$1 for a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP would keep the service running for decades if only 1/50th of current Napster users paid in the first year. You could even set up a trust fund at that point, and pay Sealand out of the interest.
chu chu rocket puzzle mode [with puzzle edit], NiGHTS [not 3d], and samba de amigo. it doesn't look like it will be coming to america, but if it does, i will be pleased, since the 3 games that are going to be on it look neat so far.
sounds like, which i know for a fact is on colecovision.
del the phunky homosapien said it best in protoculture:
"I remember my homie Ed Coats had the most
A Colecovision-every week I'd visit
Playing Donkey Kong Jr., Venture, Rock and Rope
Games I thought was dope
While our moms was watching soaps "
Its kind of sad how little credit asian developers get, ever. How many people know about the companies that make Konami's games, or Capcoms?
you mean... konami... and capcom? 3rd parties don't usually publish games that were developed by someone else.
companies like infogrames, activision, microsoft, etc are publishers. they publish games that other folks make.
Maybe they are predicting using demographics. Maybe they've received info for rural districts, but not urban ones.
that is what i figured, but why assume that someone won? it just doesn't make sense. he'll probably end up winning california nonetheless anyways, so it doesn't matter.
have i gone insane? or is 44 still less than 52? they must be holding off the announcement that algore won california, because if they announced it, bush would win immediately.
For the love of god, his quotes aren't even factual! Gore had HIGHER sat scores (1355 total for Gore, 1206 for Bush)... just see http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l.... additionally gradewise, Gore's lowest was a (singular) D in Natural Science, and highest were A's/A+'s in English/French. Bushes lows were 70 and 71 (out of 100) in sociology and economics (more important to presidency then natural science), and his highest was a "pass" in history/japanese....
Anyway, Bush is dumber, but that doesn't necessarily matter.
to quote MC Paul Barman, "you've got academic and smart confused."
although i have not been following who is smarter than who, just because someone did not do well academically does not mean that they are stupid, or dumb.
instead of basing his intellectual inferiority on academics, base it on what he believes in. i don't really know what he believes in, so therefore i have no opinion on him.
does anyone here even own a ps2?
i seem to be one of the few folks that got a ps2, and can make an unbiased judgement, since i consider myself to be unbiased.
why do i consider myself unbiased?
i own a ps2, a drica, an n64, a psx, an snes, and an snes. since i still buy [and enjoy] games for all the consoles listed, i thknk this would make me unbiased.
do i like my ps2? yes, i sure do. i just played timsplitters from 11pm to 7am, and had a hell of a time. and when we started get hostile towards each other, we busted own samba de amgio and the maracas.
oh yes, samba de amigo is on the dreamcast. it seems as if the only people who judge a system once they have it are the unbiased types.
my final point is, don't say it sucks until you play some fucking games.
my hope is that square plays out all their movie-making fantasies with this project, so they can concentrate on making games, instead of movies diguised as games.
what about the folks that use it for a radio station of sorts? there is no one station that plays a mix of the stuff i like, so to hear new artists, napster has helped immensly. i know this has been brought up before, but i have never really thought about how many cds i have bought due to downloading songs online. well, lets see:
[minibosses] - castlevania: bought the cd
polygon window -s/t song: cd bought
blackalicious - alphabet aerobics: bought record
clockwork orange theme: can't find cd
del the funky homosapien - phoney phranchise: bought cd and vinyl single
kid koala - nerdball: bought cd
linkin park - step up: cd not out, plan to buy
mc paul barman - all tracks: bought the cd the day after getting all the mp3s
weezer - in the garage: i own both cds, a t-shirt, went to concert, etc
orb - little fluffy clouds: can't find
soul coughing - soundtrack to mary: bought cd
the juliana theory - this is not a love song: bought cd
ween and the kostars - don't know why: bought cd
everything else i have is unobtainable, i.e. game music, bjork song from brunching shuttlecocks, seanbaby theme, snl raps about britney, etc. this is what i took free music online to be. a place to sample so that i can pick what i want to buy. i bought around 50-60 cds this summer, because i had so much to sample. eat it, RIAA. if you take away free downloads, where am i going to sample music now? commercial radio? haha, try again.
i *will* buy clothes from gap, etc as long as they don't have labels on them. why would i want to pay to advertise for them? i don't see a point in paying to advertise, we are paying them for the clothes so we can advertise.
there are some things that i will advertise for, such as biking companies, underground bands, and videogames/anime. that is my choice, and i would support those things in some way or another, so i might as well help them out by buying a cool looking t-shirt. gap and old navy can make their money by making quality, good looking clothes with no silly logos plastered everywhere.
Well, to think that games are not being taken seriously you'd have to ignore sites like thegia and mags like nextgen. they are well written sites made for hardcore gamers. i have never heard about myvideogames.com, and when i went there today it looked like a bunch of stupid editorials.
you might want to consider that games have been taken seriously by the mainstream ever since a little company called sony jumped into the game. now genres that used to be niche like rpg's are becoming mainstream,, well, some crappy rpgs coughfinalfantasy7and8cough, but there will always being the niche games like lunar, legend of mana, threads of fate, etc.
if games haven't been taken seriously till now, and some late-in-the-game site called myvideogames.com suddenly changed everything, well, i'll give you the 40 or so games i am buying this year. so in retrospect, don't write shitty editorials about things you have no idea about jonkatz, and we won't write remarks correcting everything.
"The two announced peripherals are the new PS2 analog dual shock controller and the 8-MB Memory Card. However, the new PlayStation2 peripherals will not work with PlayStation." from the ps2 faq
you can use your old psx mem cards on the ps2. you can also use the new 8 MB ps2 mem cards on the ps2. they needed to keep the interface the same so that the old mem cards would work. one reason for the encryption is to keep sales of psx memory cards up, because an 8 MB mem card is equal to about 32 regular psx mem cards. and encryption defeats using a ps2 mem card in a psx.
they would like to keep the markets seperated so they can generate as much profit from mem cards as possible, because everyone needs one. one way to combat this is to require an authorization code to use the ps2 mem card. if the psx can't send this signal, it won't work in the psx, and therefore, psx owners still need the psx mem cards.
basically, it is just to keep the mem card markets seperate, and to generate a lot of profit they wouldn't have gotten if the ps2 mem cards would have worked in the psx.
the commercial that intrigued me the most is the US Census one. it had the background music of beethoven's 9th. now, that is not interesting in itself.
the interesting thing is that it was the exact same part of the ninth that was being played in 'A Clockwork Orange' when Alex was watching films to 'cure' him, it sounded exactly the same, kind of like a MIDI.
so, if you are planning on having sex or killing someone in the next few days or so, watch a quentin tarantino movie first to expose yourself to sex and violence.
Its very simple. Napster, when it starts up, takes over port 6969. Most of the schools (at least, my school) know this is the port (because the people who use Napster are also the ones who are banning it). So if its using Port 6969, simply change it to 21, 8000, 89....something other than 6969, then they won't recognize its there.
That will be effective if the university blocks off *.napster.com. You can just change the domain name to get around the firewall! [sigh]
To clarify, of course I (and many others) have bought CD's after hearing mp3s, but this argument really doesn't hold up to a lot of scrutiny.
yes, but after you acquire the cd, the mp3 is quite legal. record companies make money from it, they just don;t know it. i have a slow connection, so i buy cd's when i hear an mp3 i like. if i had a faster connection, i would get mp3s, and rip them on music cds as wavs.
i have done that, but they were bootleg tracks and illegal anyways >:]
If anyone hasn't noticed, the only HDTVs being produced right now are the flagship models. Not *every* HDTV in the world will be a 60 inch tv.
The main reason for flagship only is because HDTV/DTV isn't very widespread. Why sell consumer-friendly TVs if only videophiles are going to buy them for now?
When Dolby Digital receivers first came out they were $1000+. Now that they have been out for a while, you can get a decent Dolby Digital receiver for $400. The same thing goes for DVD players.
If the FCC wants HDTV/DTV to become standard, they shouldn't yell at the manufacurers of equipment. They will jump in full time when they see a large enough market where they won't be losing money.
The only way for a large enough market to occur is for the damn stations to start converting 25%, then 50%, and so on.
i think we shouldn't use the term cracker to someone who steals credit card numbers.
instead, we should call them 'criminals' or 'theives' or something that suits them well instead of a deviation of the respectable term 'hacker'.
i, for one would like to see that, since 'cracker' is used to label people that crack copy protection algorithms and the like. that takes skill, and they get respect. the people that made DeCSS are crackers.
The real reason Lucas snubbed DVD is that DVD didn't use his precious THX standard and instead went to Dolby's new AC3 sound standard it helps if you know what you are talking about before you make stupid comments about it.
thx is just a certification for high end audio gear saying that it can do timbre matching, it has real low distortion, and a slew of other stuff.
the 3 digital formats at home right now are ac-3, and dts. another one in the theatre is sony sdds.
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chu chu rocket puzzle mode [with puzzle edit], NiGHTS [not 3d], and samba de amigo. it doesn't look like it will be coming to america, but if it does, i will be pleased, since the 3 games that are going to be on it look neat so far.
dcign did a story on it a couple days ago
sounds like, which i know for a fact is on colecovision.
del the phunky homosapien said it best in protoculture: "I remember my homie Ed Coats had the most A Colecovision-every week I'd visit Playing Donkey Kong Jr., Venture, Rock and Rope Games I thought was dope While our moms was watching soaps "
you mean... konami... and capcom? 3rd parties don't usually publish games that were developed by someone else. companies like infogrames, activision, microsoft, etc are publishers. they publish games that other folks make.
Maybe they are predicting using demographics. Maybe they've received info for rural districts, but not urban ones.
that is what i figured, but why assume that someone won? it just doesn't make sense. he'll probably end up winning california nonetheless anyways, so it doesn't matter.
have i gone insane? or is 44 still less than 52? they must be holding off the announcement that algore won california, because if they announced it, bush would win immediately.
For the love of god, his quotes aren't even factual! Gore had HIGHER sat scores (1355 total for Gore, 1206 for Bush)... just see http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l.... additionally gradewise, Gore's lowest was a (singular) D in Natural Science, and highest were A's/A+'s in English/French. Bushes lows were 70 and 71 (out of 100) in sociology and economics (more important to presidency then natural science), and his highest was a "pass" in history/japanese....
Anyway, Bush is dumber, but that doesn't necessarily matter.
to quote MC Paul Barman, "you've got academic and smart confused."
although i have not been following who is smarter than who, just because someone did not do well academically does not mean that they are stupid, or dumb.
instead of basing his intellectual inferiority on academics, base it on what he believes in. i don't really know what he believes in, so therefore i have no opinion on him.
does anyone here even own a ps2? i seem to be one of the few folks that got a ps2, and can make an unbiased judgement, since i consider myself to be unbiased. why do i consider myself unbiased? i own a ps2, a drica, an n64, a psx, an snes, and an snes. since i still buy [and enjoy] games for all the consoles listed, i thknk this would make me unbiased. do i like my ps2? yes, i sure do. i just played timsplitters from 11pm to 7am, and had a hell of a time. and when we started get hostile towards each other, we busted own samba de amgio and the maracas. oh yes, samba de amigo is on the dreamcast. it seems as if the only people who judge a system once they have it are the unbiased types. my final point is, don't say it sucks until you play some fucking games.
my hope is that square plays out all their movie-making fantasies with this project, so they can concentrate on making games, instead of movies diguised as games.
what about the folks that use it for a radio station of sorts? there is no one station that plays a mix of the stuff i like, so to hear new artists, napster has helped immensly. i know this has been brought up before, but i have never really thought about how many cds i have bought due to downloading songs online. well, lets see:
everything else i have is unobtainable, i.e. game music, bjork song from brunching shuttlecocks, seanbaby theme, snl raps about britney, etc. this is what i took free music online to be. a place to sample so that i can pick what i want to buy. i bought around 50-60 cds this summer, because i had so much to sample. eat it, RIAA. if you take away free downloads, where am i going to sample music now? commercial radio? haha, try again.
grandroyal is not on that list! go buy every beastie boys record ever.
SST is not on there either, buy some husker du, bad brains, and black flag.
oh well, i'll just buy vinyl. works just the same, and the riaa doesn't benefit.
i *will* buy clothes from gap, etc as long as they don't have labels on them. why would i want to pay to advertise for them? i don't see a point in paying to advertise, we are paying them for the clothes so we can advertise.
there are some things that i will advertise for, such as biking companies, underground bands, and videogames/anime. that is my choice, and i would support those things in some way or another, so i might as well help them out by buying a cool looking t-shirt. gap and old navy can make their money by making quality, good looking clothes with no silly logos plastered everywhere.
Well, to think that games are not being taken seriously you'd have to ignore sites like thegia and mags like nextgen. they are well written sites made for hardcore gamers. i have never heard about myvideogames.com, and when i went there today it looked like a bunch of stupid editorials.
you might want to consider that games have been taken seriously by the mainstream ever since a little company called sony jumped into the game. now genres that used to be niche like rpg's are becoming mainstream,, well, some crappy rpgs coughfinalfantasy7and8cough, but there will always being the niche games like lunar, legend of mana, threads of fate, etc.
if games haven't been taken seriously till now, and some late-in-the-game site called myvideogames.com suddenly changed everything, well, i'll give you the 40 or so games i am buying this year. so in retrospect, don't write shitty editorials about things you have no idea about jonkatz, and we won't write remarks correcting everything.
"The two announced peripherals are the new PS2 analog dual shock controller and the 8-MB Memory Card. However, the new PlayStation2 peripherals will not work with PlayStation." from the ps2 faq
you can use your old psx mem cards on the ps2. you can also use the new 8 MB ps2 mem cards on the ps2. they needed to keep the interface the same so that the old mem cards would work. one reason for the encryption is to keep sales of psx memory cards up, because an 8 MB mem card is equal to about 32 regular psx mem cards. and encryption defeats using a ps2 mem card in a psx.
they would like to keep the markets seperated so they can generate as much profit from mem cards as possible, because everyone needs one. one way to combat this is to require an authorization code to use the ps2 mem card. if the psx can't send this signal, it won't work in the psx, and therefore, psx owners still need the psx mem cards.
basically, it is just to keep the mem card markets seperate, and to generate a lot of profit they wouldn't have gotten if the ps2 mem cards would have worked in the psx.
the commercial that intrigued me the most is the US Census one. it had the background music of beethoven's 9th. now, that is not interesting in itself.
the interesting thing is that it was the exact same part of the ninth that was being played in 'A Clockwork Orange' when Alex was watching films to 'cure' him, it sounded exactly the same, kind of like a MIDI.
so, if you are planning on having sex or killing someone in the next few days or so, watch a quentin tarantino movie first to expose yourself to sex and violence.
That will be effective if the university blocks off *.napster.com. You can just change the domain name to get around the firewall! [sigh]
To clarify, of course I (and many others) have bought CD's after hearing mp3s, but this argument really doesn't hold up to a lot of scrutiny.
yes, but after you acquire the cd, the mp3 is quite legal. record companies make money from it, they just don;t know it. i have a slow connection, so i buy cd's when i hear an mp3 i like. if i had a faster connection, i would get mp3s, and rip them on music cds as wavs.
i have done that, but they were bootleg tracks and illegal anyways >:]
now i actually have to BUY a game!
damn quake 3 cd keys.
My Time magazine just corrupted. what now?
If anyone hasn't noticed, the only HDTVs being produced right now are the flagship models. Not *every* HDTV in the world will be a 60 inch tv.
The main reason for flagship only is because HDTV/DTV isn't very widespread. Why sell consumer-friendly TVs if only videophiles are going to buy them for now?
When Dolby Digital receivers first came out they were $1000+. Now that they have been out for a while, you can get a decent Dolby Digital receiver for $400. The same thing goes for DVD players.
If the FCC wants HDTV/DTV to become standard, they shouldn't yell at the manufacurers of equipment. They will jump in full time when they see a large enough market where they won't be losing money.
The only way for a large enough market to occur is for the damn stations to start converting 25%, then 50%, and so on.
i think we shouldn't use the term cracker to someone who steals credit card numbers.
instead, we should call them 'criminals' or 'theives' or something that suits them well instead of a deviation of the respectable term 'hacker'.
i, for one would like to see that, since 'cracker' is used to label people that crack copy protection algorithms and the like. that takes skill, and they get respect. the people that made DeCSS are crackers.
wake up dammit.
now the hacker term will turn evil..
what a great day
The real reason Lucas snubbed DVD is that DVD didn't use his precious THX standard and instead went to Dolby's new AC3 sound standard it helps if you know what you are talking about before you make stupid comments about it.
thx is just a certification for high end audio gear saying that it can do timbre matching, it has real low distortion, and a slew of other stuff.
the 3 digital formats at home right now are ac-3, and dts. another one in the theatre is sony sdds.
please inform yourself before you speak loudly.
there is a psx device that fits into the parallel port that allows mp3 cds to be played on it.
it's not a program on the cd, but it works nonetheless.