Please tell me you're kidding, trolling, or just horribly misinformed.
whatever you "save" in money (which, given the expense and risk that you ruin your console in installing them is already marginal) you easily outspend in time wasted copying lousy games
A PSX modchip costs less than the price of one game, installed by one of many 'professionals'. Other systems are similar. In my city of 600,000 people, I know of at least 20 people who do this enough to declare it on their income tax return. Time spent to download and burn a game: maybe an hour tops. OK, say it's 4 hours - that's still well over $10usd an hour, far more than a good majority of console owners earn at their regular jobs. Fact is, modding and burning games saves a LOT of money if you know what you're doing (hell, even if you don't).
Very few consumers -- other than those addicted to piracy on general principles, or who get a kick out of feeling like they're getting away with something -- will ever install or use mod chips.
Sony sold something like 40 million Playstations. Estimates on the number of PSX modchips sold run well into the millions. Personally, I know very few people who haven't had their PSX modded, and this includes people without internet connections (some kid down the street is happy to burn you a copy of the game for $5), people who don't pirate anything else, and people who COULD afford the games, but figure hey, I can get it for free, so why not.
I don't know just what information you're drawing your conclusions from, but the fact is, modding a Playstation is cheap, easy, and pretty failsafe. Tack on the difference between $5 and full retail on a game, multiply that by the average number of games a person buys... there's a reason so many have modded their systems.
There's nothing at all illegal in my dumping my various arcade boards, or having someone do this for me, and running those roms in MAME. Which I've already done for many of them.
An Xbox makes one hell of a nice platform to run a MAME cabinet on.
I think you'd be amazed at how inconvenient voting can be in this country. For the past 11 years, my polling station has been at an elementary school that's all of 5 minutes drive away. Guess what? Not one single public transportation route goes within a mile of it. Walking the total distance from my house would take well over an hour, and I'm a very fast walker in pretty decent shape.
For anyone who doesn't own a car, or live on a bus route that takes you right to the polling station, voting is a huge inconvenience. You have to arrange with friends/family/whoever, and I don't remember our constitution saying that you needed to own a car to be able to vote.
And for those of you who cry "take a taxi"... paying $20 just to get to every election is a bit silly. *I* make do, but there are others who I know simply can't make it to the voting booth without a great deal of frustration. There's nothing in our laws saying you must have X number of dollars to be able to vote, and there shouldn't be.
Remember, just because *you* find voting convenient in its current form, doesn't mean *everyone* does. This is why, for example, they allow troops serving overseas to vote where THEY are. Using a bit more technology to extend the ease of voting to more people is never a bad thing - unless you think some people shouldn't be allowed to vote at all, and that's a whole other ball of wax:)
Because you can't win with foreign material, especially animation.
Some people bitch that subbed versions are annoying to watch (myself included).
Some people bitch that the first Akira dub was.. shall we say.. less than perfect (myself included).
Some people bitch that the most recent Akira dub wasn't all that good either (myself included).
Short of learning Japanese, Akira is like watching a color movie in black and white - you're only getting half the stimulation. I love the visuals, but there just isn't a nice way to show the whole story. The Japanese just produce far too different entertainment than the west.
And I don't know who you think treats cartoons as just kiddie fare, but almost every adult I know owns a decent collection of the Disney movies. We can bitch about Disney's product all we want, but the sad truth is, they produce the closest thing to adult animated entertainment that we have.
Perhaps you should worry less about forming your opinions and tastes based on what *other* people think...
Personally, I couldn't give a rat's ass if kids today think I'm weird for preferring the original Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, or (gasp!) Akira. It's their loss, and what difference does their opinion make to my life? Oh, I'd say about NONE.
I actually know some people who are over 35 years old, and they might actually fool you into thinking they weren't wearing Depends.
Now, if the study had claimed that the average gaming age was 40 or 45, that would have been a little harder to swallow.
Why? Do people suddenly start wearing Depends at age 40 or 45?
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Games aren't really getting any worse, you're just losing the thrill of them being 'new'. Many folks in their 30s found Nintendo games to be of very poor quality, because they grew up playing on their Atari. Everyone goes through a phase where for a time, all new games really seem to suck. Eventually, most of us come back.
Me, I got sick of console games right around the Playstation. 7 years later, I'm back full swing, enjoying the hell out of my Gamecube.
And for the naysayers who want to talk about how all new games are the same, and boring.... you're not saying anything new. 90% of what came out for the NES was complete crap. Same for every system since. Finding the gems is what makes it all worth while.
Your DNA sample will be purified, amplified, expressed and analyzed according to funDNA protocols. A high-quality, clean stretch of quality base pairs will be extracted, combined with one of our designs, and then digitally transferred on to your new t-shirt, lunch box, or coffee mug!
Because the t-shirt folks aren't doing anywhere close to your entire genome, they state this right on the page you linked to, and a listing of 3 billion base pairs would have to be so small as to be unreadable, no matter HOW large your t-shirt size.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if 'funDNA protocols' just ignores anything input, and outputs random letters - how is the buyer going to confirm or deny it?
Or you could just take high school biology and not worry about these mysterious 'chemicals' not being actually present on the CD. You also can't use the CD to impregnate women with, but I don't think anyone's gonna complain about that.
And of course as soon as they do that some bright person will buy a million or so copies for 7 riggit each, ship them to the US, sell them for $10 a pop and make a nearly $10 million.
And that's one of the many reasons why things like Palladium are being developed - imagine region encoding on software. Except instead of a 2 or 3:1 price differential, we're talking 100 or 1000:1.
One thing I've always wondered about is the use of region encoding, but on a much smaller scale. You mention how you're willing to pay $20 for a DVD, because you can't be bothered to spend the time ripping it - but what about someone who only makes $5 an hour? Is it worth THEIR time?
I have rather well-off friends financially who don't even blink an eye at plopping down $500-$1000 a month for PC software, whereas with my student status, that's more than I make most months. So, I resort to what most students do, and still use the software.
Now, we all know one of the big uses for region encoding is so that content producers can effectively price-fix their products: they know they'll still make a profit selling a CD for $5 in say, Malaysia, but not any more than $5 because the average Malaysian makes 1/4 of what the average American does (all hypothetically speaking).
With a very large wage gap between the rich and poor in the US, it almost makes me wonder: CDs for $5 (still making a profit, remember)would sell boatloads to poorer families who normally would just download them. HOWEVER, the richer folk among us would buy the CD, even if it was priced at $50.
Now the only thing left to do is have the **AA buy some legislation that allows it to check your financial status, and price your goods accordingly. "Look, we've nearly eliminated those evil pirates, AND we're being nice to the little guy!"
Of course, Win95 is limited to 1.99 gbs per partition...
Only the first release of Win95 was limited as such. OSR2 had fat32, which allows up to > partitions. I ran a single partition 40gb drive under 95 for a long while.
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if you were born after 196x, you may not get the reference.
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I was born well before 19610, and I still didn't didn't get the reference.
This IS still a Mac story, so I can make that joke, right?
Please tell me you're kidding, trolling, or just horribly misinformed.
whatever you "save" in money (which, given the expense and risk that you ruin your console in installing them is already marginal) you easily outspend in time wasted copying lousy games
A PSX modchip costs less than the price of one game, installed by one of many 'professionals'. Other systems are similar. In my city of 600,000 people, I know of at least 20 people who do this enough to declare it on their income tax return. Time spent to download and burn a game: maybe an hour tops. OK, say it's 4 hours - that's still well over $10usd an hour, far more than a good majority of console owners earn at their regular jobs. Fact is, modding and burning games saves a LOT of money if you know what you're doing (hell, even if you don't).
Very few consumers -- other than those addicted to piracy on general principles, or who get a kick out of feeling like they're getting away with something -- will ever install or use mod chips.
Sony sold something like 40 million Playstations. Estimates on the number of PSX modchips sold run well into the millions. Personally, I know very few people who haven't had their PSX modded, and this includes people without internet connections (some kid down the street is happy to burn you a copy of the game for $5), people who don't pirate anything else, and people who COULD afford the games, but figure hey, I can get it for free, so why not.
I don't know just what information you're drawing your conclusions from, but the fact is, modding a Playstation is cheap, easy, and pretty failsafe. Tack on the difference between $5 and full retail on a game, multiply that by the average number of games a person buys... there's a reason so many have modded their systems.
Yeah, but I think this is the first game where more than a single pixel is devoted to a woman's nipple.
There's nothing at all illegal in my dumping my various arcade boards, or having someone do this for me, and running those roms in MAME. Which I've already done for many of them.
An Xbox makes one hell of a nice platform to run a MAME cabinet on.
I think you'd be amazed at how inconvenient voting can be in this country. For the past 11 years, my polling station has been at an elementary school that's all of 5 minutes drive away. Guess what? Not one single public transportation route goes within a mile of it. Walking the total distance from my house would take well over an hour, and I'm a very fast walker in pretty decent shape.
:)
For anyone who doesn't own a car, or live on a bus route that takes you right to the polling station, voting is a huge inconvenience. You have to arrange with friends/family/whoever, and I don't remember our constitution saying that you needed to own a car to be able to vote.
And for those of you who cry "take a taxi"... paying $20 just to get to every election is a bit silly. *I* make do, but there are others who I know simply can't make it to the voting booth without a great deal of frustration. There's nothing in our laws saying you must have X number of dollars to be able to vote, and there shouldn't be.
Remember, just because *you* find voting convenient in its current form, doesn't mean *everyone* does. This is why, for example, they allow troops serving overseas to vote where THEY are. Using a bit more technology to extend the ease of voting to more people is never a bad thing - unless you think some people shouldn't be allowed to vote at all, and that's a whole other ball of wax
Examples of things they don't want to hear about:
Constitutionality
Because you can't win with foreign material, especially animation.
.. shall we say.. less than perfect (myself included).
Some people bitch that subbed versions are annoying to watch (myself included).
Some people bitch that the first Akira dub was
Some people bitch that the most recent Akira dub wasn't all that good either (myself included).
Short of learning Japanese, Akira is like watching a color movie in black and white - you're only getting half the stimulation. I love the visuals, but there just isn't a nice way to show the whole story. The Japanese just produce far too different entertainment than the west.
And I don't know who you think treats cartoons as just kiddie fare, but almost every adult I know owns a decent collection of the Disney movies. We can bitch about Disney's product all we want, but the sad truth is, they produce the closest thing to adult animated entertainment that we have.
How about dealing with the societal and ethical impacts of forced and natural evolution and experimentation?
I think that was the whole point of the "irresponsible scientists" part of the quote.
How about instead of making live action out of cartoons we do cartoon versions of live action movies.
Been done. In fact, they're doing a similar thing to the Matrix. I, for one, am looking forward to it.
Perhaps you should worry less about forming your opinions and tastes based on what *other* people think...
Personally, I couldn't give a rat's ass if kids today think I'm weird for preferring the original Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, or (gasp!) Akira. It's their loss, and what difference does their opinion make to my life? Oh, I'd say about NONE.
Just pick either tetsuo or kaneda and drink every time you hear the name.
I think a shotgun, or even cyanide, would be a far less painful way of doing it...
I actually know some people who are over 35 years old, and they might actually fool you into thinking they weren't wearing Depends.
Now, if the study had claimed that the average gaming age was 40 or 45, that would have been a little harder to swallow.
Why? Do people suddenly start wearing Depends at age 40 or 45?
Games aren't really getting any worse, you're just losing the thrill of them being 'new'. Many folks in their 30s found Nintendo games to be of very poor quality, because they grew up playing on their Atari. Everyone goes through a phase where for a time, all new games really seem to suck. Eventually, most of us come back.
Me, I got sick of console games right around the Playstation. 7 years later, I'm back full swing, enjoying the hell out of my Gamecube.
And for the naysayers who want to talk about how all new games are the same, and boring.... you're not saying anything new. 90% of what came out for the NES was complete crap. Same for every system since. Finding the gems is what makes it all worth while.
I guess I'm the only one who thought STV would be Steve Jobs, if the intent is to poke fun at the computer industry as a whole...
Yeah, but SEGA was in a lot worse financial shape than Microsoft has been since, oh, say 1982.
Yeah, and you'd think personal backups would qualify as "fair use". Or that academic lectures would qualify as "free speech"...
I suggest you contact a doctor immediately.
According to this, you are going to die from insanely shortened chromosome #1 any second now.
Your DNA sample will be purified, amplified, expressed and analyzed according to funDNA protocols. A high-quality, clean stretch of quality base pairs will be extracted, combined with one of our designs, and then digitally transferred on to your new t-shirt, lunch box, or coffee mug!
Because the t-shirt folks aren't doing anywhere close to your entire genome, they state this right on the page you linked to, and a listing of 3 billion base pairs would have to be so small as to be unreadable, no matter HOW large your t-shirt size.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if 'funDNA protocols' just ignores anything input, and outputs random letters - how is the buyer going to confirm or deny it?
Or you could just take high school biology and not worry about these mysterious 'chemicals' not being actually present on the CD. You also can't use the CD to impregnate women with, but I don't think anyone's gonna complain about that.
And of course as soon as they do that some bright person will buy a million or so copies for 7 riggit each, ship them to the US, sell them for $10 a pop and make a nearly $10 million.
And that's one of the many reasons why things like Palladium are being developed - imagine region encoding on software. Except instead of a 2 or 3:1 price differential, we're talking 100 or 1000:1.
One thing I've always wondered about is the use of region encoding, but on a much smaller scale. You mention how you're willing to pay $20 for a DVD, because you can't be bothered to spend the time ripping it - but what about someone who only makes $5 an hour? Is it worth THEIR time?
I have rather well-off friends financially who don't even blink an eye at plopping down $500-$1000 a month for PC software, whereas with my student status, that's more than I make most months. So, I resort to what most students do, and still use the software.
Now, we all know one of the big uses for region encoding is so that content producers can effectively price-fix their products: they know they'll still make a profit selling a CD for $5 in say, Malaysia, but not any more than $5 because the average Malaysian makes 1/4 of what the average American does (all hypothetically speaking).
With a very large wage gap between the rich and poor in the US, it almost makes me wonder: CDs for $5 (still making a profit, remember)would sell boatloads to poorer families who normally would just download them. HOWEVER, the richer folk among us would buy the CD, even if it was priced at $50.
Now the only thing left to do is have the **AA buy some legislation that allows it to check your financial status, and price your goods accordingly. "Look, we've nearly eliminated those evil pirates, AND we're being nice to the little guy!"
Wow, I think I just scared myself.
I think the word you're looking for is "Libertarian".
From Dictionary.com:
libertarian Pronunciation Key (lbr-târ-n)
n.
One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
One who believes in free will.
An amazing number of geeks feel the same way you do about things - I know I sure do.
Of course, Win95 is limited to 1.99 gbs per partition...
Only the first release of Win95 was limited as such. OSR2 had fat32, which allows up to > partitions. I ran a single partition 40gb drive under 95 for a long while.
It was better seeing Disney as 4 or 5 :)
Banishment 2000+ years ago took many forms. Never read any Greek history? :)