I'd very much disagree. I don't like the feeling of the X-Arcade's stick at all, and the buttons are uncomfortably placed.
I'd much rather have a Hori Real Arcade, or one of their similar sticks. The Dreamcast arcade stick was an absolute masterpiece, and works just fine when set up in MAME via the relevant pad converter.
A lot of peer-peer torrents are illegal, yes. However, this is an arms race they know they can't win, and the measures they look to be proposing are placing undue work on an ISP, while at the same time asking them to actively shun at least 10% of their user base. There's no upside for ISPs whatsoever other than the threat of legal ramifications, and that's never going to lead to a useful solution for them.
I've downloaded the odd tune off friends, I admit. But I didn't use p2p traffic to do that, and I don't plan to in the future. That is reserved on my box for legitimate traffic, e.g. games stuff. Playing "whack the evil protocol" is both pointless and going to cause collateral damage.
Basically, this is exactly the sort of policy I'd expect from Labour.
"Ftp has a different footprint than bittorrent, and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not."
That's lovely. But if use FTP to download TV shows, and torrents to get Ubuntu ISOs it doesn't tell them an awful lot about my position re: copyright infringement to only whine about the torrent.
As an internet nerd I know better than to get the Samsung player. But I am seriously considering getting a Sony BDP-S300 instead of a PS3 for BluRay playback, because the former has 5.1 analogue audio outputs for lossless surround tracks; my amp doesn't have the HDMI 1.3 input you need to get those tracks out of a PS3.
A whole new amp makes the effective cost of a PS3-based solution rather more than double the price of the dedicated player.
I've done a bit more digging myself as well, and basically it's either a PS3 outputting plain old DTS over optical to my amp, or a Sony BDP-S300 that can send full lossless over the 5.1 analogue outputs it has.
The dedicated player is £30 cheaper too, but it's really a question on whether I'm prepared to sacrifice all the other benefits of a PS3; chiefly WipEout HD. So for now, I'll stick with my 360 and soaking up some cheap HD-DVDs while the format dies off. Hopefully we'll see some more price movement on BluRay later in the year.
As someone who plans to get a PS3 for BluRay playback (and wipEout HD, but I've already got a 360 and more games than I have time to play so that's not too big an issue) in a couple of months, I'm curious what you mean by this bit:
"I have to add that the PS3 needs a sound system to deliver the kind of sound most people want, so there might be a huge advantage to buying a normal bluray player if you lack a modern sound system."
I plan to run the PS3 off the optical output for audio, rather than replacing my excellent, ageing but vinyl and laserdisc-compatible amp with a new HDMI 1.3-capable one. Is there something I should know about the perils of that approach? I've got room for a six-channel analogue input, but I've not seen any cheap dedicated players with 5.1 analogue out either, just the painfully expensive ones.
Oh for HD-DVD to have won; a Toshiba HD-EP35 is only £180 right now.
That's because the large percentage of Christians who hold perfectly reasonable views on science stuff and are prepared to let us all get on with our lives without trolling biology departments don't do anything offensive to remark upon.
Only an even smaller percentage of Muslims seem intent on blowing people up, but strangely enough those are the ones that cause a ruckus in those debates, too.
Yes, the poster is serious. The charge is not that Islamic Terror groups didn't exist; that much is obvious. But that their affiliation was a much more loose, informal thing than what was initially claimed about Al Qaeda. There were multiple groups working on multiple aims, not all of which were even consistent.
For added irony points, the actions of Western governments to eradicate such movements seems to have inspired such a unity of purpose that the fiction is now fact.
Personally, I wouldn't put any weight behind what Andrew Orlowski says. But it turns out he was right to be sceptical in this instance - the system has 'mysteriously' failed to launch as planned today, nobody wants to talk to the press, and the majors are denying they ever signed such deals.
You may indeed be getting updated hardware, so XBox returns are asking you to stick the power supply in as well now. They might just repair things, but you might get a shiny new Falcon-based box, and those have different power bricks.
I somewhat agree (though not enough to have avoided backing the 'wrong' side, obv.) but I think that's the effect, not the cause. HD-DVD players have been much more expensive here from the start.
The last couple of times I've changed the security settings on my router I've lived fast and somehow avoided dying young by doing it over the wireless and then reconfiguring everything to log back in after the changes are activated.
But the point is that you don't reconfigure your router very often, and when you do for most people it's in the comfort of their own home. So a cheap USB-to-RJ45 dongle doesn't need to be carted on the road, and it's not a big pain you can't run a USB DVD drive at the same time.
While the UK version is still around $400. I'd rather like a standalone player to replace my 360 add-on drive, but not at that price when I'm also looking at needing a PS3 for most future releases.
Yes, you can leave. Airports, like CES, are private property. If you do not like the actions of another party on their private property, you're welcome to fuck off rather than unilaterally disable their equipment.
On the other hand, I LOVE the speccy keyboard so much I'm considering getting one of those roll-up USB ones in the hope that they feel similar.
But to keep you happy, they've effectively placed it at #9, just 'above' the C64, so they agree with you. The trick is that they've put in the Timex 2068, because they're a bunch of Americans.
1) The CityRover wasn't a rebadged Tata. It was a fairly lightly updated Rover 25. The Tata is based on that, not the other way around. Yes, they were pretty poor when compared to their competition in the £8k range, but this one is being sold at around 1/6th of the price of the CityRover, which has to affect their attraction a bit.
2) The Smart ForTwo may have done poorly in the US, but in the UK and Europe it did rather remarkably well. And the Smart Roadster might be a niche product, but I'd like to know what other RWD, mid-engined, turbocharged soft-top built by Mercedes you plan on buying for around £12k new.
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I'd very much disagree. I don't like the feeling of the X-Arcade's stick at all, and the buttons are uncomfortably placed.
I'd much rather have a Hori Real Arcade, or one of their similar sticks. The Dreamcast arcade stick was an absolute masterpiece, and works just fine when set up in MAME via the relevant pad converter.
Our studies also show a high correlation between people with internet access and copyright infringement, so almost certainly, yes.
So's SingStar, so is Trivial Pursuit and so is Fluxx. So are a hell of a lot of other games, assuming they're any good whatsoever.
Actually, getting drunk with friends is fun even without access to a games console of any kind. It's not the game that is great, but the friends.
A lot of peer-peer torrents are illegal, yes. However, this is an arms race they know they can't win, and the measures they look to be proposing are placing undue work on an ISP, while at the same time asking them to actively shun at least 10% of their user base. There's no upside for ISPs whatsoever other than the threat of legal ramifications, and that's never going to lead to a useful solution for them.
I've downloaded the odd tune off friends, I admit. But I didn't use p2p traffic to do that, and I don't plan to in the future. That is reserved on my box for legitimate traffic, e.g. games stuff. Playing "whack the evil protocol" is both pointless and going to cause collateral damage.
Basically, this is exactly the sort of policy I'd expect from Labour.
"Ftp has a different footprint than bittorrent, and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not."
That's lovely. But if use FTP to download TV shows, and torrents to get Ubuntu ISOs it doesn't tell them an awful lot about my position re: copyright infringement to only whine about the torrent.
As an internet nerd I know better than to get the Samsung player. But I am seriously considering getting a Sony BDP-S300 instead of a PS3 for BluRay playback, because the former has 5.1 analogue audio outputs for lossless surround tracks; my amp doesn't have the HDMI 1.3 input you need to get those tracks out of a PS3.
A whole new amp makes the effective cost of a PS3-based solution rather more than double the price of the dedicated player.
I've done a bit more digging myself as well, and basically it's either a PS3 outputting plain old DTS over optical to my amp, or a Sony BDP-S300 that can send full lossless over the 5.1 analogue outputs it has.
The dedicated player is £30 cheaper too, but it's really a question on whether I'm prepared to sacrifice all the other benefits of a PS3; chiefly WipEout HD. So for now, I'll stick with my 360 and soaking up some cheap HD-DVDs while the format dies off. Hopefully we'll see some more price movement on BluRay later in the year.
Thanks everyone.
As someone who plans to get a PS3 for BluRay playback (and wipEout HD, but I've already got a 360 and more games than I have time to play so that's not too big an issue) in a couple of months, I'm curious what you mean by this bit:
"I have to add that the PS3 needs a sound system to deliver the kind of sound most people want, so there might be a huge advantage to buying a normal bluray player if you lack a modern sound system."
I plan to run the PS3 off the optical output for audio, rather than replacing my excellent, ageing but vinyl and laserdisc-compatible amp with a new HDMI 1.3-capable one. Is there something I should know about the perils of that approach? I've got room for a six-channel analogue input, but I've not seen any cheap dedicated players with 5.1 analogue out either, just the painfully expensive ones.
Oh for HD-DVD to have won; a Toshiba HD-EP35 is only £180 right now.
To be honest, taunting a larger foe because they believed they were safe situation to do is expected nature for stupid humans, too.
That's because the large percentage of Christians who hold perfectly reasonable views on science stuff and are prepared to let us all get on with our lives without trolling biology departments don't do anything offensive to remark upon.
Only an even smaller percentage of Muslims seem intent on blowing people up, but strangely enough those are the ones that cause a ruckus in those debates, too.
Yes, the poster is serious. The charge is not that Islamic Terror groups didn't exist; that much is obvious. But that their affiliation was a much more loose, informal thing than what was initially claimed about Al Qaeda. There were multiple groups working on multiple aims, not all of which were even consistent.
For added irony points, the actions of Western governments to eradicate such movements seems to have inspired such a unity of purpose that the fiction is now fact.
Personally, I wouldn't put any weight behind what Andrew Orlowski says. But it turns out he was right to be sceptical in this instance - the system has 'mysteriously' failed to launch as planned today, nobody wants to talk to the press, and the majors are denying they ever signed such deals.
The free game is almost entirely aimed at the multiplayer deathmatch crowd, so not a hell of a lot of fun for Silver members. Clever.
You may indeed be getting updated hardware, so XBox returns are asking you to stick the power supply in as well now. They might just repair things, but you might get a shiny new Falcon-based box, and those have different power bricks.
Sarkozy does indeed have a very good point. Sadly for the particulars of this case, it's merely that Carla Bruni is hott.
I think what we really need to remember about this is that it's not wrecking everyones drives, just Mail On Sunday readers.
Maybe they should have written "Only for immigrants" on the DVD or something. That would have saved them.
I somewhat agree (though not enough to have avoided backing the 'wrong' side, obv.) but I think that's the effect, not the cause. HD-DVD players have been much more expensive here from the start.
Do you run your laptop at 640x480, because anything higher and you can't read the tiny text?
If you can resolve text fine on the machine's 1280x800 screen, then you can benefit from 720p video.
The last couple of times I've changed the security settings on my router I've lived fast and somehow avoided dying young by doing it over the wireless and then reconfiguring everything to log back in after the changes are activated.
But the point is that you don't reconfigure your router very often, and when you do for most people it's in the comfort of their own home. So a cheap USB-to-RJ45 dongle doesn't need to be carted on the road, and it's not a big pain you can't run a USB DVD drive at the same time.
While the UK version is still around $400. I'd rather like a standalone player to replace my 360 add-on drive, but not at that price when I'm also looking at needing a PS3 for most future releases.
Yes, you can leave. Airports, like CES, are private property. If you do not like the actions of another party on their private property, you're welcome to fuck off rather than unilaterally disable their equipment.
I'm not saying that Clarkson isn't an arse.
But the details he 'revealed' in his column are in the hands of everyone you've ever bought something via eBay from with a cheque.
The problem here is the system, not his arrogance.
On the other hand, I LOVE the speccy keyboard so much I'm considering getting one of those roll-up USB ones in the hope that they feel similar.
But to keep you happy, they've effectively placed it at #9, just 'above' the C64, so they agree with you. The trick is that they've put in the Timex 2068, because they're a bunch of Americans.
Two points:
1) The CityRover wasn't a rebadged Tata. It was a fairly lightly updated Rover 25. The Tata is based on that, not the other way around. Yes, they were pretty poor when compared to their competition in the £8k range, but this one is being sold at around 1/6th of the price of the CityRover, which has to affect their attraction a bit.
2) The Smart ForTwo may have done poorly in the US, but in the UK and Europe it did rather remarkably well. And the Smart Roadster might be a niche product, but I'd like to know what other RWD, mid-engined, turbocharged soft-top built by Mercedes you plan on buying for around £12k new.
Apato-burgers, you insensitive clod!