They frankly aren't in the UK, very much. There's a slight drop, but this is in no small part due to the fact that there's no-one around to buy anything - the volumes are tiny. Everyone I know in the City has been sent home for their own safety.
4 is correct. They go through props and costumes at a rate of knots. They can hardly put off shooting of a multi-million budget film for a day until Mr. Ford's jacket comes back from the dry cleaners, can they?
The UK numbers, if anyone cares, are that Platinum/Classics/Whatever budget lines for all three were £20, and Sony are officially reducing the PS2 Platinum range from £20 to £15.
The fact that they have been running virtually non-stop "2 for £30" offers on the entire range for what feels like a good year or so means that this isn't really much of a change anyway, however.
Well, to check this, I put some technology (specifically a CDRW) in my XBox. It could only spit the disk 12cm out of the front, as the tray couldn't propel it any further.
However, my Linux box could send the eject command to a hotwired slot-loading drive that sent it 2.3m counting rolling distance.
Therefore, Open Source can propel further than Video Games.
"What's changed, exactly? The founding fathers urged people to keep cannons as private property."
What's changed went something like this:
Bombs, really -ing big ones come along. These are clearly unsuitable for random nutjobs to be buying in Walmart, right? So we'll claim those aren't covered by "the right to bear arms", despite there being no such provision.
Guns start getting more accurate and reload quickly. This means random nutjob can kill lots of people with those too. Hmm. OK, or not? Well, they're still just guns, so we can hardly get rid of them.
And so on.
And so forth.
Basically, what is written as a full-on, no-holds-barred, "clean up on Sarin in aisle 6" help yourself provision got watered down by 'common sense'. Not unreasonably, but it then means the debate is wide open to decide exactly where the best place for that cutoff lies in society.
But this goes for everyone, not just the US. My government hasn't come for my sharp stick yet.
The short reason for that, though, is that console games sell in much bigger numbers. EB and Gamestop put the PS2 stuff at the front because it shifts the biggest profit for them.
For both iPods and iTunes, 'bookmarkable' automatically happens if the file has a 'genre' of Books & Spoken Word, and is an AAC file a.m4b extension.
So if you're not one of the people with an iPod that's been patched with the latest update to do bookmarkable on all podcasts, you can fake it by hand.
I've seen it myself time after time. Parents are present when games with an unsuitable age rating are bought, indeed are the ones handing the cash over. They just don't care, for the most part.
But then, I've also seen parent after parent who does want to be responsible, but the kids only want games with the shiny 15 and 18 ratings on them. Pikmin, Zelda, Mario etc. may be far better games, but if there isn't a bloody great gun and a big red age rating on the front cover they just aren't interested.
There's a really dull reason for that. The NTSC PS2's DVD driver doesn't have a large enough framebuffer to display a PAL image, because Sony are fuckwits. The PAL machine will play NTSC discs just fine.
I don't doubt that UK UMDs won't play on a Japanese machine, but since I already import all my DVDs from the US I can't say it particularly bothers me. My main point is that UMD films are a dumb idea generally.
You liar. I know no-one has killed the fuckers yet. Why can't they? I'm perfectly prepared to put up with a few thousand deaths as collateral damage, if that's what it takes to remove it.
Re: UMD video, yes it's Region encoded, but (a) the 50Hz/60Hz thing doesn't count here, as the PSP doesn't have a TV out, and so ignores the PAL/NTSC standards, and (b) why anyone would pay that much for a film that they can't watch on a TV, when it's not hugely difficult to convert normal DVDs to a file format that the PSP will accept on a memory stick bewilders me.
Lumines is fun, but no more so than Mizuguchi's companion piece Meteos for the DS.
Oh dear God yes. Right now you could have an XBox at $150, a PS2 at $150, a GC at $100 and still have $200 left over to buy some games for your new collection rather than buy a single graphics card.
If you can wait 6 months, you could alternatively buy a $300 XBox 360 that looks to produce graphics of a similar quality to this $600 card anyway.
True, but on the bright side, they've got this incredibly shiny PSP they bought a while back just sitting there, because they've played the very few decent games available on it.
Look! It's a small portable screen, and it's playing a movie! Isn't that amazing?
I completely see what you mean - I actually stopped playing driving games completely for 6 months while I learned to drive, because I was conditioned to just look ahead and not all around like you need to do in real life.
MSR/PGR/PGR2 Kudos is really good, yes, it's just something that complicates matters for the newbie a fair bit. MSR was seriously harsh on you about any minor mistakes, so I'm glad it got easier, though.
Nintendo's 1080:Avalanche is one of the best snowboarding games available on any platform. But it didn't do particularly huge business, so clearly some people agree with you.
One inherent thing for racing games is that you don't have to have played a computer game before to know the following:
1) Cars go faster if you press the accelerate, and slower if you press the brake. Similarly, there are steering controls to turn you left and right. The basic movement paradigm is something we're introduced to at a very early age in real life.
2) The way you win a race is to cross the finish line before the other racers do. Unless you're playing PGR there's no mysterious "Kudos" point system to worry about, you just have to get to your destination as fast as you can, while bearing in mind you'll need to slow down for a bend or two.
The fact you know the rules before you start is immensely helpful for 'new' gamers. As someone who has played games for decades I'd much rather play a shmup like Gradius V, because I know what I'm doing and the controls are simple. But many people have few problems learning the massively complex control schemes of Pro Evolution or Madden, because the rules and aims of what you're using those controls to achieve are the same as their real-world counterparts.
TDK are one step ahead of you - they've got a scratch-proof coating, and it's part of the disc spec to use it. So that's a relief. There was talk, before they got the coating from TDK, that BluRay was going to go down the caddy route, as it was substantially more delicate than DVD even.
My guess is that he doesn't mean i386, but just the particular hardware configuration he has right there.
Assume for a minute that I'm not a developer. Assume for a minute that even if I am, I'm lazy and/or have other things to do with my time. Assume the only x86 Unixalike to already come with drivers for soundcard X, graphics card Y and motherboard Z is currently Linux.
Would you install it, or leave the box on the shelf until someone writes Solaris drivers?
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They frankly aren't in the UK, very much. There's a slight drop, but this is in no small part due to the fact that there's no-one around to buy anything - the volumes are tiny. Everyone I know in the City has been sent home for their own safety.
4 is correct. They go through props and costumes at a rate of knots. They can hardly put off shooting of a multi-million budget film for a day until Mr. Ford's jacket comes back from the dry cleaners, can they?
You're not the only one to be less impressed by the Star Wars stuff, anyway. Kirk Douglas' armour from Spartacus is far more amazing.
Still, at least I didn't want Angela Lansbury's outfit from Bedknobs & Broomsticks. That would just be weird.
The UK numbers, if anyone cares, are that Platinum/Classics/Whatever budget lines for all three were £20, and Sony are officially reducing the PS2 Platinum range from £20 to £15.
The fact that they have been running virtually non-stop "2 for £30" offers on the entire range for what feels like a good year or so means that this isn't really much of a change anyway, however.
Well, to check this, I put some technology (specifically a CDRW) in my XBox. It could only spit the disk 12cm out of the front, as the tray couldn't propel it any further.
However, my Linux box could send the eject command to a hotwired slot-loading drive that sent it 2.3m counting rolling distance.
Therefore, Open Source can propel further than Video Games.
"What's changed, exactly? The founding fathers urged people to keep cannons as private property."
What's changed went something like this:
Bombs, really -ing big ones come along. These are clearly unsuitable for random nutjobs to be buying in Walmart, right? So we'll claim those aren't covered by "the right to bear arms", despite there being no such provision.
Guns start getting more accurate and reload quickly. This means random nutjob can kill lots of people with those too. Hmm. OK, or not? Well, they're still just guns, so we can hardly get rid of them.
And so on.
And so forth.
Basically, what is written as a full-on, no-holds-barred, "clean up on Sarin in aisle 6" help yourself provision got watered down by 'common sense'. Not unreasonably, but it then means the debate is wide open to decide exactly where the best place for that cutoff lies in society.
But this goes for everyone, not just the US. My government hasn't come for my sharp stick yet.
The short reason for that, though, is that console games sell in much bigger numbers. EB and Gamestop put the PS2 stuff at the front because it shifts the biggest profit for them.
Yes, the mini is still in black and white, and there wasn't a price-cut either.
For both iPods and iTunes, 'bookmarkable' automatically happens if the file has a 'genre' of Books & Spoken Word, and is an AAC file a .m4b extension.
So if you're not one of the people with an iPod that's been patched with the latest update to do bookmarkable on all podcasts, you can fake it by hand.
I haven't tried it yet, but there's a new iPod update out as well, which supposedly does this on some models, at least.
That, and of course are really quick films. So each one counts as like, three normal films, or something.
I've seen it myself time after time. Parents are present when games with an unsuitable age rating are bought, indeed are the ones handing the cash over. They just don't care, for the most part.
But then, I've also seen parent after parent who does want to be responsible, but the kids only want games with the shiny 15 and 18 ratings on them. Pikmin, Zelda, Mario etc. may be far better games, but if there isn't a bloody great gun and a big red age rating on the front cover they just aren't interested.
There's a really dull reason for that. The NTSC PS2's DVD driver doesn't have a large enough framebuffer to display a PAL image, because Sony are fuckwits. The PAL machine will play NTSC discs just fine.
I don't doubt that UK UMDs won't play on a Japanese machine, but since I already import all my DVDs from the US I can't say it particularly bothers me. My main point is that UMD films are a dumb idea generally.
You liar. I know no-one has killed the fuckers yet. Why can't they? I'm perfectly prepared to put up with a few thousand deaths as collateral damage, if that's what it takes to remove it.
WHY WON'T ANYONE KILL THEM???
Re: UMD video, yes it's Region encoded, but (a) the 50Hz/60Hz thing doesn't count here, as the PSP doesn't have a TV out, and so ignores the PAL/NTSC standards, and (b) why anyone would pay that much for a film that they can't watch on a TV, when it's not hugely difficult to convert normal DVDs to a file format that the PSP will accept on a memory stick bewilders me.
Lumines is fun, but no more so than Mizuguchi's companion piece Meteos for the DS.
OK, so that should have been using a $2000 PC to emulate a $1000 PC and a $300 console at the same time. Oh, what a huge mistake.
Sure, you'll have to wait until October to play at 1920x1080 on a $300 XBox 360, but that's still half the price of a GeForce 7800.
Oh dear God yes. Right now you could have an XBox at $150, a PS2 at $150, a GC at $100 and still have $200 left over to buy some games for your new collection rather than buy a single graphics card.
If you can wait 6 months, you could alternatively buy a $300 XBox 360 that looks to produce graphics of a similar quality to this $600 card anyway.
True, but on the bright side, they've got this incredibly shiny PSP they bought a while back just sitting there, because they've played the very few decent games available on it.
Look! It's a small portable screen, and it's playing a movie! Isn't that amazing?
Actually, you can get an import PSP now for about the same money as they will cost when they do come out over here.
If you actually want one, of course. There's a grand total of about three decent games available.
I completely see what you mean - I actually stopped playing driving games completely for 6 months while I learned to drive, because I was conditioned to just look ahead and not all around like you need to do in real life.
MSR/PGR/PGR2 Kudos is really good, yes, it's just something that complicates matters for the newbie a fair bit. MSR was seriously harsh on you about any minor mistakes, so I'm glad it got easier, though.
Nintendo's 1080:Avalanche is one of the best snowboarding games available on any platform. But it didn't do particularly huge business, so clearly some people agree with you.
One inherent thing for racing games is that you don't have to have played a computer game before to know the following:
1) Cars go faster if you press the accelerate, and slower if you press the brake. Similarly, there are steering controls to turn you left and right. The basic movement paradigm is something we're introduced to at a very early age in real life.
2) The way you win a race is to cross the finish line before the other racers do. Unless you're playing PGR there's no mysterious "Kudos" point system to worry about, you just have to get to your destination as fast as you can, while bearing in mind you'll need to slow down for a bend or two.
The fact you know the rules before you start is immensely helpful for 'new' gamers. As someone who has played games for decades I'd much rather play a shmup like Gradius V, because I know what I'm doing and the controls are simple. But many people have few problems learning the massively complex control schemes of Pro Evolution or Madden, because the rules and aims of what you're using those controls to achieve are the same as their real-world counterparts.
TDK are one step ahead of you - they've got a scratch-proof coating, and it's part of the disc spec to use it. So that's a relief. There was talk, before they got the coating from TDK, that BluRay was going to go down the caddy route, as it was substantially more delicate than DVD even.
My guess is that he doesn't mean i386, but just the particular hardware configuration he has right there.
Assume for a minute that I'm not a developer. Assume for a minute that even if I am, I'm lazy and/or have other things to do with my time. Assume the only x86 Unixalike to already come with drivers for soundcard X, graphics card Y and motherboard Z is currently Linux.
Would you install it, or leave the box on the shelf until someone writes Solaris drivers?
(note to the humour-impaired - Sony already own Columbia-Tristar pictures, which is why you get that Spiderman movie bundled with PSPs)