Honestly, I don't think there ever was a "greatest console."
There are a lot of consoles which absolutely couldn't qualify, but seriously, every major console has strengths which can't be dismissed against its contemporaries, or even later consoles. (Genesis: What console has had more good shooters? Hell, a fair chunk of the good ones on the next best system, the Saturn, were sequels to Genesis games. This despite the Genesis's color limitations and laughable sound.)
Too many people who believe what you're talking about do, and their lack of credibility rubs off on you. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but the tinfoil hat crowd raise the bar for the evidence you must present for sane people to believe you.
Something I find funny about Kodak Vs Fuji is this: Fuji (at least in 2000) was selling their film cheaper than Kodak in the US, probably because they didn't have the brand recognition, I guess. So I was using Fuji film in the US. When I went to japan, the prices were about the same, reversed. So I used Kodak.
Never noticed any difference between kodak and fuji film, either. But I've always gotten better results from Fuji processing.
I would not have bought the Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs, or about 15 CDs this summer (that's more than I'd bought in about the previous 3 years...alright, about half were used, that doesn't make the RIAA any happier)
Blistering fast cable modem (thank you Cox!) plus file sharing.
The way I see it, in effect the RIAA & MPAA want to criminalize listening to anything that isn't being fed into the mass-market pipeline. The stuff that has a higher margin because they can sell more copies to more people. Sure, you COULD still buy other things, but how would you know WHAT to buy? The way I do that now is by file-sharing, because listening to the radio these days makes my ass pucker.
I think if Classmates.com offered this service, it would be an even bigger hit.
Oh, and this is one of the things I hate about Anime Fans...they see anime in everything and see everything as being ripped off or inspired by anime. GAH. That and the abbreviating of titles. There are plenty who wouldn't have even bothered breaking out the title from the acronym.
I've had a few pet rats over the years. One time, I put a rat under a funnel, with an opening just a little bigger than a nickel. The rat was able to squeeze out through that hole. (Kind of disturbing the way it's eyes bugged out as it did it, though)
I wonder how much their tracking equipment would limit their mobility through tight spaces? Well, regardless, being able to squeeze through a 2 inch space is almost as good as a 1 inch space.
Oh, and there's another danger besides rats gnawing on trapped victims. Even without teeth. One of my rats would stick it's nose into your ears if you set it on your shoulder, and once when I held it in front of my face, the damn thing grabbed onto my lip with it's paws and tried crawling down my throat. It got pretty far (I didn't want to bite it!) before I got hold of it's tail and yanked it out.
Rats may be smart as rodents go, but that's not saying much.
And if you didn't do that, you'd have to add on levels, which means you'd have marketers all trying to say "our machine is level 12!" "well, ours is level 14!" even if there's no damn difference.
Net MD came out YEARS after MDLP (at least in Japan). And plenty of CD burners do a full CD in 2 minutes. Full of just the music I felt like bothering with at the time, one minute is easy.
I had a MDLP player a while ago (got stolen), so when I first saw the Net MD, I thought I was in love. Then I found out about Sony's proprietary format (which is not mentioned ANYWHERE on the Net MD packaging at the time, or in their promotional materials at Target or Circuit City). That killed that infatuation, before it was ever consummated.
It can take a minute per track to convert? When you're talking about dozens of tracks per disc, that's getting to be a pretty substantial amount of time. It takes me about a minute or two to burn an MP3 CD. No contest.
I wonder, is there any example, EVER, or a company trying to restrict/control the use of a device, standard, or format that did not have any significant impact on that items usefulness or convenience? Ever?
I've had my XP machine for 2 1/2 months. I've had one BSOD. Not bad, but not perfect. I've had several mystery crashes which didn't even give me a BSOD. (Those could have been video drivers)
I restart maybe twice a week. More than tolerable.
Oh, and steam has never crashed on me, but I have to reload server lists like 5 times to get all of them.
Screw encryption. Tie each downloaded copy to a Steam ID, give users an option to transfer it to another one for a fee. I presume the steam servers know which games an ID has, so they can tell if you try and screw with the copy you've burned to CD.
"On Friday, when asked if Valve was still intent on making Half-Life 2 available to gamers via Steam, regardless of what was determined on October 8, Lombardi replied, "Yes.""
So this means it's not coming out till at least October? WTF! I had my hopes up with this release candidate news, now this bullshit! Dammit, I'm going to be out of the country by the time it comes out! I may not be able to get it in any timely manner BUT via Steam.
Fer fucksake, games are perishible. Hype even moreso. The more they delay this thing, the less they're going to make off of it. The hype is at it's peak now, without ever having boiled over to the point of insanity (Phantom Menace, FF7). If they don't release this thing soon, they're gonna have another Daikatana on their hands.
Start selling the goddamn game, and settle out who gets how much in court!
Isoniazid didn't seem to do much to me. I can pound them down all night and be sober by the time the bars close, so i'm guess it didn't do much to my liver. The only thing it did do was make me want to throw up my stomach when I didn't follow directions to take it with food. (Good god this drug means it!)
I remembered to take it every day by giving my cat his pill at the same time. Unfortunately, my cat's pill and my pill looked identical. I'm pretty sure I mixed them up at least once. And Isoniazid has a side effect opposite from the purpose of the medication my cat was on. (It kind of darkens the urine) Heh.
Anyhow, I lived in Alaska most of my life. However bad you think TB is in California, Alaska's got it beat. My mother got it a year or so before I did. She probably got it at work. Her job involved travelling out to remote villages on occasion, where access to health care can be spotty, and education on the subject equally so. She or any of her coworkers could have brought it back. I think it's most likely I picked it up at her office, but it could have been anywhere.
You could completely close off immigration and tourism into the US, and you'd still not get rid of TB, because rural Alaska is an intractible reservior of it. No matter how aggressive the TB programs are in Alaskan cities, it'll still be lurking in the villages. And the resources don't exist to eradicate it everywhere.
Eventually the US is going to have to cave in (like most of the developed world) and realize that the risk posed by TB vaccines is less than the disease itself, because people in general are too goddamned ignorant and/or stupid to control it otherwise.
I remember trying to donate blood when I was in japan, but being prevented from doing so because of my TB status. (I've heard conflicting stories about whether I can donate blood in the US) It may have just been my inadequate Japanese, but I don't think he understood how TB is handled in the US, he just assumed everyone is vaccinated.
How about a mercury telescope? Does mercury remain reflective if it freezes? You could make the thing huge, comparatively cheap, and if it solidifies, you could even point it where you want it. -38.83C, sounds about right.
They've been working on Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 concurrently, probably should have made them one project a lot sooner. And they've been constantly updating the original Half-life since it came out.
They haven't done nothing. They haven't RELEASED anything NEW. But if they hadn't done nothing, playing Half Life online would be like playing the original Diablo is now. (If you don't cheat, don't bother.)
Screw Counterstrike. Team Fortress has it all over CS. The only good Counterstrike map is that Pac-man map. Has it got anything to compare to Dustbowl? Doubt it.
The only good thing about Counterstrike is it can be played with only two people. TFC needs 8 to be good.
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There was also a trick where you used 4 or 6 batteries and 1 or 2 paperclips. Don't know how long the batteries lasted then. Just seen it done is all.
Honestly, I don't think there ever was a "greatest console."
There are a lot of consoles which absolutely couldn't qualify, but seriously, every major console has strengths which can't be dismissed against its contemporaries, or even later consoles. (Genesis: What console has had more good shooters? Hell, a fair chunk of the good ones on the next best system, the Saturn, were sequels to Genesis games. This despite the Genesis's color limitations and laughable sound.)
Too many people who believe what you're talking about do, and their lack of credibility rubs off on you. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but the tinfoil hat crowd raise the bar for the evidence you must present for sane people to believe you.
Something I find funny about Kodak Vs Fuji is this: Fuji (at least in 2000) was selling their film cheaper than Kodak in the US, probably because they didn't have the brand recognition, I guess. So I was using Fuji film in the US. When I went to japan, the prices were about the same, reversed. So I used Kodak.
Never noticed any difference between kodak and fuji film, either. But I've always gotten better results from Fuji processing.
I would not have bought the Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs, or about 15 CDs this summer (that's more than I'd bought in about the previous 3 years...alright, about half were used, that doesn't make the RIAA any happier)
Blistering fast cable modem (thank you Cox!) plus file sharing.
The way I see it, in effect the RIAA & MPAA want to criminalize listening to anything that isn't being fed into the mass-market pipeline. The stuff that has a higher margin because they can sell more copies to more people. Sure, you COULD still buy other things, but how would you know WHAT to buy? The way I do that now is by file-sharing, because listening to the radio these days makes my ass pucker.
Stupid....Fucking....Assholes.
I'd like to see a better blend of FFX and Morrowind and used diapers in a landfill. Ugh!
Dubbing over the ENTIRE MOVIE can't really be argued to be a small portion of the copyrighted work.
Here's what the law says.
Read rec.arts.anime.misc for a while.
"even bothered breaking out the title from the acronym.
The first poster to mention "SEL" broke it out..."
Yeah. I noticed that. And I noticed you only quoted the second half of my sentence.
That said, lovely post.
I think if Classmates.com offered this service, it would be an even bigger hit.
Oh, and this is one of the things I hate about Anime Fans...they see anime in everything and see everything as being ripped off or inspired by anime. GAH. That and the abbreviating of titles. There are plenty who wouldn't have even bothered breaking out the title from the acronym.
I've had a few pet rats over the years. One time, I put a rat under a funnel, with an opening just a little bigger than a nickel. The rat was able to squeeze out through that hole. (Kind of disturbing the way it's eyes bugged out as it did it, though)
I wonder how much their tracking equipment would limit their mobility through tight spaces? Well, regardless, being able to squeeze through a 2 inch space is almost as good as a 1 inch space.
Oh, and there's another danger besides rats gnawing on trapped victims. Even without teeth. One of my rats would stick it's nose into your ears if you set it on your shoulder, and once when I held it in front of my face, the damn thing grabbed onto my lip with it's paws and tried crawling down my throat. It got pretty far (I didn't want to bite it!) before I got hold of it's tail and yanked it out.
Rats may be smart as rodents go, but that's not saying much.
I think these are, aesthetically, right up there with those yellow plastic sunglasses with the amber flashing lights and "windshield wipers."
Headphone wires breaking? I used to have a problem with that. The solution? I stopped chewing on them.
And if you didn't do that, you'd have to add on levels, which means you'd have marketers all trying to say "our machine is level 12!" "well, ours is level 14!" even if there's no damn difference.
Net MD came out YEARS after MDLP (at least in Japan). And plenty of CD burners do a full CD in 2 minutes. Full of just the music I felt like bothering with at the time, one minute is easy.
I had a MDLP player a while ago (got stolen), so when I first saw the Net MD, I thought I was in love. Then I found out about Sony's proprietary format (which is not mentioned ANYWHERE on the Net MD packaging at the time, or in their promotional materials at Target or Circuit City). That killed that infatuation, before it was ever consummated.
It can take a minute per track to convert? When you're talking about dozens of tracks per disc, that's getting to be a pretty substantial amount of time. It takes me about a minute or two to burn an MP3 CD. No contest.
I wonder, is there any example, EVER, or a company trying to restrict/control the use of a device, standard, or format that did not have any significant impact on that items usefulness or convenience? Ever?
" October 8 is just the court date for Valve vs. VU"
No shit, Sherlock. But as worded in the article, it DOES hint at the release date being AFTER that.
Or you're just really lucky.
I've had my XP machine for 2 1/2 months. I've had one BSOD. Not bad, but not perfect. I've had several mystery crashes which didn't even give me a BSOD. (Those could have been video drivers)
I restart maybe twice a week. More than tolerable.
Oh, and steam has never crashed on me, but I have to reload server lists like 5 times to get all of them.
Maddox.
Screw encryption. Tie each downloaded copy to a Steam ID, give users an option to transfer it to another one for a fee. I presume the steam servers know which games an ID has, so they can tell if you try and screw with the copy you've burned to CD.
"On Friday, when asked if Valve was still intent on making Half-Life 2 available to gamers via Steam, regardless of what was determined on October 8, Lombardi replied, "Yes.""
So this means it's not coming out till at least October? WTF! I had my hopes up with this release candidate news, now this bullshit! Dammit, I'm going to be out of the country by the time it comes out! I may not be able to get it in any timely manner BUT via Steam.
Fer fucksake, games are perishible. Hype even moreso. The more they delay this thing, the less they're going to make off of it. The hype is at it's peak now, without ever having boiled over to the point of insanity (Phantom Menace, FF7). If they don't release this thing soon, they're gonna have another Daikatana on their hands.
Start selling the goddamn game, and settle out who gets how much in court!
Isoniazid didn't seem to do much to me. I can pound them down all night and be sober by the time the bars close, so i'm guess it didn't do much to my liver. The only thing it did do was make me want to throw up my stomach when I didn't follow directions to take it with food. (Good god this drug means it!)
I remembered to take it every day by giving my cat his pill at the same time. Unfortunately, my cat's pill and my pill looked identical. I'm pretty sure I mixed them up at least once. And Isoniazid has a side effect opposite from the purpose of the medication my cat was on. (It kind of darkens the urine) Heh.
Anyhow, I lived in Alaska most of my life. However bad you think TB is in California, Alaska's got it beat. My mother got it a year or so before I did. She probably got it at work. Her job involved travelling out to remote villages on occasion, where access to health care can be spotty, and education on the subject equally so. She or any of her coworkers could have brought it back. I think it's most likely I picked it up at her office, but it could have been anywhere.
You could completely close off immigration and tourism into the US, and you'd still not get rid of TB, because rural Alaska is an intractible reservior of it. No matter how aggressive the TB programs are in Alaskan cities, it'll still be lurking in the villages. And the resources don't exist to eradicate it everywhere.
Eventually the US is going to have to cave in (like most of the developed world) and realize that the risk posed by TB vaccines is less than the disease itself, because people in general are too goddamned ignorant and/or stupid to control it otherwise.
I remember trying to donate blood when I was in japan, but being prevented from doing so because of my TB status. (I've heard conflicting stories about whether I can donate blood in the US) It may have just been my inadequate Japanese, but I don't think he understood how TB is handled in the US, he just assumed everyone is vaccinated.
How about a mercury telescope? Does mercury remain reflective if it freezes? You could make the thing huge, comparatively cheap, and if it solidifies, you could even point it where you want it. -38.83C, sounds about right.
They've been working on Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 concurrently, probably should have made them one project a lot sooner. And they've been constantly updating the original Half-life since it came out.
They haven't done nothing. They haven't RELEASED anything NEW. But if they hadn't done nothing, playing Half Life online would be like playing the original Diablo is now. (If you don't cheat, don't bother.)
Screw Counterstrike. Team Fortress has it all over CS. The only good Counterstrike map is that Pac-man map. Has it got anything to compare to Dustbowl? Doubt it.
The only good thing about Counterstrike is it can be played with only two people. TFC needs 8 to be good.