Region X product makes light work of any region coded discs -- has done since before the whole secret codes to unlock DVD players crap.
I assume (and it may be a bad assumption) that most of the PS2s & XBoxen that are out there are not used for any sort of DVD playback
Well, I for one use my PS2 as my only DVD player. In fact, I haven't played a game on it since a little after Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was released.
Best I've found so far is an '86 Australian Mac User. $495 for an 800k floppy drive. $12,599 for a 172MB Hard drive and 40MB Tape bundle. $7,395 for a Mac Plus with a 20MB HDD. More interesting, $194 for a Laserwriter toner cartrdige (3000 pages).
Shame I didn't know about the original request for scans. I've got a substantial magazine collection going back to at least the late 70s. The trick is finding them. I started off storing them chronilogically, but I got a huge heap from someone else all at once and they haven't been in an order since. Still, I bet I could dig up some seriously insane prices.
Interestingly, it was mentioned that 2300mAh AA batteries were used. Assuming that they're NiMH cells, there's some 2500mAh cells available now. That should add another seven or eight minutes of gameplay.
If the patent holder didn't know this information about these genes, how did they patent them? This sounds more like staking a claim and hoping to strike gold.
There are times where you need to break the law to escape an accident. If you can find a way around this, I'd be happy with a system that runs the car up to the speed limit and sits it there.
They're not recommending that anyone try and install a black box in my '85 Gemini. Also, I'm Australian, but the point is that since new cars know a lot about what's going on, it should be logged. Are there any IT professionals out there who don't want to log stuff when things go wrong?
Should Playboy be sued for creating rapists? Discuss.
The game in question was M18 or R or whatever. Neither of the boys should have had access to it, and any parent noticing that they did should have been able to make an informed decision to remove it from their possession.
I'm sorry if you feel that your fine products failed because of on-line piracy, but you're missing the point I made. You attacked a poster for pointing out that the delay in the UK release is likely to result in a large number of downloads from the country. There was no justification in the post, merely an observation.
I made my reply mostly because I couldn't ignore your comparison of copying software to murder. Business interests aside, I think you need some perspective.
If Doom 3 had been released last xmas I might have upgraded my PC in order to get it running smoothly at a decent resolution. Instead, I'm already waiting for the nForce4 and dual-cpu, dual-video support. It'll be a beast that runs Doom 3 at an impressive resolution and frame rate, but it won't be available until next year.
You seem to be mixing up the definition of "reason" and the definition of "justfication". You're also ignoring people who have already ordered it and still download it so they can have it straight away.
My 20Gig iPod has roughly 16Gig of my music, mostly the really good stuff, but there is some junk I haven't cleaned out yet. Then it has the company's nightly off-site backup (we use a DVD-RW when I'm on holiday). Then it's full. If I buy any new music, I have to go through and delete some crappy tracks. If the company decides to include more files in the backup, I have to delete some crappy tracks. If I want to use the iPod for carrying around anything else larger than about 128MB I'm out of luck. I've got roughly 30 Gig of "new stuff" (new meaning that it wasn't backed-up at the time I got my Dual Layer DVD burner and still hasn't been since the media has been hard to get until now) that I'm going to be dumping to DL-DVD probably this weekend, much of which my friends would probably like to pick over. I used to be able to lug such stuff back and forth on my iPod until I filled it. So, right now, I could probably do with an 80Gig iPod. As it is, I'm going to make do with my 20Gig iPod, a five-pack of 4.5Gig DVD-RWs, four CDRWs and a couple of USB keys.
Sure, a new mobile phone might catch up with my old iPod, but by the time that phone is out, the new iPods will be even better. By the time mobiles are coming with 5 Gig hard drives, the new iPods will probably have 160Gig. By the time mobiles come with 20Gig hard drives, iPods will probably hold a terrabyte and play video on a creditcard-sized screen. And on and on.
And this isn't just from some bitter mobile-hating dude. My mobile phone has a built-in MP3 player (and an Ogg Vorbis player I installed) and has been proven to support a 512MB MMC card. Sure, it's only one fourtieth of the storage of my iPod, but it's still 8.5 hours of music, better than any of the (3) MP3 players I bought before my iPod. Yet it's not my mobile that I hook up to an FM transmitter when I'm driving to work.
And quite frankly, I'm not intending to upgrade either my mobile or my iPod for the foreseeable future.
I loathed Bard's Tale back when it first came out. Even then I didn't have the time needed in a single sitting to play some of the major tasks and get back to the save point.
I have Aquanaut's Holiday and I recall it being an enjoyable, soothing game. There was a vast array of creatures to see, an interesting evironment to explore and an artificial reef to build. Any game with leafy sea dragons scores highly in my book.
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As an aside, back when these formats were being killed, I was happily downloading, enjoying and sharing freely available digital music in the form of MODs and STMs (later S3Ms and a bunch of other tracker formats). This was over 10 years ago and digital music downloads over the Internet, at least for me, haven't gotten any better than those early tunes. And the old school demos where like trippy music vidoes, all perfectly legal to download and share because the artists wanted it that way.
An old friend of mine had a modded Saturn specifically for the kids. He'd copy a game from his library and the kids would use the copy until they stepped on it or whatever, then he'd burn another copy.
I have a practical experience involving a DVD that got loose in it's case before I bought it that backs that up. It was scratched up pretty badly and I said to myself "if it skips even once I'm taking it back". It hasn't skipped. (Even in my "crappy" PS2 ;)
And Datel's DVD Region X product makes light work of any region coded discs -- has done since before the whole secret codes to unlock DVD players crap.
DCC got screwed over by a paranoid industry that though perfect digital copies would ruin their business. No one won.
Take this ticket to hell and go wait for the train on Fark.
Best I've found so far is an '86 Australian Mac User. $495 for an 800k floppy drive. $12,599 for a 172MB Hard drive and 40MB Tape bundle. $7,395 for a Mac Plus with a 20MB HDD. More interesting, $194 for a Laserwriter toner cartrdige (3000 pages).
Shame I didn't know about the original request for scans. I've got a substantial magazine collection going back to at least the late 70s. The trick is finding them. I started off storing them chronilogically, but I got a huge heap from someone else all at once and they haven't been in an order since. Still, I bet I could dig up some seriously insane prices.
Interestingly, it was mentioned that 2300mAh AA batteries were used. Assuming that they're NiMH cells, there's some 2500mAh cells available now. That should add another seven or eight minutes of gameplay.
If the patent holder didn't know this information about these genes, how did they patent them? This sounds more like staking a claim and hoping to strike gold.
Why don't you just install over the top? I've been installing the new version straight over the top of the old version since around 0.96.
Buying from the lowest tender is rarely a good idea.
My next car will have cruise control.
They're not recommending that anyone try and install a black box in my '85 Gemini. Also, I'm Australian, but the point is that since new cars know a lot about what's going on, it should be logged. Are there any IT professionals out there who don't want to log stuff when things go wrong?
The game in question was M18 or R or whatever. Neither of the boys should have had access to it, and any parent noticing that they did should have been able to make an informed decision to remove it from their possession.
I made my reply mostly because I couldn't ignore your comparison of copying software to murder. Business interests aside, I think you need some perspective.
If Doom 3 had been released last xmas I might have upgraded my PC in order to get it running smoothly at a decent resolution. Instead, I'm already waiting for the nForce4 and dual-cpu, dual-video support. It'll be a beast that runs Doom 3 at an impressive resolution and frame rate, but it won't be available until next year.
You seem to be mixing up the definition of "reason" and the definition of "justfication". You're also ignoring people who have already ordered it and still download it so they can have it straight away.
My 20Gig iPod has roughly 16Gig of my music, mostly the really good stuff, but there is some junk I haven't cleaned out yet. Then it has the company's nightly off-site backup (we use a DVD-RW when I'm on holiday). Then it's full. If I buy any new music, I have to go through and delete some crappy tracks. If the company decides to include more files in the backup, I have to delete some crappy tracks. If I want to use the iPod for carrying around anything else larger than about 128MB I'm out of luck. I've got roughly 30 Gig of "new stuff" (new meaning that it wasn't backed-up at the time I got my Dual Layer DVD burner and still hasn't been since the media has been hard to get until now) that I'm going to be dumping to DL-DVD probably this weekend, much of which my friends would probably like to pick over. I used to be able to lug such stuff back and forth on my iPod until I filled it. So, right now, I could probably do with an 80Gig iPod. As it is, I'm going to make do with my 20Gig iPod, a five-pack of 4.5Gig DVD-RWs, four CDRWs and a couple of USB keys.
And this isn't just from some bitter mobile-hating dude. My mobile phone has a built-in MP3 player (and an Ogg Vorbis player I installed) and has been proven to support a 512MB MMC card. Sure, it's only one fourtieth of the storage of my iPod, but it's still 8.5 hours of music, better than any of the (3) MP3 players I bought before my iPod. Yet it's not my mobile that I hook up to an FM transmitter when I'm driving to work.
And quite frankly, I'm not intending to upgrade either my mobile or my iPod for the foreseeable future.
I loathed Bard's Tale back when it first came out. Even then I didn't have the time needed in a single sitting to play some of the major tasks and get back to the save point.
I have Aquanaut's Holiday and I recall it being an enjoyable, soothing game. There was a vast array of creatures to see, an interesting evironment to explore and an artificial reef to build. Any game with leafy sea dragons scores highly in my book.