I had Comcast for past two years (I recently switched to AT&T) and didn't lease a set-top-box from Comcast: I have a TiVo Premiere and just rented a cable card from them. I have never had a Comcast DVR (been a TiVo owner since TiVo model 1), so I can't compare their features. But since I've always bought with lifetime subscriptions from TiVo, I've never been a renter. It works fine and even has a (crappy UI) working Xfinity on-demand app.
dude, you gotta check out the demo. I'm a big AOE2 fan/player as well, and the demo for SWGB is very disappointing... they seem to take AOE2, slap star wars graphics on it, then ass-ify it. The fighting units are hard(er) to control, you can't (at least in the demo) get them to stand their ground and do nothing/not attack.
I really wanted to get it, even after reading GameSpot's review, but now, I don't think I will.. at least not for $50 freakin dollars.
As an avid biker (I spent more on my last bike than my computer... so there!), I can tell you, riding a bike, not even mountain biking, will give you a six pack. Sit-ups, crunches, yes; biking no. But biking will give you bigger legs and a tighter butt (and if it's mountain biking, several scars, no doubt). The bigger legs make pants buying a pain, but at least my girlfriend likes the butt benefit.
Myst III is playable (from the same CDs) on both
Mac and Windows. I couldn't (stand to) play it
on my PC (voodoo 3 != 32bit color), but it looks
and plays just fine on my Powerbook.
BUUUUUTTTT, as for the game play, I'm sadly disappointed. It seems more linear than Riven or Myst and the puzzles are easier. I'm over 1/4 of
the way done with it and the best word I can use to describe it is: ok.
Despite the fact that no one will be willing to pay for something they won't actually own, the new Napster won't fly because they've taken away the only thing that made it pseudo-scalable: bandwidth. I don't care how much money they have, if every one of the trades going on has to go through their servers, there is now way they'll have the bandwidth to handle *anywhere near* the amount of people using it now.
Don't they know that mp3's aren't web pages? This is big data, lots of it. I would say that I hope they realize this, but since their encryption idea sucks (for the consumer), I really couldn't care less. They'll go down either way.
One thing that bothers me is the claim that my.mp3.com "allows people to listen to songs but not download them their computers." (sic)
That's untrue. My.mp3.com streams its files via http. How hard is that to capture? trivial. I used wget to grab whole albums that I had on my.mp3.com. In a twisted logic, it's the fastest way to rip the stuff you own.
This is just another example of a phrase I've been using when talking about this age: "to experience is to own". It's very, very, very hard, if not impossible, to present someone with the experience of a medium without their being able to capture it in some (useful) way. At some point, the signal will hit an interface not controlled by the media player : sound driver, video drivers, etc. Two simple examples are doing a screen capture to grab an image being displayed and (can't find the CNET article right now) that software that replaces your sound drivers on windows with a custom driver that can also record whatever is being played.
So, my.mp3.com might have stopped the clueless (wget impared) from getting the files, but let's be real (no pun intended), the songs were technically downloadable.
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I had Comcast for past two years (I recently switched to AT&T) and didn't lease a set-top-box from Comcast: I have a TiVo Premiere and just rented a cable card from them. I have never had a Comcast DVR (been a TiVo owner since TiVo model 1), so I can't compare their features. But since I've always bought with lifetime subscriptions from TiVo, I've never been a renter. It works fine and even has a (crappy UI) working Xfinity on-demand app.
dude, you gotta check out the demo. I'm a big AOE2 fan/player as well, and the demo for SWGB is very disappointing... they seem to take AOE2, slap star wars graphics on it, then ass-ify it. The fighting units are hard(er) to control, you can't (at least in the demo) get them to stand their ground and do nothing/not attack.
I really wanted to get it, even after reading GameSpot's review, but now, I don't think I will.. at least not for $50 freakin dollars.
As an avid biker (I spent more on my last bike than my computer... so there!), I can tell you, riding a bike, not even mountain biking, will give you a six pack. Sit-ups, crunches, yes; biking no. But biking will give you bigger legs and a tighter butt (and if it's mountain biking, several scars, no doubt). The bigger legs make pants buying a pain, but at least my girlfriend likes the butt benefit.
BUUUUUTTTT, as for the game play, I'm sadly disappointed. It seems more linear than Riven or Myst and the puzzles are easier. I'm over 1/4 of the way done with it and the best word I can use to describe it is: ok.
Don't they know that mp3's aren't web pages? This is big data, lots of it. I would say that I hope they realize this, but since their encryption idea sucks (for the consumer), I really couldn't care less. They'll go down either way.
One thing that bothers me is the claim that my.mp3.com "allows people to listen to songs but not download them their computers." (sic)
That's untrue. My.mp3.com streams its files via http. How hard is that to capture? trivial. I used wget to grab whole albums that I had on my.mp3.com. In a twisted logic, it's the fastest way to rip the stuff you own.
This is just another example of a phrase I've been using when talking about this age: "to experience is to own". It's very, very, very hard, if not impossible, to present someone with the experience of a medium without their being able to capture it in some (useful) way. At some point, the signal will hit an interface not controlled by the media player : sound driver, video drivers, etc. Two simple examples are doing a screen capture to grab an image being displayed and (can't find the CNET article right now) that software that replaces your sound drivers on windows with a custom driver that can also record whatever is being played.
So, my.mp3.com might have stopped the clueless (wget impared) from getting the files, but let's be real (no pun intended), the songs were technically downloadable.