For what reason is this guy down to a -1? He was making an observation that his girlfriend just got an iBook last month and it kinda sucks that the new one was released today.
At the very least it was a throwaway comment that doesn't need any moderation... but a -1?
How can you have a Pentium 5? From a logical point of view, I mean. The Pentium was called the Pentium because it was the 586 chip.
If Intel ever called a chip the Pentium 5, I think any self-respecting consumer who knows what the meaning of "pent-" is would lose any and all respect for them.
I think this might actually convince me to pick up a DS if it means I can finally get my hands on FFIII.
I wonder if a DS Player might be in the works for the GameCube? I know that's a longshot, especially considering how the dual screens would have to be set up on a TV screen, but one can hope, can't one?
Man... FFIII. I hope there's a North American release, dammit.
Ummm... no, not in the palm of your hand. I was referring to GTA: San Andreas, which will be on the PS2. And, from what I've read, there's more than a bit of adventuring to do out in the backwoods country. Granted, I'm sure there aren't any hookers to shoot, but there should be some toothless rednecks.:)
No, it's three cities. However, you do get to experience the travel between all three and, supposedly, there is going to be no noticable loading.
And on a slightly more related note: GTA Advance, set in the GTA III timeframe and Liberty City, will be released on the same day. Thus, a DS player has a GTA to look forward to, while a PSP player does not (at least not yet).
The fellow above is right - the POL ID is free and doesn't get cancelled. You can cancel the Content ID, which is needed to play FFXI or TetraMaster, and that stays in the system for three months after cancelation.
Furthermore: I have a 40GB iPod (3rd gen) and my wife has an iPod mini. We use the same Power Mac G4 to handle the library, stream music through the house, etc. Yes, I have more than enough capability to use Poisoned to get on the P2P networks and get whatever the hell I want. But I choose not to.
You should watch Ken Burns's documentary in the new DVD set. Carrie Fisher says that they used to tell Lucas that you can write lines like the "stench" one and people accept it on the page, but not when actors say it...
It was as though I heard thousands of "Resident Evil" doors scream out... and suddenly go silent.
Let's be honest: Are we surprised? Load time has always been an issue for Sony machines. Even strong developers, like Rockstar, have had load issue times with the GTA games (though I understand San Andreas is supposed to have no load times, but I'll wait to see that for myself).
I hate to say it, but Sony is dropping the ball on the PSP. It's a slick looking machine, I agree. The specs are great. For what its features are, I think $350 is an okay price.
BUT, if the "portable" part of portable gaming means that I'm plugged in using a power adapter, then I'm not leaving my GBA SP for a PSP any time soon.
Can't say I'm buying a DS, either, but this discussion is about the PSP.
I've been chomping at the bit for this for a while.
I live just outside of Detroit and get a lot of Canadian radio stations. A couple of them have shows that I've not heard for years because I have not had the energy to stay up until 3am Sunday - Thursday and work, too (funny about that, isn't it?). When Nivana first hit the Seattle scene (well before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - we're talking around their first album, "Bleach") I heard them on Canadian radio because, at that time , I was a high school student with nothing to do but stay up until 3am and listen to strong new bands on some obscure radio show out of Vancouver...
I can easily think of five or so weekly shows that my wife and I want to listen to but don't have the ability to due to the nature of a broadcast medium like radio and TV. I adore my TiVo. Now, with this, I can drop these shows on my iPod and listen to them at work or in the car.
Call me odd... I started playing D&D back in 1980 or 1981 and the cool things about the game were the books. It was almost arcane in and of itself to be dragging a DMG, Monster Manual, and Player's Handbook to and from friends' houses.
Now you can drop it on a laptop? I applaud the advance in technology, don't get me wrong (Save your backs, kids! Don't stuff all those books in your backpacks!). However, it just strikes me that something is lost, just like the first time, many years ago, I saw a computer printed dungeon map as opposed to a hand-drawn one on hex or graph paper...
To start with, stores may very well mark the old units down (Target is a prime example of one that does this). You may be able to get the PS2 w/ Network Adaptor (I hate that spelling, but it's on the package as such) for closer to $120 or so. Also, I recently saw that the FFXI package at Best Buy was around $88 now (not a sale price, from what I could see). Plus you should be able to find a vertical stand for the unit on eBay for relatively cheap and, if the pictures at engadget.com are to be believed, the PS2 and the PStwo, on their vertical stands, take up the same surface footprint.
In the end, the old PS2 is just not that large of a unit. Hell, man, it's smaller than my Atari 2600!:)
One simple explanation: Sony is still selling brand-new PSones as we speak. I think a new one can be had for under $40. Nice price for a college student or a grade school kid running a newspaper route. You can still buy the latest big name EA games for the PSone (yes, it is still being coded for).
Sony expects to follow that success with the "PStwo" and has already said that their PS2 timeline goes up to 2008 or beyond.
There are a few coding houses out there that have bootable apps on disc. Can't think of them off the top of my head.
The issue here is that there is no room for the HDD (so FFXI and RE: Outbreak players are stuck with old-school PS2 model, I guess). So, unless you are just going to stream with no chance of local caching (not that I've heard of any of these apps caching things to the HDD), I really don't think it's going to be a strong media center. But it should handle lower-bandwidth-type stuff (music and photos) nicely...
3001 is special. 3001 is the true "search for cash" that people always joke about Star Wars and Star Trek becoming.
In 3001, Frank Poole's body is found floating in space and revitalized. That's not a spoiler. Poole is the main character of the book. In fact, I think he's up and about by the end of the first chapter, and it's not a long book by any means.
For those of you who don't remember who Frank Poole is: He's the fellow HAL kills and then Dave sets his body adrift in space.
No, thankfully, I do not think there will ever be a 3001 movie.
Hmmm... well, considering my wife and I play FFXI together (Galfridus and Kodamakitty on the Valefor server), perhaps you should try getting your wife interested in the game, too.
And, yes, that usually means two of everything: two gaming rigs, two accounts (that generate two monthly bills), purchasing two copies of the software, purchasing two copies of any expansion packs, etc.
I will say this, though: we buy a helluva lot less other games now that we play FFXI. We are, oddly, saving money...
First, I'm looking at my VHS and LaserDisc copies of the trilogy from 1995. It clearly says that they are the last time the original versions of the movies will be seen. I suggest, if you really need the original versions, then buy a LaserDisc player, buy The Star Wars Trilogy: The Definitive Collection LaserDisc set on eBay, and burn then to DVD. I have, and they look good.
As for artists working on new work: Actually, no, you're wrong. I'm not defending Lucas, but you are speaking out of your ass. Cases in point:
1) Ridley Scott re-cut and re-editied Blade Runner, making changes he wanted to exist in the first place. In fact, even though they aren't all due to Scott, BR has had more versions than Star Wars has, and there is rumored to be a definitive cut waiting for a bunch of legal issues to be worked out so it can be released on DVD.
2) Tolkien came back and rewrote portions of the The Hobbit after he finished LOTR. Why? To make it correspond with the changes he made to Middle-earth in LOTR.
3) Frank O'Connor rewrote entire published stories (the most famous being "Guests of a Nation"), and then published them again, when he decided that the dialects he had people speaking in really didn't work for the stories and felt forced.
4) Issac Asimov stated, very clearly, in Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain that it was not a sequel but a reimagining of the original Fantastic Voyage.
What else?
5) The work Arthur C. Clarke did on 2001, both film and movie, was a reworking of his short story "The Sentinel."
6) Stephen King redid The Stand, adding hundreds of pages to the text. Hell, his The Gunslinger has seen some three or four incarnations since his college days.
And last, but not least:
7) Shakespeare was continually rewriting his works - you can see that in the quartos the British Library put up on the web the other day (93 versions of 21 plays...).
So, I ask you: Where should the bullshit be called?
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At the very least it was a throwaway comment that doesn't need any moderation... but a -1?
I've got to meta-moderate more...
How can you have a Pentium 5? From a logical point of view, I mean. The Pentium was called the Pentium because it was the 586 chip.
If Intel ever called a chip the Pentium 5, I think any self-respecting consumer who knows what the meaning of "pent-" is would lose any and all respect for them.
I wonder if a DS Player might be in the works for the GameCube? I know that's a longshot, especially considering how the dual screens would have to be set up on a TV screen, but one can hope, can't one?
Man... FFIII. I hope there's a North American release, dammit.
Ummm... no, not in the palm of your hand. I was referring to GTA: San Andreas, which will be on the PS2. And, from what I've read, there's more than a bit of adventuring to do out in the backwoods country. Granted, I'm sure there aren't any hookers to shoot, but there should be some toothless rednecks. :)
And on a slightly more related note: GTA Advance, set in the GTA III timeframe and Liberty City, will be released on the same day. Thus, a DS player has a GTA to look forward to, while a PSP player does not (at least not yet).
The fellow above is right - the POL ID is free and doesn't get cancelled. You can cancel the Content ID, which is needed to play FFXI or TetraMaster, and that stays in the system for three months after cancelation.
I wish I could get CBC... but DirecTV doesn't see that as a local station. :(
1) Two songs out of 3,200+.
2) Roughly 15%.
3) None (right now).
4) Roughly 84%.
5) Less than 1%.
Furthermore: I have a 40GB iPod (3rd gen) and my wife has an iPod mini. We use the same Power Mac G4 to handle the library, stream music through the house, etc. Yes, I have more than enough capability to use Poisoned to get on the P2P networks and get whatever the hell I want. But I choose not to.
Lastly: Steve Ballmer is a nut and can shove it.
Granted, he didn't run for the office until he was older than Kennedy, but he was the youngest president we've had yet.
Kinda explains why I thought the documentary glossed over a lot - like Lucas's divorce, the fights with Kirschner over ESB, etc.
When you're George Lucas, you can get Ken Burns to make a documentary for you...
You should watch Ken Burns's documentary in the new DVD set. Carrie Fisher says that they used to tell Lucas that you can write lines like the "stench" one and people accept it on the page, but not when actors say it...
Let's be honest: Are we surprised? Load time has always been an issue for Sony machines. Even strong developers, like Rockstar, have had load issue times with the GTA games (though I understand San Andreas is supposed to have no load times, but I'll wait to see that for myself).
I hate to say it, but Sony is dropping the ball on the PSP. It's a slick looking machine, I agree. The specs are great. For what its features are, I think $350 is an okay price.
BUT, if the "portable" part of portable gaming means that I'm plugged in using a power adapter, then I'm not leaving my GBA SP for a PSP any time soon.
Can't say I'm buying a DS, either, but this discussion is about the PSP.
I live just outside of Detroit and get a lot of Canadian radio stations. A couple of them have shows that I've not heard for years because I have not had the energy to stay up until 3am Sunday - Thursday and work, too (funny about that, isn't it?). When Nivana first hit the Seattle scene (well before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - we're talking around their first album, "Bleach") I heard them on Canadian radio because, at that time , I was a high school student with nothing to do but stay up until 3am and listen to strong new bands on some obscure radio show out of Vancouver...
I can easily think of five or so weekly shows that my wife and I want to listen to but don't have the ability to due to the nature of a broadcast medium like radio and TV. I adore my TiVo. Now, with this, I can drop these shows on my iPod and listen to them at work or in the car.
That, to me, is a strong reason.
Now you can drop it on a laptop? I applaud the advance in technology, don't get me wrong (Save your backs, kids! Don't stuff all those books in your backpacks!). However, it just strikes me that something is lost, just like the first time, many years ago, I saw a computer printed dungeon map as opposed to a hand-drawn one on hex or graph paper...
I feel old.
So, while the HDD is late to the game and will probably make little impact, it is being developed for...
To start with, stores may very well mark the old units down (Target is a prime example of one that does this). You may be able to get the PS2 w/ Network Adaptor (I hate that spelling, but it's on the package as such) for closer to $120 or so. Also, I recently saw that the FFXI package at Best Buy was around $88 now (not a sale price, from what I could see). Plus you should be able to find a vertical stand for the unit on eBay for relatively cheap and, if the pictures at engadget.com are to be believed, the PS2 and the PStwo, on their vertical stands, take up the same surface footprint.
In the end, the old PS2 is just not that large of a unit. Hell, man, it's smaller than my Atari 2600! :)
Sony expects to follow that success with the "PStwo" and has already said that their PS2 timeline goes up to 2008 or beyond.
1) no FireWire; 2) a built-in IR receiver for the DVD remote; 3) progressive scan capabilities (okay, maybe you won't see that).
The issue here is that there is no room for the HDD (so FFXI and RE: Outbreak players are stuck with old-school PS2 model, I guess). So, unless you are just going to stream with no chance of local caching (not that I've heard of any of these apps caching things to the HDD), I really don't think it's going to be a strong media center. But it should handle lower-bandwidth-type stuff (music and photos) nicely...
No, it's the new "i" - but don't let Steve Jobs know (gMac, gPod, gTunes, gBook, gPhoto, gMovie)...
In 3001, Frank Poole's body is found floating in space and revitalized. That's not a spoiler. Poole is the main character of the book. In fact, I think he's up and about by the end of the first chapter, and it's not a long book by any means.
For those of you who don't remember who Frank Poole is: He's the fellow HAL kills and then Dave sets his body adrift in space.
No, thankfully, I do not think there will ever be a 3001 movie.
And, yes, that usually means two of everything: two gaming rigs, two accounts (that generate two monthly bills), purchasing two copies of the software, purchasing two copies of any expansion packs, etc.
I will say this, though: we buy a helluva lot less other games now that we play FFXI. We are, oddly, saving money...
As for artists working on new work: Actually, no, you're wrong. I'm not defending Lucas, but you are speaking out of your ass. Cases in point:
1) Ridley Scott re-cut and re-editied Blade Runner, making changes he wanted to exist in the first place. In fact, even though they aren't all due to Scott, BR has had more versions than Star Wars has, and there is rumored to be a definitive cut waiting for a bunch of legal issues to be worked out so it can be released on DVD.
2) Tolkien came back and rewrote portions of the The Hobbit after he finished LOTR. Why? To make it correspond with the changes he made to Middle-earth in LOTR.
3) Frank O'Connor rewrote entire published stories (the most famous being "Guests of a Nation"), and then published them again, when he decided that the dialects he had people speaking in really didn't work for the stories and felt forced.
4) Issac Asimov stated, very clearly, in Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain that it was not a sequel but a reimagining of the original Fantastic Voyage.
What else?
5) The work Arthur C. Clarke did on 2001, both film and movie, was a reworking of his short story "The Sentinel."
6) Stephen King redid The Stand, adding hundreds of pages to the text. Hell, his The Gunslinger has seen some three or four incarnations since his college days.
And last, but not least:
7) Shakespeare was continually rewriting his works - you can see that in the quartos the British Library put up on the web the other day (93 versions of 21 plays...).
So, I ask you: Where should the bullshit be called?
Naboo is in the closing of ROTJ (check out thedigitalbits.com for screenshots), but I have not heard that Jar-Jar is in that scene...