Are you trying to make a point? If you understand it's bad to move the console while it's spinning the disc, then you don't get to use ring-scratched discs as an excuse to backup.
Fair Use is another reason, but not the topic I originally replied to.
I thought that was just when users moved or tilted the 360 when it was powered up. If they'd wait until the disc wasn't spinning there wouldn't be a problem. Anyone smart enough to understand this doesn't get to use this as an excuse to backup their games.
Look again. It dumps half the heat in the case, and blows the other half out. That's the sacrifice for a near-silent, 2-slot water cooled solution. If the cooler card took up 2 slots by itself I'm sure the fan could blow the air out the back. But then that's 3 slots total. The 120mm case fan(s) should handle this card just fine.
I've watched some of my favorites much more than 3 times over the past 5 years, so for me it was worth it to buy them instead of paying $9 or more to repeatedly rent them.
My thoughts on game pads is for them to be ergonomic, I should be able to hold them with my wrists in a neutral position so they don't have to bend outward. The problem is kiddies and girls with smaller hands and shoulders who need a smaller controller and different angle. Consequently my wrists get bent outward.
I'm sure you're more used to the feel of the PS2's, but consider it's ergonomics. You can see the geometric shapes it's made out of. Circles for the d-pad and right-thumb buttons. Then there's two rounded-off cones extending from them for hand-grips. It isn't an organically-shaped controller that truly fills and fits the hands with the same amound of pressure from each finger and joint to hold it.
Says you, I've enjoyed watching my favorite movies looking excellent on DVD for over 5 years. Since they're stored at 720x480 and resized to 640x480 on SDTV, they still look much better on an HDTV. Many of them I bought used from half.com for 7 or 8 dollars. Meanwhile you're going to have to wait at least another year for prices of the players and used copies of the movies to come down.
Which is more comfortable, cradling a gamepad, or reaching out to a keyboard and mouse, the right hand often switching back and forth between them? If you said gamepad, maybe you can imagine how this product or its successor would be excellent.
For all controllers? What about computer gamepads? The PS2 controller is too small and the angular palm-grips are shaped to be stylish over ergonomics. The xbox's is larger and better. The 360's is smaller than the xbox's, but the handgrips are much better. More like the Dreamcast's, but angled outward for a more natural angle that bends the wrists less.
The Dreamcast launched in 1999. No profit in 10 years would be 1989. I'm pretty bloody sure Sega earned massive profits from the Genesis, which coincidentaly launched in 1989.
I watched the first half of Star Wars Episode 3 on film, and then digital, back-to-back, on opening weekend. Half-way through the film projection, a fire alarm went off and everyone in the multiplex had to evacuate for 20 minutes. When I went back in I went to the digital projection theater and watched the film from start to finish.
I found the resolution of digital was as clear or clearer than the film, by just a little bit. I loved the lack of jitter, which was a huge improvement. However, without the jitter I noticed the pixels from the projector, and I sat in about row 8. I like the screen to just about fill my field of vision. The new clarity was especially distracting during fast motion from either the characters or the camera pans. I've disliked 24fps for years now, but digital clarity almost makes the problem worse now because the motion blur stands out.
The digital delivery standard approved last year offers 2K at 48fps, or 4K at 24fps. Both of these are inadequate. That said I'd rather watch action movies in 2K at 48, and slower dramas in 4K at 24. But visual feasts like Lord of the Rings truly need 4K at 48 to do them justice.
I disagree that it has to be that easy. What does iTunes do when there's more than 2GB of songs on the HD and the new player is a 2GB Nano? What does it upload then?
I'll just find it as worthy payback for how Sony marketed the PS2's Emotion Engine with inflated specs and hype, and killed the Dreamcast. Sega royally screwed up many things on their own, but the Dreamcast was their best work since the Genesis.
I still like the performance of The Music Man on DVD better overall than theatrical productions. I go to see them to see what they did differently, but the DVD is the gold-standard. When it comes to music, the live performances are different than the recording, but sometimes, the recording really is the best.
Highlighting files in iTunes and drag-and-droping them into an Explorer window copies them to it. So loading this player is as simple as using iTunes, highlighting the songs, and dragging and dropping them into the player.
But since the player shows up as a removable drive, people can also drag and drop their photographs to take over to their relatives without being concerned over what software the other computer uses.
I don't watch the olympics because I don't have cable and can't watch the coverage live. It feels like bullshit having NBC package up stories and events, complete with the backgrounds of the athletes, when they already know full-well who actually won. They expect me to watch their stories set to swooning music, and then see that athlete lose, even though that happened 5 to 12 hours ago. The worst as I remember it was in Sydney and Nagano when the coverage was tape delayed on the west coast about 18 hours. Which is truly screwed up because 8pm Pacific time is 1 or 2pm in Australia or Japan. NBC could've given live events prime-time coverage on the West, and East coasts, but waited a day to package them. Besides, then maybe some of the viewers would realize how stupid it is to watch day old events.
When 1" hard drives or flash storage hold plenty of music and are cheap enough to put in lower-priced cell phones? Maybe then there will be an Apple-infused phone with a scroll wheel (virtual?)?
Because boycotting DRM-CDs is working so well to stop that. Watch the vendors laugh in your face and point out the DVD section to you. In ten years when the DVD section has dwindled, you wont have much choice. Although by that point HDCP will be widely-busted so you'll get HDDVD anyway.
I agree that the fixed settings suck. As a user actually comfortable operating a computer, unlike much of the market, I want advanced options that let me adjust how much more and less often I hear songs. So Party Shuffle isn't worth using to me.
Instead I rate my tracks like I would a movie. 1-star is probably going to get deleted eventually. 2-stars play half as much as No-stars. No-stars play twice as much as 2-stars. 3-stars play 3 times as much as 2-stars. 4-stars play 4 times as much as 2-stars. 5-stars play 6 times as much as 2-stars.
Then I make an enormous playlist containing 1 play of 2-star songs, 2 plays of No-star songs... and 6 plays of 5-star songs, shuffle them, and save the result in a new playlist. Takes between 3 and 5 months to go through the list.
That depends on how the government is prepared to the newly unemployed pay their mortgage while offering retraining options. I'm not saying displaced workers deserve to be handed a new career that pays as well as what they have, without them having to move or adjust their lifestyle. However just laying people off and letting them tumble as unemployment benefits run out is unacceptable to me.
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Are you trying to make a point? If you understand it's bad to move the console while it's spinning the disc, then you don't get to use ring-scratched discs as an excuse to backup.
Fair Use is another reason, but not the topic I originally replied to.
That's not the topic. Topic is: xbox 360 is notorious for destroying discs.
I thought that was just when users moved or tilted the 360 when it was powered up. If they'd wait until the disc wasn't spinning there wouldn't be a problem. Anyone smart enough to understand this doesn't get to use this as an excuse to backup their games.
Surely you're right and every time the company tests their prototypes crashes are a huge problem because they didn't think of this.
Look again. It dumps half the heat in the case, and blows the other half out. That's the sacrifice for a near-silent, 2-slot water cooled solution. If the cooler card took up 2 slots by itself I'm sure the fan could blow the air out the back. But then that's 3 slots total. The 120mm case fan(s) should handle this card just fine.
I've watched some of my favorites much more than 3 times over the past 5 years, so for me it was worth it to buy them instead of paying $9 or more to repeatedly rent them.
My thoughts on game pads is for them to be ergonomic, I should be able to hold them with my wrists in a neutral position so they don't have to bend outward. The problem is kiddies and girls with smaller hands and shoulders who need a smaller controller and different angle. Consequently my wrists get bent outward.
I'm sure you're more used to the feel of the PS2's, but consider it's ergonomics. You can see the geometric shapes it's made out of. Circles for the d-pad and right-thumb buttons. Then there's two rounded-off cones extending from them for hand-grips. It isn't an organically-shaped controller that truly fills and fits the hands with the same amound of pressure from each finger and joint to hold it.
Says you, I've enjoyed watching my favorite movies looking excellent on DVD for over 5 years. Since they're stored at 720x480 and resized to 640x480 on SDTV, they still look much better on an HDTV. Many of them I bought used from half.com for 7 or 8 dollars. Meanwhile you're going to have to wait at least another year for prices of the players and used copies of the movies to come down.
Which is more comfortable, cradling a gamepad, or reaching out to a keyboard and mouse, the right hand often switching back and forth between them? If you said gamepad, maybe you can imagine how this product or its successor would be excellent.
You mean as awkward as holding a gamepad from your sofa or bed and being able to type on a modified QWERTY layout?
For all controllers? What about computer gamepads? The PS2 controller is too small and the angular palm-grips are shaped to be stylish over ergonomics. The xbox's is larger and better. The 360's is smaller than the xbox's, but the handgrips are much better. More like the Dreamcast's, but angled outward for a more natural angle that bends the wrists less.
Or are you just a freak in the minority?
The Dreamcast launched in 1999. No profit in 10 years would be 1989. I'm pretty bloody sure Sega earned massive profits from the Genesis, which coincidentaly launched in 1989.
I watched the first half of Star Wars Episode 3 on film, and then digital, back-to-back, on opening weekend. Half-way through the film projection, a fire alarm went off and everyone in the multiplex had to evacuate for 20 minutes. When I went back in I went to the digital projection theater and watched the film from start to finish.
I found the resolution of digital was as clear or clearer than the film, by just a little bit. I loved the lack of jitter, which was a huge improvement. However, without the jitter I noticed the pixels from the projector, and I sat in about row 8. I like the screen to just about fill my field of vision. The new clarity was especially distracting during fast motion from either the characters or the camera pans. I've disliked 24fps for years now, but digital clarity almost makes the problem worse now because the motion blur stands out.
The digital delivery standard approved last year offers 2K at 48fps, or 4K at 24fps. Both of these are inadequate. That said I'd rather watch action movies in 2K at 48, and slower dramas in 4K at 24. But visual feasts like Lord of the Rings truly need 4K at 48 to do them justice.
At the launch.
I disagree that it has to be that easy. What does iTunes do when there's more than 2GB of songs on the HD and the new player is a 2GB Nano? What does it upload then?
I'll just find it as worthy payback for how Sony marketed the PS2's Emotion Engine with inflated specs and hype, and killed the Dreamcast. Sega royally screwed up many things on their own, but the Dreamcast was their best work since the Genesis.
I still like the performance of The Music Man on DVD better overall than theatrical productions. I go to see them to see what they did differently, but the DVD is the gold-standard. When it comes to music, the live performances are different than the recording, but sometimes, the recording really is the best.
Highlighting files in iTunes and drag-and-droping them into an Explorer window copies them to it. So loading this player is as simple as using iTunes, highlighting the songs, and dragging and dropping them into the player.
But since the player shows up as a removable drive, people can also drag and drop their photographs to take over to their relatives without being concerned over what software the other computer uses.
I don't watch the olympics because I don't have cable and can't watch the coverage live. It feels like bullshit having NBC package up stories and events, complete with the backgrounds of the athletes, when they already know full-well who actually won. They expect me to watch their stories set to swooning music, and then see that athlete lose, even though that happened 5 to 12 hours ago. The worst as I remember it was in Sydney and Nagano when the coverage was tape delayed on the west coast about 18 hours. Which is truly screwed up because 8pm Pacific time is 1 or 2pm in Australia or Japan. NBC could've given live events prime-time coverage on the West, and East coasts, but waited a day to package them. Besides, then maybe some of the viewers would realize how stupid it is to watch day old events.
When 1" hard drives or flash storage hold plenty of music and are cheap enough to put in lower-priced cell phones? Maybe then there will be an Apple-infused phone with a scroll wheel (virtual?)?
Because boycotting DRM-CDs is working so well to stop that. Watch the vendors laugh in your face and point out the DVD section to you. In ten years when the DVD section has dwindled, you wont have much choice. Although by that point HDCP will be widely-busted so you'll get HDDVD anyway.
I agree that the fixed settings suck. As a user actually comfortable operating a computer, unlike much of the market, I want advanced options that let me adjust how much more and less often I hear songs. So Party Shuffle isn't worth using to me.
Instead I rate my tracks like I would a movie.
1-star is probably going to get deleted eventually.
2-stars play half as much as No-stars.
No-stars play twice as much as 2-stars.
3-stars play 3 times as much as 2-stars.
4-stars play 4 times as much as 2-stars.
5-stars play 6 times as much as 2-stars.
Then I make an enormous playlist containing 1 play of 2-star songs, 2 plays of No-star songs... and 6 plays of 5-star songs, shuffle them, and save the result in a new playlist. Takes between 3 and 5 months to go through the list.
According to the statistics, the average person does not. Among those who do, I wonder how much of that is in retirement plans.
That depends on how the government is prepared to the newly unemployed pay their mortgage while offering retraining options. I'm not saying displaced workers deserve to be handed a new career that pays as well as what they have, without them having to move or adjust their lifestyle. However just laying people off and letting them tumble as unemployment benefits run out is unacceptable to me.
I like them fine as well