I bought a 60 GB USB WD drive for personal use. It broke down after three days. I sent it back (expensive) and they sent me a 120 GB drive. Nice, even though I spent more than I hoped.
The start-up time of a PSP can be a pain, therefore I never turn it off, just put it to sleep which gives me a near instant start-up. Playing for 20 minutes on the train every morning and evening is fine.
However, when playing, my right thumb hides the power light which starts flashing when the battery is almost empty. This means I always run out of battery before I can save. most of the time this is not a problem since after recharging I'm back where I left of, but not always.
The bugs in GTA is another story.
Browing the net on a PSP is great, but writing is a real pain. They could've at least put work completion in. Most mobile phones have it.
I did this. I switched from MP3 to Ogg a few years back, and boy do I regret it.
A few examples:
I bought a Kiss DVD player because it plays Oggs, however a few percent of my Ogg files makes the player hang. Since you can fit 800 songs on a DVD, it just doesn't work. Sometimes re-encoding them fixes this. I'v been in contact with the manufacturer but got no help there.
I got an Ogg-player for Palm Tungsten, however it doesn't allow you to delete files, so I have to re-format the MMC every time I want to change my selection.
And so many gadgets just doesn't play Ogg.
Now I'm back to MP3. It might be lagging behind technically, but it work everywhere. A bit like "vi".
Modern graphic games are not free from this. When I played Super Mario Sunshine (brilliant game btw): This was the first Mario gane I ever played. A lot of things didn't make sense. You learn the method to their madness after a while.
You pick up a fruit and walk past an egg. A dinosaur pops out. You sit up on the dinosaur and go for a ride. The dinosaur can barf fruit juice. Have the dinosaur eat the correct type of fruit and barf on a fish. The fish turns into a slab of some kind. Jump on the slab as it rises into the air. Do this a few times to get to the big, rotating star.
What were they smoking when they came up with this?
Don't buy a cheap motherboard. I bought two AsRock because a Linux shop in London (geekstop.co.uk) sold them as the low-end mobo. I never got the NIC to work on one, Linux won't shut down properly,
but the BIG PROBLEM is that whenever the CPU is busy, the sound is really crap, this includes playing games, and films. I can't run SETI and listen to music!
By the way, don't buy from GeekStop.co.uk. They don't know what they are doing. They installed faulty memory which showed up on a simple memory-tester. They sell hardware with Linux-problems.
For what it's worth. We play UT2k4 every day at the office, mostly Windows, but one Mac and one Linux client as well. We practically allways play the same thing: Onslaught, human vs. bots.
Wishlist:
* chat while loading (some PCs takes 40 seconds to load a level)
* bots = base + value * players (currently bots = value * players, can use floats, such as value=1.8, keep this, but add base)
* ability to add or remove bots in a running game, as per Quake III
* allow more than two teams (UT had up to four, much more interesting in Team Deathmatch)
If we could accurately calculate when we are going to be hit, we could try to speed up/slow down the moon (or another small-ish body in the solar system) to shield us.
We could do this by extracting power from tidal waves which are caused by the moon's rotation.
How about if you could get the original 32 (or whatever) tracks of the recordning all separate, before mixing and effects. Then add effects and mixing as separate, overridable information allowing you to mix and add effects as you see fit.
You could remove the drums from your favorite albums and add your own, singing with you favourite group, e.t.c.
Preferably one could get the MIDI files for synthesizers for further experimentation.
As added value the original artists of the band could all be lead vocalists on different tracks. Pick the one you like best!
Of course, you could always listened to the album the default way, but who would?
Now, THAT'S how music should be sold in the modern age.
I disagree. I held the same opinion as you when I was persuaded to compare. It turned out that the same music sounded better on an expensive LP player than on an equaly expensive CD player.
Having said that, I've found that some music actually sound WORSE on better equipment, for some reason, so in a way it might depend on you taste.:-/
Not neccessarily. You could have a set time limit for your turn, say 10 seconds, and everyone have to plan their move simultaneously.
This is basically what MMORPGs does today, but slower. I've heard that Anarchy Online, for example, updates once every second, in effect making it turn-based.
Of course with more units, you lose control, but one could make up for that by assigning default actions for idle units, which is how most RTSs works anyway.
I seem to remember enjoying playing CivNet in simultaneous mode a few time; same thing but on a smaller scale.
I can see myself buying in to this, mainly because most games these days are just too long. I play video games five to ten hours a week. Most games takes 40+ hours to complete. That sucks.
I don't want to spend eight weeks with a game. I would probably play more different games for a shorter time, while coming back to favourites when new episodes are released.
You do that. Me, I think software is more important that casing for hardware though. I'm really looking forward to Pikmin 2. I think it's supposed to have co-operative two-player mode.
Just bought my first console ever, at 35. It was a Gamecube, because the games are supposed to be better. They are so far. I tried DC, Xbox, PS2 and GC.
My PC runs Linux since -98. I haven't used Mac since -89.
I can not take seriously an article suggesting EverQuest to be the most popular MMORPG. Has the author been living under a rock (or in USA) the last three years?
Ever heard of Lineage: Bloodpledge? 5-10 million subscribers is surely a tad more than EQ.
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It also says 39% play games and 74% of games exercise compared to 61% of the whole population.
Now, that means only 32% of non-gamers exercise.
You'd think that would be big news too.
Why not ask them?
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https://corporate.visa.com/ut/contactform.jsp?tit
You didn't read the article, did you?
But then again, you might be right. Autism might cause rain.
You didn't read the article, did you?
Being autistic doesn't cause it to rain more, last time I checked.
I bought a 60 GB USB WD drive for personal use. It broke down after three days. I sent it back (expensive) and they sent me a 120 GB drive. Nice, even though I spent more than I hoped.
I've got both PSP and DS.
The start-up time of a PSP can be a pain, therefore I never turn it off, just put it to sleep which gives me a near instant start-up. Playing for 20 minutes on the train every morning and evening is fine.
However, when playing, my right thumb hides the power light which starts flashing when the battery is almost empty. This means I always run out of battery before I can save. most of the time this is not a problem since after recharging I'm back where I left of, but not always.
The bugs in GTA is another story.
Browing the net on a PSP is great, but writing is a real pain. They could've at least put work completion in. Most mobile phones have it.
I did this. I switched from MP3 to Ogg a few years back, and boy do I regret it.
A few examples:
I bought a Kiss DVD player because it plays Oggs, however a few percent of my Ogg files makes the player hang. Since you can fit 800 songs on a DVD, it just doesn't work. Sometimes re-encoding them fixes this. I'v been in contact with the manufacturer but got no help there.
I got an Ogg-player for Palm Tungsten, however it doesn't allow you to delete files, so I have to re-format the MMC every time I want to change my selection.
And so many gadgets just doesn't play Ogg.
Now I'm back to MP3. It might be lagging behind technically, but it work everywhere. A bit like "vi".
Modern graphic games are not free from this. When I played Super Mario Sunshine (brilliant game btw): This was the first Mario gane I ever played. A lot of things didn't make sense. You learn the method to their madness after a while.
You pick up a fruit and walk past an egg. A dinosaur pops out. You sit up on the dinosaur and go for a ride. The dinosaur can barf fruit juice. Have the dinosaur eat the correct type of fruit and barf on a fish. The fish turns into a slab of some kind. Jump on the slab as it rises into the air. Do this a few times to get to the big, rotating star.
What were they smoking when they came up with this?
Why not just put a wind-powered generator on the climber? No need to bring power with you, just grab it from the wind arround you.
You might even have the crawler move using the movement of a fan alone, without converting it into electricity first.
Should work on Earth and Mars, a little more problematic on the Moon.
Just a thought.
Don't buy a cheap motherboard. I bought two AsRock because a Linux shop in London (geekstop.co.uk) sold them as the low-end mobo. I never got the NIC to work on one, Linux won't shut down properly,
but the BIG PROBLEM is that whenever the CPU is busy, the sound is really crap, this includes playing games, and films. I can't run SETI and listen to music!
By the way, don't buy from GeekStop.co.uk. They don't know what they are doing. They installed faulty memory which showed up on a simple memory-tester. They sell hardware with Linux-problems.
For what it's worth. We play UT2k4 every day at the office, mostly Windows, but one Mac and one Linux client as well. We practically allways play the same thing: Onslaught, human vs. bots.
Wishlist:
* chat while loading (some PCs takes 40 seconds to load a level)
* bots = base + value * players (currently bots = value * players, can use floats, such as value=1.8, keep this, but add base)
* ability to add or remove bots in a running game, as per Quake III
* allow more than two teams (UT had up to four, much more interesting in Team Deathmatch)
If we could accurately calculate when we are going to be hit, we could try to speed up/slow down the moon (or another small-ish body in the solar system) to shield us.
We could do this by extracting power from tidal waves which are caused by the moon's rotation.
Considering USA is so bloody scared of Cuba, I wouldn't find it strange at all if you are scared of North Korea.
Spanish civil war, where the fascists of Spain, Germany and Italy crushed the Spanish republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
How about if you could get the original 32 (or whatever) tracks of the recordning all separate, before mixing and effects. Then add effects and mixing as separate, overridable information allowing you to mix and add effects as you see fit.
You could remove the drums from your favorite albums and add your own, singing with you favourite group, e.t.c.
Preferably one could get the MIDI files for synthesizers for further experimentation.
As added value the original artists of the band could all be lead vocalists on different tracks. Pick the one you like best!
Of course, you could always listened to the album the default way, but who would?
Now, THAT'S how music should be sold in the modern age.
I disagree. I held the same opinion as you when I was persuaded to compare. It turned out that the same music sounded better on an expensive LP player than on an equaly expensive CD player.
:-/
Having said that, I've found that some music actually sound WORSE on better equipment, for some reason, so in a way it might depend on you taste.
Not neccessarily. You could have a set time limit for your turn, say 10 seconds, and everyone have to plan their move simultaneously.
This is basically what MMORPGs does today, but slower. I've heard that Anarchy Online, for example, updates once every second, in effect making it turn-based.
Of course with more units, you lose control, but one could make up for that by assigning default actions for idle units, which is how most RTSs works anyway.
I seem to remember enjoying playing CivNet in simultaneous mode a few time; same thing but on a smaller scale.
It's excellent. I haven't used Gnutella since.
It's so cheap, and I can choose compression level.
I do think the artists get paid, but I would think the payment is more in line with broadcast than albums.
Their selection is really good, and growing.
The one thing I miss, is being able to view a list of an artist's songs alphabetically. It's too album oriented right now.
Will www.allofmp3.com do?
I've been using it for a few months now.
You are missing the point. The conversion is done. The game is multi-platform in other territories, but in Europe it's only PS2.
It's sad. If the publisher thinks they'll get more money for Sony than from European GC and Xbox owners, what can we do? It's market forces at work.
I can see myself buying in to this, mainly because most games these days are just too long. I play video games five to ten hours a week. Most games takes 40+ hours to complete. That sucks.
I don't want to spend eight weeks with a game. I would probably play more different games for a shorter time, while coming back to favourites when new episodes are released.
You do that. Me, I think software is more important that casing for hardware though. I'm really looking forward to Pikmin 2. I think it's supposed to have co-operative two-player mode.
No, Halo was unique. It is the best co-op shooter I've seen so far. Gameplay!
Just bought my first console ever, at 35. It was a Gamecube, because the games are supposed to be better. They are so far. I tried DC, Xbox, PS2 and GC.
My PC runs Linux since -98. I haven't used Mac since -89.
I can not take seriously an article suggesting EverQuest to be the most popular MMORPG. Has the author been living under a rock (or in USA) the last three years?
Ever heard of Lineage: Bloodpledge? 5-10 million subscribers is surely a tad more than EQ.