Good point, I'd forgotten about that (despite the fact that my own brother has done it himself).
It's still an IP issue (specifically Trademark law) if they're caught using Philips' Compact Disc logo without permission.
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Quoth the AC:
The "warmness" is the greater dynamic range of analog sources.
I really hope they're being funny, as the LP has nothing like 96dB of dynamic range resolution. Of course, modern production methods crush their dynamic range down to a tiny fraction of that, but that's bad production again, not a problem of the format.
And then realise that Bejewelled ripoffs play like absolute shite without a stylus, naturally. Neither the DS nor the PSP are any use for playing the other's games, as the PSP doesn't have a stylus and the DS is a generation behind with 3D graphics.
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Ignoring the mislabelled comedy (who voted 'insightful'?) I discovered an interesting facet of the whole 'vinyl is warmer' thing a while back. Recording a bunch of my 12" singles from vinyl to CD produced CDs that still sound warm and lovely. So it's definitely because there's something 'wrong' with vinyl that it sounds so nice.
Just because your copyright laws are completely screwed in Malta, doesn't mean they are elsewhere. On the other hand, the significant swell of/. groupthink that hates Intellectual Property Rights would be very happy.
Well, I tried listening to a 10-year-old CD, but it had degraded so much that I got a big bunch of silence. The only people I wanted to murder were the bastards who told me they'd last forever.
I'll take that one. The short answer is that for it to qualify as 'significant' you've got to ship people off-world at least as fast as the population would be growing.
Which is a HELL of a lot of people, at a very fast rate.
Is the SSID thing a big no-no, then? I've got WPA set up, but turning the SSID off made my XP box flakey as hell at finding the network on restart, so I gave up.
I'm guessing the short answer is probably no, because the actual problem is Windows then trying to automatically connect to my neighbour's completely unsecured network with an SSID of 'Linksys' instead...
What makes you think it glorifies bullying? So far all we know is the following:
1) Here in the UK (where we have a relatively sensible board of classification) they're aiming for an 18 certificate, so it will be illegal to sell to minors anyway.
2) Your player is the one being bullied, not the bully; your job is to stand up to them by embarking on a series of Spy Vs. Spy style missions to defeat them in increasingly elaborate measures.
3) They are going for the standard DMA level of OTT satire and approximately zero seriousness.
4) All in all, it's looking not so much a menace to society, but a game of Dennis The Menace.
Unnecessary Stealth: The insertion of a boring and out-of-character "Stealth" section into a game that doesn't otherwise involve it at all, on the claimed grounds that it 'varies the pace', when in actual fact the explanation is "everyone else has a stealth bit, and we want one too - look, they're a piece of piss to write and they add hours to the gameplay for far less asset design than stuff people can run past".
It's thankfully becoming a bit less of an issue, but about a year or two ago we got it in absolutely everything.
No, what the article is trying to say is that while the deal may appear to be worth $70, a little bit of eBaying will net you $90+ for only a modicum of effort.
Besides, in practice I've never seen a shop give anything like that much for trading in a last-gen console.
" it states that there is enough complexity that an intelligence is indicated".
If this were so, then I'd certainly allow it time in not just a philosophy class, but a Science one. However, its proponents have singularly failed to back up this argument with anything resembling credible evidence. The whole thing is based on an argument from Incredulity - "I don't understand how evolution works, therefore it doesn't".
"I suppose you will cite a logical, true, provable argument for the existence of God that you learned in your philosophy classes, yes?"
No, but at least any other arguments for the existence of God in a philosophy class aren't demonstrably false and yet still being promoted for equal time in the Science class next door.
ID is false. Essentially the underlying argument is merely hilariously unprovable, but the "facts" used by its proponents to promote that nonsense with more detail have been ripped to shreds more times than my cat's litter tray, and smell just like it as well.
As seems to be said over and over again until people get it, Intelligent Design claims to be a theory, but it isn't. It's barely even a fucking hypothesis, and certainly not a workable one.
Is it time for our regular "This week in The Escapist" story, where we find out what they had to say two days after they said it?
Normally I'm not a big fan of the whole "is this news?" whinge, but so far we've had 'news items' about every single issue. I think we've reached the point where those of us who find it interesting are actually reading the issue anyway, aren't we?
Still, it's an excellent mag, so maybe I just just put up with it.
There you go again, using facts. Why do you have to insist on using the facts? Can't we just express moral outrage anyway? No-one ever got a fucking shitload of votes from morons by stating the boring facts.
My only complaint about the game so far is that it sounds like a complete ripoff of the Spectrum classic 'Skool Daze'.
They seem to be basing this list at least partly off historical significance. I can see no other reason for putting Super Mario Brothers above its various sequels, for instance.
I've not seen the list yet (IGN blocked by my work proxy), but that's just obscene. Unless they've listed the much better Spindizzy Worlds instead. But there's about as much chance of that as my favorite dEUS album making some magazine's top 100 records list.
You probably won't respect me for thinking Yoshi's Story is better than SMW either, then. I just think it's so much funnier, and I just found that SMW gets far too picky and fiddly from about halfway through; the rote-memory timing bits drove me up the wall.
RTFMing (at least the original story about the auction; I've not read it myself on this one) showed that it was Gary Kurtz who was auctioning off his 'Sabre, not Lucas. Kurtz has a massive collection of film memorabilia, which needs a couple of million dollars' worth of work to restore, clean up and generally make presentable to go on public view. So he picked some pieces that were both worth a fortune and could do without (he had two of them, I believe; a whole bunch had to be made up for various different shots, things getting broken during use etc.) and sold them to pay for the rest to be saved.
I don't know about the official charitable status of the organisation he runs for preserving these things, but it definitely qualifies as a 'good cause' in my book.
The fundamental problem is the severe version of two-party politics you have over there. It is currently in Clinton's best interest to act like a right-wing conservative, because it appeals to the real right-wing conservatives, and if the 'true' Democrats get pissed off at it there's nowhere for them to go. They're hardly likely to vote Republican in protest, are they?
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but it's Sony's Games division that has kept its massively loss-making consumer-electronics and film divisions out of trouble. The news that their Games are now also making a loss is a BIG problem for them.
Rockstar haven't folded at all. It's the ESRB that changed the rating, as a slap on the wrist for not disclosing the scene during the rating process (you don't think the ESRB actually plays any of these games, rather than watches vids of the salient bits, do you?)
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Good point, I'd forgotten about that (despite the fact that my own brother has done it himself).
It's still an IP issue (specifically Trademark law) if they're caught using Philips' Compact Disc logo without permission.
Quoth the AC:
The "warmness" is the greater dynamic range of analog sources.
I really hope they're being funny, as the LP has nothing like 96dB of dynamic range resolution. Of course, modern production methods crush their dynamic range down to a tiny fraction of that, but that's bad production again, not a problem of the format.
And then realise that Bejewelled ripoffs play like absolute shite without a stylus, naturally. Neither the DS nor the PSP are any use for playing the other's games, as the PSP doesn't have a stylus and the DS is a generation behind with 3D graphics.
Ignoring the mislabelled comedy (who voted 'insightful'?) I discovered an interesting facet of the whole 'vinyl is warmer' thing a while back. Recording a bunch of my 12" singles from vinyl to CD produced CDs that still sound warm and lovely. So it's definitely because there's something 'wrong' with vinyl that it sounds so nice.
Just because your copyright laws are completely screwed in Malta, doesn't mean they are elsewhere. On the other hand, the significant swell of /. groupthink that hates Intellectual Property Rights would be very happy.
Well, I tried listening to a 10-year-old CD, but it had degraded so much that I got a big bunch of silence. The only people I wanted to murder were the bastards who told me they'd last forever.
I'll take that one. The short answer is that for it to qualify as 'significant' you've got to ship people off-world at least as fast as the population would be growing.
Which is a HELL of a lot of people, at a very fast rate.
Is the SSID thing a big no-no, then? I've got WPA set up, but turning the SSID off made my XP box flakey as hell at finding the network on restart, so I gave up.
I'm guessing the short answer is probably no, because the actual problem is Windows then trying to automatically connect to my neighbour's completely unsecured network with an SSID of 'Linksys' instead...
What makes you think it glorifies bullying? So far all we know is the following:
1) Here in the UK (where we have a relatively sensible board of classification) they're aiming for an 18 certificate, so it will be illegal to sell to minors anyway.
2) Your player is the one being bullied, not the bully; your job is to stand up to them by embarking on a series of Spy Vs. Spy style missions to defeat them in increasingly elaborate measures.
3) They are going for the standard DMA level of OTT satire and approximately zero seriousness.
4) All in all, it's looking not so much a menace to society, but a game of Dennis The Menace.
OK, I'll re-word that stealth for you.
Unnecessary Stealth: The insertion of a boring and out-of-character "Stealth" section into a game that doesn't otherwise involve it at all, on the claimed grounds that it 'varies the pace', when in actual fact the explanation is "everyone else has a stealth bit, and we want one too - look, they're a piece of piss to write and they add hours to the gameplay for far less asset design than stuff people can run past".
It's thankfully becoming a bit less of an issue, but about a year or two ago we got it in absolutely everything.
No, what the article is trying to say is that while the deal may appear to be worth $70, a little bit of eBaying will net you $90+ for only a modicum of effort.
Besides, in practice I've never seen a shop give anything like that much for trading in a last-gen console.
" it states that there is enough complexity that an intelligence is indicated".
If this were so, then I'd certainly allow it time in not just a philosophy class, but a Science one. However, its proponents have singularly failed to back up this argument with anything resembling credible evidence. The whole thing is based on an argument from Incredulity - "I don't understand how evolution works, therefore it doesn't".
"I suppose you will cite a logical, true, provable argument for the existence of God that you learned in your philosophy classes, yes?"
No, but at least any other arguments for the existence of God in a philosophy class aren't demonstrably false and yet still being promoted for equal time in the Science class next door.
ID is false. Essentially the underlying argument is merely hilariously unprovable, but the "facts" used by its proponents to promote that nonsense with more detail have been ripped to shreds more times than my cat's litter tray, and smell just like it as well.
As seems to be said over and over again until people get it, Intelligent Design claims to be a theory, but it isn't. It's barely even a fucking hypothesis, and certainly not a workable one.
Is it time for our regular "This week in The Escapist" story, where we find out what they had to say two days after they said it?
Normally I'm not a big fan of the whole "is this news?" whinge, but so far we've had 'news items' about every single issue. I think we've reached the point where those of us who find it interesting are actually reading the issue anyway, aren't we?
Still, it's an excellent mag, so maybe I just just put up with it.
There you go again, using facts. Why do you have to insist on using the facts? Can't we just express moral outrage anyway? No-one ever got a fucking shitload of votes from morons by stating the boring facts.
My only complaint about the game so far is that it sounds like a complete ripoff of the Spectrum classic 'Skool Daze'.
They seem to be basing this list at least partly off historical significance. I can see no other reason for putting Super Mario Brothers above its various sequels, for instance.
I've not seen the list yet (IGN blocked by my work proxy), but that's just obscene. Unless they've listed the much better Spindizzy Worlds instead. But there's about as much chance of that as my favorite dEUS album making some magazine's top 100 records list.
You probably won't respect me for thinking Yoshi's Story is better than SMW either, then. I just think it's so much funnier, and I just found that SMW gets far too picky and fiddly from about halfway through; the rote-memory timing bits drove me up the wall.
RTFMing (at least the original story about the auction; I've not read it myself on this one) showed that it was Gary Kurtz who was auctioning off his 'Sabre, not Lucas. Kurtz has a massive collection of film memorabilia, which needs a couple of million dollars' worth of work to restore, clean up and generally make presentable to go on public view. So he picked some pieces that were both worth a fortune and could do without (he had two of them, I believe; a whole bunch had to be made up for various different shots, things getting broken during use etc.) and sold them to pay for the rest to be saved.
I don't know about the official charitable status of the organisation he runs for preserving these things, but it definitely qualifies as a 'good cause' in my book.
It belongs in a MUSEUM!!!
Sorry, wrong Lucas-authored trilogy. Personally, I prefer that one, mind you.
The fundamental problem is the severe version of two-party politics you have over there. It is currently in Clinton's best interest to act like a right-wing conservative, because it appeals to the real right-wing conservatives, and if the 'true' Democrats get pissed off at it there's nowhere for them to go. They're hardly likely to vote Republican in protest, are they?
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but it's Sony's Games division that has kept its massively loss-making consumer-electronics and film divisions out of trouble. The news that their Games are now also making a loss is a BIG problem for them.
Rockstar haven't folded at all. It's the ESRB that changed the rating, as a slap on the wrist for not disclosing the scene during the rating process (you don't think the ESRB actually plays any of these games, rather than watches vids of the salient bits, do you?)