Playing against Diablo in 1.10 with a well-setup character is like playing against him with a statless, skillless, naked sorceress in 1.9. It's just too hard to be enjoyable. "Oh, hey, my merc is dead again." I don't want to have to die a dozen times to defeat a big bad -- where's the victory in that. Diablo vs Player score: 12-1.
The RIAA et al will eventually fail or change so much as to be unrecognisable. It's just that companies this big, so long as they don't do anything illegal, fail in slow motion -- sort of like falling down an up escalator.
Imagine if they do actually manage to get all P2P music sharing stopped. I see the weekend music video shows -- all the music sucks (over-broad, I'm sure some people truely like the stuff). If people don't have any opportunity to sample anything other than the pre-defined top-50, they're simply going to stop buying music even faster. I think my music collection consists of no more than 2% of music that's ever made it into the top 50. That's about 50 tracks that have snuck onto my iPod -- sounds about right. I don't think a top-50 track has made it into the rotation today...
Mind you, I don't use any P2P software either and I bought a few CDs last week despite myself. High profile acts like Mike Oldfield, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre:)
The guy who made the Liberty Gameboy Emulator for the PalmOS is connected to a product that allows you to develop for Windows Pocket PC, Palm, Windows Smartphone and Symbian Series 60 all at once. They've recently released a licenced Atari emulation product that comes on one MMC and is compatible with all the platforms above. Products like these are potentially more of a challenge to the GBA than any one single product. Why buy a GBA when whatever powerful pocket device you've already got will run a game you want?
So, not actual problems then. No crashing or hanging, no battery discharging in 15 minutes, no dead pixels, no failure to connect to service? So people are returning them just because they don't like something about them (most likely the price).
It's a Sonic Advance port, and the battery is great for a mobile phone. I haven't got an N-Gage MMC game for it, so I don't know how much they drain the battery. I played through a few levels of Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures last night and I don't think the meter even went down one notch.
Not that I think the N-Gage is going to be successful - sounds like it's doomed by the portrait screen, awkward cartridge changing and lack of usefulness as a phone. But at 49 quid on some contracts, a lot of people will be tempted to get one as a games console and keep their SIM card in an old handset. (Can you play games and use the Bluetooth without a SIM?)
The awkward cartridge changing is nothing compaired to the fact that there's only one slot. So you can have your MP3 ringtones, heaps of gameboy ROMs and C64 disk images, and the latest movie trailers -OR- Tomb Raider. This is, however, a problem for games sales, not the handset. It appears that many people buying one are not buying the commercial games.
And no, every review I've read indicates that you need a working SIM in the phone to be able to do anything with it.
I have heard that the chemicals used in the recycling process are nastier than the ones used in the original maunfacturing process, but I have no real information, thus the question.
Actually, you can get a C64 emulator from here then go to c64.com for whatever game you fancy. Or WildPalm have GB/GBC and Sinclair Spectrum emulators. I bought the former having previously ripped all my GB carts using a Bung Xchanger for the Liberty GB emulator for the PalmOS. I did my remaining GBC carts on the weekend. Or you can download free games (and other software) from my-symbian.com -- It's run all the Series 60 software I've thrown at it so far.
Nokia would have down better to bundle it with an archive CD of compatible Series 60 software from somwhere like my-symbian.
I bought the only one shipped to the store where I got mine, so I guess technically they sold out.
Knowing that, locally, only the major mobile retail chains are carrying it, plus only one or two major games retailers, if each store only got one then there wouldn't have been more than 200 available for sale in the state. Wandering off on this fantasy, across all of Australia there may well have been fewer than 2,000 available. Sounds easy enough to sell out -- I can't be that unique a person amongst a population of 18 million, give or take.
See if you can find any data that indicates just how toxic the recycling process is vs the original manufacturing process. I have a sneaky suspicion that recycling computers by shredding them, melting them down and pouring them into a chemical soup is in fact worse for the environment that if they were just thrown out. (Of course, keeping them running through repair and upgrade is best by far, but even that still spins off bits that can't be used again.)
*Shudder*. This is a very annoying technique. Making an apparent statement, then immediately contradicting yourself in an effort to... something -- make people think they should be interested I guess. I just use it as a guide to identify something or someone worth ignoring. Saves time.
I installed iTunes today. I own an iPod. Somehow Apple have made the iPod upload functions worse (less intuitive or more limited, or possibly both) than Musicmatch -- something users of alternatives to Musicmatch may find hard to believe. I'll probably uninstall it some time this week.
I bought the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack -- it seemed to be easily available, no special order, I just found it in a shop. I can't think of any other game where I'd want to listen to the music in the same way I'd listen to a "normal" audio CD.
They're paraphrasing. Customers actually said "MS products are an insecure steaming pile", but they couldn't put that on their website.
It's a pain in the arse I tell you. We're in the middle of orientation. 17 staff trying to enrol 220 new students and 1000 returning students. Patching desktops is the last thing anyone has time for.
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Playing against Diablo in 1.10 with a well-setup character is like playing against him with a statless, skillless, naked sorceress in 1.9. It's just too hard to be enjoyable. "Oh, hey, my merc is dead again." I don't want to have to die a dozen times to defeat a big bad -- where's the victory in that. Diablo vs Player score: 12-1.
Imagine if they do actually manage to get all P2P music sharing stopped. I see the weekend music video shows -- all the music sucks (over-broad, I'm sure some people truely like the stuff). If people don't have any opportunity to sample anything other than the pre-defined top-50, they're simply going to stop buying music even faster. I think my music collection consists of no more than 2% of music that's ever made it into the top 50. That's about 50 tracks that have snuck onto my iPod -- sounds about right. I don't think a top-50 track has made it into the rotation today...
Mind you, I don't use any P2P software either and I bought a few CDs last week despite myself. High profile acts like Mike Oldfield, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre :)
Seriously, what does the music industry hope to accomplish through action like this? Do they really think that legal action will make music suck less?
That said, I hope they come up with something quick, 1.10 is really starting to piss me off.
The guy who made the Liberty Gameboy Emulator for the PalmOS is connected to a product that allows you to develop for Windows Pocket PC, Palm, Windows Smartphone and Symbian Series 60 all at once. They've recently released a licenced Atari emulation product that comes on one MMC and is compatible with all the platforms above. Products like these are potentially more of a challenge to the GBA than any one single product. Why buy a GBA when whatever powerful pocket device you've already got will run a game you want?
So, not actual problems then. No crashing or hanging, no battery discharging in 15 minutes, no dead pixels, no failure to connect to service? So people are returning them just because they don't like something about them (most likely the price).
It's a Sonic Advance port, and the battery is great for a mobile phone. I haven't got an N-Gage MMC game for it, so I don't know how much they drain the battery. I played through a few levels of Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures last night and I don't think the meter even went down one notch.
Remember, it's a mobile phone more than it is a games machine. It's more likely to be replaced by incremental upgrades than a GBA is.
And no, every review I've read indicates that you need a working SIM in the phone to be able to do anything with it.
I have heard that the chemicals used in the recycling process are nastier than the ones used in the original maunfacturing process, but I have no real information, thus the question.
Nokia would have down better to bundle it with an archive CD of compatible Series 60 software from somwhere like my-symbian.
(This line added to avoid lameness fiters.)
Knowing that, locally, only the major mobile retail chains are carrying it, plus only one or two major games retailers, if each store only got one then there wouldn't have been more than 200 available for sale in the state. Wandering off on this fantasy, across all of Australia there may well have been fewer than 2,000 available. Sounds easy enough to sell out -- I can't be that unique a person amongst a population of 18 million, give or take.
See if you can find any data that indicates just how toxic the recycling process is vs the original manufacturing process. I have a sneaky suspicion that recycling computers by shredding them, melting them down and pouring them into a chemical soup is in fact worse for the environment that if they were just thrown out. (Of course, keeping them running through repair and upgrade is best by far, but even that still spins off bits that can't be used again.)
I installed iTunes today. I own an iPod. Somehow Apple have made the iPod upload functions worse (less intuitive or more limited, or possibly both) than Musicmatch -- something users of alternatives to Musicmatch may find hard to believe. I'll probably uninstall it some time this week.
I bought the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack -- it seemed to be easily available, no special order, I just found it in a shop. I can't think of any other game where I'd want to listen to the music in the same way I'd listen to a "normal" audio CD.
Click of Death, need I say more?
Ah, the game is afoot. I'll take "anal bum cover" for $100, Trebek.
Bugger that, I'm already looking for an alternative to the Internet.
It's a pain in the arse I tell you. We're in the middle of orientation. 17 staff trying to enrol 220 new students and 1000 returning students. Patching desktops is the last thing anyone has time for.
Yeah, but the battery in my aged FujiFilm camera barely holds enough charge to fill the card that's in there.
You're expecting me to believe some random kid said "The concept of a power-up hadn't been invented yet." The Tetris one looks totally fake.
If I reduced SCO's "income" by 16% they'd probably put a contract out on me.