If you have 500 dollars/euros budgeted for a game console + controllers but not 1,100 dollars/euros for a console + controllers + a new TV, and not 1,800 dollars/euros for a set of PCs,[1] what should you buy?
That's easy, the TV. 360 and PS3 game developers are noticeably apathetic to how their game looks in SD. This leads to stuff like unreadable text, weird depth-of-vision stuff, etc. So get the TV first, or get a Wii where they still seem to care about the majority of people (those with SDTVs.)
PS You can get a CRT HDTV for super cheap if you don't mind hauling a huge piece of glass around.
People who bought Fallout 3 on the PC are equally screwed...and they have to deal with DRM via Steam and Windows Live...scroll up in this thread to read about a poor guy who had his legit copy of Fallout 3 remotely de-activated because he tried to sign up and get the DLC through games for Windows Live.
Umm they're not free since they're usually at least ten dollars extra for that combo edition and they're time limited licensed DRM crap that uses Microsoft's Media Player DRM at that.
No. Try The Dark Knight, Wall: E and other recent releases. They all provide a free iTunes download of the movie. It uses iTunes DRM but it's quite convenient if you have an iPod or iPhone.
The MPAA has every intention of limiting your access so it can sell you it bit by bit. They want to sell you a different copy for each medium you use it in.
If this is true, then why are almost all new movies coming out with free MPEG4 copies now?
Sorry, I have grave concerns about the MPAA but your knee-jerk cynicism is unwarranted. DRM is already out of the equation WRT online music. I don't know if it will disappear from movies, but including a free MPEG4 with new movies is a step in the right direction.
If you were allowed to watch a movie for free, and then asked to pay afterwards--but only if you really liked it--it wouldn't have been anywhere near $72 million.
If the studios let people vote with their wallets after watching the show, we wouldn't end up with stuff like this new Star Trek, or Charlie Bartlett.
Yeah, and if my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle. Maybe in an alternate universe, paying for movies via "the honor system" would work. But here in reality that's never going to happen. And even if it could, people WOULD pay for this movie...because it's actually good. Only the most sullen and intractable Trekkie would say it sucks...and they'll still go and see it, because they have to see anything with the "Star Trek" name on it.
If the game isn't perceived as fair, the sport will suffer. And the NBA has definitely suffered in the last decade or so. What does it tell you when the line in Vegas changes after certain referees (Joey Crawford, in this instance) are announced for a game?
There's a box on my Slashdot user page that says I can disable ads thanks to my excellent contributions. WTF? I'm fucking retarded! I don't make excellent contributions to anything except the toilet!
In light of this misplaced honor, I'll take this opportunity to say, enjoy your Friday, and fuck the Los Angeles Lakers.
* Note: NBA Rule 12A Section 5 Exceptions do not apply to players Stu Jackson deems to be "superstars," as evidenced by the 2009 NBA Western Conference Semifinals Game 2 between The Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets when Kobe Bryant clearly threw an elbow into Ron Artest's throat. Though exception I. (3) states that the player must be ejected, Bryant was allowed to remain in the game without even a foul called. After further review, Jackson did not suspend Bryant for this obvious rule violation, instead slapping him on the wrist with a flagrant 1 foul, proving yet again that "superstars" play by a different set of rules than other NBA players.
Too much focus on them now. Who has the money to pay for all of this new stuff, when the economy has just bottomed out ?
I do, I'm rich! Screw you plebes, I'm getting a gold-plated Pippin! Seriously though, I don't think Apple is seriously going into the gaming market. They just want the iPhone/App store combo to challenge the DS. They want 3rd party support, and buying EA for that would be like swatting a fly with a Gatling gun.
I'm willing to pay for content OR to have it infested with ads. Not both.
They want to have my cake and eat it too. This is why I can't wait for these businesses to crash and burn.
We are talking about the traditional newspaper approach. Ads pay the bills, subscribers just defray some costs. Although people around here seem to think print media is dead, I think it's more accurate to say that huge print conglomerates are dying. Small town local newspapers are still making money. Heck, even some of the large city papers like the Houston Chronicle would be profitable if they weren't hitched to the millstone called Hearst Newspapers. Consolidation is a bad idea in these markets. Simply printing wire stories isn't enough anymore. The focus has to be local...and it still works. And it will continue to work, if people are still willing to try it.
"Pros" use LCD just like anyone who matters does. Nobody uses CRT any more, it's an obsolete and dead technology used only by poor people in their televisions or by people who are clueless about current technology.
You could have typing "I'm a fucking idiot" and saved us all the time.
The LCD display on my laptop has better colour reproduction than any CRT and LCD blurring hasn't existed for around 10 years.
BZZT! What do you think the pros are doing video editing with? They're still using CRTs. And LCD blurring is still an issue, although less so lately. Color reproduction and especially black level still suck.
But hey, everything's a tradeoff. Geometry on CRTs sucks, so does size and weight. But let's not kid ourselves, they're still better in some ways.
There are some very potent and addictive drugs that rock your brain in such a way it was not meant to be rocked.
I assume you mean Electric Six? Cocaine, alcohol, and (smoked) nicotine are the most deleterious drugs. Two of them are already legal. Why not make it 3 for 3? Meth is quite bad, but surprisingly heroin is quite benign in terms of direct damage it does to the body. The crippling addiction is the real problem.
Vengeful moderation is the soothing aloe for the 2500K burn I just gave you. Or should I say, your own slavish mediocrity gave you! Ooh, autoburn. That's gotta smart.
Here's a fun game...try to build an argument without linking to Penny Arcade, XKCD, or the Simpsons. I'll bet 90% of people who post here regularly will be stumped. And if I also said, "Don't use an automobile analogy," the silence would be overwhelming.
The answer is wait until you are done with whatever you are doing, then use them.
Sorry, I'm not going to wait. I'm sorry the Prius has a shitty touchscreen design so that I have to look away from the road to mess with the radio or A/C. It's my hot hippie girlfriend's car and obviously she can't drive while she's doing a line of coke off my dong. I simply cannot climax while driving unless I'm blaring "Heat of the Moment" by Asia, so I've got to change it now...ah yes, much better.
Well, what are you waiting for? Publish that shit, ho!
I want to read the novel-length screed about why the GPL is better than BSD license! And the MegaMan/Mr. Spock gay slash fiction! The proof that Commander Taco founded the GNAA! Come on, man! Snap to it!
Are you sure it isn't "I wanna take you from behind"?!?! 0_O
And there's another level where the singer sounds like "I'm retarded!" I think the one with the big clock that used the Dreamcast's internal clock to display, maybe?
Of course I am only of those crazy people who think street fighter 3 is better then street fighter 4 in just about every way. including graphics.
You are crazy. Street Fighter IV is almost exactly like Street Fighter II, which is why it's a hit. Most people weren't too crazy about the convoluted Street Fighter III fight system.
The man was 15-20 years out of date on certain techniques, and did them according to the way he was trained, and screwed the pooch big time.
I don't want to interrupt your irrational, anti-union rant but doctors are required to keep current with their methods. They have to prove this to the state medical board every year. Perhaps you'd prefer to go back to the pre-AMA days where serial killers like John Brinkley could operate with impunity and make millions while killing people on the operating table through incompetency and neglect.
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If you have 500 dollars/euros budgeted for a game console + controllers but not 1,100 dollars/euros for a console + controllers + a new TV, and not 1,800 dollars/euros for a set of PCs,[1] what should you buy?
That's easy, the TV. 360 and PS3 game developers are noticeably apathetic to how their game looks in SD. This leads to stuff like unreadable text, weird depth-of-vision stuff, etc. So get the TV first, or get a Wii where they still seem to care about the majority of people (those with SDTVs.)
PS You can get a CRT HDTV for super cheap if you don't mind hauling a huge piece of glass around.
People who bought Fallout 3 on the PC are equally screwed...and they have to deal with DRM via Steam and Windows Live...scroll up in this thread to read about a poor guy who had his legit copy of Fallout 3 remotely de-activated because he tried to sign up and get the DLC through games for Windows Live.
Umm they're not free since they're usually at least ten dollars extra for that combo edition and they're time limited licensed DRM crap that uses Microsoft's Media Player DRM at that.
No. Try The Dark Knight, Wall: E and other recent releases. They all provide a free iTunes download of the movie. It uses iTunes DRM but it's quite convenient if you have an iPod or iPhone.
The MPAA has every intention of limiting your access so it can sell you it bit by bit. They want to sell you a different copy for each medium you use it in.
If this is true, then why are almost all new movies coming out with free MPEG4 copies now?
Sorry, I have grave concerns about the MPAA but your knee-jerk cynicism is unwarranted. DRM is already out of the equation WRT online music. I don't know if it will disappear from movies, but including a free MPEG4 with new movies is a step in the right direction.
I'm a Steve, you're a Steve. Get used to it.
If you were allowed to watch a movie for free, and then asked to pay afterwards--but only if you really liked it--it wouldn't have been anywhere near $72 million.
If the studios let people vote with their wallets after watching the show, we wouldn't end up with stuff like this new Star Trek, or Charlie Bartlett.
Yeah, and if my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle. Maybe in an alternate universe, paying for movies via "the honor system" would work. But here in reality that's never going to happen. And even if it could, people WOULD pay for this movie...because it's actually good. Only the most sullen and intractable Trekkie would say it sucks...and they'll still go and see it, because they have to see anything with the "Star Trek" name on it.
The 2003 Hulk was just epic.
Yes, epic yawns. Fighting evil mutated poodles, yeah...that's the ticket.
No...Star Trek was shot on film, which still has a higher resolution than Blu-Ray.
That's why just about any film will look better on Blu-Ray as compared to DVD.
If the game isn't perceived as fair, the sport will suffer. And the NBA has definitely suffered in the last decade or so. What does it tell you when the line in Vegas changes after certain referees (Joey Crawford, in this instance) are announced for a game?
There's a box on my Slashdot user page that says I can disable ads thanks to my excellent contributions. WTF? I'm fucking retarded! I don't make excellent contributions to anything except the toilet!
In light of this misplaced honor, I'll take this opportunity to say, enjoy your Friday, and fuck the Los Angeles Lakers.
* Note: NBA Rule 12A Section 5 Exceptions do not apply to players Stu Jackson deems to be "superstars," as evidenced by the 2009 NBA Western Conference Semifinals Game 2 between The Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets when Kobe Bryant clearly threw an elbow into Ron Artest's throat. Though exception I. (3) states that the player must be ejected, Bryant was allowed to remain in the game without even a foul called. After further review, Jackson did not suspend Bryant for this obvious rule violation, instead slapping him on the wrist with a flagrant 1 foul, proving yet again that "superstars" play by a different set of rules than other NBA players.
So while Crap normally means deification it has been expanded to anything so worthless that it needs to be disposed of as soon as possible.
Crap means "deification" to you? Man, you've got a weird theology. Are the 2 Girls and One Cup considered holy artifacts?
Too much focus on them now. Who has the money to pay for all of this new stuff, when the economy has just bottomed out ?
I do, I'm rich! Screw you plebes, I'm getting a gold-plated Pippin! Seriously though, I don't think Apple is seriously going into the gaming market. They just want the iPhone/App store combo to challenge the DS. They want 3rd party support, and buying EA for that would be like swatting a fly with a Gatling gun.
I'm willing to pay for content OR to have it infested with ads. Not both.
They want to have my cake and eat it too. This is why I can't wait for these businesses to crash and burn.
We are talking about the traditional newspaper approach. Ads pay the bills, subscribers just defray some costs. Although people around here seem to think print media is dead, I think it's more accurate to say that huge print conglomerates are dying. Small town local newspapers are still making money. Heck, even some of the large city papers like the Houston Chronicle would be profitable if they weren't hitched to the millstone called Hearst Newspapers. Consolidation is a bad idea in these markets. Simply printing wire stories isn't enough anymore. The focus has to be local...and it still works. And it will continue to work, if people are still willing to try it.
"Pros" use LCD just like anyone who matters does. Nobody uses CRT any more, it's an obsolete and dead technology used only by poor people in their televisions or by people who are clueless about current technology.
You could have typing "I'm a fucking idiot" and saved us all the time.
The LCD display on my laptop has better colour reproduction than any CRT and LCD blurring hasn't existed for around 10 years.
BZZT! What do you think the pros are doing video editing with? They're still using CRTs. And LCD blurring is still an issue, although less so lately. Color reproduction and especially black level still suck.
But hey, everything's a tradeoff. Geometry on CRTs sucks, so does size and weight. But let's not kid ourselves, they're still better in some ways.
There are some very potent and addictive drugs that rock your brain in such a way it was not meant to be rocked.
I assume you mean Electric Six? Cocaine, alcohol, and (smoked) nicotine are the most deleterious drugs. Two of them are already legal. Why not make it 3 for 3? Meth is quite bad, but surprisingly heroin is quite benign in terms of direct damage it does to the body. The crippling addiction is the real problem.
Awww, did I hurt the widdle modewatuw's feewings?
Vengeful moderation is the soothing aloe for the 2500K burn I just gave you. Or should I say, your own slavish mediocrity gave you! Ooh, autoburn. That's gotta smart.
Here's a fun game...try to build an argument without linking to Penny Arcade, XKCD, or the Simpsons. I'll bet 90% of people who post here regularly will be stumped. And if I also said, "Don't use an automobile analogy," the silence would be overwhelming.
No, but it can make a pair of inflatable fake boobs that you'd want to use for minutes at a time!
The answer is wait until you are done with whatever you are doing, then use them.
Sorry, I'm not going to wait. I'm sorry the Prius has a shitty touchscreen design so that I have to look away from the road to mess with the radio or A/C. It's my hot hippie girlfriend's car and obviously she can't drive while she's doing a line of coke off my dong. I simply cannot climax while driving unless I'm blaring "Heat of the Moment" by Asia, so I've got to change it now...ah yes, much better.
Well, what are you waiting for? Publish that shit, ho!
I want to read the novel-length screed about why the GPL is better than BSD license! And the MegaMan/Mr. Spock gay slash fiction! The proof that Commander Taco founded the GNAA! Come on, man! Snap to it!
Are you sure it isn't "I wanna take you from behind"?!?! 0_O
And there's another level where the singer sounds like "I'm retarded!" I think the one with the big clock that used the Dreamcast's internal clock to display, maybe?
Of course I am only of those crazy people who think street fighter 3 is better then street fighter 4 in just about every way. including graphics.
You are crazy. Street Fighter IV is almost exactly like Street Fighter II, which is why it's a hit. Most people weren't too crazy about the convoluted Street Fighter III fight system.
The Repubs just want it to fail in a manor that wakes people up so it doesn't happen again.
Like, a country manor outside of Derbyshire? That's a nice play for anything, even failure! It's a bed and breakfast as well.
The man was 15-20 years out of date on certain techniques, and did them according to the way he was trained, and screwed the pooch big time.
I don't want to interrupt your irrational, anti-union rant but doctors are required to keep current with their methods. They have to prove this to the state medical board every year. Perhaps you'd prefer to go back to the pre-AMA days where serial killers like John Brinkley could operate with impunity and make millions while killing people on the operating table through incompetency and neglect.