9 gig isn't a lot anymore. Digital Distribution for very large games just isn't going to happen. For each piece of The Orange Box? Sure. Great. Zombies versus Plants? Yes. Metal Gear Solid 4? HELL NO. Killzone 2? Not through my pipe. Little Big Planet? not a fucking chance. DVD was great, and is great for it's use. Low resolution movies, and data storage of less than 9 gigs. Unfortunately, games aren't that small anymore. iD's Rage is going to be on two discs because of MS not being forward thinking. It's going to feature slightly lower texture quality too. Which is how it starts. I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIII or some other "next gen" game looks like garbage and is on 4 discs for 360 and looks fine on 1 disc on the PS3.
However, some UPnP servers are smart enough to know some UPnP clients can't decode certain files, so it, in real time, transcodes to formats they know are readable by most clients.
Specifically, i cited a hard drive, a pen drive, a keyboard, a mouse, a headset, and a standard usb HID device. Earlier someone cited that bluetooth versions(Where applicable) of these devices work just fine. In addition, so do UPnP servers.
With the 360, well, USB keyboards are usable but not in all games, 360 doesn't even have a web browser, so that's not even something to compare to(nor does MS give the option for Mouse/Keyboard play to devs, PS3 does even the ps2 supported it). Nor does it support HID devices. 360's WIRED headset options are generic, same as generic celphone 2.5" jack headsets, wireless, not so much.
Let's figure this out:
PS3:
Wireless Headset: Generic bluetooth - I already own one Controllers: Generic HID Devices(No SIXAXIS, but, for things like SF4 and Soul Calibur, not a big point, also, HAWX is compatible with generic USB devices too). - I already one several, in addition to PS2->USB adapters. Hard drives: Generic 2.5" SATA drives - Cheap as chips USB storage: Generic USB pendrives formatted for FAT32, works with saves(Where transferrable). - Already own one. A/V Cable: HDMI or A/V out from port, compatible with current PS2 cable. Wifi: Built in Remote: Bluetooth only, also can be controlled via wireless HID device
360:
Wireless Headset: 60 bucks. Controllers: 40 bucks wired, 50 wireless plus 20 for play and charge kit. Hard drives: 100 bucks for 60 gigs. USB storage: Supports NTFS, but must use proprietary memory unit to transfer saves, not all saves will transfer. Memory unit - 512mb for 50 bucks. A/V Cable: HDMI or A/V out from port, NOT compatible with current Xbox cable Wifi: 100 bucks for proprietary WiFi dongle. Remote: Proprietary remote, but is compatible with IR universal remotes
PS3 wins when it comes to nearly every accessory. The only accessory I've noticed that takes a huge loss is the remote. Given that most console gamers tend not to purchase much less use the optional remote, this isn't much of a win in the first place. Plus you can use any ol' HID device to control the PS3 for movie playback anyway.
Yes, Sony pulled the rootkit incident... ONCE. Nearly 4 years ago.
Conficker affects Windows 7 NOW. Microsoft also has had a really, REALLY long history of shoddy products. Bob? ME? IIS? IE? C'mooooon.
I'm not against the idea of emphasizing the digital downloads but the PSP might deemphasize the UMD, which is fine, i can still play all my old UMD based games. The problem is, right now, if my PSP craps out, it's far outside of warranty, and I don't want to get a used PSP. Period. A new UMDless PSP would *suck* for me at that point.
not in the, "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU IN MY BAG?!" benchmark. Otherwise, pretty true. The only problem is that the cost of stamping a UMD is still marginally cheaper than shipping out spare memory cards and online sales have the problem of, "oh shit, my memory card/hard drive/etc just ate itself, what now?" factor. WiiWare, XBLA and PSN have proven that online sales can work on consoles, there are still other hurdles to jump through.
But.. LEGO?! This is pretty fucking exploitative. Games are about money to gaming companies, I know. I understand that. It would be nice though if they started respecting my intelligence.
...this is precisely why we really need to reconsider our public schooling system.
If we abolish forced schooling, and insist that people "educate themselves" They'll find one of these scams, get taken for an expensive ride, and then left dumbfounded as to what happened.
Solid critical thinking skills start with a decent education. Decent education starts by making it free, neutral and accessible.
double click the [] button on the bottom of the iPhone/iPod Touch to also bring up a neat little popup giving you some rudimentary controls for the iPod app itself too.
MGS4 had plenty of gameplay. It's just that the Solid part of the Metal Gear series has been since 1998 dedicated to gamers who now have lives and professional careers and can't spend endless amount of hours crawling through games anymore. Play it in a weekend and be done.
The only aspect of gameplay cut from MGS3 to MGS4 was the healing and feeding systems. Which given the time elapsed from the start point to end point of missions, the food requirement made no sense. The sneaking suit's already camo, and temperature regulating, might as well take care of things like broken bones, and bleeds.
Also, play MGS4 on Boss Extreme difficulty. You're spending more time crawling through from point to point than watching cutscenes.
There's something funny about the idea that the party that wants to end any sort of regulation or oversight on business, big or small, is the party that will end corruption, particularly in the Governmental sector.
The difference is, archimedes, kepler, curie and einstein left proofs, and consistent logical systems as to why we should consider their work when looking forward. When considering the implications of 200 year old political ideals, most often left out are the context of the time versus the context of the present.
If the Founding Fathers were as sacred as many libertarians take them to be, the constitution would be a much different document.
but you're upstreaming your idea of what a political party is versus what his idea of a political party is.
Not just in the abstract concept of a group of people with similar political ideologies, but rather, their effect on the body politic and public as a whole.
Political parties are a fact of life in open political systems. People of similar ideologies will want to get together and act to further their shared goals.
Uh, ask George Washington what he thought about toothpaste.
It doesn't matter. I've seen a lot of really really rational people throw out their rationality when it comes to politics and cling to the great fallacy of arguing from authority. I don't care what George Washington thought. He's dead.
Let's focus on the now.
Now, we have a DOJ that's had it's hands deep in something it shouldn't have. The question now is, "what next?" This isn't a matter of simply pulling the plug on the operation. it's a matter of trying to figure out a messy complicated legal situation. Until then, they'll have to drag their feet.
The human body is pretty darn good at healing itself. There is absolutely no replacement for a decent diet, moderate exercise, and a positive attitude. The last factor alone has been repeatedly shown to boost immune system health over a variety of drug-based treatments.
I'd hate to burst your bubble, but germs don't care how happy you are, and your white blood cells don't work harder because you feel chipper.
The first two absolutely help in much higher quantities than the third, but if I have a disease like Legionellosis bring on the drugs.
I'd love to see an efficacy study done on happiness or attitude. I wonder how that experiment would be set up.
New LTE service also means that someone's going to have to support that network. Sales, customer service, tech support, network deployment, etc. etc. While the moderately well off get richer,a nd the obscenely wealthy get even richer, there's also the result of new jobs being created.
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Because DVD SUCKS now.
9 gig isn't a lot anymore. Digital Distribution for very large games just isn't going to happen. For each piece of The Orange Box? Sure. Great. Zombies versus Plants? Yes. Metal Gear Solid 4? HELL NO. Killzone 2? Not through my pipe. Little Big Planet? not a fucking chance. DVD was great, and is great for it's use. Low resolution movies, and data storage of less than 9 gigs. Unfortunately, games aren't that small anymore. iD's Rage is going to be on two discs because of MS not being forward thinking. It's going to feature slightly lower texture quality too. Which is how it starts. I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIII or some other "next gen" game looks like garbage and is on 4 discs for 360 and looks fine on 1 disc on the PS3.
UPnP serves up the plain ol' media to the client.
However, some UPnP servers are smart enough to know some UPnP clients can't decode certain files, so it, in real time, transcodes to formats they know are readable by most clients.
Specifically, i cited a hard drive, a pen drive, a keyboard, a mouse, a headset, and a standard usb HID device. Earlier someone cited that bluetooth versions(Where applicable) of these devices work just fine. In addition, so do UPnP servers.
With the 360, well, USB keyboards are usable but not in all games, 360 doesn't even have a web browser, so that's not even something to compare to(nor does MS give the option for Mouse/Keyboard play to devs, PS3 does even the ps2 supported it). Nor does it support HID devices. 360's WIRED headset options are generic, same as generic celphone 2.5" jack headsets, wireless, not so much.
Let's figure this out:
PS3:
Wireless Headset: Generic bluetooth - I already own one
Controllers: Generic HID Devices(No SIXAXIS, but, for things like SF4 and Soul Calibur, not a big point, also, HAWX is compatible with generic USB devices too). - I already one several, in addition to PS2->USB adapters.
Hard drives: Generic 2.5" SATA drives - Cheap as chips
USB storage: Generic USB pendrives formatted for FAT32, works with saves(Where transferrable). - Already own one.
A/V Cable: HDMI or A/V out from port, compatible with current PS2 cable.
Wifi: Built in
Remote: Bluetooth only, also can be controlled via wireless HID device
360:
Wireless Headset: 60 bucks.
Controllers: 40 bucks wired, 50 wireless plus 20 for play and charge kit.
Hard drives: 100 bucks for 60 gigs.
USB storage: Supports NTFS, but must use proprietary memory unit to transfer saves, not all saves will transfer. Memory unit - 512mb for 50 bucks.
A/V Cable: HDMI or A/V out from port, NOT compatible with current Xbox cable
Wifi: 100 bucks for proprietary WiFi dongle.
Remote: Proprietary remote, but is compatible with IR universal remotes
PS3 wins when it comes to nearly every accessory. The only accessory I've noticed that takes a huge loss is the remote. Given that most console gamers tend not to purchase much less use the optional remote, this isn't much of a win in the first place. Plus you can use any ol' HID device to control the PS3 for movie playback anyway.
Yes, Sony pulled the rootkit incident... ONCE. Nearly 4 years ago.
Conficker affects Windows 7 NOW. Microsoft also has had a really, REALLY long history of shoddy products. Bob? ME? IIS? IE? C'mooooon.
I play Street Fighter 4 with a generic USB headset, and a PS2->USB adapter using my Hori Real Arcade Pro 2.
I use the web browser with my generic usb keyboard and mouse.
I can hook up generic flash drives to back up save data and install movies.
I can upgrade my ps3 with a standard 2.5" SATA drive.
Yes, this crap needs to die.
Particularly when you consider MS wants 99 bucks for a 60gb drive.
because there's no way in hell I'm going to pull 50gb through my broadband connection? Even at 16 mb/s.
Patapon 2 is currently going digital only.
I'm not against the idea of emphasizing the digital downloads but the PSP might deemphasize the UMD, which is fine, i can still play all my old UMD based games. The problem is, right now, if my PSP craps out, it's far outside of warranty, and I don't want to get a used PSP. Period. A new UMDless PSP would *suck* for me at that point.
Sony hasn't leaked a damn thing.
This would mean that a vast majority of the PSP's game library would be unplayable since most of the games for the psp are on UMDs.
I've seen news stories of Dave Perry making claims that Sony's going in that direction, but, it would be horribly stupid.
Horribly. Horribly. Stupid.
not in the, "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU IN MY BAG?!" benchmark. Otherwise, pretty true. The only problem is that the cost of stamping a UMD is still marginally cheaper than shipping out spare memory cards and online sales have the problem of, "oh shit, my memory card/hard drive/etc just ate itself, what now?" factor. WiiWare, XBLA and PSN have proven that online sales can work on consoles, there are still other hurdles to jump through.
There's a cost barrier on UMD movies where it eventually makes sense.
Unfortunately for Sony that barrier is at about 5 bucks.
Yeah, I play good games, not RB/GH.
Are you fucking joking!?
WHY!?
I get RB: Beatles, or GH: Metallica.
But.. LEGO?! This is pretty fucking exploitative. Games are about money to gaming companies, I know. I understand that. It would be nice though if they started respecting my intelligence.
So aside from geographic IP mapping which is trivially defeated with proxies,
as someone who has tried to beat the BBC iPlayer geolocation filter, i can say this is not trivial.
Easy? Sure. but not trivial
m4a is proprietary to Apple? Since when?
vim! Vi is for socialist nazi rednecks
I love condoms. Then again I'm a rubber fetishist.
Right, because taxation never produces libraries, public roads, schools, an FDA, FCC, or any number of other services.
All taxation does is make a handful of oligarchs rich, right?
...this is precisely why we really need to reconsider our public schooling system.
If we abolish forced schooling, and insist that people "educate themselves" They'll find one of these scams, get taken for an expensive ride, and then left dumbfounded as to what happened.
Solid critical thinking skills start with a decent education. Decent education starts by making it free, neutral and accessible.
double click the [] button on the bottom of the iPhone/iPod Touch to also bring up a neat little popup giving you some rudimentary controls for the iPod app itself too.
MGS4 had plenty of gameplay. It's just that the Solid part of the Metal Gear series has been since 1998 dedicated to gamers who now have lives and professional careers and can't spend endless amount of hours crawling through games anymore. Play it in a weekend and be done.
The only aspect of gameplay cut from MGS3 to MGS4 was the healing and feeding systems. Which given the time elapsed from the start point to end point of missions, the food requirement made no sense. The sneaking suit's already camo, and temperature regulating, might as well take care of things like broken bones, and bleeds.
Also, play MGS4 on Boss Extreme difficulty. You're spending more time crawling through from point to point than watching cutscenes.
There's something funny about the idea that the party that wants to end any sort of regulation or oversight on business, big or small, is the party that will end corruption, particularly in the Governmental sector.
The difference is, archimedes, kepler, curie and einstein left proofs, and consistent logical systems as to why we should consider their work when looking forward. When considering the implications of 200 year old political ideals, most often left out are the context of the time versus the context of the present.
If the Founding Fathers were as sacred as many libertarians take them to be, the constitution would be a much different document.
but you're upstreaming your idea of what a political party is versus what his idea of a political party is.
Not just in the abstract concept of a group of people with similar political ideologies, but rather, their effect on the body politic and public as a whole.
Political parties are a fact of life in open political systems. People of similar ideologies will want to get together and act to further their shared goals.
Uh, ask George Washington what he thought about toothpaste.
It doesn't matter. I've seen a lot of really really rational people throw out their rationality when it comes to politics and cling to the great fallacy of arguing from authority. I don't care what George Washington thought. He's dead.
Let's focus on the now.
Now, we have a DOJ that's had it's hands deep in something it shouldn't have. The question now is, "what next?" This isn't a matter of simply pulling the plug on the operation. it's a matter of trying to figure out a messy complicated legal situation. Until then, they'll have to drag their feet.
The human body is pretty darn good at healing itself. There is absolutely no replacement for a decent diet, moderate exercise, and a positive attitude. The last factor alone has been repeatedly shown to boost immune system health over a variety of drug-based treatments.
I'd hate to burst your bubble, but germs don't care how happy you are, and your white blood cells don't work harder because you feel chipper.
The first two absolutely help in much higher quantities than the third, but if I have a disease like Legionellosis bring on the drugs.
I'd love to see an efficacy study done on happiness or attitude. I wonder how that experiment would be set up.
New LTE service also means that someone's going to have to support that network. Sales, customer service, tech support, network deployment, etc. etc. While the moderately well off get richer,a nd the obscenely wealthy get even richer, there's also the result of new jobs being created.