The P4 was still in active production until one year ago, and therefore in a TON of currently-operational computers. There's no reason why a modern game shouldn't support current hardware. THAT'S why people don't buy into PC games - because the support is poor and often the product refuses to work. Consumers stop buying things that break & switch over to console games that "just work".
Exactly. Adult-rated movies/games/books are considered unsellable in Walmart, Kmart, et cetera, so artists can't find any publishers to buy their work.
Also I've found the ESRB to pretty much worthless. When shopping for kids this past Christmas (aged 10 and under) I didn't have a problem finding "Everyone" or Kid games for the girl with the Nintendo, but the boys with the Xbox was a real challenge. Almost all the games are rated Teen or Mature.
Of course the boys wanted the Mature "kill as many people as possible" games like Medal of Honor, but I refused. I tried to find games lower then "T"-rated since I thought 8/10 years old were too young for teen content, and discovered it was nigh-impossible for the X360. I'd sooner let them see a copy of Playboy, then the gratuitous violence in many of these games.
It took some effort but I did eventually find games without blood. So the ESRB is great in theory..... assuming the consumer actually has a choice. Sometimes they don't. (Another random example: I refuse to let any of them see the movie musical Annie because it's rated PG and has random swearing in it.)
But I understand your point about wanting to avoid another VHS versus Beta or HDdvd versus Bluray format confusion. It would have a negative impact on consumers, especially those who barely know how to use computers ("How do I make the window fill the whole screen?"). Or those wondering why they can't play the VP8-encoded video in their iGadget, since it only supports MPEG formats.
I can't think of any. First there was APRA control (public political), then it gradually moved towards private college and ARPA control, and now its current state. So bascially the internet has ALWAYS been controlled by "public political and business interests".
The (fake) redhead is hot. I think when they did the swimming experiments, they should have pushed the old guys aside and used her instead.;-) Which reminds me: Here is the Warehouse 13 girl in a bikini. Gorgeous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRetuOCEuc
browser support is dragging behind years even now. Or is that the very goal of Google? Make Chrome the de facto standard, and force everyone else to play the catch-up game?
Sounds like Netscape circa 1995. They kept adopting new tags (blink) and features (ex: frames) to push forward and let everyone else catch up.
IE was doing the same thing around 1998, with their introductions of new features that other browsers couldn't render.
Well I disagree with you and agree with C64love. Even recent games like Dead Space I can't get to run on my Windows Vista Pentium 4 machine without wasting almost a day configuring settings. And it hangs ALOT of the time. I eventually traded it in for the Nintendo console version 'cause I was sick of the hassle.
P.S. And I agree with him. Even recent games like Dead Space I can't get to run on my Windows Vista Pentium 4 machine without wasting almost a day configuring settings. I eventually traded it in for the Nintendo console version 'cause I was sick of the hassle.
It's clear someone is targeting C64love. Nothing in his post deserved a -2 modding.
Correction: Easy to install, but making them work with my graphics card or audio card..... that's the real challenge. It's nowhere near as easy as my Atari or Commodore or Amiga where I just slide the disk in the machine, and it works, because the hardware is standardized
>>>20-30 comment threads on the difference between "hackers" and "crackers"? Sadly, we've always been retards.
Ding-ding-ding. I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or the arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday). They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) to censor the site, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision and/or thinks MPEG4 should be supported.
I downloaded 100 GB last month (movies, tv shows, music videos) on my DSL. 5 GB is not much data at all.
ALSO: Since VirginMobile US is subcontracting from another company (Sprint?), it's likely the limits are being imposed by them. (shrug). I still like the company. They give me my cellphone at $0.00 per month, and I only pay for my minutes used. It's nice and cheap.
Lithium-ion has 4x times more storage than the old NiCads found in the original Gameboy. I'd say batteries are advancing, although certainly not as fast as the power demand of the CPU.
The "power" and battery "life" are both irrelevant to me.
The PSP2 will probably have the same flaw my PSP had: Lack of worthy games. I eventually sold it, and reacquired the few great games the PSP had (i.e. less than 10) on my full sized playstation. I'd rather play on the full screen anyway.
"One more thing... get a life!" - William Shatner. In the future 99% of people won't give a fuck if they are using MPEG4, just as in the present they didn't give a fuck that their TVs use MPEG2, and their iPods use MPEG1-part 3 (MP3).
But they WILL care if they download a WebM movie and their iPod or TV refuses to play it. To me being anti-MPEG makes as little sense as being anti-IEEE or anti-ISO. These organizations are necessary to provide standards to make devices interoperable.
Would "NTSC color" be considered an open standard?
It originally belonged to RCA who licensed the technique, but then fell into public domain after several years. So is NTSC's color extension considered closed or open? (shrug) Anyway MPEG4's h264 is headed to the same place. I can wait.
Wikileaks should operate like a newspaper and Not be involved with defending the informants. Now they can be accused of colluding with the guy who stole US documents. Wikileaks should just be REPORTING the documents, and nothing else.
"First achieving widespread use with the release of the Apple Macintosh in 1984"
The Mac was neither the first mouse-based computer, nor did it "widespread" the concept. - Mac sold around 100,000 units its first five years (mainly because it cost approximately ten times more than other computers), which was much much less than other computers.
Example: WorldWideWeb may have been first browser but it was Mosaic that popularized the web & made it explode for ordinary people. Likewise I would give credit for widespread mouse usage to the C64, the most popular computer of its day. By the end of the 80s most people with mice in their hands were sitting in front of the C64 (or its more-advanced cousin: Amiga). Not the overpriced ($4000) Macs.
Just come out with one standard codec or include all codecs to every browser...problem solved.
Heathen! You must join the Church of Open Source and support Google/WebM and hate hate hate MPEG/h264, or be censored!!! (Reaches for the mod button : -1 Troll for digitalDC)
"One more thing... get a life!" - William Shatner By the year 2020 people will still be using MPEG4, and 99% of them won't give a fuck, just as now they don't give a fuck that their TVs use MPEG2, and iPods use MPEG1-part 3 (MP3). The average person just doesn't give a damn, but they WILL care if they download a WebM movie off google/youtube, and their iPod or TV refuses to play it.
I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or the arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday) saying I disagree with removing MPEG4 from Chrome.
They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) censored if they could get away with it, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision.
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The P4 was still in active production until one year ago, and therefore in a TON of currently-operational computers. There's no reason why a modern game shouldn't support current hardware. THAT'S why people don't buy into PC games - because the support is poor and often the product refuses to work. Consumers stop buying things that break & switch over to console games that "just work".
By teh same token, a G or PG rating is the kiss of death
Some of the highest-grossing movies were rated G. Like the annual Disney/Pixar animations. PG movies also grossed high.
So basically you're flat wrong.
Exactly. Adult-rated movies/games/books are considered unsellable in Walmart, Kmart, et cetera, so artists can't find any publishers to buy their work.
Also I've found the ESRB to pretty much worthless. When shopping for kids this past Christmas (aged 10 and under) I didn't have a problem finding "Everyone" or Kid games for the girl with the Nintendo, but the boys with the Xbox was a real challenge. Almost all the games are rated Teen or Mature.
Of course the boys wanted the Mature "kill as many people as possible" games like Medal of Honor, but I refused. I tried to find games lower then "T"-rated since I thought 8/10 years old were too young for teen content, and discovered it was nigh-impossible for the X360. I'd sooner let them see a copy of Playboy, then the gratuitous violence in many of these games.
It took some effort but I did eventually find games without blood. So the ESRB is great in theory..... assuming the consumer actually has a choice. Sometimes they don't. (Another random example: I refuse to let any of them see the movie musical Annie because it's rated PG and has random swearing in it.)
Not the same thing.
But I understand your point about wanting to avoid another VHS versus Beta or HDdvd versus Bluray format confusion. It would have a negative impact on consumers, especially those who barely know how to use computers ("How do I make the window fill the whole screen?"). Or those wondering why they can't play the VP8-encoded video in their iGadget, since it only supports MPEG formats.
I can't think of any. First there was APRA control (public political), then it gradually moved towards private college and ARPA control, and now its current state. So bascially the internet has ALWAYS been controlled by "public political and business interests".
No mod points but
+1 informative. and insightful
The (fake) redhead is hot. I think when they did the swimming experiments, they should have pushed the old guys aside and used her instead. ;-)
Which reminds me: Here is the Warehouse 13 girl in a bikini. Gorgeous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRetuOCEuc
browser support is dragging behind years even now. Or is that the very goal of Google? Make Chrome the de facto standard, and force everyone else to play the catch-up game?
Sounds like Netscape circa 1995. They kept adopting new tags (blink) and features (ex: frames) to push forward and let everyone else catch up.
IE was doing the same thing around 1998, with their introductions of new features that other browsers couldn't render.
Now Google's doing it.
Bad google.
Bad
installing a game is something like four clicks
Well I disagree with you and agree with C64love. Even recent games like Dead Space I can't get to run on my Windows Vista Pentium 4 machine without wasting almost a day configuring settings. And it hangs ALOT of the time. I eventually traded it in for the Nintendo console version 'cause I was sick of the hassle.
P.S.
And I agree with him. Even recent games like Dead Space I can't get to run on my Windows Vista Pentium 4 machine without wasting almost a day configuring settings. I eventually traded it in for the Nintendo console version 'cause I was sick of the hassle.
It's clear someone is targeting C64love.
Nothing in his post deserved a -2 modding.
Correction: Easy to install, but making them work with my graphics card or audio card..... that's the real challenge. It's nowhere near as easy as my Atari or Commodore or Amiga where I just slide the disk in the machine, and it works, because the hardware is standardized
>>>20-30 comment threads on the difference between "hackers" and "crackers"? Sadly, we've always been retards.
Ding-ding-ding.
I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or the arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday). They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) to censor the site, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision and/or thinks MPEG4 should be supported.
Re-read the summary. "Keep in mind, 5GB is A LOT of data." Or so claims virgin.
I downloaded 100 GB last month (movies, tv shows, music videos) on my DSL. 5 GB is not much data at all.
ALSO: Since VirginMobile US is subcontracting from another company (Sprint?), it's likely the limits are being imposed by them. (shrug). I still like the company. They give me my cellphone at $0.00 per month, and I only pay for my minutes used. It's nice and cheap.
I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday).
They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) censored if they could get away with it, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision.
To play PSP-exclusive games.
Then later they got ported to PS2, so I decided I no longer needed the PSP.
There's no such thing as NiCad memory. It's a myth. Like unicorns.
Lithium-ion has 4x times more storage than the old NiCads found in the original Gameboy. I'd say batteries are advancing, although certainly not as fast as the power demand of the CPU.
The "power" and battery "life" are both irrelevant to me.
The PSP2 will probably have the same flaw my PSP had: Lack of worthy games. I eventually sold it, and reacquired the few great games the PSP had (i.e. less than 10) on my full sized playstation. I'd rather play on the full screen anyway.
"One more thing... get a life!" - William Shatner. In the future 99% of people won't give a fuck if they are using MPEG4, just as in the present they didn't give a fuck that their TVs use MPEG2, and their iPods use MPEG1-part 3 (MP3).
But they WILL care if they download a WebM movie and their iPod or TV refuses to play it.
To me being anti-MPEG makes as little sense as being anti-IEEE or anti-ISO.
These organizations are necessary to provide standards to make devices interoperable.
Would "NTSC color" be considered an open standard?
It originally belonged to RCA who licensed the technique, but then fell into public domain after several years. So is NTSC's color extension considered closed or open? (shrug) Anyway MPEG4's h264 is headed to the same place. I can wait.
Wikileaks should operate like a newspaper and Not be involved with defending the informants. Now they can be accused of colluding with the guy who stole US documents. Wikileaks should just be REPORTING the documents, and nothing else.
They just shot themselves in the foot.
Incorrect summary?
"First achieving widespread use with the release of the Apple Macintosh in 1984"
The Mac was neither the first mouse-based computer, nor did it "widespread" the concept. - Mac sold around 100,000 units its first five years (mainly because it cost approximately ten times more than other computers), which was much much less than other computers.
Example: WorldWideWeb may have been first browser but it was Mosaic that popularized the web & made it explode for ordinary people. Likewise I would give credit for widespread mouse usage to the C64, the most popular computer of its day. By the end of the 80s most people with mice in their hands were sitting in front of the C64 (or its more-advanced cousin: Amiga).
Not the overpriced ($4000) Macs.
Just come out with one standard codec or include all codecs to every browser...problem solved.
Heathen! You must join the Church of Open Source and support Google/WebM and hate hate hate MPEG/h264, or be censored!!!
(Reaches for the mod button : -1 Troll for digitalDC)
"One more thing... get a life!" - William Shatner
By the year 2020 people will still be using MPEG4, and 99% of them won't give a fuck, just as now they don't give a fuck that their TVs use MPEG2, and iPods use MPEG1-part 3 (MP3). The average person just doesn't give a damn, but they WILL care if they download a WebM movie off google/youtube, and their iPod or TV refuses to play it.
I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or the arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday) saying I disagree with removing MPEG4 from Chrome.
They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) censored if they could get away with it, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision.