Yes. And pirated movies on the racks of Thailand and China's dodgy vendors all have Japanese subtitles? They most certainly don't. This is the sole reason thye this is the case. The preference over quality is no worse than anywhere else. I refuse to watch screeners, but I know plenty of people (Japanese or not) who happily will.
I was using IE with Avant Browser (which adds tabs and pop-up blocking functionality) and had no problems but I was planning to try Firefox when it reached version 1 (I am summarily suspicious of sub-1 version software). Security issues now that I am no longer protected by a university firewall were the overriding factor; I gave it a shot a few days ago.
But the best thing so far? Here's my switch story.
Since I switched to Firefox last week, reading Slashdot has never been more pleasant. The easy-to-use built in Adblock feature allowed me to remove almost all the advertising in a few minutes. Any that escaped my attention are soon dispatched of in similar speed.
Your phone probably can send and recieve SMS but by default the option is turned off. YOu can pay to have it activated (for a few hundred yen a month, from memory) but since no-one uses it, I don't know anyone who uses this. Older phones that aren't e-mail capable are the primary reason that this persists.
The recent increase of broadband phones here has brought with it the recent unlimited packet plans. DoCoMo offer the service for their Foma users (Foma is DoCoMo's broadband phone series) on Foma packets (ie, from Foma to Foma phones; packets to the older Mova series phones are different) for about 4000 yen a month. au offer a similar deal on their Win series of broadband phones at a slightly cheaper price.
But the above poster is correct, e-mail is much more convenient and (unless you use waaaaay too much) economical.
Cheers to this. I'm in Tokyo as well and my unlimited use connection is indeed unlimited. If my hard drive was any bigger there would be a lot more coming in but it suits me just fine knowing that I can use as much as I need (webcam to talk to the folks back home, ect) and never have to worry about complaints or capping.
Mind you, the broadband boom is happening here at a comparitively delayed rate, I can remember friends getting 'unlimited' deals only to have caps slammed on when it got out of control. Computers in homes here are increasing but are not taken for granted. This is gradually changing and I can't help but think the crunch will come soon. But for now, no worries.
Woo, cheers, I've been wondering if there's a way to rip those. The test I ran on my girlfriend's Fayray cd worker like a charm.
Still, it's probably for the best that mostly crap comes out on Avex or I'd have missed a lot more until now. Now the little that I was after shall be mine.
You know anything more about the format? And of the MA cd mentioned, is that the same?
$1000 for the console and $100 each for games? Well, here in Australia (and I imagine a lot of places that aren't the USA) most games, new ones in particular, cost that and more. Consoles, Neo Geo aside, were never that high, but some went close when they were new. These days you're looking at $400 or so for it, and that is a conservative estimate.
I can tell you, there's one in the Union Building of the Clayton campus of Monash University where I study. It costs AU$5 and you have to BYO blank. I imagine that it's there under the pretext that people will use it to copy their own data files...
I've never used it, so I don't know if there's anything it won't copy, but I also have never seen anyone else using it. I have severe doubts about its popularity. I'm not surprised that it was allowed because as a potential form of income I'd bet the Uni jumped at the chance. But that's just Monash I guess.
Not to mention the often scantily-clad females. Plus, you gotta love the fact their hard-suits have high heels on them.
I don't know about 'surprisingly realistic', however. What Dark's talking about is the Space Umbrella and Sky Hook -- the former is a huge solar power station in space and the latter is the cable/elevator that joins it to Tokyo. It's cool and all, but...
All this talk reminds me of the Star Ladder and Space Ladder wonders in Civilization Call To Power and Alpha Centauri. I don't remember which was in which, but the ideas were there. One worked with the help of super prehensile solids, aka material capable of holding millions of times it's own weight. The other relied on 'smart metal' that could re-model itself if it had to move, that sort of thing. Just feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
And check out Bubblegum Crisis, not only the newer Tokyo 2040 but the series it was based on, Tokyo 2020.
Have you noticed? It's been like that since FF8, by my reckoning. I personally don't have a problem with it, it adds a real theatric sense to the whole experience, but if I was rearing to get going killing things I'd get kinda pissed. I guess that's what Final Fantasy has become, more of an interactive movie than a hack 'n' slash RPG.
The only gripe I've really ever had is the linear feel of the games, you're dead right it feels like you're not controlling it. But then I reached the conclusion if was the style of the thing - I'm fairly easy to please, you see. And the stories appeal to me. The interaction means you literally get inside the characters and you're feeling the story as it goes... The plot's probably not that good at all, but it's a context, remember?
Try FF8. It doesn't suck as you may have heard. It was actually my first FF game and I got my head around it fast enough. Before that I played Zelda on my good ol' Nintendo.
It felt very linear compared to Link's adventures but it's a very different game. The first time you play through it you can get lost and caught up in the story... If you want to. Graphically it's no longer stunning, but the CGI is still worthy. I'm playing it throught again and it still appeals to me.
Don't play just because of peer preassure from Slashdot. PLay because they are worthy games. If they sucked they wouldn't be as popular as they are. Games usually don't make it as far as the tenth installment if the idea is stale and the play flawed.
Go on, join us... You don't need to sleep for a few weeks...
Another reccomendation: find a Snes emu and play FF3/FF5. A truly epic experience...
But what do we do if they hijack the ship and ressurect the crew? They'll never believe me when I try to tell them that they all died millions of years ago when Rimmer caused a leak in the reactor...
I gotta say, this is going too far... The legality of this move must be VERY suspect. I must disclaim here that I use Windows and IE, but fuck me if I agree with this manouvuer of theirs. Their generally shady buisness practices are sell known and never really affected the general public untill this...
To those who already posted that they 'got in' with Netscape, the article did say that only some versions were affected... Don't make me say it...
Ensuing flame war (enable asbestos monitor) aside, can this sort of activity be gotten away with? Is this legal? It's certainly one thing to corner a market, but locking non-MS browsers out of MSN and making such a wild claim as it won't render properly is a whole new level, even for MS. Can those out there actually qualified to give me an answer please do so? Those who just want to pontificate, you'll just be preaching to the quoir with me.
You gotta hand it to them, they really done it this time. Now, where did I put my RedHat boot CD..?
OPen market = not what you seem to think it is. THe freedom to sell your product without government intevention is the open market. What you mentioned is a buisness practice, shady I admit, not the qualifications for an open market practice. It was, however, fuzzy logic at its greatest. Well done.
"Configure and control yes, but configure and control correctly?"
It wasn't a matter of having correct configurations with Nimda or Code Red, that was more of a protection issue (or lack of, ie virus protection). And in the case of Code Red, not one home user got it. It went after IIS servers.
But the point should be that both Windows and Linux need some training. I've had friends who were first time users that needed the basics of Windows taught to them and I couldn't have figured out Linux without a manual. Grep? Huh? How do I search..?
Say it all you want, you'll never get ogg accepted to the level that mp3 is. What do you download from Audiogalaxy? There sure ain't any ogg out there...
One a serious note, while it looks pretty cool, you can't help but think it will prove to be less useful than the traditional methods "used to decipher and translate hand gestures into computer interepreted symbols". Still, it's only there to prove it could be done. Who among the programmers out there wants to tell me if they;d find this useful?
I got rid of Messenger (eventually... Deleted the damn thing) but apparently you can tell it not to install it when you setup.
The other bitch is Outlook- you don't get to choose whether you want it or not and if you delete it Windows claims you have 'changed or removed essential system files' and asks you to put the CD in so it can replace them... Exqueeze
me? Outlook? So far I have had none of the 'instability' it warned me about.
But otherwise no shit with it yet (yet...). Hasn't offered anything Win 2K hasn't, though.
If there is any justice in this world MPEG-4 will become the dominant format for no other reason than quality.
Especially when compared to Real Media. There is little worse than downloading a long sought after clip in.rm only to find you have to watch it on a 2x2 cm screen to make out the details... Not trolling, I admit that file size is an issue, but the difference is never much more than 10mb or so for a four minute music video.
And I think EVERYONE would love a standard in this area.
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"IE is not free."
Hello? He said IE 6 is free and he was right. Free as in beer. Your arguments are what is known as hyperbole. They are asumptions ("Every IE user will eventually be a.NET/Passport user"; "may introduce such an extension any day")and you failed to give any relevant reason not to use it (especially if you consider that most Slashdotters already use 5.0 or 5.5). I'll stop short of calling you prejudiced or claiming you'd prefer to censor Slashdot of MS news.
I sure as hell didn't sign any of my rights away when I downloaded it.
NOT A TROLL OR FLAMEBAIT!
We're just having a conversation.
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I have a relevant question:
I'm currently staying in a University residence and we have a similar network. People share files (videos, movies, mp3's ect.) and some people don't Some people are nice and copy the files across to their machine before playing them, others aren't so smart. We generally use a program called Netwatcher Pro to see who's doing what on their computer, but it sucks. You can tell it to kick people off who are on your 'kick list', but if you set it to do that it kicks everyone, not just the evil ones.
So short of packet sniffing (frowned upon) does anyone have any ideas about what we can use? Please help us...
I use Passport becuase that's what Hotmail became- and all I use it for is email. I started using Hotmail before MSN bought it, but now I use Passport purely because of Hotmail... I didn't really choose and I don't mind either. Not that I gave any real details to them.
For the ones complaining about the name:
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"This new Pentium III, code-named Tualatin during its development"
Did you see that? It says 'code named', meaning it's not neccesarily going to ship under that name. Read the article...
Remember the AMD Duron's code name was 'Spitfire'. You don't need me to tell you it didn't ship under that name.
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Yes. And pirated movies on the racks of Thailand and China's dodgy vendors all have Japanese subtitles? They most certainly don't. This is the sole reason thye this is the case. The preference over quality is no worse than anywhere else. I refuse to watch screeners, but I know plenty of people (Japanese or not) who happily will.
I was using IE with Avant Browser (which adds tabs and pop-up blocking functionality) and had no problems but I was planning to try Firefox when it reached version 1 (I am summarily suspicious of sub-1 version software). Security issues now that I am no longer protected by a university firewall were the overriding factor; I gave it a shot a few days ago.
But the best thing so far? Here's my switch story.
Since I switched to Firefox last week, reading Slashdot has never been more pleasant. The easy-to-use built in Adblock feature allowed me to remove almost all the advertising in a few minutes. Any that escaped my attention are soon dispatched of in similar speed.
Thank you, Firefox!
Your phone probably can send and recieve SMS but by default the option is turned off. YOu can pay to have it activated (for a few hundred yen a month, from memory) but since no-one uses it, I don't know anyone who uses this. Older phones that aren't e-mail capable are the primary reason that this persists.
The recent increase of broadband phones here has brought with it the recent unlimited packet plans. DoCoMo offer the service for their Foma users (Foma is DoCoMo's broadband phone series) on Foma packets (ie, from Foma to Foma phones; packets to the older Mova series phones are different) for about 4000 yen a month. au offer a similar deal on their Win series of broadband phones at a slightly cheaper price.
But the above poster is correct, e-mail is much more convenient and (unless you use waaaaay too much) economical.
Cheers to this. I'm in Tokyo as well and my unlimited use connection is indeed unlimited. If my hard drive was any bigger there would be a lot more coming in but it suits me just fine knowing that I can use as much as I need (webcam to talk to the folks back home, ect) and never have to worry about complaints or capping.
Mind you, the broadband boom is happening here at a comparitively delayed rate, I can remember friends getting 'unlimited' deals only to have caps slammed on when it got out of control. Computers in homes here are increasing but are not taken for granted. This is gradually changing and I can't help but think the crunch will come soon. But for now, no worries.
Woo, cheers, I've been wondering if there's a way to rip those. The test I ran on my girlfriend's Fayray cd worker like a charm.
Still, it's probably for the best that mostly crap comes out on Avex or I'd have missed a lot more until now. Now the little that I was after shall be mine.
You know anything more about the format? And of the MA cd mentioned, is that the same?
$1000 for the console and $100 each for games? Well, here in Australia (and I imagine a lot of places that aren't the USA) most games, new ones in particular, cost that and more. Consoles, Neo Geo aside, were never that high, but some went close when they were new. These days you're looking at $400 or so for it, and that is a conservative estimate.
Yet these things did and still do fine here.
I can tell you, there's one in the Union Building of the Clayton campus of Monash University where I study. It costs AU$5 and you have to BYO blank. I imagine that it's there under the pretext that people will use it to copy their own data files...
I've never used it, so I don't know if there's anything it won't copy, but I also have never seen anyone else using it. I have severe doubts about its popularity. I'm not surprised that it was allowed because as a potential form of income I'd bet the Uni jumped at the chance. But that's just Monash I guess.
Not to mention the often scantily-clad females. Plus, you gotta love the fact their hard-suits have high heels on them.
I don't know about 'surprisingly realistic', however. What Dark's talking about is the Space Umbrella and Sky Hook -- the former is a huge solar power station in space and the latter is the cable/elevator that joins it to Tokyo. It's cool and all, but...
All this talk reminds me of the Star Ladder and Space Ladder wonders in Civilization Call To Power and Alpha Centauri. I don't remember which was in which, but the ideas were there. One worked with the help of super prehensile solids, aka material capable of holding millions of times it's own weight. The other relied on 'smart metal' that could re-model itself if it had to move, that sort of thing. Just feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
And check out Bubblegum Crisis, not only the newer Tokyo 2040 but the series it was based on, Tokyo 2020.
Have you noticed? It's been like that since FF8, by my reckoning. I personally don't have a problem with it, it adds a real theatric sense to the whole experience, but if I was rearing to get going killing things I'd get kinda pissed. I guess that's what Final Fantasy has become, more of an interactive movie than a hack 'n' slash RPG.
The only gripe I've really ever had is the linear feel of the games, you're dead right it feels like you're not controlling it. But then I reached the conclusion if was the style of the thing - I'm fairly easy to please, you see. And the stories appeal to me. The interaction means you literally get inside the characters and you're feeling the story as it goes... The plot's probably not that good at all, but it's a context, remember?
Disclaimer: I like the Final Fantasy movie, too.
Try FF8. It doesn't suck as you may have heard. It was actually my first FF game and I got my head around it fast enough. Before that I played Zelda on my good ol' Nintendo.
It felt very linear compared to Link's adventures but it's a very different game. The first time you play through it you can get lost and caught up in the story... If you want to. Graphically it's no longer stunning, but the CGI is still worthy. I'm playing it throught again and it still appeals to me.
Don't play just because of peer preassure from Slashdot. PLay because they are worthy games. If they sucked they wouldn't be as popular as they are. Games usually don't make it as far as the tenth installment if the idea is stale and the play flawed.
Go on, join us... You don't need to sleep for a few weeks...
Another reccomendation: find a Snes emu and play FF3/FF5. A truly epic experience...
You could say it's comparing apples to oranges.
Or even lemons.
But what do we do if they hijack the ship and ressurect the crew? They'll never believe me when I try to tell them that they all died millions of years ago when Rimmer caused a leak in the reactor...
Oh, never mind.
I gotta say, this is going too far... The legality of this move must be VERY suspect. I must disclaim here that I use Windows and IE, but fuck me if I agree with this manouvuer of theirs. Their generally shady buisness practices are sell known and never really affected the general public untill this...
To those who already posted that they 'got in' with Netscape, the article did say that only some versions were affected... Don't make me say it...
Ensuing flame war (enable asbestos monitor) aside, can this sort of activity be gotten away with? Is this legal? It's certainly one thing to corner a market, but locking non-MS browsers out of MSN and making such a wild claim as it won't render properly is a whole new level, even for MS. Can those out there actually qualified to give me an answer please do so? Those who just want to pontificate, you'll just be preaching to the quoir with me.
You gotta hand it to them, they really done it this time. Now, where did I put my RedHat boot CD..?
OPen market = not what you seem to think it is. THe freedom to sell your product without government intevention is the open market. What you mentioned is a buisness practice, shady I admit, not the qualifications for an open market practice. It was, however, fuzzy logic at its greatest. Well done.
"Configure and control yes, but configure and control correctly?"
It wasn't a matter of having correct configurations with Nimda or Code Red, that was more of a protection issue (or lack of, ie virus protection). And in the case of Code Red, not one home user got it. It went after IIS servers.
But the point should be that both Windows and Linux need some training. I've had friends who were first time users that needed the basics of Windows taught to them and I couldn't have figured out Linux without a manual. Grep? Huh? How do I search..?
You get the point.
Offtopic? Please no Mr. Mod...
Ogg is 8-track to mp3's Cd...
Say it all you want, you'll never get ogg accepted to the level that mp3 is. What do you download from Audiogalaxy? There sure ain't any ogg out there...
This looks familiar...
:)
Can I play Super Mario Bros. with this one?
One a serious note, while it looks pretty cool, you can't help but think it will prove to be less useful than the traditional methods "used to decipher and translate hand gestures into computer interepreted symbols". Still, it's only there to prove it could be done. Who among the programmers out there wants to tell me if they;d find this useful?
I got rid of Messenger (eventually... Deleted the damn thing) but apparently you can tell it not to install it when you setup.
The other bitch is Outlook- you don't get to choose whether you want it or not and if you delete it Windows claims you have 'changed or removed essential system files' and asks you to put the CD in so it can replace them... Exqueeze
me? Outlook? So far I have had none of the 'instability' it warned me about.
But otherwise no shit with it yet (yet...). Hasn't offered anything Win 2K hasn't, though.
Peace
If there is any justice in this world MPEG-4 will become the dominant format for no other reason than quality.
.rm only to find you have to watch it on a 2x2 cm screen to make out the details... Not trolling, I admit that file size is an issue, but the difference is never much more than 10mb or so for a four minute music video.
Especially when compared to Real Media. There is little worse than downloading a long sought after clip in
And I think EVERYONE would love a standard in this area.
"IE is not free."
.NET/Passport user"; "may introduce such an extension any day")and you failed to give any relevant reason not to use it (especially if you consider that most Slashdotters already use 5.0 or 5.5). I'll stop short of calling you prejudiced or claiming you'd prefer to censor Slashdot of MS news.
Hello? He said IE 6 is free and he was right. Free as in beer. Your arguments are what is known as hyperbole. They are asumptions ("Every IE user will eventually be a
I sure as hell didn't sign any of my rights away when I downloaded it.
NOT A TROLL OR FLAMEBAIT!
We're just having a conversation.
I have a relevant question:
I'm currently staying in a University residence and we have a similar network. People share files (videos, movies, mp3's ect.) and some people don't Some people are nice and copy the files across to their machine before playing them, others aren't so smart. We generally use a program called Netwatcher Pro to see who's doing what on their computer, but it sucks. You can tell it to kick people off who are on your 'kick list', but if you set it to do that it kicks everyone, not just the evil ones.
So short of packet sniffing (frowned upon) does anyone have any ideas about what we can use? Please help us...
You could actually register.
I use Passport becuase that's what Hotmail became- and all I use it for is email. I started using Hotmail before MSN bought it, but now I use Passport purely because of Hotmail... I didn't really choose and I don't mind either. Not that I gave any real details to them.
"This new Pentium III, code-named Tualatin during its development"
Did you see that? It says 'code named', meaning it's not neccesarily going to ship under that name. Read the article...
Remember the AMD Duron's code name was 'Spitfire'. You don't need me to tell you it didn't ship under that name.
Voting is compulsory in Australia. And the election is always held on a holiday / weekend anyway.