I bought one of those sewing machine for my mother. It's got some nice stuff. The lettering is particularly impressive. I'm sure she'll use the custom pattern stuff to its fullest too.
Why bother with incremental price drops on the console when most potential purchasers are balking at the price of the games? The first company to halve the price of their games will probably lead the pack to the next generation of consoles.
It's hard to be sure given that marketing departments don't know the difference between bits and bytes, but 64MB is about right. And that should be plenty for anyone not trying misdirect people away from their lack of content by using heaps of shiney pre-rendered video. As a collector, I still prefer the cartridge format. Wipeout 64 removed any lingering doubt I had about the cartridge being a limiting factor.
Thank you. Having worked in some places that treat any competent computer officer like an evil voodoo witch doctor, I'm really grateful for your comments.
Okay, there's a great-looking self-published book about hacking the Xbox, there's an Australian site that will sell me mod chips and/or give away their designs, there's the xBox itself that's so cheap I can buy it out of the week's housekeeping money...
Given that I've got two PCs already, can anyone tell me what the end product is actually useful for? I mean, really interesting projects that the Xbox is particuarly suited to.
I paid almost A$1,000 for my iPod. I can't imagine that I'd spend that amount on something that's had to compromise the core iPod features to include gaming. On the flipside, my iPod only gets 10 hours on battery. I've only charged my GBAsp once since I bought it over a month ago. Since the last charge I've finished Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction.
Not to mention that I've already got a Palm I don't use...
I've noticed that TIVOs suffer from one arguably incorrect assumption - that there's anything good on TV. After reviewing my visual entertainment options, I couldn't come up with anything that offers as much varied content as DVD. All those DVD extras are more or less impossible to fit into a typical modern channel and by buying only the DVDs I specifically want I'm not subsidising all the rest of the crap on cable.
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If you wanted to make video files that will have the best chance of being viewable in 10 or 20 years, what are the best file formats and codecs?
Burn a Video CD or DVD. If you can produce a disk that will play on 90% of the stand-alone (DVD) players in any given electronics store then you'll probably still be able to play it in 20 years time, so long as the media hasn't degraded.
I don't think Nintendo US really "get" the e-reader, but there is some nice stuff leaking across from Japan. Eg: In the latest expansion of the Pokemon card game, if you have an e-reader some critters get extra functions.
More importantly, addressing the article...
Specifically, a new version of e-Reader, a device that takes information to the GBA via small indented plastic cards, only available in Japan and the US at present,
Does the new e-reader use a different type of card? The current one just reads a 2D Barcode printed on normal cardboard cards.
and is capable of storing e-Card data, even if the GBA is powered down
The US one already does this. You can save one NES game that you're playing so you don't have to re-swipe every time you turn on.
Personally, I'd like to know what they're going to do about the comm port and the new GBAsp. You can't close the lid if you've got a US e-reader plugged in.
Also, a PCI version is a necessity if you're hooking heaps of monitors off one PC. Maybe if I can dig up some old 32MB SIMMs for my Olivetti Envision I can use this card to get Diablo II running on it... Now I just have to get the BIOS running again. Hmm, a project. If only the maximum amount of RAM the system can handle wasn't less than the minimum required to run NWN.
If everyone links to the image somewhere specifically using the text "Strawberry Shortcake", it should start appearing in Google (image) searches. That'll learn them.
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I bought one of those sewing machine for my mother. It's got some nice stuff. The lettering is particularly impressive. I'm sure she'll use the custom pattern stuff to its fullest too.
Why bother with incremental price drops on the console when most potential purchasers are balking at the price of the games? The first company to halve the price of their games will probably lead the pack to the next generation of consoles.
So it is a joke, but not a hoax. Either way it will never be a product. I could probably make a joke about vapourware here, but I'm too busy.
Thank you. Having worked in some places that treat any competent computer officer like an evil voodoo witch doctor, I'm really grateful for your comments.
What a fucking waste of time and money.
Oh, wait, that project was killed by Bush.
Given that I've got two PCs already, can anyone tell me what the end product is actually useful for? I mean, really interesting projects that the Xbox is particuarly suited to.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. LASER. You want some fricken sharks with fricken lasers on thier fricken heads.
Anyone got a mirror?
Not to mention that I've already got a Palm I don't use...
It's called the Rights Economy and it strangles itself so effectively that it only survives by constantly expanding into new populations.
I've noticed that TIVOs suffer from one arguably incorrect assumption - that there's anything good on TV. After reviewing my visual entertainment options, I couldn't come up with anything that offers as much varied content as DVD. All those DVD extras are more or less impossible to fit into a typical modern channel and by buying only the DVDs I specifically want I'm not subsidising all the rest of the crap on cable.
More importantly, addressing the article...
Does the new e-reader use a different type of card? The current one just reads a 2D Barcode printed on normal cardboard cards.The US one already does this. You can save one NES game that you're playing so you don't have to re-swipe every time you turn on.Personally, I'd like to know what they're going to do about the comm port and the new GBAsp. You can't close the lid if you've got a US e-reader plugged in.
Also, a PCI version is a necessity if you're hooking heaps of monitors off one PC. Maybe if I can dig up some old 32MB SIMMs for my Olivetti Envision I can use this card to get Diablo II running on it... Now I just have to get the BIOS running again. Hmm, a project. If only the maximum amount of RAM the system can handle wasn't less than the minimum required to run NWN.
Okay, best job you can get is a telemarketer, yet you have the skills to guarantee that you can't be traced when you use the 'Net? I don't think so.
Have you seen the "new" Nintendo e-reader? Original NES games encoded as 2D barcodes and emulated on the GBA.
Hasn't hotmail been forced to turn over identifying information before?
If you're working at one of these places you're doing it for the money, not for a warm feeling. Morality is a luxury many people can not afford.
If everyone links to the image somewhere specifically using the text "Strawberry Shortcake", it should start appearing in Google (image) searches. That'll learn them.