In my experience (as the AC mentions), carpeting in the US is rarely glued down. They mostly use the tacking strips along the baseboards. Oftentimes there's a foam-like padding layer that goes under the carpet and if glue were being used, it'd only be gluing the padding and not the carpet. You'll note that your Wikipedia citation says "or", not "and". So it may be common practice elsewhere, but not in the US.
Also I don't know anyone that wears shoes indoors. I myself have a sizeable weather mat inside the front door and a bench with an interior compartment for storing shoes. If I'm having guests I don't usually make them take their shoes off, but I never wear my own around the house.
If and when the US has another natural disaster, I hope we can come somewhere close to what they are doing.
I think history has borne out that it depends where that disaster happens. If it's on the east coast, the west coast, or Texas, then great. If it's anywhere else, then not so much.
The Japanese also have an irrational sense of honor and trust in others. It probably never occurred to most of the everybodies who found out about this system that it would ever be misused.
Horse-armor aside, I think Bethesda has done a fine job of supporting a game that is now around two years old. I hope we'll see similar add-ons (again, horse-armor aside) for Fallout 3.
Then again, it'd be hilarious if they gave away for free some sort of horse-armor-like add-on for Fallout just to mock themselves, like "scorpion mail" for a rideable scorpion named "Buddy" or somesuch.
Sad that this has to be asked...but...
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What firmware version was your PS3 when you played Lair? Reports are somewhat widespread that the newest firmware greatly improves the control experience.
Granted, shipping a game that bad and then patching it later is inexcuseable, but it would be a good datapoint to know if you had difficulty with the game pre- or post-patch.
Hence why I said "partially" disconnects. For one thing, my statement was intended to be broad enough to cover all three consoles. On the Wii, you're completely cut off from your downloads and need to contact Nintendo. On the 360, yes, you're correct in that you'll still be able to use your downloads on the new console, but only when you're signed into XBL (By the way, reason #1 is incorrect - downloads are tied to the console and the GamerTag - the storage medium is not relevant).
Having had my 360 replaced by Microsoft, and not being the only user of the console in my household, I can tell you that the requirement of being signed in to Xbox Live for the duration of your gameplay is inconvenient and annoying. Assume that my wife wants to play Zuma, which I bought before I had the console replaced. She must sign in, turn on the second controller, sign me in, turn that controller off, and then cross her fingers and hope that the Internet connection doesn't go out. If it does, then she is immediately and ungraciously kicked out of her game and is back in trial mode.
Similarly, let's say I'm playing Geometry Wars on my own account. I'm up to, let's say, 1.5M, and I'm doing reasonably well. Then my Internet connection conks out (as it is often wont, sadly). I then lose all my progress. Again, I'm kicked out of the game, and quite pissed off that whereas I could ordinarily just pause the game and wait to be reconnected in order to upload my ranked score, now I've just wasted all that time and effort.
What Microsoft does when you replace a console through them is to have you call customer support and complain about the situation. Then the representative will either send you an e-mail, or read a series of XBLM reimbursement codes to you over the phone to punch into the marketplace, giving you the points to repurchase all of your content, either on a GamerTag belonging to one of the other console users, or a second "ghost" GamerTag, just for the purposes of getting all those downloads marked with a download key for your console. Obviously, if they replace your console, then they have proof that it was a warranted replacement. Since they don't have this proof if you use an in-store warranty, you have to jump through more hoops to have the procedure done in this case. Oh, and they don't actually *tell* you this when you replace the console. You have to learn it from other users.
Keeping your memory card or HDD does not change anything. When I sent my console into Microsoft, they specifically told me to keep the HDD. The new console came back, and I was no longer able to play games offline.
So, yeah. Try not to call someone's statements as "BS" if you haven't actually gone through the process yourself.
Most of these in-store warranties are a substitute for your existing warranty, in that you just bring your console into the store, they replace it with one of their retail stock, and they (are supposed to) mark your old console as defective and return it to the vendor as a sales return. So, your turn-around time is a lot faster.
However, in today's era of Internet purchases, this usually partially/fully disconnects you with the stuff you bought on the console. For example, if you replace your 360 in Best Buy, you have to submit documentation to Microsoft detailing this exchange before they'll reimburse you for any purchases for your paid downloads.
there's both more iPhones on the market (due to popularity)
Ha. Hardly. There are somewhere on the order of about 20M PSPs on the market, worldwide. The iPhone has been out just under a month and a half, and only in the US. Do you mean to tell me that in its first month of sales, 13 million people, or approximately 4% of the entire US population, bought one?
Wow, now we don't even RTFS. We just RTFT. From the summary...
Sony said that the $100 price cut to the 60GB PS3 led to a 135% sales rise over the last two weeks, though independent confirmation of that jump is not yet available.
Plenty here to ridicule, but this stands out the best:
1.1 billion in costs for defective 360 repairs
So far no solution has been found to the 360 defect problem, 9-10 million 360s out there that will continue to fail over and over again
So...they don't know what the problem is, but they definitely know it will cost them $1.1B to fix? That makes perfect sense.
Good weather effects, horrible resolution, choppy framerates with effects on. No need to have the disc in to play. In short, it's useful if you've got a spouse that doesn't care so much about the bells and whistles but just wants to play, or if you want a power-cheap machine to idle-bazaar with.
Why the 360 version requires the disc inserted to play is utterly beyond me.
You'd think that it would have occurred to them that they were putting a Flash ad on a page discussing a major flaw in Flash. Of course, they just want to get paid and don't really care about you, so I can't say I'm all that surprised.
Or...maybe the world isn't as evil of a place as you think, and the people writing the article aren't the same people that develop the website? Maybe they don't even know how to use Flash and just write copy?
That article referenced on Wikipedia is *incredibly* optimistic. I was quite surprised to see Castlevania on the list, and then I opened the Wikipedia reference. It's a singular article on IGN saying that IGA said he wants to make a Castlevania game on *a* next-gen console. Also, that article was two years old. Needless to say, Castlevania should not be present.
Further, Zone of the Enders 3 is just a rumored game based on one magazine printing.
Also, aside from the Sony games on the list (which is the majority) and the two I just debunked, none of those aside from MGS4 is a "confirmed exclusive". TC4 was announced for the PS3, but given Namco's recent support/announcements for the 360, it is likely to show up there as well. Considering that SC4 is going to both the PS3 and 360, I would not be surprised to see Tekken go there as well. Haze *is* announced to the 360. So, really, you kinda need to go back to the other usual "fanboy list" of Lair, Warhawk, Home, etc etc etc.
Why fix all the units? Why not just fix the broken ones?
True, I'd absolutely love for Microsoft to upgrade me to an Elite for my trouble, but those things use a whole different motherboard. You think MS is going to just chuck all 10M existing units in the trash for the asking? That would cost them a lot more than $1.15B.
This latest follows on the heels of Pac-Man: CE, a worthy and well-received updating of the arcade classic.
Since Pac-Man CE has come out, we have seen Catan, Band of Bugs, and Carcassonne, all excellent strategy games which are well-worth the mention. Pac-Man CE was pretty good, yes, but these three games shored up a gap in a very under-represented genre on XBLA.
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In my experience (as the AC mentions), carpeting in the US is rarely glued down. They mostly use the tacking strips along the baseboards. Oftentimes there's a foam-like padding layer that goes under the carpet and if glue were being used, it'd only be gluing the padding and not the carpet. You'll note that your Wikipedia citation says "or", not "and". So it may be common practice elsewhere, but not in the US.
Also I don't know anyone that wears shoes indoors. I myself have a sizeable weather mat inside the front door and a bench with an interior compartment for storing shoes. If I'm having guests I don't usually make them take their shoes off, but I never wear my own around the house.
I think history has borne out that it depends where that disaster happens. If it's on the east coast, the west coast, or Texas, then great. If it's anywhere else, then not so much.
...and see how long it takes for this law gets amended.
Current guess is they're snooping on user agent strings in packets to determine if PC clients are being used to browse the web.
The Japanese also have an irrational sense of honor and trust in others. It probably never occurred to most of the everybodies who found out about this system that it would ever be misused.
Ditto. It's always on new stories.
Horse-armor aside, I think Bethesda has done a fine job of supporting a game that is now around two years old. I hope we'll see similar add-ons (again, horse-armor aside) for Fallout 3.
Then again, it'd be hilarious if they gave away for free some sort of horse-armor-like add-on for Fallout just to mock themselves, like "scorpion mail" for a rideable scorpion named "Buddy" or somesuch.
Where's Captain Obvious when you need him the most?!
That's how.
What firmware version was your PS3 when you played Lair? Reports are somewhat widespread that the newest firmware greatly improves the control experience.
Granted, shipping a game that bad and then patching it later is inexcuseable, but it would be a good datapoint to know if you had difficulty with the game pre- or post-patch.
I know Bungie worked on Marathon, and it's a decent enough game, but certainly there are better games to kill yourself over...
Hence why I said "partially" disconnects. For one thing, my statement was intended to be broad enough to cover all three consoles. On the Wii, you're completely cut off from your downloads and need to contact Nintendo. On the 360, yes, you're correct in that you'll still be able to use your downloads on the new console, but only when you're signed into XBL (By the way, reason #1 is incorrect - downloads are tied to the console and the GamerTag - the storage medium is not relevant).
Having had my 360 replaced by Microsoft, and not being the only user of the console in my household, I can tell you that the requirement of being signed in to Xbox Live for the duration of your gameplay is inconvenient and annoying. Assume that my wife wants to play Zuma, which I bought before I had the console replaced. She must sign in, turn on the second controller, sign me in, turn that controller off, and then cross her fingers and hope that the Internet connection doesn't go out. If it does, then she is immediately and ungraciously kicked out of her game and is back in trial mode.
Similarly, let's say I'm playing Geometry Wars on my own account. I'm up to, let's say, 1.5M, and I'm doing reasonably well. Then my Internet connection conks out (as it is often wont, sadly). I then lose all my progress. Again, I'm kicked out of the game, and quite pissed off that whereas I could ordinarily just pause the game and wait to be reconnected in order to upload my ranked score, now I've just wasted all that time and effort.
What Microsoft does when you replace a console through them is to have you call customer support and complain about the situation. Then the representative will either send you an e-mail, or read a series of XBLM reimbursement codes to you over the phone to punch into the marketplace, giving you the points to repurchase all of your content, either on a GamerTag belonging to one of the other console users, or a second "ghost" GamerTag, just for the purposes of getting all those downloads marked with a download key for your console. Obviously, if they replace your console, then they have proof that it was a warranted replacement. Since they don't have this proof if you use an in-store warranty, you have to jump through more hoops to have the procedure done in this case. Oh, and they don't actually *tell* you this when you replace the console. You have to learn it from other users.
Keeping your memory card or HDD does not change anything. When I sent my console into Microsoft, they specifically told me to keep the HDD. The new console came back, and I was no longer able to play games offline.
So, yeah. Try not to call someone's statements as "BS" if you haven't actually gone through the process yourself.
Most of these in-store warranties are a substitute for your existing warranty, in that you just bring your console into the store, they replace it with one of their retail stock, and they (are supposed to) mark your old console as defective and return it to the vendor as a sales return. So, your turn-around time is a lot faster.
However, in today's era of Internet purchases, this usually partially/fully disconnects you with the stuff you bought on the console. For example, if you replace your 360 in Best Buy, you have to submit documentation to Microsoft detailing this exchange before they'll reimburse you for any purchases for your paid downloads.
I strongly doubt that many iPhones even exist.
Greed.
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Good weather effects, horrible resolution, choppy framerates with effects on. No need to have the disc in to play. In short, it's useful if you've got a spouse that doesn't care so much about the bells and whistles but just wants to play, or if you want a power-cheap machine to idle-bazaar with.
Why the 360 version requires the disc inserted to play is utterly beyond me.
That article referenced on Wikipedia is *incredibly* optimistic. I was quite surprised to see Castlevania on the list, and then I opened the Wikipedia reference. It's a singular article on IGN saying that IGA said he wants to make a Castlevania game on *a* next-gen console. Also, that article was two years old. Needless to say, Castlevania should not be present.
Further, Zone of the Enders 3 is just a rumored game based on one magazine printing.
Also, aside from the Sony games on the list (which is the majority) and the two I just debunked, none of those aside from MGS4 is a "confirmed exclusive". TC4 was announced for the PS3, but given Namco's recent support/announcements for the 360, it is likely to show up there as well. Considering that SC4 is going to both the PS3 and 360, I would not be surprised to see Tekken go there as well. Haze *is* announced to the 360. So, really, you kinda need to go back to the other usual "fanboy list" of Lair, Warhawk, Home, etc etc etc.
Why fix all the units? Why not just fix the broken ones?
True, I'd absolutely love for Microsoft to upgrade me to an Elite for my trouble, but those things use a whole different motherboard. You think MS is going to just chuck all 10M existing units in the trash for the asking? That would cost them a lot more than $1.15B.