This Reuters story via Yahoo has essentially the same content, but a little more about the music/video upgrades:
The upcoming upgrade will have a new feature tentatively dubbed "Xbox Music Mixer." It allows users to pull the music files off their computers and onto the Xbox's 8-gigabyte hard drive, then use the Xbox as a media center with on-screen displays and auto-identification of songs, sources said.
With the new upgrade, Xbox users would also be able to transfer properly encoded video from their personal computers to the Xbox and view that video on a television screen.
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Not sure I agree entirely about Entertainment Weekly. They actually seem pretty careful about choosing their videogame reviewers, who include Geoff Keighley of Gamespot/Gameslice and Erik 'Oldmanmurray' Wolpaw, both of whom are reasonably respected both online and off.
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Seems like either works. I like Japlish, for some reason. Doh :)
This Reuters story via Yahoo has essentially the same content, but a little more about the music/video upgrades:
The upcoming upgrade will have a new feature tentatively dubbed "Xbox Music Mixer." It allows users to pull the music files off their computers and onto the Xbox's 8-gigabyte hard drive, then use the Xbox as a media center with on-screen displays and auto-identification of songs, sources said.
With the new upgrade, Xbox users would also be able to transfer properly encoded video from their personal computers to the Xbox and view that video on a television screen.
We @ Slashdot Games are now trying to make sure there's a BitTorrent link available alongside any posts that will generate server-slaying bandwidth, with the help of nice people who mailed us and offered to help out. In this case, we actually mailed the guys at Gametab before the post went live to alert them ask them about putting a BitTorrent link on their site - thanks again to them. Looks like it helped a bit, at least.
I believe the anonymous posting being disabled is a bug - it only appears on certain stories. We're checking it out.
:)
Thanks for pointing it out, though.
Not sure I agree entirely about Entertainment Weekly. They actually seem pretty careful about choosing their videogame reviewers, who include Geoff Keighley of Gamespot/Gameslice and Erik 'Oldmanmurray' Wolpaw, both of whom are reasonably respected both online and off.
:)
Your mileage may vary, of course.
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Actually, thanks for that - had no idea that was the correct usage, and I'll try to pick it up in the future.
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Man alive, that common errors site is a pedant's dream.
You could pronounce it like the word 'moniker' with the syllable 'si' (pronounced like the first half of Simon) in front of it. :)