You have to be fucking kidding me. So basically they are ripping off everyone outside of Japan. I'll stick with the 360 then. Games are also bad, at 70-80 euros so around US$100 each, Sony can screw themselves.
It's a bit of both really. The PS3 unit alone in Ireland will cost 630, which at todays spot rate is US$827. I don't know how much it actually costs in the US, but I bet it isn't near that. Therefore, Sony = wankers, as it's all built in the middle of Guandong province somewhere in China in all liklihood, and our sales tax is 21%, it still doesn't add up.
So yeah, a canoe. I've always wanted one, seems pretty cool.
I have some solder and a few old consoles. The games are the same old shit anyway. I'll lash together a C64 and a PSX, call it Cell and if Sony are as stupid as their marketing tactics suggest they are, they will buy it.
I have no PS3, but I would like a canoe and to take up white water rafting instead.
Did anyone not see this coming? I am no hardcore gamer, but from what I can gather having not read the article as usual is that DX9 runs in Vista by means of what is like a wrapper like for the 3Dfx days. Of course this shit will run slower, it's MS trying to actually do something new for a change. Like NT - took them until 2000 and basically XP to get it right. DX12 will rock.
Now, off topic, I must confess that I no longer even read the Slashdot paragraph, but I just read the headline and then go straight to the comments to see what the controversial parts were.
Very true. Same thing happened with Halo 2. Someone somewhere really likes it.
I tried Second Life but quit after 10 mins because it seemed like a load of bollocks. Not a fan of MMORPG stuff myself, but there are plenty that are much much bigger.
Why was it easy to crack the passports? Because they never had anything to do with security, dumbass. Like all other contracts, the purpose was to make money by taking it from the population that gave it up in taxes.
Yes I was thinking the same thing. While the other games are good, and Syndicate (oriiginal one ) was uperb, Powermonger has to be one of my all time favourites. The style of play was very atmospheric, and affected your plans, it was simple quick attacks rolling a catapult down a hill, loads of psychophantic troops! Capturing the enemey general and getting his people.
Powermonger was Bullfrog's finest moment. Intro music was excellent too!
A totally sanitised environment is no problem to be raised in as long you are going to continue living in it forever. Unfortunately, your OCD parents who won't let you play in a mucky garden as a kid won't be your flatmates when you are finding unwashed underclothes can stale booze in college and the real world.
It will be no problem at all if there are moon colonies. But, as we all know there aren't (although some conspiracy theorists know there are).
So where is the line drawn and who gets to draw it?
Imagine killing someone for stealing virtual property - simply some bytes of code.
Now imagine imprisoning someone for stealing virtual property - bytes of code in the form of music or video. Or fining them hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for something that "doesn't exist".
Would MGM demand the death penalty for copying some movies? Why not? Would it be okay for them to "fine" people by using the police for non-criminal acts? Sure. So how about this guy or anyone of us: why couldn't this guy get the police to get his virtual property back, or at the very least, for the guy to be arrested and imprisoned, just as Warner would insist.
In separate news John Carmack announced that there will be a total of 6 games in total in the Doom series, and that everyone should keep buying them based on his name.
It's so quaint to see the evidence of paranoia and insecurity from back in the 1960s. Glad to be around in the 2000s.
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That's a good point! I didn't think of it!:)
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Phrack has been on a "final issue ever" several times. There's very little going on these days in it and the main contributors seem to be idiots with very little l33t sk1llz.
Gone are the days of VAX hacking, the best techniques for trashing and how to make petrol bombs. These days everyone has open access to all of this information and more with google and basic internet.
I wonder what happened to Taran King and Knight Lightning.......
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Seeing as Morpheus is the father figure of the Matrix - the Obi Wan or the Professor X if you will - I'd say they've taken a big risk with this. Or at least they would have if it had much a future in the cinema.
WHat now? Neo dead? Morpheus dead? Surely this isn't just to reduce possible royalties, etc., ? Ghost and Niobe are good but not *lead character* good.
Ever since they decided reneg on their agreement with Sony to make the Nintendo64 CD thing (or whatever it was supposed to be called)
That was called Play Station.
The subsequent split left Sony to go on to make the Play Station X, or PSX as it was commonly known back in 1995. The X was dropped and then it was PSone, etc.,
This is a shame. A real example of creativity as a basis for games was the adventure type of game. It had nice artwork but relied on a lot more in depth thought to create a good one as the entire perception of the game came from the story. E.g., that's why even Hitchhiker's Guide text game was entertaining and actually good.
That was an early warning sign, IMHO. The same thing has happened in movies for example, where we are treated to endless $100 million budget movies that make $500 million, but are shit basically. Same thing happens in pharmaceutical research where money goes to replicating me-too generic drugs (e.g., fluoxetine) to cash in instead of *actually* being innovative.
Car industry? Same thing. Besides genuinely new or advanced driving, we are basically in the same metal cages we had in 1950, except with lots of plastic and electronics to massage our fat asses. Mercedes makes rain-sensor wipers, then eveyone else has it too. Lexus installs runflats, well so does BMW. All the same, different brands.
Maybe it's more to do with ever extending globalisation as EA and their ilk eat up the small developer, sort of like say MGM or 20th Century Fox, or Daimler-Benz eating up Chrysler and everything in every industry eventually becomes under one banner.
Hang on, that's just like Microsoft buying up all the competition.
....wouldn't it be a symptom of the increasing use of broadband (worldwide). I'm sure the guys who originally were making linux drivers for the shitty winmodems that used to ship with Dell and Gateways from around 1998-2001 when linux started to get in the news have long since migrated to some broadband type of connection.
This isn't a flaw in the open source development method - plenty of companies don't bother supporting old devices either (or old software for that matter).
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You have to be fucking kidding me. So basically they are ripping off everyone outside of Japan. I'll stick with the 360 then. Games are also bad, at 70-80 euros so around US$100 each, Sony can screw themselves.
So yeah, a canoe. I've always wanted one, seems pretty cool.
I have no PS3, but I would like a canoe and to take up white water rafting instead.
Now, off topic, I must confess that I no longer even read the Slashdot paragraph, but I just read the headline and then go straight to the comments to see what the controversial parts were.
Michael Dell doesn't fuck around does he!!!!
Very true. Same thing happened with Halo 2. Someone somewhere really likes it.
I tried Second Life but quit after 10 mins because it seemed like a load of bollocks. Not a fan of MMORPG stuff myself, but there are plenty that are much much bigger.
Yeah! FInally after all these years!!!!
The world, QED.
I have started to simply be abusive now EA YOU SUCK ALL YOUR GAMES ARE STUPID SEQUELS
Yes I was thinking the same thing. While the other games are good, and Syndicate (oriiginal one ) was uperb, Powermonger has to be one of my all time favourites. The style of play was very atmospheric, and affected your plans, it was simple quick attacks rolling a catapult down a hill, loads of psychophantic troops! Capturing the enemey general and getting his people.
Powermonger was Bullfrog's finest moment. Intro music was excellent too!
That's cool, like The Linux Apocalypse. No sign of Transmeta anymore though :)
It will be no problem at all if there are moon colonies. But, as we all know there aren't (although some conspiracy theorists know there are).
(Surely it should be the motto of every worker)
Imagine killing someone for stealing virtual property - simply some bytes of code.
Now imagine imprisoning someone for stealing virtual property - bytes of code in the form of music or video. Or fining them hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for something that "doesn't exist".
Would MGM demand the death penalty for copying some movies? Why not? Would it be okay for them to "fine" people by using the police for non-criminal acts? Sure. So how about this guy or anyone of us: why couldn't this guy get the police to get his virtual property back, or at the very least, for the guy to be arrested and imprisoned, just as Warner would insist.
In separate news John Carmack announced that there will be a total of 6 games in total in the Doom series, and that everyone should keep buying them based on his name.
It's so quaint to see the evidence of paranoia and insecurity from back in the 1960s. Glad to be around in the 2000s.
That's a good point! I didn't think of it! :)
Phrack has been on a "final issue ever" several times. There's very little going on these days in it and the main contributors seem to be idiots with very little l33t sk1llz. Gone are the days of VAX hacking, the best techniques for trashing and how to make petrol bombs. These days everyone has open access to all of this information and more with google and basic internet. I wonder what happened to Taran King and Knight Lightning .......
WHat now? Neo dead? Morpheus dead? Surely this isn't just to reduce possible royalties, etc., ? Ghost and Niobe are good but not *lead character* good.
That was called Play Station.
The subsequent split left Sony to go on to make the Play Station X, or PSX as it was commonly known back in 1995. The X was dropped and then it was PSone, etc.,
That was an early warning sign, IMHO. The same thing has happened in movies for example, where we are treated to endless $100 million budget movies that make $500 million, but are shit basically. Same thing happens in pharmaceutical research where money goes to replicating me-too generic drugs (e.g., fluoxetine) to cash in instead of *actually* being innovative.
Car industry? Same thing. Besides genuinely new or advanced driving, we are basically in the same metal cages we had in 1950, except with lots of plastic and electronics to massage our fat asses. Mercedes makes rain-sensor wipers, then eveyone else has it too. Lexus installs runflats, well so does BMW. All the same, different brands.
Maybe it's more to do with ever extending globalisation as EA and their ilk eat up the small developer, sort of like say MGM or 20th Century Fox, or Daimler-Benz eating up Chrysler and everything in every industry eventually becomes under one banner.
Hang on, that's just like Microsoft buying up all the competition.
Hopefully I'll not have to d/l russian screeners anymore then.
Dammit I wanted to play this. Already SLashdotted and barely any comments yet even.
What a cool site, and it works very quickly and is not overflowing with advertising crap?
This isn't a flaw in the open source development method - plenty of companies don't bother supporting old devices either (or old software for that matter).