I dont usually agree with Region Control at all but in the case of the BBC iPLayer it makes a little more sense. The BBC is funded by the Tax Payer so everyone in Britain gets free access to iPlayer, though one could argue we deserve more access to the BBC's content, since we are paying for the content. This is a different situation than the company who produce, for example, "The Corbert Report" limiting the free streaming on their website to US only since they are getting funded by the Ad revenue of the viewers which non-us viewers could potentially be a part of unlike the BBC which is essentially "pre-payed" content so to provide free access to it worldwide would be unfair for those people who have paid to access it.
Though I do think BBC Worldwide should do some sort of Streaming service with ad's like Hulu and Youtube's "TV Shows".
Apparently the "Update" for Crazy Taxi involves removing the original soundtrack, for me that separates it from the iconic memories I have of the game. This "Update" means that its not the game I remember playing as a kid so this "update" is not something im interested in.
Though the idea of playing Dreamcast games on current consoles, if they arent "Updated" in a similar fashion them im totally in.
Im all for this idea, hopefully it will go some way towards people seeing Video Games as another medium the same as a film or book. It was only a few years ago that my local library started lending out DVDs (with a price but one much smaller than a rental store) and I know that at least in the beginning it brought in some young people to rent DVD's and it gave a small trickle over to the lending of books.
I personally love consuming Star Trek but I dont think we need another Star Trek show on TV, even though im in the minority liking Voyager and Enterprise as well as the rest.
I have enough trek goodness to last me a long time with all the fan productions like Hidden Frontier and the audio drama's such as Star Trek Excelsior.
If they really must do another series then ill surely watch it but id rather they give money to a fan production and some help and then enjoy that goodness over the internet with some sort of advertising attached to it to cover costs.
By a Lawyers definition it wasent free but by the Author's want it was. It may have only been formalized in 1992 but it was always free to begin with. There is a small diffrence there.
If you want to play an MMO on your PS3 you could go get a copy of FFXI for the PS2. It still has loads of people and the controls work great. Im playing it on my Xbox 360 just now and I can navigate the menu's, sort my inventory and engage in combat using the controller easily. The only thing I had to do is a hook up a spare USB keyboard (which I already had hooked in to use MSN) so I can text chat to people.
Im sure technically at the higher ends you can do more in a battle situation in a smaller time but the same could be said for most genre's.
Side note, the LB button is a saving grace. I can hold the up on the stick to move forward then press LB and he keeps running. Good for running across maps when I want to go make a sandwich.
Its because the medium moves to fast, at like 12 years old (2002) I was trying to tell people there was a game before Soul Caliber (Soul Blade incidently) and in my mind it was better. Or when they died in a game and assumed it was a pile of crud that the gaming standard was to rape you silly to make a 30 minute game last months/years and they have it easy.
Ill take my cane any day so I can twat anyone who says Golden Axe dosent rock or that it dosent exist:)
I know console users are willing to pay for extra content (800 M$ (£6.50) per map pack on Halo 3 for example) but I doubt PC users are. When its something like Shivering Isles for Elder Scrolls IV then it makes sense its a vast amount of content, more than any mod could realistically produce and its at a fair price but what PC user is willing to pay for new maps or guns etc.? Up till now all game additions were free (especially on the UT series from Epic) and with the mod community able to pump out more content and infact sometimes better content (for example Counter Strike) then who would pay for more content from developers?
I know I wont be buying any of there extra stuff, ill think about getting the game but no more.
The money you pay for the Gold Account dosent get given wholly or partially to activision etc. so this will never happen. I dont think M$ will even try to get the content slightly cheaper as a way to bring people over since the money you pay for the Gold Account is used for the upkeep of servers and other neccasery things (though there is quite a bit of profit in it as well).
Wishful thinking basically, the best you can hope for is to get it the same day as everyone else.
Wait, there trying to improve there image? Since when is "Big Brother" a good thing? I dont want a company looking at my blog and my IM and whatever else they can thats my buisness. As far as im concerned this makes there image worse.
So what your saying is if I want to meet a geeky girl I need to learn to code a C64? Well now im definately more motivated to learn that than anything else:)
I do for one, I created it when I first got on the net and have never had a problem with it so never needed to change. And since most of my friends use MSN to chat online I need an address for that anyway. I see no conflict of any kind, hotmail works and does its job as do my non-M$ browsers.
Because I dont own older versions of Windows and cant really get a hold of them easy and a little thing like morality prevents me from stealing it from.torrent's etc.
Plus Ive set it up now, waste of money to buy something to do what I already can do.
If only it did, in order to get Myst Masterpeice Edition working on Windows XP SP2/3 I need to virtualise a Linux install, install wine and then Wine the Myst installation.
Maybe if im lucky someone will get Wine working inside windows to help run old games/programs similer to Dosbox, or maybe ill learn and do it myself.
The articled says "[The Culture] you and others have cultivated" now correct me if I'm wrong but that implies they are not part of this culture so how can they proclaim that quouting things isnt part of our culture? No one knows a culture better than those immersed in it.
As far as im concerned quouting is also fundamental to the internet, then again thats just me.
Dont want to harbour, Id just rather have people with the ability to do this on our side rather than hacking maliciously. I do think they should be punished but putting them to use afterwords dosent seem like a reward they still have suffered in Jail (or at least most likely jail).
Hardly a terrorist activity, since they never intented to cause terror:| They were messing around and got over there head, they need some sort of punishment but not "Cyber Terrorism". Plus after words if Comcast (or anyone else) has any sense they need to hire them and get to them to fix flaws rather than exploit them (which according to the wired article one of them wanted to report it anyways).
If Comcast has any sense they will try to hire the guys rather than drag them through the courts. We need people like this looking for and fixing flaws rather than exploiting them.
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As long as the 'idle' stuff dosent appear too often, just providing a little bit of levity every now and then im perfectly happy with it appearing on the front page.
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I dont usually agree with Region Control at all but in the case of the BBC iPLayer it makes a little more sense. The BBC is funded by the Tax Payer so everyone in Britain gets free access to iPlayer, though one could argue we deserve more access to the BBC's content, since we are paying for the content. This is a different situation than the company who produce, for example, "The Corbert Report" limiting the free streaming on their website to US only since they are getting funded by the Ad revenue of the viewers which non-us viewers could potentially be a part of unlike the BBC which is essentially "pre-payed" content so to provide free access to it worldwide would be unfair for those people who have paid to access it. Though I do think BBC Worldwide should do some sort of Streaming service with ad's like Hulu and Youtube's "TV Shows".
This makes sense, people are always wanting proof that aliens are among us.
Apologies I forgot to mention that in the original post. I read it as a part of an IGN article. Source: http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/109/1096446p1.html
Apparently the "Update" for Crazy Taxi involves removing the original soundtrack, for me that separates it from the iconic memories I have of the game. This "Update" means that its not the game I remember playing as a kid so this "update" is not something im interested in. Though the idea of playing Dreamcast games on current consoles, if they arent "Updated" in a similar fashion them im totally in.
Im all for this idea, hopefully it will go some way towards people seeing Video Games as another medium the same as a film or book. It was only a few years ago that my local library started lending out DVDs (with a price but one much smaller than a rental store) and I know that at least in the beginning it brought in some young people to rent DVD's and it gave a small trickle over to the lending of books.
I personally love consuming Star Trek but I dont think we need another Star Trek show on TV, even though im in the minority liking Voyager and Enterprise as well as the rest. I have enough trek goodness to last me a long time with all the fan productions like Hidden Frontier and the audio drama's such as Star Trek Excelsior. If they really must do another series then ill surely watch it but id rather they give money to a fan production and some help and then enjoy that goodness over the internet with some sort of advertising attached to it to cover costs.
Unfortunately/Thankfully im not American but id vote for Obama because Linus says so: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html Linus is my president ;) lol
By a Lawyers definition it wasent free but by the Author's want it was. It may have only been formalized in 1992 but it was always free to begin with. There is a small diffrence there.
If you want to play an MMO on your PS3 you could go get a copy of FFXI for the PS2. It still has loads of people and the controls work great. Im playing it on my Xbox 360 just now and I can navigate the menu's, sort my inventory and engage in combat using the controller easily. The only thing I had to do is a hook up a spare USB keyboard (which I already had hooked in to use MSN) so I can text chat to people. Im sure technically at the higher ends you can do more in a battle situation in a smaller time but the same could be said for most genre's. Side note, the LB button is a saving grace. I can hold the up on the stick to move forward then press LB and he keeps running. Good for running across maps when I want to go make a sandwich.
Its because the medium moves to fast, at like 12 years old (2002) I was trying to tell people there was a game before Soul Caliber (Soul Blade incidently) and in my mind it was better. Or when they died in a game and assumed it was a pile of crud that the gaming standard was to rape you silly to make a 30 minute game last months/years and they have it easy. Ill take my cane any day so I can twat anyone who says Golden Axe dosent rock or that it dosent exist :)
I know console users are willing to pay for extra content (800 M$ (£6.50) per map pack on Halo 3 for example) but I doubt PC users are. When its something like Shivering Isles for Elder Scrolls IV then it makes sense its a vast amount of content, more than any mod could realistically produce and its at a fair price but what PC user is willing to pay for new maps or guns etc.? Up till now all game additions were free (especially on the UT series from Epic) and with the mod community able to pump out more content and infact sometimes better content (for example Counter Strike) then who would pay for more content from developers? I know I wont be buying any of there extra stuff, ill think about getting the game but no more.
The money you pay for the Gold Account dosent get given wholly or partially to activision etc. so this will never happen. I dont think M$ will even try to get the content slightly cheaper as a way to bring people over since the money you pay for the Gold Account is used for the upkeep of servers and other neccasery things (though there is quite a bit of profit in it as well). Wishful thinking basically, the best you can hope for is to get it the same day as everyone else.
.....Dosent exist.
Wait, there trying to improve there image? Since when is "Big Brother" a good thing? I dont want a company looking at my blog and my IM and whatever else they can thats my buisness. As far as im concerned this makes there image worse.
Sorry that message was me, didnt seem to want to keep me signed in :|
So what your saying is if I want to meet a geeky girl I need to learn to code a C64? Well now im definately more motivated to learn that than anything else :)
I do for one, I created it when I first got on the net and have never had a problem with it so never needed to change. And since most of my friends use MSN to chat online I need an address for that anyway. I see no conflict of any kind, hotmail works and does its job as do my non-M$ browsers.
Because I dont own older versions of Windows and cant really get a hold of them easy and a little thing like morality prevents me from stealing it from .torrent's etc.
Plus Ive set it up now, waste of money to buy something to do what I already can do.
I actually like the old school slideshow thing lol never really got into realMyst like I did Myst. Thanks for the tip though.
If only it did, in order to get Myst Masterpeice Edition working on Windows XP SP2/3 I need to virtualise a Linux install, install wine and then Wine the Myst installation. Maybe if im lucky someone will get Wine working inside windows to help run old games/programs similer to Dosbox, or maybe ill learn and do it myself.
The articled says "[The Culture] you and others have cultivated" now correct me if I'm wrong but that implies they are not part of this culture so how can they proclaim that quouting things isnt part of our culture? No one knows a culture better than those immersed in it. As far as im concerned quouting is also fundamental to the internet, then again thats just me.
Dont want to harbour, Id just rather have people with the ability to do this on our side rather than hacking maliciously. I do think they should be punished but putting them to use afterwords dosent seem like a reward they still have suffered in Jail (or at least most likely jail).
Hardly a terrorist activity, since they never intented to cause terror :| They were messing around and got over there head, they need some sort of punishment but not "Cyber Terrorism". Plus after words if Comcast (or anyone else) has any sense they need to hire them and get to them to fix flaws rather than exploit them (which according to the wired article one of them wanted to report it anyways).
If Comcast has any sense they will try to hire the guys rather than drag them through the courts. We need people like this looking for and fixing flaws rather than exploiting them.
As long as the 'idle' stuff dosent appear too often, just providing a little bit of levity every now and then im perfectly happy with it appearing on the front page.