While I don't agree with the Church/State bit, I wholeheartedly believe in parental responsibility for their children's actions. (For the record, I have a wife and two sons)
If I see another newscast about some teen's crime (shooting, carjacking, rape, etc.) and the mom gets on camera, teary-eyed and bawling, "My baby would never do that!" then I'm going to perpetrate some violence of my own.
Columbine was horrible, but for the parents to claim ignorance is hard to swallow. I don't expect every parent to know 100% of their kids' comings and goings, but damn, this wasn't like they was sneaking porno!
I grew up bullied and had many violent fantasies but my parents (both of whom worked for most of my at-home years) were empathic enough to know something was up and to ASK.
Fortunately, my wife is able to stay home (she had the choice and chose home) with the kids and so far, so good. But as others have/will have said by now, it is pretty much impossible to raise a family on just one salary.
I make an excellent salary and our house payment is low, but we're not far from needing to replace 13 and 11-year-old cars and we could really use an extra bedroom.
My wife asks me sometimes, over bill-paying, if I want her to go back to work. My answer is always no, not just because she's great with the kids and all, but because of the turmoil it would throw into our marital relationship as well. I feel the strength of our love for each other is as important as at-home parenting to the kids not growing into serial killers.
My apologies, InstantCool...I wasn't really responding to your assertion that PS2s would replace PS/2s;)
What I was angling for was how net access could complement the gaming experience and perhaps move it forward, like with your wireless key-ball idea.
My points were based on my personal setting, which may or may not reflect others'. My PC is in my bedroom and the PS2 is in the living room. My wife uses the PC a lot and we have to work around each other. Also, we're on dial-up right now, and with 2 curious kids, we keep the machine OFF as much as possible. Further, I stay up later than she does and can't use the computer at night - peak gaming hours!
I see a day when I have broadband/DSL and network the connection so both the PC and console have high-speed access. I'd suspect that whatever browser they come up with will have miniscule load-times since it will probably run off a very small kernel and won't have any overhead.
Ok, A - the PS2 has standard USB ports on it! As long as the browser reads the ports, mouse and keyboard work fine! And they don't have to be Sony brand!
B - Net access on the console (oh dear God please don't let it be Nutscrape...My own crappy little website doesn't even work in Nutscrape!) would be super-convenient: Stuck in Silent Hill 2? Save game, hop on over to Usenet, a quick search later, and voila!
C - Companies like InterAct are gonna be all over this with direct GameShark/other cheat device/other interface device updates from their sites - no PC or link cable needed.
And finally, D - Try before you buy. Most big games have demos that don't get a lot of distribution (I'm still trying to buy the GT3 demo...). If they can figure out some way to package them for online distro, gamers could select from a wide range of demos to test out. I suppose online rentals could be handled similarly, but then you get into all the piracy...
GTRacer
- Has large display boxes for all versions of GT
Until recently, I had my N64 on top of my unused PSX and so any time my kids entered the zone of death and activated the trap, the N64 would fall forward about a foot, hanging from its power supply, undamaged and still on.
This of course, pissed me off considerably and I think I have finally modified, through behavioural techniques, my children. They don't walk there any more.
My 7-month old PS2 has only been yanked once, and that was when my little one swiped some candy and tried to escape from Mom.
GTRacer
- Toys 'R Us offering GT3 A-Spec AND Interact V3 wheel for $60.oo when pre-ordered!
What if Nokia (1) uses their profits to fund dev costs and (2) finds a way to make these things for $250.00 a pop?
Couldn't they then charge $300 and make fifty bucks a sale? I'm being theoretical, but maybe by going off-the-shelf and OS they can save a helluva lot of the dev costs. Or pay cash.
Or maybe they AREN'T trying to profit heavily. Maybe they want some press and need a (relatively) small loss to offset something on the ol' annual report?
GTRacer
- Homer Simpson is to doughnuts as I am to GT
I've been thinking of power/actuation systems for a Battlebot for some time now. I'm leaning toward a compact spherical robot and was wondering - electric or hydraulic?
Oh, the other Rossum.
Uhhh... I don't really have a programming question, I haven't gotten that far with the 'bot yet. Sorry!
Ever think maybe O'Reilly makes efforts to promote colorful names? Makes their job of choosing cover art for the SAGAN billions and billions/SAGAN books they produce that much easier!
From what I read, even though it has USB ports, they've been M$-ified to not accept standard USB devices - wouldn't want any licensing fees to escape, now would we?
I've heard two answers to the "Will it have a keyboard/mouse?" queston: Yes, but it will be a proprietary keyboard, and No, we are making a game machine.
I'd have to think if they are serious about gaming, especially FPS and RTS gaming, that a keyboard/mouse setup would be mandatory, no?
GTRacer
- Glad I bought a PS2 with mostly standard USB (but I'll still buy an XBox anyway {Go Apache!})
Hey now, not ALL the wedges are junk! What about Cassius? Sweet robot, right! Has any other bot consistently gone after the house robots as Rex did with Cassius?
And yes, the American sportscasters must go. Put them in the ring and see how long they last!
Why is everybody so down on AYBABTU? Am I the only person here who realises that, while in specific it isn't all that impressive, in general it really highlights the power of the Internet?!
I mean, look at it this way...There have been several parodies of the original now, and a lot of them were total ass (the one on SurvivorSucks comes to mind.) But that's not the point. It's the idea that any schlep with some wit and maybe some talent can do such a thing and have thousands of people see it.
Instant, low-cost, idea-sharing. Maybe not the best ideas, but still...
Which will it be? The Internet on Micro$oft/AOL-TW/(insert megacorp here)'s terms? Or on ours? We as a collective might not always say the brightest things, but we can still say them!
GTRacer
- Vagrant Story, or How Not To Let a Little Thing Like Assassination Get in the Way of Your Self-Actualization
And besides, you have to give some credit to the AYBABTU images that were real meatspace hacks and not Gimped.
I would've bought a Dreamcast months ago, even before the eventual demise and price drop. DC has some killer games and they usually enhance their arcade ports. They seem to have the most original games (Samba De Amigo, JGR) - well, in the US anyway. I would LOVE to find a Sega Sports edition black DC to go alongside my PS2 and N64. I love games and I don't care who makes them.
So why haven't I joined the DC minions? Because that standard controller is total ass, that's why! I am 29 and therefore do not have the hands of an 8-year-old. I cannot easily single out the A, B, X, Y face buttons. Explain to me how I'm supposed to use analog gas and brake and shift using A and B. Please! Because I'd love to get Sega GT and Sega Rally II...
P.S. The DS2 is an evolution of the PS1's DS revolution. Name me a better controller config. 10 buttons (+ start and select), 2 analog sticks and a d-pad, all within easy reach of adult fingers. The evolution is the pressure sensitivity of ALL the buttons! So far, I've only played one analog-button game, Moto GP, but it works and works well!!
Just wait until GT3 comes out and you can shift with clutch pressure and still have analog gas, brake, and steering.
And just where does Miyamoto-san get off saying the GameCube controller is so revolutionary? It looks an awful lot like a bloated dual shock on the rag...
Fair use states (IANAL) that if you own it, you can listen on whatever player you have.
For some, like me, who listen at work, the answer is to rip my legally-purchased and rightfully owned CDs to MP3 and play MusicMatch all day at work. This leaves my originals safe at home where I don't have an MP3 player.
There's also the matter of backup. By ripping your own stuff, you ensure that your $15.99 "license" is protected. When the RIAA says they'll replace any CD any time without questions asked, a la Craftsman, THEN backup becomes irrelevant.
I thought WindowsUpdate went all the way back to Win95/98! And it definitely works on WinNT!
Unless you have a firewall configged to block ALL ActiveX and Java applets...Good thing our other ISP is not firewalled outbound ^_^
P.S. As it happens, I am the primary F/W admin, but my director has been bitten by Java-based attacks like the GoHip home page redirector and our crappy-but-we-paid-too-much-to-change-it-now F/W won't filter ActiveX or Java per client. DUH~!
GTRacer
- Running Apache on WinNT for as long as GT3 has been delayed...
Just a quick comment on your sig...I have read it maybe 50 times over the last few months and just now, curiosity got the better of me.
You're right, Feldman's got some orbs there!
GTRacer
- (in response to queries about shipping dates for GT3)
SONY: All your race are belong to us. You have no chance to steer drive make your line.
(Ok, by WE, I'm assuming you mean Net- or SysAdmins.)
Where the hell do you live that you can just change jobs in a heartbeat? If you tell me northeast Florida, I'll be your best friend for life if you SHOW me where these jobs are, assuming further that they pay market rates.
I've been looking for awhile and I haven't run across a mountain of opportunities yet, excluding those that underpay.
That being said, I will mention that my boss isn't completely locked in to M$ "products" and is working on a "OSS freebies for casual users, Retail software for power users if they don't like the OSS alternatives" policy. Pretty forward thinking!
GTRacer
- Only 3 months until GT3 hits th...5 months unt...SONY: All your race are belong to us. You have no chance to steer drive make your line.
Being able to properly and efficiently use the combined experience of thousands of geeks who have gone before makes me less of a "True Geek (tm)"?
How does using Usenet differ from troubleshooting a network client with a manual in hand? And really! Who can be expected to know every single error message the Collective can attack with?
I like to think my net admin and hardware skills are pretty l337 but I'll be the first to admit I'm not fully MCSE-compliant. That said, I've worked for the past 3 years at sub-200 employee companies with tiny networks and tinier I/T staffs. The upshot of which is I have to be net admin, security manager, help desk, warehouse admin, and reporting specialist, all in a single domain model with only 3 other servers and maybe 50 clients.
It's a little hard to be a perfect MCSE when the resources to learn and experience from just aren't there. Wait, let me clarify - I get a LOT of experience in different areas (see previous list), but it doesn't get very deep for the most part. At the same time, I don't think using Deja/Google doesn't make me a paper MCSE either.
There has to be a middle ground in the real v. paper MCSE elitist crap that goes on. Some of us are just luckier in our work environments, others, not so much...
And another thing, I install free/shareware and test it like it's going out of style. I currently have 97 folders under Program Files and countless shell and browser plugins. I see a lot of strange crap and without Usenet I'd never be able to figure some of it out.
P.S. While I'm at it, if anyone can tell me why Gimp for Windows dated 10/23 and 11/26 won't save files in WinNT, I'll be very grateful! And why Forte for Java 2.0 on jdk 1.30 crashes during install?
P.P.S. I know you didn't specifically mention NT and MCSE's, that's just my perspective.
GTRacer
-- Not willing to pay upwards of $60.00 for the GT3 demo disc...I'll pay $30!
You know, I can sympathise with you about these peeps needing to get a life - but I won't!
Here's the deal - I'm uber-competitive and hate to lose at anything. I don't play games where luck is a greater component than skill. When not playing with others, I cheat. My wife doesn't understand why I'm so competitive and take losing so seriously.
One day, I finally had my answer: I care because my gameplay is a reflection on my abilities and/or intelligence. Simple as that. Some 12-year-old punk wastes me at Tekken Tag or the Grid, well I must be a moron and back to practice.
Also, what about the emotional involvement? Pride? Ambition? Power? Have you never felt anything for a character you've played? I can't speak for PC MMPORGs but on console, I very much give a damn about the characters I've spent weeks building up.
It's no substitute for life, but gaming can be a healthy complement to a real life! Don't like games, go do something else!
GTRacer
--Hopefully going online to kick ass with GT3
WTF? In the three minutes it took me to type my reply, 31 people posted? Where do you people work that you can reload/. by the minute, and can I have a job?
GTRacer
-- Racing for frist post -- oops, first place!
Dammit! In the time it took me to read the uncommented main story, two people posted!
Anyway, wouldn't the book authors/publishers/etc. have been compensated on the sale of the original book?
Maybe the book sucked and the original owner wanted to distribute the suckness at a lower average cost to hardworking people?
Whatever... I just spent about 90 minutes reading the story about CPRM standards for hard drives. This IP control is really pissing me off!
What happens, after several years - decades? - of this crap, when laws applied to intellectual property made real (physical media) are eventually applied to real property? You thought pissing away $25 for a different region DVD or $180 for a replacement OS is bad? How long until cars or houses are licensed?
First music, then movies, then books, then what? A cerebral implant to prevent us from having unlicensed thoughts?
*BEEP* Mind:GTRacer caused an exception error x00000005 - Access Violation - You have not licensed that thought of Natalie Portman
alarosa: Jan 2001 is the expected Japanese release of GT3 A-Spec (name changed to protect the delay). The US release is expected a couple of months after, a 'la GT1.
Personally, considering how bad GT2 was because SCEA rushed Polyphony, I hope it gets delayed further...
Kibo: If you weren't on an S-Video connection then you should probably wait. However, at S-Video or Component there are a couple of games that look quite nice: Tekken Tag, SSX, DoA2 Hardcore, Smuggler's Run. Madden's not too bad either.
Could you have been watching ESPN Winter X? I've heard that one's not as crisp as SSX. Chunky snowflakes?
And before you jump all over me for including Smuggler's Run: Rent it (or whatever) and Joy Ride the Winter level. Find the tall mountain and make your way to the top (about 6 times around). Carefully turn 360 degrees and marvel at the 2+ mile visibility...
I never said PS2 had beaten DC. That's gonna take at least one more generation. However, I'll bet my Gran Turismo Skyline Hybrid with 1535hp that the PS2 improves dramtically between its generations, more so than DC has.
Totally aside, I read that Resident Evil: Code Veronica was being ported to PS2, but as Sega did most of the work for Capcom, Sega might actually see royalties from a PS2 game. Now that should make you happy!
AC #2 - My Sarcas-o-meter(r) is busted and I'm not sure of your intent. Anyway, I happen to like sitting on the floor level (not the balcony/stadium level) as close to center as I can. As I happen to be one of the few people on this planet who do, I ususally have no problems getting seats I like. But you remember the lines for EP1 right? All the seats were taken about 5 minutes after they let us in...
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While I don't agree with the Church/State bit, I wholeheartedly believe in parental responsibility for their children's actions. (For the record, I have a wife and two sons)
If I see another newscast about some teen's crime (shooting, carjacking, rape, etc.) and the mom gets on camera, teary-eyed and bawling, "My baby would never do that!" then I'm going to perpetrate some violence of my own.
Columbine was horrible, but for the parents to claim ignorance is hard to swallow. I don't expect every parent to know 100% of their kids' comings and goings, but damn, this wasn't like they was sneaking porno!
I grew up bullied and had many violent fantasies but my parents (both of whom worked for most of my at-home years) were empathic enough to know something was up and to ASK.
Fortunately, my wife is able to stay home (she had the choice and chose home) with the kids and so far, so good. But as others have/will have said by now, it is pretty much impossible to raise a family on just one salary.
I make an excellent salary and our house payment is low, but we're not far from needing to replace 13 and 11-year-old cars and we could really use an extra bedroom.
My wife asks me sometimes, over bill-paying, if I want her to go back to work. My answer is always no, not just because she's great with the kids and all, but because of the turmoil it would throw into our marital relationship as well. I feel the strength of our love for each other is as important as at-home parenting to the kids not growing into serial killers.
GTRacer
- Would rather race than work any day...
What I was angling for was how net access could complement the gaming experience and perhaps move it forward, like with your wireless key-ball idea.
My points were based on my personal setting, which may or may not reflect others'. My PC is in my bedroom and the PS2 is in the living room. My wife uses the PC a lot and we have to work around each other. Also, we're on dial-up right now, and with 2 curious kids, we keep the machine OFF as much as possible. Further, I stay up later than she does and can't use the computer at night - peak gaming hours!
I see a day when I have broadband/DSL and network the connection so both the PC and console have high-speed access. I'd suspect that whatever browser they come up with will have miniscule load-times since it will probably run off a very small kernel and won't have any overhead.
GTRacer
- I hope the 3rd time's the charm...
B - Net access on the console (oh dear God please don't let it be Nutscrape...My own crappy little website doesn't even work in Nutscrape!) would be super-convenient: Stuck in Silent Hill 2? Save game, hop on over to Usenet, a quick search later, and voila!
C - Companies like InterAct are gonna be all over this with direct GameShark/other cheat device/other interface device updates from their sites - no PC or link cable needed.
And finally, D - Try before you buy. Most big games have demos that don't get a lot of distribution (I'm still trying to buy the GT3 demo...). If they can figure out some way to package them for online distro, gamers could select from a wide range of demos to test out. I suppose online rentals could be handled similarly, but then you get into all the piracy...
GTRacer
- Has large display boxes for all versions of GT
Until recently, I had my N64 on top of my unused PSX and so any time my kids entered the zone of death and activated the trap, the N64 would fall forward about a foot, hanging from its power supply, undamaged and still on.
This of course, pissed me off considerably and I think I have finally modified, through behavioural techniques, my children. They don't walk there any more.
My 7-month old PS2 has only been yanked once, and that was when my little one swiped some candy and tried to escape from Mom.
GTRacer
- Toys 'R Us offering GT3 A-Spec AND Interact V3 wheel for $60.oo when pre-ordered!
What if Nokia (1) uses their profits to fund dev costs and (2) finds a way to make these things for $250.00 a pop?
Couldn't they then charge $300 and make fifty bucks a sale? I'm being theoretical, but maybe by going off-the-shelf and OS they can save a helluva lot of the dev costs. Or pay cash.
Or maybe they AREN'T trying to profit heavily. Maybe they want some press and need a (relatively) small loss to offset something on the ol' annual report?
GTRacer
- Homer Simpson is to doughnuts as I am to GT
GTRacer
- Good things come in 3's
It's a $ concatenation!
GTRacer
- Will work for GT3
Oh, the other Rossum.
Uhhh... I don't really have a programming question, I haven't gotten that far with the 'bot yet. Sorry!
GTRacer
- Long live Asimov!
Ever think maybe O'Reilly makes efforts to promote colorful names? Makes their job of choosing cover art for the SAGAN billions and billions /SAGAN books they produce that much easier!
GTRacer
- Any week now...
I've heard two answers to the "Will it have a keyboard/mouse?" queston: Yes, but it will be a proprietary keyboard, and No, we are making a game machine.
I'd have to think if they are serious about gaming, especially FPS and RTS gaming, that a keyboard/mouse setup would be mandatory, no?
GTRacer
- Glad I bought a PS2 with mostly standard USB (but I'll still buy an XBox anyway {Go Apache!})
MTV quiz show hosted by Ken Ober: Remote Control
(But which show featured guest appearances by Denis Leary?)
GTRacer
- Will race for food
And yes, the American sportscasters must go. Put them in the ring and see how long they last!
GTRacer
- GT3 on June 15, 2001
I mean, look at it this way...There have been several parodies of the original now, and a lot of them were total ass (the one on SurvivorSucks comes to mind.) But that's not the point. It's the idea that any schlep with some wit and maybe some talent can do such a thing and have thousands of people see it.
Instant, low-cost, idea-sharing. Maybe not the best ideas, but still...
Which will it be? The Internet on Micro$oft/AOL-TW/(insert megacorp here)'s terms? Or on ours? We as a collective might not always say the brightest things, but we can still say them!
GTRacer
- Vagrant Story, or How Not To Let a Little Thing Like Assassination Get in the Way of Your Self-Actualization
And besides, you have to give some credit to the AYBABTU images that were real meatspace hacks and not Gimped.
I would've bought a Dreamcast months ago, even before the eventual demise and price drop. DC has some killer games and they usually enhance their arcade ports. They seem to have the most original games (Samba De Amigo, JGR) - well, in the US anyway. I would LOVE to find a Sega Sports edition black DC to go alongside my PS2 and N64. I love games and I don't care who makes them.
So why haven't I joined the DC minions? Because that standard controller is total ass, that's why! I am 29 and therefore do not have the hands of an 8-year-old. I cannot easily single out the A, B, X, Y face buttons. Explain to me how I'm supposed to use analog gas and brake and shift using A and B. Please! Because I'd love to get Sega GT and Sega Rally II...
P.S. The DS2 is an evolution of the PS1's DS revolution. Name me a better controller config. 10 buttons (+ start and select), 2 analog sticks and a d-pad, all within easy reach of adult fingers. The evolution is the pressure sensitivity of ALL the buttons! So far, I've only played one analog-button game, Moto GP, but it works and works well!!
Just wait until GT3 comes out and you can shift with clutch pressure and still have analog gas, brake, and steering.
And just where does Miyamoto-san get off saying the GameCube controller is so revolutionary? It looks an awful lot like a bloated dual shock on the rag...
GTRacer
VKP Ashley Riot - An Army of One
Fair use states (IANAL) that if you own it, you can listen on whatever player you have.
For some, like me, who listen at work, the answer is to rip my legally-purchased and rightfully owned CDs to MP3 and play MusicMatch all day at work. This leaves my originals safe at home where I don't have an MP3 player.
There's also the matter of backup. By ripping your own stuff, you ensure that your $15.99 "license" is protected. When the RIAA says they'll replace any CD any time without questions asked, a la Craftsman, THEN backup becomes irrelevant.
Not going to happen in our lifetimes, tho'
GTRacer
VKP Ashley Riot - An Army of One
I thought WindowsUpdate went all the way back to Win95/98! And it definitely works on WinNT!
Unless you have a firewall configged to block ALL ActiveX and Java applets...Good thing our other ISP is not firewalled outbound ^_^
P.S. As it happens, I am the primary F/W admin, but my director has been bitten by Java-based attacks like the GoHip home page redirector and our crappy-but-we-paid-too-much-to-change-it-now F/W won't filter ActiveX or Java per client. DUH~!
GTRacer
- Running Apache on WinNT for as long as GT3 has been delayed...
You're right, Feldman's got some orbs there!
GTRacer
- (in response to queries about shipping dates for GT3)
SONY: All your race are belong to us. You have no chance to steer drive make your line.
Where the hell do you live that you can just change jobs in a heartbeat? If you tell me northeast Florida, I'll be your best friend for life if you SHOW me where these jobs are, assuming further that they pay market rates.
I've been looking for awhile and I haven't run across a mountain of opportunities yet, excluding those that underpay.
That being said, I will mention that my boss isn't completely locked in to M$ "products" and is working on a "OSS freebies for casual users, Retail software for power users if they don't like the OSS alternatives" policy. Pretty forward thinking!
GTRacer
- Only 3 months until GT3 hits th...5 months unt...SONY: All your race are belong to us. You have no chance to steer drive make your line.
Being able to properly and efficiently use the combined experience of thousands of geeks who have gone before makes me less of a "True Geek (tm)"?
How does using Usenet differ from troubleshooting a network client with a manual in hand? And really! Who can be expected to know every single error message the Collective can attack with?
I like to think my net admin and hardware skills are pretty l337 but I'll be the first to admit I'm not fully MCSE-compliant. That said, I've worked for the past 3 years at sub-200 employee companies with tiny networks and tinier I/T staffs. The upshot of which is I have to be net admin, security manager, help desk, warehouse admin, and reporting specialist, all in a single domain model with only 3 other servers and maybe 50 clients.
It's a little hard to be a perfect MCSE when the resources to learn and experience from just aren't there. Wait, let me clarify - I get a LOT of experience in different areas (see previous list), but it doesn't get very deep for the most part. At the same time, I don't think using Deja/Google doesn't make me a paper MCSE either.
There has to be a middle ground in the real v. paper MCSE elitist crap that goes on. Some of us are just luckier in our work environments, others, not so much...
And another thing, I install free/shareware and test it like it's going out of style. I currently have 97 folders under Program Files and countless shell and browser plugins. I see a lot of strange crap and without Usenet I'd never be able to figure some of it out.
P.S. While I'm at it, if anyone can tell me why Gimp for Windows dated 10/23 and 11/26 won't save files in WinNT, I'll be very grateful! And why Forte for Java 2.0 on jdk 1.30 crashes during install?
P.P.S. I know you didn't specifically mention NT and MCSE's, that's just my perspective. GTRacer
-- Not willing to pay upwards of $60.00 for the GT3 demo disc...I'll pay $30!
Here's the deal - I'm uber-competitive and hate to lose at anything. I don't play games where luck is a greater component than skill. When not playing with others, I cheat. My wife doesn't understand why I'm so competitive and take losing so seriously.
One day, I finally had my answer: I care because my gameplay is a reflection on my abilities and/or intelligence. Simple as that. Some 12-year-old punk wastes me at Tekken Tag or the Grid, well I must be a moron and back to practice.
Also, what about the emotional involvement? Pride? Ambition? Power? Have you never felt anything for a character you've played? I can't speak for PC MMPORGs but on console, I very much give a damn about the characters I've spent weeks building up.
It's no substitute for life, but gaming can be a healthy complement to a real life! Don't like games, go do something else!
GTRacer
--Hopefully going online to kick ass with GT3
GTRacer
-- Racing for frist post -- oops, first place!
Anyway, wouldn't the book authors/publishers/etc. have been compensated on the sale of the original book?
Maybe the book sucked and the original owner wanted to distribute the suckness at a lower average cost to hardworking people?
Whatever... I just spent about 90 minutes reading the story about CPRM standards for hard drives. This IP control is really pissing me off!
What happens, after several years - decades? - of this crap, when laws applied to intellectual property made real (physical media) are eventually applied to real property? You thought pissing away $25 for a different region DVD or $180 for a replacement OS is bad? How long until cars or houses are licensed?
First music, then movies, then books, then what? A cerebral implant to prevent us from having unlicensed thoughts?
*BEEP* Mind:GTRacer caused an exception error x00000005 - Access Violation - You have not licensed that thought of Natalie Portman
GTRacer
-- 49 Days until racing perfection!
Personally, considering how bad GT2 was because SCEA rushed Polyphony, I hope it gets delayed further...
If you can read Japanese or just like to try, here's the SCEI official GT3 page.
GTRacer
- Where's the McLaren F1 GTR?
Could you have been watching ESPN Winter X? I've heard that one's not as crisp as SSX. Chunky snowflakes?
And before you jump all over me for including Smuggler's Run: Rent it (or whatever) and Joy Ride the Winter level. Find the tall mountain and make your way to the top (about 6 times around). Carefully turn 360 degrees and marvel at the 2+ mile visibility...
I never said PS2 had beaten DC. That's gonna take at least one more generation. However, I'll bet my Gran Turismo Skyline Hybrid with 1535hp that the PS2 improves dramtically between its generations, more so than DC has.
Totally aside, I read that Resident Evil: Code Veronica was being ported to PS2, but as Sega did most of the work for Capcom, Sega might actually see royalties from a PS2 game. Now that should make you happy!
GTRacer
- GT2 Sucked!
AC #2 - My Sarcas-o-meter(r) is busted and I'm not sure of your intent. Anyway, I happen to like sitting on the floor level (not the balcony/stadium level) as close to center as I can. As I happen to be one of the few people on this planet who do, I ususally have no problems getting seats I like. But you remember the lines for EP1 right? All the seats were taken about 5 minutes after they let us in...
GTRacer
- Better Driving through Simulation