I don't have all the answers, but San Andreas on the PS2 is a single-layer DVD, 4.3Gb. I've got the PS2 hard drive, and I transfer my games to that for the loading performance, which helps there as well.
So I'm sure it will be ok - Saint's Row on the 360, while being a general let-down, the problems with it certainly weren't caused by lack of disc space.
Umm, (a) The PS3 will run on a small monitor over a HDMI to DVI adaptor if that's really your bag, and (b) Sony have been forced to add most of the important features back into the $500 one now - the extra cash just gets you a bigger hard drive and a memory card adaptor that you could by for less than $20 from your local photo shop.
A whole 50 minutes before someone fixed it, according to the history. Judging from the times, it happened shortly after someone read the link thanks to it breaking at/.
Lord knows I'm unimpressed with their game, music and movie divisions. I've gone and bought an XBox 360 instead, even though by the time I get the HD-DVD add-on device (and I plan to) it will have cost me as much as Sony's console, mainly because I don't like the look of Blu-Ray. The less said about the rootkit fiasco the better.
But when I bought an LCD TV earlier in the year, I decided on their Bravia S-series, because nothing beats it for image quality in the price range. Their new W-series is even better, if you've got the extra cash. So the fact that other departments can't find a clue with both hands and a torch shouldn't dimish the good work done for this year's TV models.
Good point. Although I tend to use a seperate drive altogether for my encoding space, rather than a RAID setup, just because of the way I laid out the system originally. It's all working ok; I just have the encoding nice'd for now and it takes cycles where it can.
Have you been watching digital-only channels again? Because that's certainly the case there.
Back on the real channels we still get the likes of the Bravia, Guinness and Honda adverts. It's all down to the perceived demographic of the crap you're watching, really.
I've you've got digital TV then yes, you get all those things and more besides. We mostly don't feel the need to watch them, however - the viewing figures are miniscule, since most of it is done better by the BBC and without adverts during the show.
The BBC has as much advertising for what else is on TV this week as any other channel during the breaks between programmes. The real difference is that they don't break off immediately after the opening credit sequence, and strictly, literally every 5 minutes after that, to advertise stuff DURING the show.
Thanks the the fact that most stuff on the BBC is going to be shown on some other, ad-funded channel at some point, shows are an odd number of minutes long. So they fill the 2 mins between shows with stuff; I can't say I'm that bothered by it myself.
Neither knoppix itself nor qtparted had been near my machine before the problem.
Vista's failed install had left my XP drive all working fine by itself. I don't know if you've used it yourself, but it installs and configures a new bootloader that can cope with what seems to be a slightly different disk format in Vista (which I had reformat the partition it was installing into). When I removed that bootloader and went back to just running XP, I seem to have done something to the mbr of the secondary drive where both Vista and my media partition lay; XP then decided it didn't like the look of the disk at all, and XP's Disk Manager just had the whole thing shown as unassigned.
Booting Knoppix and looking at my discs with qtparted showed that the partitions were still there, and the files contained were still fine; it was only XP that didn't like the look of them. So I used cfdisk to change the partition info for the Vista drive back to NTFS (I'll reformat it again before putting anything there), rewrote both the partition info and mbr, booted back to Windows and all was fine.
Now, it's almost certainly me doing something stupid, and I'll probably try again once the final release arrives on MSDN. But you can bet your arse I'll be taking a full backup before I start.
So there are few applications that make use of four cores? Who cares? Everything uses at least one, and now I can use four of them at once - no more letting a background video transcode cause the one playing to stutter to a halt, for instance.
Would you consider buying a new PC with XP installed after Vista hits the shelves?
Of course not. ISVs etc. get Vista a couple of months early so they can get their inventory built up and tested to go on the shelf the same day as the boxed CD. Enterprise customers get downloads from MSDN without having to wait for loads of discs to be pressed and shipped to them, or full-colour pretty boxes with manuals. Also, if you think Dell have some work to do to ensure their hardware all works with the final release, think about the testing all the software vendors have; just because it was all working with RC2 doesn't mean it still does.
So yes, there are plenty of things that both Microsoft and 3rd parties have to do between putting an ISO up on MSDN and the consumer release date.
I suppose so. But after seeing each Lord Of The Rings film come in a basic version, one with loads of extras and one with the extras and also a figure, I just didn't see this as any different.
Unlike the Lord Of The Rings films, you don't even get a different version of the game here. I'm not entirely impressed with these new, insanely expensive 'deluxe' versions of games coming out either, but at least they aren't doing what EA have done with theirs and put extra items in the more expensive version to give you an advantage in online multiplayer.
Best of all, having a Knoppix disc lying around was the one way I managed to get my PC working again without losing all my data after Vista RC2 hosed my partition table. It wasn't even a successful attempt to install to a different partition to XP in the first place, so I couldn't repair it from there, nor would the repair options on either Windows disc solve it.
qtparted and cfdisk worked wonders, however - Vista had misformatted its partition, and so Windows thought the whole disk was a write-off.
Yes, you're right, 3 versions is silly. Since they're making the extras anyway, we'll scrap the idea of letting you buy just the game itself and force EVERYONE to hand over a hundred dollars for the version with the documentary, soundtrack CD and plastic model. That's got to be better than releasing three different ones, yes?
Stuff the price of the graphics card; most consoles cost less than the price of a Windows license.
If you're willing to count the cost of both a graphics card and a legit copy of Windows, you can probably afford an XBox 360, which has every single PC game I'd be interested in playing, and a fair bit besides.
Oh, I get that (I think). What I mean is why should the RIAA allow Walmart to use this broken DRM purchased from the same third party as is selling Sandisk the tools to break it?
The thing I don't understand is how Johansen expects walmart to pay for a product that encrypts to a format he himself has helpfully sold the decryption keys to others; this just renders the process useless, doesn't it?
Given that iPods already play.mp3 files perfectly well, they might as well ship them in that format, instead of paying to make.m4p files that any user can rip anyway.
You find it much easier to drag and drop individual files into directories, I find it much easier to arrange playlists on my iPod through iTunes. Such is the way of the world.
Also, it's not like the top tier of Apple-imitators are even any cheaper than proper iPods, so it's not a cost issue.
By performing the 'double twist' of being able to both encrypt and decrypt, "DVD Jon" has enabled other vendors to sell content that they KNOW isn't adequately protected. So why bother protecting it at all? I'm confused.
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I don't have all the answers, but San Andreas on the PS2 is a single-layer DVD, 4.3Gb. I've got the PS2 hard drive, and I transfer my games to that for the loading performance, which helps there as well.
So I'm sure it will be ok - Saint's Row on the 360, while being a general let-down, the problems with it certainly weren't caused by lack of disc space.
Umm, (a) The PS3 will run on a small monitor over a HDMI to DVI adaptor if that's really your bag, and (b) Sony have been forced to add most of the important features back into the $500 one now - the extra cash just gets you a bigger hard drive and a memory card adaptor that you could by for less than $20 from your local photo shop.
A whole 50 minutes before someone fixed it, according to the history. Judging from the times, it happened shortly after someone read the link thanks to it breaking at /.
Don't jump at it too quickly - I expect to see the same stuff end up on both Wii's download service and the XBox Live Arcade in good time.
Lord knows I'm unimpressed with their game, music and movie divisions. I've gone and bought an XBox 360 instead, even though by the time I get the HD-DVD add-on device (and I plan to) it will have cost me as much as Sony's console, mainly because I don't like the look of Blu-Ray. The less said about the rootkit fiasco the better.
But when I bought an LCD TV earlier in the year, I decided on their Bravia S-series, because nothing beats it for image quality in the price range. Their new W-series is even better, if you've got the extra cash. So the fact that other departments can't find a clue with both hands and a torch shouldn't dimish the good work done for this year's TV models.
I kind of think the submittor was attempting to do that with the info about videgames and spam...
But it's a valid answer to a question many of us seeing that surname will have otherwise asked.
Good point. Although I tend to use a seperate drive altogether for my encoding space, rather than a RAID setup, just because of the way I laid out the system originally. It's all working ok; I just have the encoding nice'd for now and it takes cycles where it can.
Have you been watching digital-only channels again? Because that's certainly the case there.
Back on the real channels we still get the likes of the Bravia, Guinness and Honda adverts. It's all down to the perceived demographic of the crap you're watching, really.
I've you've got digital TV then yes, you get all those things and more besides. We mostly don't feel the need to watch them, however - the viewing figures are miniscule, since most of it is done better by the BBC and without adverts during the show.
The BBC has as much advertising for what else is on TV this week as any other channel during the breaks between programmes. The real difference is that they don't break off immediately after the opening credit sequence, and strictly, literally every 5 minutes after that, to advertise stuff DURING the show.
Thanks the the fact that most stuff on the BBC is going to be shown on some other, ad-funded channel at some point, shows are an odd number of minutes long. So they fill the 2 mins between shows with stuff; I can't say I'm that bothered by it myself.
Neither knoppix itself nor qtparted had been near my machine before the problem.
Vista's failed install had left my XP drive all working fine by itself. I don't know if you've used it yourself, but it installs and configures a new bootloader that can cope with what seems to be a slightly different disk format in Vista (which I had reformat the partition it was installing into). When I removed that bootloader and went back to just running XP, I seem to have done something to the mbr of the secondary drive where both Vista and my media partition lay; XP then decided it didn't like the look of the disk at all, and XP's Disk Manager just had the whole thing shown as unassigned.
Booting Knoppix and looking at my discs with qtparted showed that the partitions were still there, and the files contained were still fine; it was only XP that didn't like the look of them. So I used cfdisk to change the partition info for the Vista drive back to NTFS (I'll reformat it again before putting anything there), rewrote both the partition info and mbr, booted back to Windows and all was fine.
Now, it's almost certainly me doing something stupid, and I'll probably try again once the final release arrives on MSDN. But you can bet your arse I'll be taking a full backup before I start.
So there are few applications that make use of four cores? Who cares? Everything uses at least one, and now I can use four of them at once - no more letting a background video transcode cause the one playing to stutter to a halt, for instance.
Don't these people have multiple things to do?
Would you consider buying a new PC with XP installed after Vista hits the shelves?
Of course not. ISVs etc. get Vista a couple of months early so they can get their inventory built up and tested to go on the shelf the same day as the boxed CD. Enterprise customers get downloads from MSDN without having to wait for loads of discs to be pressed and shipped to them, or full-colour pretty boxes with manuals. Also, if you think Dell have some work to do to ensure their hardware all works with the final release, think about the testing all the software vendors have; just because it was all working with RC2 doesn't mean it still does.
So yes, there are plenty of things that both Microsoft and 3rd parties have to do between putting an ISO up on MSDN and the consumer release date.
I suppose so. But after seeing each Lord Of The Rings film come in a basic version, one with loads of extras and one with the extras and also a figure, I just didn't see this as any different.
Unlike the Lord Of The Rings films, you don't even get a different version of the game here. I'm not entirely impressed with these new, insanely expensive 'deluxe' versions of games coming out either, but at least they aren't doing what EA have done with theirs and put extra items in the more expensive version to give you an advantage in online multiplayer.
Best of all, having a Knoppix disc lying around was the one way I managed to get my PC working again without losing all my data after Vista RC2 hosed my partition table. It wasn't even a successful attempt to install to a different partition to XP in the first place, so I couldn't repair it from there, nor would the repair options on either Windows disc solve it.
qtparted and cfdisk worked wonders, however - Vista had misformatted its partition, and so Windows thought the whole disk was a write-off.
Yes, you're right, 3 versions is silly. Since they're making the extras anyway, we'll scrap the idea of letting you buy just the game itself and force EVERYONE to hand over a hundred dollars for the version with the documentary, soundtrack CD and plastic model. That's got to be better than releasing three different ones, yes?
Stuff the price of the graphics card; most consoles cost less than the price of a Windows license.
If you're willing to count the cost of both a graphics card and a legit copy of Windows, you can probably afford an XBox 360, which has every single PC game I'd be interested in playing, and a fair bit besides.
Microsoft don't have to let you onto their online service. You purchased the box itself, is all.
Although, thanks the wonder of the mod being a copyright circumvention method, you're not allowed to do that either.
YET. Wait 6 months, like you had to with GTA.
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Oh, I get that (I think). What I mean is why should the RIAA allow Walmart to use this broken DRM purchased from the same third party as is selling Sandisk the tools to break it?
The thing I don't understand is how Johansen expects walmart to pay for a product that encrypts to a format he himself has helpfully sold the decryption keys to others; this just renders the process useless, doesn't it?
.mp3 files perfectly well, they might as well ship them in that format, instead of paying to make .m4p files that any user can rip anyway.
Given that iPods already play
iTMS is correct. iTunes Music Store. Try to be a little less wrong when correcting people.
You find it much easier to drag and drop individual files into directories, I find it much easier to arrange playlists on my iPod through iTunes. Such is the way of the world.
Also, it's not like the top tier of Apple-imitators are even any cheaper than proper iPods, so it's not a cost issue.
By performing the 'double twist' of being able to both encrypt and decrypt, "DVD Jon" has enabled other vendors to sell content that they KNOW isn't adequately protected. So why bother protecting it at all? I'm confused.