Considering the BBC locks anybody outside of the UK out of their online TV content, I'm going to have to say no. I know, television licenses,etc. But that's where the magic of BitTorrent comes in!
Sony has actually done some great things with firmware updates, like adding Folding@Home
WOW! Paying $600 for the priveledge of contributing cycles to folding@home. I know lots of kids begged Santa to fold protiens this Christmas! I highly doubt that is the reason why people would buy a PS3 to do. Oh well, I guess it's something to do when you aren't playing next-gen video games. No, when I hear about things like folding&home, I remember all the non-videogame related things they are trying to do with the PSP. What is noticeably absent is what the console's original purpose: to play video games.
If you don't have a bunch of hot titles to sell, the "meta crap" like media playback, wireless, folding@home is worthless.
Trying to compare video game consoles to cars just doesn't work out. Trying to sell a video game console like it was some super-high priced luxury/sports car(Mercedes, Bentley, or anything namedropped on Top Gear) is doomed to fail. Whether it's a beater or a Veyron, they get you from point A to B. Video game consoles have many more factors, like oh, I dunno, games to play on it? If we compare console titles to roads, there seems to be quite a few more roads the Xbox 360 than there is on the PS3 railway system. The loss of exclusive games(which is increasing by the week it seems) is just going to steer "I'll buy this console just to play this game" people away.
Trying to sell a video game console at a premium price, hyping it is a Bentley doesn't work when there's so few titles available for it. I don't remember it happening successfully before.
So, how long before I can buy a PS3 at the thrift store?:)
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well....... the SATA cable is kinda of a joke, (really easy to damage or knock loose)
I just assembled a new system last week, and can't speak highly enough of SATA. With IDE cables, it always seemed no matter what, you always had to turn around the ribbon cable upside down to fit the hard drive or optical drive. The ribbon cable, in all its wonderful cheapness was a huge hassle to snake around a case, and had a wonderful airflow-choking design. Sometimes it's too short of a distance from the motherboard connector to the drive slots, sometimes you had about 20 extra feet it seemed to stuff somewhere when it was too long. Oh, and if there's no tab on the connector, make sure you don't hook it up backwards(or is there a missing pin to prevent that? I forgot).
Meanwhile at work, we had a a dual-boot system where we switched SATA connectors between 2 drives, and it was a breeze.
Though seeing people hurt themselves just to make it big on the intertubes is amusing...
YouTube didn't invent this. "America's Funniest Home Videos" had people submitting videos of footballs to the crotch for many years before YouTube came along. The thing is, YouTube made it oh so much easier than having to go through ABC's show.
This is the same movie franchise(James Bond) where a helicopter can hover still at a tilted forward angle. I kind of gave up paying attention to physics in Bond movies after that.
They probably used those special movie pistols you can cock twice. The first time to get ready, the 2nd time to intimidate your enemy.
I know, since I looked it up on the movie computer and typed in "TELL ME ABOUT THE MOVIE GUNS" and the screen scrolled by at 5 characters per second, beeping all over the place.
So whose fault is it when Linux doesn't support your hardware?
Typically it's leaned on the fact Linux is open source, and assumes Joe Sixpack can code his or her own drivers from scratch. This doesn't always work.
I feel so sorry for the SONY PR department. I honestly don't think the Sony Playstation development department knows what they're doing at all with the PS3 anymore. The PR department is running around trying cover up the Sony Product Development blunders with every step they take.
Sony's PR department reminds me of the wacky Iraqi Information Minister during the war. He just says things that are the opposite of the truth and does it with a straight face.
I'm no video game marketing expert, but don't try to dictate to your customers what they will like(sixaxis) and dismissing what they want as last-gen(rumble).
Ah I'll miss the CompUSA in Roseville if it closes down.
Several years ago there was one employee, an older man in his 40s or 50s who was working behind the desk. He practically had a small audience in front o of him. He had this know-it-all attitude where he acted almost like Nick Burns(your companys computer guy) berating the hell out of customers about various computer topics. It was fun just to watch him treat customers like dirt.
Ubuntu version names are (now) alphabetical, so Dapper Drake preceded Edgy Eft, which precedes Feisty Fawn. The names are always Adjective Animal ('eft' is another name for a newt).
With the headline and the above sentence, I can now see why Linux isn't ready for the mass market with such bizarre wording.:)
Perhaps plain, boring version numbers would be better. The goofy names are just asking the writers of Hot Shots! to come up with some joke like the phonetics they used.
For the small minority of TI-99/4A owners, there was the incredibly fun Tunnels of Doom. It would take forever to load on cassette! Typically, 1st party games were among the worst, but ToD was the exception! It had serious depth for a TI-99/4A game. Later on in life I would meet the author of Legends, another RPG which was pretty fun.
Okay, so we(TI-99/4A owners) had a grand total of 2 RPGs, still, better than none.
While I have all the GTA games on my PS2 and enjoy them, I would be tempted to buy GTA:SA for Windows, that is if my system wasn't 4+ years old. Why? Mods. There's the multi theft auto mod, and other mods(different cars, etc) I'd love to get my hands on. I can't do that with the PS2, but easily on the PC.
And with a mouse, I'd do better on those shooting gallery missions, but otherwise play with my Thrustmaster, which is a PS2 controller + 2 extra buttons & no pressure sensitivity on the quad-buttons.
You're right. They should have uploaded it to myspace. They are busy with other crackdowns on myspace, that copyrighted tv shows, etc seem to fly under the radar. Heck, they even had the full movie "Creepshow" on it. Yay! No 10 minute limit!
And once myspace's copyrighted video material disappears, 20 other video sharing sites can mirror it.
Honesly, on the current generation of consoles the focus on 1080p is excessive...
That's like saying anything past 320x200x256(MCGA) for a PC game 5/7 years ago is excessive. I honestly don't see anything wrong with moving up in resolution for console gaming.
Burnout 3: Takedown - The preview race with the Formula 1 race car(fastest car in the game). All you have to do is race a course in a specific time(or faster). Sadly, the course is littered wtih toll booths that divide up the lanes. I couldn't race it 5 seconds without crashing into something. I threw my controller in frustration and sold the game.
That was the hardest "gaming wall" I hit. I've hit smaller walls and was so ticked off I gave up on the game early.
1. Driver - couldn't do the initiation with the various stunts. gave up 2. Driv3r - I coudln't even pass the 1st mission(keep up with the police cars). I figured if just the 1st mission is this steep and unforgiving, the game cannot possibly be that fun. 3. The Getaway - Gave up on the 2nd mission. This game does its absolute best to leave you in the dark. Yep, sold that one too. Huge ripoff.
As for positives, in Simpsons Hit & Run, I could never beat Smithers in the race, BUT it let me skip the mission.
They took off a music video I uploaded, that wasn't owned by Viacom. I assume they took it off because it had the "VH1 Classic all request" logo at the bottom right. I check my playlist and about half the videos are gone, none of them to do with Viacom.
So we(or ie they, the UK) are giving up liberty for either reasons of:
1. Terrorism 2. Sex Offenders
So that's it, huh? One is getting to be annoying, the other is 100% laughable. Call me closed-minded, but we're paying waaay too much attention to "sex offenders", especially when being considered a sex offender is so broad, taking a leak at 3am in public when drunk would get you on the list.
I think it was Circuit City you could by Need for Speed: Most Wanted for $40, or the "greatest hits" Need For Speed: Most Wanted for $19. Even big-box retailers have inconsistent pricing.
Does anyone remember the SCTV skit with Melonville's resident video geek, Gerry Todd? He did a commercial for a product called "audio games". It was hilarious. It was this little calculator-like device and any time he hit a button, a laser went off(for some space-related game).
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So lonelygirl5 didn't win the top award? Good. Her performance was totally fake. As for brookers, she needs downers.
Considering the BBC locks anybody outside of the UK out of their online TV content, I'm going to have to say no. I know, television licenses,etc. But that's where the magic of BitTorrent comes in!
Sony has actually done some great things with firmware updates, like adding Folding@Home
WOW! Paying $600 for the priveledge of contributing cycles to folding@home. I know lots of kids begged Santa to fold protiens this Christmas! I highly doubt that is the reason why people would buy a PS3 to do. Oh well, I guess it's something to do when you aren't playing next-gen video games. No, when I hear about things like folding&home, I remember all the non-videogame related things they are trying to do with the PSP. What is noticeably absent is what the console's original purpose: to play video games.
If you don't have a bunch of hot titles to sell, the "meta crap" like media playback, wireless, folding@home is worthless.
Trying to compare video game consoles to cars just doesn't work out. Trying to sell a video game console like it was some super-high priced luxury/sports car(Mercedes, Bentley, or anything namedropped on Top Gear) is doomed to fail. Whether it's a beater or a Veyron, they get you from point A to B. Video game consoles have many more factors, like oh, I dunno, games to play on it? If we compare console titles to roads, there seems to be quite a few more roads the Xbox 360 than there is on the PS3 railway system. The loss of exclusive games(which is increasing by the week it seems) is just going to steer "I'll buy this console just to play this game" people away.
:)
Trying to sell a video game console at a premium price, hyping it is a Bentley doesn't work when there's so few titles available for it. I don't remember it happening successfully before.
So, how long before I can buy a PS3 at the thrift store?
well....... the SATA cable is kinda of a joke, (really easy to damage or knock loose)
I just assembled a new system last week, and can't speak highly enough of SATA. With IDE cables, it always seemed no matter what, you always had to turn around the ribbon cable upside down to fit the hard drive or optical drive. The ribbon cable, in all its wonderful cheapness was a huge hassle to snake around a case, and had a wonderful airflow-choking design. Sometimes it's too short of a distance from the motherboard connector to the drive slots, sometimes you had about 20 extra feet it seemed to stuff somewhere when it was too long. Oh, and if there's no tab on the connector, make sure you don't hook it up backwards(or is there a missing pin to prevent that? I forgot).
Meanwhile at work, we had a a dual-boot system where we switched SATA connectors between 2 drives, and it was a breeze.
Stephen King and Marlon Wayans, who did not recently die in a car crash, told me so!
Cheers to you Sinbad. You still suck, but you have my respect.
Let me guess, you lost out to him in Star Search?
Though seeing people hurt themselves just to make it big on the intertubes is amusing...
YouTube didn't invent this. "America's Funniest Home Videos" had people submitting videos of footballs to the crotch for many years before YouTube came along. The thing is, YouTube made it oh so much easier than having to go through ABC's show.
I even power cycled the box, and it is STILL an hour behind. But you know what? I figured Comcast wouldn't get it right. Predicted that one easily.
This is the same movie franchise(James Bond) where a helicopter can hover still at a tilted forward angle. I kind of gave up paying attention to physics in Bond movies after that.
They probably used those special movie pistols you can cock twice. The first time to get ready, the 2nd time to intimidate your enemy.
I know, since I looked it up on the movie computer and typed in "TELL ME ABOUT THE MOVIE GUNS" and the screen scrolled by at 5 characters per second, beeping all over the place.
So whose fault is it when Linux doesn't support your hardware?
Typically it's leaned on the fact Linux is open source, and assumes Joe Sixpack can code his or her own drivers from scratch. This doesn't always work.
I feel so sorry for the SONY PR department. I honestly don't think the Sony Playstation development department knows what they're doing at all with the PS3 anymore. The PR department is running around trying cover up the Sony Product Development blunders with every step they take.
Sony's PR department reminds me of the wacky Iraqi Information Minister during the war. He just says things that are the opposite of the truth and does it with a straight face.
I'm no video game marketing expert, but don't try to dictate to your customers what they will like(sixaxis) and dismissing what they want as last-gen(rumble).
Ah I'll miss the CompUSA in Roseville if it closes down.
Several years ago there was one employee, an older man in his 40s or 50s who was working behind the desk. He practically had a small audience in front o of him. He had this know-it-all attitude where he acted almost like Nick Burns(your companys computer guy) berating the hell out of customers about various computer topics. It was fun just to watch him treat customers like dirt.
Ubuntu version names are (now) alphabetical, so Dapper Drake preceded Edgy Eft, which precedes Feisty Fawn. The names are always Adjective Animal ('eft' is another name for a newt).
:)
With the headline and the above sentence, I can now see why Linux isn't ready for the mass market with such bizarre wording.
Perhaps plain, boring version numbers would be better. The goofy names are just asking the writers of Hot Shots! to come up with some joke like the phonetics they used.
For the small minority of TI-99/4A owners, there was the incredibly fun Tunnels of Doom. It would take forever to load on cassette! Typically, 1st party games were among the worst, but ToD was the exception! It had serious depth for a TI-99/4A game. Later on in life I would meet the author of Legends, another RPG which was pretty fun.
Okay, so we(TI-99/4A owners) had a grand total of 2 RPGs, still, better than none.
While I have all the GTA games on my PS2 and enjoy them, I would be tempted to buy GTA:SA for Windows, that is if my system wasn't 4+ years old. Why? Mods. There's the multi theft auto mod, and other mods(different cars, etc) I'd love to get my hands on. I can't do that with the PS2, but easily on the PC.
And with a mouse, I'd do better on those shooting gallery missions, but otherwise play with my Thrustmaster, which is a PS2 controller + 2 extra buttons & no pressure sensitivity on the quad-buttons.
You're right. They should have uploaded it to myspace. They are busy with other crackdowns on myspace, that copyrighted tv shows, etc seem to fly under the radar. Heck, they even had the full movie "Creepshow" on it. Yay! No 10 minute limit!
And once myspace's copyrighted video material disappears, 20 other video sharing sites can mirror it.
Honesly, on the current generation of consoles the focus on 1080p is excessive ...
That's like saying anything past 320x200x256(MCGA) for a PC game 5/7 years ago is excessive. I honestly don't see anything wrong with moving up in resolution for console gaming.
Burnout 3: Takedown - The preview race with the Formula 1 race car(fastest car in the game). All you have to do is race a course in a specific time(or faster). Sadly, the course is littered wtih toll booths that divide up the lanes. I couldn't race it 5 seconds without crashing into something. I threw my controller in frustration and sold the game.
That was the hardest "gaming wall" I hit. I've hit smaller walls and was so ticked off I gave up on the game early.
1. Driver - couldn't do the initiation with the various stunts. gave up
2. Driv3r - I coudln't even pass the 1st mission(keep up with the police cars). I figured if just the 1st mission is this steep and unforgiving, the game cannot possibly be that fun.
3. The Getaway - Gave up on the 2nd mission. This game does its absolute best to leave you in the dark. Yep, sold that one too. Huge ripoff.
As for positives, in Simpsons Hit & Run, I could never beat Smithers in the race, BUT it let me skip the mission.
They took off a music video I uploaded, that wasn't owned by Viacom. I assume they took it off because it had the "VH1 Classic all request" logo at the bottom right. I check my playlist and about half the videos are gone, none of them to do with Viacom.
That ticks me off.
So we(or ie they, the UK) are giving up liberty for either reasons of:
1. Terrorism
2. Sex Offenders
So that's it, huh? One is getting to be annoying, the other is 100% laughable. Call me closed-minded, but we're paying waaay too much attention to "sex offenders", especially when being considered a sex offender is so broad, taking a leak at 3am in public when drunk would get you on the list.
We need that V guy sooner than later.
I think it was Circuit City you could by Need for Speed: Most Wanted for $40, or the "greatest hits" Need For Speed: Most Wanted for $19. Even big-box retailers have inconsistent pricing.
Does anyone remember the SCTV skit with Melonville's resident video geek, Gerry Todd? He did a commercial for a product called "audio games". It was hilarious. It was this little calculator-like device and any time he hit a button, a laser went off(for some space-related game).
Now it's reality. Funny.
Gates, a college dropout, started by stealing code from dumpsters
He wasn't stealing code, he was embracing open source!