"User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name."
Uh...doesn't something like Download Accelerator Plus (yeah yeah, I know its a hive of spyware) already do that (downloads from multiple locations only to recombine the file later)?
Too bad IGN, Nintendo, and your "relative" have no facts to back that up. In our area, the XBOXES are outselling the GCN at LEAST 3:1, with EB going through entire shipments of 10+ in a day, while GCN shipments of the same size take about two days, if not a little more.
Everywhere I go, I see XBOX stuff on the web. XBOX over the internet, xbox info on the same site listed above on how to change parts, etc.
Regardless, both will sell, and both will sell well. But don't act like a Nintendo fanboy and start bashing CONSOLES. If you want to bash something, bash the GAMES.
I believe it was Producer Hampton Fancher that suggested the title to Ridley Scott. He had apparently seen some book or something at the local library, and while he said the story sucked, he really liked the title and suggested they use it instead of their original screenplay title, which I believe was called "Dangerous Days". Scott agreed, paid the guy some $7,000 for the rights, and then went on to make the movie. I'm sure that guy was laughing when the movie bombed, but is mentally damaged when the movie became the cult hit that it is today.
But I agree with you. If they were true PK Dick fans, it would've been called the "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep", or at least "The Man In The High Castle" or "Confessions of a Crap Artist".:p
...he could've stolen U-571 before the audiences were forced to watch that crap.
I'd have to give him a medal if he did that.;)
Re:sircam may me feel warm today though...
on
Nimda To Strike Again
·
· Score: 5, Funny
I had a similar case, but it involved some porn. Now naturally I'd be happy about that under normal circumstances, but not if it's my freaking SISTER!
EWW.....
Learn Internet Security Or Get Off The Web!
on
Nimda To Strike Again
·
· Score: 5, Informative
I believe this Wired article applies in this case (as many machines are still left unpatched), as well as an idea of what some ISP's are considering/doing if their subscribers don't have a clue.
Problem is, others don't seem like they will. Napster, as well as any P2P software is completely dependant on the people who USE and SHARE the stuff. So, I'd be hesitant to sign up until I knew there were plenty of people who were already subscribed (and dial-up'ers don't count). I'm sure others are thinking the same thing, they don't want to pay for a service that only 200 people would use, but they're not willing to sign up until there are more people. So Napster doesn't get people to sign up because...people havn't signed up. Kinda makes it hard for them to get back on their feet, but that's the reality of it.
So...if enough people get the ball rolling, then this could be good for them. If not...then who knows.
Now, here's my question. If you are PAYING Napster to use their software, and they are PAYING the RIAA royalties, does this finally make it "legal" in their eyes? Can a college/isp/company/etc fire/kick off/expell someone for downloading MP3's anymore if they're doing it through this system? Are ISP's still going to monitor my usage to see if I've downloaded any MP3's (I just hate that people label an audio codec automatically as something illegal, instead of its possibly content), and send me one of those warnings?
...this is newsworthy? First (yet another) Monty Python lego story. Then stuff on PYRAMID KEYBOARDS (ie dumbest thing since bending over and ripping your anus wide open and posting it on a certain site). Now we have the "news" of the "First Windows XP system sold"? What's next? First AC who actually buys something from Think Geek? Osama bin Ladin says "George Bush has bad gas?" Cowboy Neal finally gets laid!?
Sorry, but this was the dumbest thing I've read in a while.:p
...this is a geek with waaaay too much time on his hands. Then again, I'm posting at slashdot, so I guess we've both got the same problems.;)
Still trying to find a use for it though, playing PSX games on a screen that small. If he wanted to do something portable and cool, he could have tried rigging up a GBA with a back-lit screen. Now THAT would have been something useful.
Porn only real use for it
on
Immersive HDTV
·
· Score: 2
Okay, I can see porn as the ONLY useful way to use something like this.
Who the hell wants to "interact" with "Emeril", "The West Wing", or hell, "The View". Its not practical, its not useful, and it doesn't "enhance" the viewing pleasure any more. In fact, it would probably decrese it.
But I'd love to have something like this to watch porn on. Can't wait to see something like "Afro Whores" or "Cowboy Neal Gangbang" in something like this.;)
Since Nintendo delayed the GCN until the 18th or so, MS probably decided they've got a few extra days to churn out some extra units, as well as maybe build up the hype a bit.
But is anyone getting any new preorders in? I got mine at the local EB the first day they had them, but they were out of their allotted units within 5 days. Maybe with this delay, a few more will get their XBOX for launch day.
Well, if Greoning was an idiot, he'd leave them out of the Simpsons DVD collection for that season. Hope he doesn't do that, since that was a funny episode.
...we HAD rights online? What were you even thinking? Hell, check the YRO section to SEE that we've had little or no "rights" online. I just love seeing how the US govt tries to regulate something that it is only a small part of.
For anyone who's even seen 10 seconds of the game, they know damn well its no Mario Kart rip-off. HOWEVER, it IS most definately a Crazy Taxi rip-off, with Homer (and others) driving around Springfield picking up people, and dropping them off. Wonder what Sega thinks about this...
Well, even with all of the advancements in video compression, I still HIGHLY doubt that we're at the point were decent, broadcast-quality video can be streamed at ~2.5k/sec. Unless they have some "magic" means of compressing something that nobody will even come close to for at least a decade, I remain doubtful. "Broadcast-quality video can go anywhere from 26+MB/sec (uncompressed NTSC) to ~3.7MB/sec (DV/DVCam/etc) for a decent compression. But a decent comparison at approx..000676 the size? I'll believe it when I see it. Besides, there's only talk so far, no REAL proof that outside people can test, review, and confirm or deny.
This all reminds me of a friend who thought he could compress his whole hard drive onto a floppy by just zipping his files up hundreds of times. You know how that goes...
But there's no doubting how cool something like this will be once the technology in compression advances to this point. Screw MPEG-4 or MP3, if someone could successfully do this, it would change how TV and the Internet are seperated (or combined in some cases) forever.
...think like your average consumer. Since if they know ANYTHING about their computers, its the speed, imagine them trying to buy software.
"Okay sir, and how fast is your computer?"
"Its an AMD 1600"
"So...how fast is it?"
"Its an AMD 1600"
"Do you know how fast it is, in MHz?"
".......Its an AMD 1600"
The average consumer will now know even less. And while that might not mean much to the/.'ers here, I'm sure we all have tech-impaired family and friends (like that one who bought Max Payne to run on their 486...you know who they are).
Sure, it might be what AMD needs to compete with Intel's ads, but they should just launch their own ad campaign showing how the 1.4GHz Athalon performs just as well, or better than the new 2GHz Pentium IV in almost every non-SSE-related benchmark.
So? The US market is MS' primary market, and with Nintendo's date being moved back 2 weeks, Microsoft has a chance to actually sell this unit. Sure, the Japanese market would help, but I don't see this console doing well their anyways (WAAAAAY too bulky for most Japanese, most prefer a smaller item like the GCN).
Slashdot Mirror
"User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name."
Uh...doesn't something like Download Accelerator Plus (yeah yeah, I know its a hive of spyware) already do that (downloads from multiple locations only to recombine the file later)?
"Even if the broadband ISPs upgrade their system to allow anything faster than a maximum of 10mbps...are you _REALLY_ going to need that?"
EXACTLY! You my friend, are just as good as predicting the future as my friend Bill Gates, who told me that I will never need more than 640k of ram...
Too bad IGN, Nintendo, and your "relative" have no facts to back that up. In our area, the XBOXES are outselling the GCN at LEAST 3:1, with EB going through entire shipments of 10+ in a day, while GCN shipments of the same size take about two days, if not a little more.
Everywhere I go, I see XBOX stuff on the web. XBOX over the internet, xbox info on the same site listed above on how to change parts, etc.
Regardless, both will sell, and both will sell well. But don't act like a Nintendo fanboy and start bashing CONSOLES. If you want to bash something, bash the GAMES.
Why are some of these answers in the 3rd person? Was it actually Bruce responding, or some sort of agent or liason?
Or was he just making a Seinfeld joke? If so, Jimmy doesn't like that! =P
I believe it was Producer Hampton Fancher that suggested the title to Ridley Scott. He had apparently seen some book or something at the local library, and while he said the story sucked, he really liked the title and suggested they use it instead of their original screenplay title, which I believe was called "Dangerous Days". Scott agreed, paid the guy some $7,000 for the rights, and then went on to make the movie. I'm sure that guy was laughing when the movie bombed, but is mentally damaged when the movie became the cult hit that it is today.
:p
But I agree with you. If they were true PK Dick fans, it would've been called the "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep", or at least "The Man In The High Castle" or "Confessions of a Crap Artist".
...he could've stolen U-571 before the audiences were forced to watch that crap.
;)
I'd have to give him a medal if he did that.
I had a similar case, but it involved some porn. Now naturally I'd be happy about that under normal circumstances, but not if it's my freaking SISTER!
EWW.....
I believe this Wired article applies in this case (as many machines are still left unpatched), as well as an idea of what some ISP's are considering/doing if their subscribers don't have a clue.
, 00 .html
(Plain-text link):
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47037
...I thought under the ATA, hackers WERE terrorists! ;)
...who would rather just pay the $10 and get something like this:
p ro duct.asp?pf_id=201208
:p
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/
Cool mod, but I'm cheap. The $20 I'd save might let me buy some cool GBA game like "Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's Big Adventure".
...I'd pay for something like Napster. Really.
Problem is, others don't seem like they will. Napster, as well as any P2P software is completely dependant on the people who USE and SHARE the stuff. So, I'd be hesitant to sign up until I knew there were plenty of people who were already subscribed (and dial-up'ers don't count). I'm sure others are thinking the same thing, they don't want to pay for a service that only 200 people would use, but they're not willing to sign up until there are more people. So Napster doesn't get people to sign up because...people havn't signed up. Kinda makes it hard for them to get back on their feet, but that's the reality of it.
So...if enough people get the ball rolling, then this could be good for them. If not...then who knows.
Now, here's my question. If you are PAYING Napster to use their software, and they are PAYING the RIAA royalties, does this finally make it "legal" in their eyes? Can a college/isp/company/etc fire/kick off/expell someone for downloading MP3's anymore if they're doing it through this system? Are ISP's still going to monitor my usage to see if I've downloaded any MP3's (I just hate that people label an audio codec automatically as something illegal, instead of its possibly content), and send me one of those warnings?
...the official site has plenty of info, pictures, director's comments, and even trailers for the upcoming movie "Heaven's Door".
t ml
W 4/ qid=1001386283/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7_7/002-0021053-806 9625
Nice to see CN giving us something we loved. I'd have hated to see Adult Swim cancelled because of the recent tragic events.
Links (still plain-text):
http://www.cowboybebop.com/english/door/index.h
http://www.cowboybebop.com/english/index.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005QC
...this is newsworthy? First (yet another) Monty Python lego story. Then stuff on PYRAMID KEYBOARDS (ie dumbest thing since bending over and ripping your anus wide open and posting it on a certain site). Now we have the "news" of the "First Windows XP system sold"? What's next? First AC who actually buys something from Think Geek? Osama bin Ladin says "George Bush has bad gas?" Cowboy Neal finally gets laid!?
:p
Sorry, but this was the dumbest thing I've read in a while.
...this is a geek with waaaay too much time on his hands. Then again, I'm posting at slashdot, so I guess we've both got the same problems. ;)
Still trying to find a use for it though, playing PSX games on a screen that small. If he wanted to do something portable and cool, he could have tried rigging up a GBA with a back-lit screen. Now THAT would have been something useful.
Okay, I can see porn as the ONLY useful way to use something like this.
;)
Who the hell wants to "interact" with "Emeril", "The West Wing", or hell, "The View". Its not practical, its not useful, and it doesn't "enhance" the viewing pleasure any more. In fact, it would probably decrese it.
But I'd love to have something like this to watch porn on. Can't wait to see something like "Afro Whores" or "Cowboy Neal Gangbang" in something like this.
So instead of going after the "pirates", they go after their average consumer.
Good one Rosen...
Since Nintendo delayed the GCN until the 18th or so, MS probably decided they've got a few extra days to churn out some extra units, as well as maybe build up the hype a bit.
But is anyone getting any new preorders in? I got mine at the local EB the first day they had them, but they were out of their allotted units within 5 days. Maybe with this delay, a few more will get their XBOX for launch day.
Well, if Greoning was an idiot, he'd leave them out of the Simpsons DVD collection for that season. Hope he doesn't do that, since that was a funny episode.
Klavklash?
...we HAD rights online? What were you even thinking? Hell, check the YRO section to SEE that we've had little or no "rights" online. I just love seeing how the US govt tries to regulate something that it is only a small part of.
Got mine off FilePlanet ~400KB/sec, so just test each one.
Too bad it keeps LOCKING UP on my computer, and I am unable to play. *Sigh* I guess I could always study...
For anyone who's even seen 10 seconds of the game, they know damn well its no Mario Kart rip-off. HOWEVER, it IS most definately a Crazy Taxi rip-off, with Homer (and others) driving around Springfield picking up people, and dropping them off. Wonder what Sega thinks about this...
Art imitating life, or life imitating art?
Well, even with all of the advancements in video compression, I still HIGHLY doubt that we're at the point were decent, broadcast-quality video can be streamed at ~2.5k/sec. Unless they have some "magic" means of compressing something that nobody will even come close to for at least a decade, I remain doubtful. "Broadcast-quality video can go anywhere from 26+MB/sec (uncompressed NTSC) to ~3.7MB/sec (DV/DVCam/etc) for a decent compression. But a decent comparison at approx. .000676 the size? I'll believe it when I see it. Besides, there's only talk so far, no REAL proof that outside people can test, review, and confirm or deny.
This all reminds me of a friend who thought he could compress his whole hard drive onto a floppy by just zipping his files up hundreds of times. You know how that goes...
But there's no doubting how cool something like this will be once the technology in compression advances to this point. Screw MPEG-4 or MP3, if someone could successfully do this, it would change how TV and the Internet are seperated (or combined in some cases) forever.
...think like your average consumer. Since if they know ANYTHING about their computers, its the speed, imagine them trying to buy software.
/.'ers here, I'm sure we all have tech-impaired family and friends (like that one who bought Max Payne to run on their 486...you know who they are).
"Okay sir, and how fast is your computer?"
"Its an AMD 1600"
"So...how fast is it?"
"Its an AMD 1600"
"Do you know how fast it is, in MHz?"
".......Its an AMD 1600"
The average consumer will now know even less. And while that might not mean much to the
Sure, it might be what AMD needs to compete with Intel's ads, but they should just launch their own ad campaign showing how the 1.4GHz Athalon performs just as well, or better than the new 2GHz Pentium IV in almost every non-SSE-related benchmark.
So? The US market is MS' primary market, and with Nintendo's date being moved back 2 weeks, Microsoft has a chance to actually sell this unit. Sure, the Japanese market would help, but I don't see this console doing well their anyways (WAAAAAY too bulky for most Japanese, most prefer a smaller item like the GCN).