There's a new one in the Stanford Shopping Mall in Palo Alto, which is a VAST difference from the Metreon store. It feels like it has a lot more focus with respect to the various product lines. When you walk in from the mall side, the left wall goes from portable audio to laptops to playstation. The center kiosks deal with camcorders and media and computer accessories, and the right side has desktops and entrances to two side rooms for home audio/video equipement, which feature major products, but not every single thing they sell, so it's easier to compare different models. The Metreon store sucks because they try to put every television into a simulated living room environment, which takes up a lot of space and makes it really hard for comparison.
I picked up a pair of V6 headphones (Thank you Sony for bringing them back!) there and everyone was nice and knowledgeable. According to one employee they've been open for about three months.
It's still Sony MSRP pricing which blows, but it's a much better store "style" (no pun intended) for showing off their products, in my opinion.
If you don't think that could happen, consider that there are sixty million peer-to-peer network users in the US, more people than voted for George Bush in 2000. The problem is then how to get all the p2p users to become politically active.
The great thing about this clock is the timers. There are four of them, one for each city, and each one can be set individually as either a countdown timer (up to 99:99:99) or a regular daily alarm clock, in either Earth or Vana'diel time. All can be enabled/disabled indvidually and plays the relevant city theme.
The reason it was Xbox only was because that way the developers knew EXACTLY what hardware they were building for and could optimize the heck out of it, as they were dealing with a single platform. When you add more platforms in the mix (PC != Xbox, regardless of what you might think) you run into LCD syndrome. (Least Common Denominator) To cut costs, cross-platform libraries are developed or reused (hello EA) so that the bulk of the game's codebase is the same. This results in releases that don't take full advantage of its capabilities. This is why Butcher Bay can be (and is!) so much better than any of the other console games in its genre.
I absolutely HATE console FPSes and I love this game. The only thing they could have done to improve it would have been to support usb keyboard and mouse.
DDR Ultramix just came out, which promised additional downloadable content at release. It's there, three new songs, but you have to pay 5 bucks for them.
after dark on a friday night during Networld+Interop one year, and the two giant LCDs screens show nothing but the infamous moving hand and "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to login".
The business model isn't "give us your in-game cash and we'll give you US dollars", it's "deposit your in-game cash with us and then you can use that as a commodity in our online trading website for commerce with other registered users".
Think of it like paypal. You give 1 million UO gold to the duly-appointed GOM representative on your server, and your account on the website gets updated to reflect your deposit. (minus the appropriate fees of course) Now, you can log into the website and look at the exchanges, and put that money up for sale. Other users will see that and can purchase it for the price you put it up for, or ignore you. If it doesn't sell, you repost it at a lower price or whatever. If it does, you've got US cash in your account that you can subsequently withdraw or use to purchase other commodities, such as currency in a different game.
Putting MMORPG currency into the system doesn't guarantee you US dollars out immediately. And since GOM takes a cut of every transaction, they're not going to go bankrupt how you expect them to.
I was at EB the other day, and I saw the most disturbing peripheral for the GBA SP. It was a device that plugged into the cartridge slot, and allowed you to plug *3* GBA carts into it, with a hardswitch so you could select which game you wanted to play without having to swap cartridges. Cost? $10.
If there's a market for that, then the N-Gage is most certainly doomed.
I definitely thought it was better than IV/V/VI/VII.
Saying Nemesis was better than IV/V/VI/VII is like saying being Wesley Crusher and getting an enema from your mom is better than being gang-raped by Klingons. It doesn't change the fact that both are still a major pain in the ass to sit through.
Now granted, my cost of entry was free (saw it at a friend's house) (yes, I lost an hour and a half of my life, kthxplzdrivethru) but Kung Pow was actually pretty funny in places. What was coolest about it was during the credits, they showed how they did all the digital compositing.
"It was at that moment The Chosen One learned a very important thing.....Iron Claws hurt like hell! Ouch!"
You're wrong there. A friend and I did a club-style radio show for 8 years, mixing with Denon CD Players and vinyl. We brought approximately 250 CDs every week, which at roughly 50MB/CD once converted, which comes out to 12.5GB. However, our complete collection of DJable music is much closer to 1500 CDs, which comes out to 75GB. I think it'll be a while yet before you can fit that in two off-the-shelf, unmodified ipods, much less one.
You'll also notice I've made no mention of the 18 crates of records we own which have not been ripped yet.
I'm currently experimenting with a mobile unit that includes a Fujitsu P-2110 Laptop, PCDJ, A 120GB firewire drive (for now), and a Creative Labs Extigy. Complete mobile DJ solution for under 10 pounds.
Without concord, one option is left: Congress must step in to protect valuable creative works on the Net and thereby benefit consumers by giving them another choice for movie viewing.
I'm not going to claim it scales exactly, but as the region number gets higher, the prices generally get cheaper. Sure, region 1 gets it first almost every time, but at up to four times the retail price.
..which is significantly less than the $2500 put forth in the article. Even the second generation ones were down to $1500, if this price halving keeps up, in about 5 or 6 years, Aibos should be under $30....
It's pretty simple, actually. As soon as you buy your first hard drive Someone rolls a die and checks a table, choosing one or two manufacturers. Every time you buy a hard drive from that manufacturer, it'll die in some way.
As for me, I got Quantum and Conner, and to a lesser extent Maxtor (I think I got a bonus roll for some reason)....Seagate bought Conner, which became their IDE division, so all Seagate IDE drives now tank for me. Maxtor bought Quantum, which reinforces (but at least consolidates) that roll. Quantum was in my original Tivo, though, and I replaced it with a Maxtor. I'm praying I got a re-roll sometime in the past couple of years........
Sure, on the base level, "oh look, it's Chuck with a gun, ha ha. Damn dirty NRA." But look beyond that. Heston's message in the film is solely about the evils of the human race, and technology, personified in a rusted gun. In effect, Chuck is saying "guns are bad." And Thade's undoing is directly related to his desire to master the human technology, further reinforcing this. (Personally, I'm surprised Thade didn't off himself accidentally)
On a side note, it'll be interesting to see if the protest scene and the cross-species sex scene make it back into the director's cut.
I'm sorry, but the original subject line keeps reminding me of this exchange between the Trade Federation Viceroy and the (soon-to-be) Emperor from Episode I::)
Slashdot Mirror
There's a new one in the Stanford Shopping Mall in Palo Alto, which is a VAST difference from the Metreon store. It feels like it has a lot more focus with respect to the various product lines. When you walk in from the mall side, the left wall goes from portable audio to laptops to playstation. The center kiosks deal with camcorders and media and computer accessories, and the right side has desktops and entrances to two side rooms for home audio/video equipement, which feature major products, but not every single thing they sell, so it's easier to compare different models. The Metreon store sucks because they try to put every television into a simulated living room environment, which takes up a lot of space and makes it really hard for comparison.
I picked up a pair of V6 headphones (Thank you Sony for bringing them back!) there and everyone was nice and knowledgeable. According to one employee they've been open for about three months.
It's still Sony MSRP pricing which blows, but it's a much better store "style" (no pun intended) for showing off their products, in my opinion.
If you don't think that could happen, consider that there are sixty million peer-to-peer network users in the US, more people than voted for George Bush in 2000. The problem is then how to get all the p2p users to become politically active.
Wait for them to grow up.
The great thing about this clock is the timers. There are four of them, one for each city, and each one can be set individually as either a countdown timer (up to 99:99:99) or a regular daily alarm clock, in either Earth or Vana'diel time. All can be enabled/disabled indvidually and plays the relevant city theme.
It just rocks.
And besides, it looks cool.
--Kuroshiro
Phoenix
LS: ShirtNinjas
The reason it was Xbox only was because that way the developers knew EXACTLY what hardware they were building for and could optimize the heck out of it, as they were dealing with a single platform. When you add more platforms in the mix (PC != Xbox, regardless of what you might think) you run into LCD syndrome. (Least Common Denominator) To cut costs, cross-platform libraries are developed or reused (hello EA) so that the bulk of the game's codebase is the same. This results in releases that don't take full advantage of its capabilities. This is why Butcher Bay can be (and is!) so much better than any of the other console games in its genre.
I absolutely HATE console FPSes and I love this game. The only thing they could have done to improve it would have been to support usb keyboard and mouse.
CMU had wireless in 1994.
I didn't know you read /.!
Seriously though, maybe you should stop getting mad at your cars.....
--
"I'm your firestarter, twisted firestarter...."
Anyway, it's still better than the Critical Update Notification Tool.
As opposed to the Super Highway Information Tool?
DDR Ultramix just came out, which promised additional downloadable content at release. It's there, three new songs, but you have to pay 5 bucks for them.
...at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana.
after dark on a friday night during Networld+Interop one year, and the two giant LCDs screens show nothing but the infamous moving hand and "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to login".
The business model isn't "give us your in-game cash and we'll give you US dollars", it's "deposit your in-game cash with us and then you can use that as a commodity in our online trading website for commerce with other registered users".
Think of it like paypal. You give 1 million UO gold to the duly-appointed GOM representative on your server, and your account on the website gets updated to reflect your deposit. (minus the appropriate fees of course) Now, you can log into the website and look at the exchanges, and put that money up for sale. Other users will see that and can purchase it for the price you put it up for, or ignore you. If it doesn't sell, you repost it at a lower price or whatever. If it does, you've got US cash in your account that you can subsequently withdraw or use to purchase other commodities, such as currency in a different game.
Putting MMORPG currency into the system doesn't guarantee you US dollars out immediately. And since GOM takes a cut of every transaction, they're not going to go bankrupt how you expect them to.
I was at EB the other day, and I saw the most disturbing peripheral for the GBA SP. It was a device that plugged into the cartridge slot, and allowed you to plug *3* GBA carts into it, with a hardswitch so you could select which game you wanted to play without having to swap cartridges. Cost? $10.
If there's a market for that, then the N-Gage is most certainly doomed.
So if you're a *Flix subscriber, does this mean that Planetwide will receive the DVDs, Divx them and email them to you???
I'd pay money for that....
I definitely thought it was better than IV/V/VI/VII.
Saying Nemesis was better than IV/V/VI/VII is like saying being Wesley Crusher and getting an enema from your mom is better than being gang-raped by Klingons. It doesn't change the fact that both are still a major pain in the ass to sit through.
Now granted, my cost of entry was free (saw it at a friend's house) (yes, I lost an hour and a half of my life, kthxplzdrivethru) but Kung Pow was actually pretty funny in places. What was coolest about it was during the credits, they showed how they did all the digital compositing.
"It was at that moment The Chosen One learned a very important thing.....Iron Claws hurt like hell! Ouch!"
...a registered trademark of the Free Software Foundation. Your point?
You're wrong there. A friend and I did a club-style radio show for 8 years, mixing with Denon CD Players and vinyl. We brought approximately 250 CDs every week, which at roughly 50MB/CD once converted, which comes out to 12.5GB. However, our complete collection of DJable music is much closer to 1500 CDs, which comes out to 75GB. I think it'll be a while yet before you can fit that in two off-the-shelf, unmodified ipods, much less one.
You'll also notice I've made no mention of the 18 crates of records we own which have not been ripped yet.
I'm currently experimenting with a mobile unit that includes a Fujitsu P-2110 Laptop, PCDJ, A 120GB firewire drive (for now), and a Creative Labs Extigy. Complete mobile DJ solution for under 10 pounds.
is a KAP (Kick Ass Privacy) or maybe TFSP (Totally Frickin' Sweet Privacy).....
Without concord, one option is left: Congress must step in to protect valuable creative works on the Net and thereby benefit consumers by giving them another choice for movie viewing.
Valuable creative works like, say, Freddy Got Fingered?
I'm not going to claim it scales exactly, but as the region number gets higher, the prices generally get cheaper. Sure, region 1 gets it first almost every time, but at up to four times the retail price.
Geez, Michael, wth is your problem? All your articles are either wrong or have so much FUD in them it's not funny.
But The One (even the title is a ripoff from The Matrix)....
Um, don't you mean Highlander?
Why are you reviewing movies for a geek site if you can't even draw parallels correctly? (no pun intended...oh wait)
..which is significantly less than the $2500 put forth in the article. Even the second generation ones were down to $1500, if this price halving keeps up, in about 5 or 6 years, Aibos should be under $30....
It's pretty simple, actually. As soon as you buy your first hard drive Someone rolls a die and checks a table, choosing one or two manufacturers. Every time you buy a hard drive from that manufacturer, it'll die in some way.
As for me, I got Quantum and Conner, and to a lesser extent Maxtor (I think I got a bonus roll for some reason)....Seagate bought Conner, which became their IDE division, so all Seagate IDE drives now tank for me. Maxtor bought Quantum, which reinforces (but at least consolidates) that roll. Quantum was in my original Tivo, though, and I replaced it with a Maxtor. I'm praying I got a re-roll sometime in the past couple of years........
Sure, on the base level, "oh look, it's Chuck with a gun, ha ha. Damn dirty NRA." But look beyond that. Heston's message in the film is solely about the evils of the human race, and technology, personified in a rusted gun. In effect, Chuck is saying "guns are bad." And Thade's undoing is directly related to his desire to master the human technology, further reinforcing this. (Personally, I'm surprised Thade didn't off himself accidentally)
On a side note, it'll be interesting to see if the protest scene and the cross-species sex scene make it back into the director's cut.
I'm sorry, but the original subject line keeps reminding me of this exchange between the Trade Federation Viceroy and the (soon-to-be) Emperor from Episode I: :)
Viceroy: "My lord....is this...*legal*?"
Emperor: "I will *MAKE* it legal."