Which is why it's encrypted on your hard drive. Since speed isn't really an issue for that little data, you can have some excellent encryption on it that it'll make it pretty much impossible to get anything useful out.
I still don't see why this idea came around where they HAVE to store all your information on someone's server somewhere. Why not have it all be stored client-side and just have the user click a button to send everything? It can be heavily encrypted on the hard drive and over the connection, and you won't have to worry about someone hacking the server and stealing everything or worry about unwanted information sharing.
Not your typical geek game though because it does actually raise your level of fitness...the first few times I played the kung-foo game or the boxing game the next day I ached so badly...
That's what people said about Dance Dance Revolution, but it's hard to find a DDR machine around here that doesn't have a crowd of geeks around it.
We don't mind fitness, as long as it's in video game format!
Well, there could be all sort of fun upgrades, depending on how much the cards store. Maybe they could put DVD-like things on there - special features, commentary, 5.1 surround sound. It might actually make buying these things worthwhile.
Does anyone else think that fingernail-sized cards for music is a BAD idea? I have enough problems keeping track of CDs sometimes, these things would be incredible easy to lose.
Of course, the RIAA would love that - "Sorry, you'll have to buy another copy!"
Exactly. That, combined with the fact that people who use Linux are likely to have different behaviors than people who use Windows (hence the Linux usage in the first place). I hate it when people look at two things correlating and assume one causes the other (I'm not saying that's happening here, but it happens all the time)
This makes a lot of sense, really! Let's let someone do all the work for us in finding security holes, have him come directly to us and tell us about the holes, have him keep them to himself instead of releasing them for everyone to use, and then tell him he's doing a BAD thing and he needs to stop!
... and was very disapointed. I mean, it had all this stuff about those new-fangled computers in it. What on earth do computers know about Samba dancing? Seriously! I want my money back.
$2? Try 15 times that much. They go for at least $30, and that doesn't include shipping. Anyways, I'm sure this will be cracked quite quickly (knowing the Chinese) and people will see plenty of pirated games.
Fission, Fusion, Geothermal, Wave-power, Hydroelectric, Solar. Those are just a few I can think of offhand that don't require burning carbon. If you add those, there's also coal, oil, natural gas...
I'd like to see you doing that with a PS game which is maybe "cool" but certainly not *FUN*.
Man, I can't tell you how many times I played through SSX and SSX:Tricky just to shave seconds off my time or get more points. That was fun as hell. I spent even more time levelling up items alone in Disgaea. That was great fun as well.
There ARE plenty of quality games on EACH console, it's just that the PS2 and XBox have a lot of crappy titles in addition to the good ones.
Instead of the micropayment route, I've always preferred the idea of paying one monthly fee then getting unlimited content for that fee. It's like those "adult passes". You pay them a monthly fee, then when you visit a member page, they pay the page for you.
With a pay-per-view thing, I'd always be asking myself "do I REALLY want to see this, or can I live without it?" and end up missing a lot of stuff.
No, its really not. Its an anti-assimilation law designed to protect the culture of Quebec.
Is it really the culture of the people if the law is forcing them to act that way? Why not, I don't know, let the ACTUAL behavior of the people determine the culture instead of creating laws to artifically preserve it?
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
I didn't realize that you meant playing AGAINST Hawking at first, and I got an image in my head of a polygonal guy in a wheelchair with a robotic arm holding a monstrous gun zipping all over the screen. It made me chuckle.
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nobody involved in the actual leak is affected - because it's them.
Yeah, because I'm sure they'd HATE for the leaks to be stopped.
Which is why it's encrypted on your hard drive. Since speed isn't really an issue for that little data, you can have some excellent encryption on it that it'll make it pretty much impossible to get anything useful out.
I still don't see why this idea came around where they HAVE to store all your information on someone's server somewhere. Why not have it all be stored client-side and just have the user click a button to send everything? It can be heavily encrypted on the hard drive and over the connection, and you won't have to worry about someone hacking the server and stealing everything or worry about unwanted information sharing.
Don't forget that it will feature hours and hours of beautiful CG cutscenes.
Not your typical geek game though because it does actually raise your level of fitness...the first few times I played the kung-foo game or the boxing game the next day I ached so badly...
That's what people said about Dance Dance Revolution, but it's hard to find a DDR machine around here that doesn't have a crowd of geeks around it.
We don't mind fitness, as long as it's in video game format!
Well, there could be all sort of fun upgrades, depending on how much the cards store. Maybe they could put DVD-like things on there - special features, commentary, 5.1 surround sound. It might actually make buying these things worthwhile.
Does anyone else think that fingernail-sized cards for music is a BAD idea? I have enough problems keeping track of CDs sometimes, these things would be incredible easy to lose.
Of course, the RIAA would love that - "Sorry, you'll have to buy another copy!"
However, they did find mutant Lunar Polar Bears who wore caps. Researchers are quoted as saying, "We knew it was something like that..."
Exactly. That, combined with the fact that people who use Linux are likely to have different behaviors than people who use Windows (hence the Linux usage in the first place). I hate it when people look at two things correlating and assume one causes the other (I'm not saying that's happening here, but it happens all the time)
This makes a lot of sense, really! Let's let someone do all the work for us in finding security holes, have him come directly to us and tell us about the holes, have him keep them to himself instead of releasing them for everyone to use, and then tell him he's doing a BAD thing and he needs to stop!
I fail to see ANY logical reasoning behind this.
... and was very disapointed. I mean, it had all this stuff about those new-fangled computers in it. What on earth do computers know about Samba dancing? Seriously! I want my money back.
I'm suprised Apple hasn't trademarked iCandy yet.
$2? Try 15 times that much. They go for at least $30, and that doesn't include shipping. Anyways, I'm sure this will be cracked quite quickly (knowing the Chinese) and people will see plenty of pirated games.
Alas, no automated helicopters. You CAN get a badass 1966 military helicopter, though.
Yeah, but there isn't really THAT much of the uranium or plutonium in there, is there?
Depends on your definition of "win". Keep in mind the type of people that MS is aiming for with this and how good the company is at marketing.
I think you mean: "Must" buy a "G5". "Must" have "Most Powerful Computer" (T"M)". "Must believe" "advertising". "They" "wouldn't" "lie" """""to"""" """""me""""".
Fission, Fusion, Geothermal, Wave-power, Hydroelectric, Solar. Those are just a few I can think of offhand that don't require burning carbon. If you add those, there's also coal, oil, natural gas...
I'd like to see you doing that with a PS game which is maybe "cool" but certainly not *FUN*.
Man, I can't tell you how many times I played through SSX and SSX:Tricky just to shave seconds off my time or get more points. That was fun as hell. I spent even more time levelling up items alone in Disgaea. That was great fun as well.
There ARE plenty of quality games on EACH console, it's just that the PS2 and XBox have a lot of crappy titles in addition to the good ones.
$199 cheap? In 1996? I STILL have trouble justifying paying $200 for a video card, and it's almost 8 years later!
Instead of the micropayment route, I've always preferred the idea of paying one monthly fee then getting unlimited content for that fee. It's like those "adult passes". You pay them a monthly fee, then when you visit a member page, they pay the page for you.
With a pay-per-view thing, I'd always be asking myself "do I REALLY want to see this, or can I live without it?" and end up missing a lot of stuff.
Anyone hear whether he won his lawsuit or not? He was suing the people who put that video up.
No, its really not. Its an anti-assimilation law designed to protect the culture of Quebec.
Is it really the culture of the people if the law is forcing them to act that way? Why not, I don't know, let the ACTUAL behavior of the people determine the culture instead of creating laws to artifically preserve it?
Uh Clem. a former Belkin wireless router user, was perplexed
I find it somewhat amusing that his name is "Uh" and they're saying he's perplexed.
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
I didn't realize that you meant playing AGAINST Hawking at first, and I got an image in my head of a polygonal guy in a wheelchair with a robotic arm holding a monstrous gun zipping all over the screen. It made me chuckle.