I dunno how many releases there are, buy IMDb lists less than 400000 movies total. Not all would be on DVD, but there would be DVDs not listed there (I have a few Asian ones, for example).
I've got a PS2, a DS and a 360. Those happen to be the three most sold, although comparing the Wii and PS3 yet is unfair because they're new. But looking at plans for releases, it seems Sony aren't killing off the PS2 yet. Wii is also torn off shelves the moment they get on the shelves, while PS3s are collecting dust, with the occasional sale. Once they get to Europe, I'm guessing it'll be an even split between people who believe in it as a gaming console and people who want a Blu-Ray player with "something extra" causing the initial rush of sales, then it'll taper off just like the US sales. I could be wrong. Perhaps they'll even release games for it someday.
MPEG4 is a different beast, processing-wise, ESPECIALLY when pumping out at 720p and 1080p resolutions. The latter is 19xx by 1080 pixels. Try that on a cheapass chipset. A hidef movie is 4-5 times the size of a DVD, so that's up to five times as much processing power. But the algorithms require more processing power than MPEG2 for the same amount, so it's really much more. Then going from 720x480 (or x512) pixels to 1080p is another huge leap in processing. It's 2.5 times the number of pixels both horizontally and vertically.
We're on the way to get it all on a chip or two, I'm sure, but it's still going to take a decent GPU and CPU to pump all that hidef goodness to our screens.
If indeed they make a friggin' firewall between "us and them", you've got to remember Norway is the home of many hackers *with attitude*. I'd expect circumvention mechanisms to be ready on the first day. That is, if the politicians are actually drunk enough to let this pass.
Well, the censorship was sort of removed recently. We can now stream all the cocks and pussies we want. Still not 100% certain what's allowed or not, but I've seen ads.
We do, however, have lots of cool ads you won't see in the US. "We love boobs!"
In short, they want to block everything with hate (hey, my private server would be blocked!), and everything else resolving to the same IP-address. So if you want to get the competition shut down, and they use a shared webhost, just buy cheap space from the same provider and post something really, really nasty. What is considered nasty? Well, that's up to them to decide. For the good of the people.
What about the Starforce petitions/hatesites? Ubisoft and others stopped using it, and developers in general started to become more aware of what their publishers were doing to their products.
Hey, that could only be the beginning - the rest of the movie could be a Passion of the Christ-style extended torture scene involving the descendants of Monsanto >:)
I actually think Viva Piñata looks prettier than Gears of War. Gears is all dark metal textures, blocky characters with no neck and heavy use of the word 'fuck' so they can say IT'S A MATURE TITLE. Viva is colourful and fuzzy, and I like the animation better. The critters are softer - gears don't animate much beyond moving their limbs and jaws, while piñatas have soft, deformable bodies. I don't count 'sploding the enemy in Gears:)
I have no issues with the graphics of Oblivion on 360 - I have both that and the Windows version. The problems I've run into with the PC version haven't shown up at all on the console. I also run the PC version at 1024x768, while the 360 runs at 720p, which is slightly more in the horizontal aspect, so they're pretty much the same resolution. I'll give them the load time, though it could be coded into the 360 version to check for the existence of a harddrive, I'm sure..
You can switch sigs off, you know. I have. So when I see an ad-link at the end of a post still, that person goes on my *special* list, because I know they're trying to circumvent my preferences, and hence, are assholes.
You are not thinking complicated enough. You want ASRock to make their BIOS accept a BIOS update on a CD and apply it directly, like several other motherboard manufacturers have done for a long time. This isn't always clear from the box, but if a mobo package brags about MP3 playing without booting an OS, it's pretty likely you can just put a BIOS with a specific name on a rewritable CD, or even a USB stick, and push an F-key directly after power-on to apply it.
ASUS and Gigabyte are some that have this option. One MSI board I had didn't even need a functional BIOS to boot a floppy to un-fuck it, but the best boards are those with a backup BIOS. They can always be recovered if you completely destroy the regular BIOS.
XBox Live Arcade doesn't exclusively contain games ported from the arcades.
There are PopCap games and other such casual games, newer arcade-style shooters (one was released this week) and other games. 'Arcade' is actually a collection of styles that some sort their games by. See online game stores, where you'll often find the Arcade/Action categories.
Castlevania:SotN is an arcade-style game, so it does belong in the XBLA:)
Average wages in Norway and the US are about the same, and here the locals will pay around $854 for the low-end model. But Norwegians are taxed halfway to death.
Those prohibitions are so easily broken that they're effectively useless. How are they going to detect what sort of embedded Linux you're running, anyway? It's easy to lie even if there are identifying marks.
>the items in the xbox shop are much cheaper and at the same time harder to pirate.
This doesn't matter, except for the Live Arcade, because only North America has access to rentable movies and TV show episodes. MS has STILL given no hint about when they're going to give the rest of the world access to all that downloadable, passive entertainment.
Apple computers aren't like Linux computers. When you buy them, you're supposed to get all support for the included hardware and software from Apple, not run around contacting the original manufacturers of each component. Or has that changed? Are you completely without rights after paying the high price of a Mac?
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I dunno how many releases there are, buy IMDb lists less than 400000 movies total.
:P
Not all would be on DVD, but there would be DVDs not listed there (I have a few Asian ones, for example).
Porn probably adds three times that
HDMI with HDCP has DRM, yes. It's not a function of HDMI itself. Besides, there are monitors with HDCP on DVI.
I've got a PS2, a DS and a 360. Those happen to be the three most sold, although comparing the Wii and PS3
yet is unfair because they're new. But looking at plans for releases, it seems Sony aren't killing off the PS2 yet.
Wii is also torn off shelves the moment they get on the shelves, while PS3s are collecting dust, with the occasional
sale. Once they get to Europe, I'm guessing it'll be an even split between people who believe in it as a gaming
console and people who want a Blu-Ray player with "something extra" causing the initial rush of sales, then it'll
taper off just like the US sales. I could be wrong. Perhaps they'll even release games for it someday.
MPEG4 is a different beast, processing-wise, ESPECIALLY when pumping out at 720p and 1080p resolutions.
The latter is 19xx by 1080 pixels. Try that on a cheapass chipset. A hidef movie is 4-5 times the size of a DVD,
so that's up to five times as much processing power. But the algorithms require more processing power than
MPEG2 for the same amount, so it's really much more. Then going from 720x480 (or x512) pixels to 1080p is
another huge leap in processing. It's 2.5 times the number of pixels both horizontally and vertically.
We're on the way to get it all on a chip or two, I'm sure, but it's still going to take a decent GPU and CPU to
pump all that hidef goodness to our screens.
If indeed they make a friggin' firewall between "us and them", you've got to remember Norway is the home
of many hackers *with attitude*. I'd expect circumvention mechanisms to be ready on the first day.
That is, if the politicians are actually drunk enough to let this pass.
Just some radicals at "Stortinget", the place where politicians go to drink.
Well, the censorship was sort of removed recently. We can now stream all the cocks and pussies we want.
Still not 100% certain what's allowed or not, but I've seen ads.
We do, however, have lots of cool ads you won't see in the US. "We love boobs!"
Hate: Any text we don't like!
In short, they want to block everything with hate (hey, my private server would be blocked!),
and everything else resolving to the same IP-address. So if you want to get the competition
shut down, and they use a shared webhost, just buy cheap space from the same provider
and post something really, really nasty. What is considered nasty? Well, that's up to them to
decide. For the good of the people.
What about the Starforce petitions/hatesites? Ubisoft and others stopped using it,
and developers in general started to become more aware of what their publishers
were doing to their products.
Simply removing the .act files did the job nicely for me. Clippy and friends gone!
Hey, that could only be the beginning - the rest of the movie could be a Passion of the Christ-style
extended torture scene involving the descendants of Monsanto >:)
I actually think Viva Piñata looks prettier than Gears of War. Gears is all dark metal textures, blocky characters :)
with no neck and heavy use of the word 'fuck' so they can say IT'S A MATURE TITLE. Viva is colourful and fuzzy,
and I like the animation better. The critters are softer - gears don't animate much beyond moving their limbs and jaws,
while piñatas have soft, deformable bodies. I don't count 'sploding the enemy in Gears
I have no issues with the graphics of Oblivion on 360 - I have both that and the Windows version. The problems I've
run into with the PC version haven't shown up at all on the console. I also run the PC version at 1024x768, while the 360
runs at 720p, which is slightly more in the horizontal aspect, so they're pretty much the same resolution. I'll give them the
load time, though it could be coded into the 360 version to check for the existence of a harddrive, I'm sure..
Where's the multiplayer review? That's a whole different game.
Dead Rising. Lost Planet. Japanese style, japanese developers. Dead Rising IS a system-seller :)
You can switch sigs off, you know. I have. So when I see an ad-link at the end of a post still,
that person goes on my *special* list, because I know they're trying to circumvent my preferences,
and hence, are assholes.
You are not thinking complicated enough. You want ASRock to make their BIOS accept a BIOS
update on a CD and apply it directly, like several other motherboard manufacturers have done
for a long time. This isn't always clear from the box, but if a mobo package brags about MP3 playing
without booting an OS, it's pretty likely you can just put a BIOS with a specific name on a rewritable
CD, or even a USB stick, and push an F-key directly after power-on to apply it.
ASUS and Gigabyte are some that have this option. One MSI board I had didn't even need a functional
BIOS to boot a floppy to un-fuck it, but the best boards are those with a backup BIOS. They can
always be recovered if you completely destroy the regular BIOS.
Children of Men had been played at many festivals before the December "premiere".
But at least they're working on it. Perhaps we may one day see a cure for altruism.
XBox Live Arcade doesn't exclusively contain games ported from the arcades.
:)
There are PopCap games and other such casual games, newer arcade-style shooters
(one was released this week) and other games. 'Arcade' is actually a collection of
styles that some sort their games by. See online game stores, where you'll often find the
Arcade/Action categories.
Castlevania:SotN is an arcade-style game, so it does belong in the XBLA
Average wages in Norway and the US are about the same, and here the locals will pay
around $854 for the low-end model. But Norwegians are taxed halfway to death.
Those prohibitions are so easily broken that they're effectively useless.
How are they going to detect what sort of embedded Linux you're running, anyway?
It's easy to lie even if there are identifying marks.
>the items in the xbox shop are much cheaper and at the same time harder to pirate.
This doesn't matter, except for the Live Arcade, because only North America has access to rentable
movies and TV show episodes. MS has STILL given no hint about when they're going to give the
rest of the world access to all that downloadable, passive entertainment.
Apple computers aren't like Linux computers. When you buy them, you're supposed to get all support for the
included hardware and software from Apple, not run around contacting the original manufacturers of each
component. Or has that changed? Are you completely without rights after paying the high price of a Mac?