Quicktime on the Mac is absolutely great mainly because it's so tightly integrated into the system and has sooo ma
Apple integration of qt into OS = good MS integration of browser into OS = bad
Huh?
Mac users, don't shed a tear. WMP, IMO is bad for a number of reasons when you look at the competition. I gave WMP 10 an honest try on my work computer to keep a list of whatever MP3s I had on my system at the time. For some strange reason I get duplicates of the same song, in consecutive order. No way to easily clear that out either.
The GUI is a big mess in either version 9 or 10. They try to put too much on the screen at one time. Compare that to the nice and tiny Winamp.
I hate the seek-ahead/rewind. You don't see it in realtime like quicktime has.
In version 9 they introduced a slight delay of controls when you went to fullscreen mode. No longer is it instantaneous like it was in previous versions.
It's very wimpy when you try to play just-downloaded files, etc. If you as much as look as a.wmv file before trying to run it in WMP, it gives you some lame-ass excuse not to play.
I change the privacy settings like the error message said to, so i can see album info for tracks, and it still won't do it.
There's a freakin update every weeek it seems for it, yet it doesn't get any better.
Screw it, I'll use ITunes for MP3 management and winamp for quick play(ie play an mp3 without messing with the library)
I remember a CBS sitcom with a bunch of geeks in an office. They wren't IT people, but they were geeks by far. I think a few has-beens were on it. Anyone know what show I was thinking of? They had transitions between scenes consisting of a computer's desktop.
The less-popular half of Bosom Buddies was on it, and I think maybe Patrick Dempsey.
And what does changing of the CEOs have any effect on the Phantom release? Nothing. The changing of the non-guard.
A year from now they will have some guy with severe brain damage as the CEO. When he will do interviews with gaming magazines, he'll just drool and respond with "muuuuauhahthppttt", and it would provide no more concrete information on the release date than previous CEOs.
I know I'm going to burn in hell for that comment.
Not to sound harsh, but this is just one reason why Zonk should be replaced with someone else for the Slashdot games section. We get articles like this(we need a fark Ironic tag for this story) and the excessive tabloid-like hype/speculation articles that go way off the charts.
I can see it now. Some blogger stubs his toe on an Xbox 360 power supply. 2 minutes later Zonk posts a "Are Xbox 360 power supplies injuring our children?" and suddenly Jack Thompson's chasing it like an ambulance.
If that is so, there better be a Star Wars light sabre game. You know, in addition to the 99E99 star wars games already out there. Wired magazine made a joke of a Katamari Damacy rip-off called "Adhedsive Death Star", which I assume you roll up a smaller Death Star around and pick up various Star Wars objects.
I can just see it now. First you pick up malocholrans(whatever those creaturs are for the force), jedi training balls, Darth maul's probe, "off" light sabers, then work your way up to droids, small vehicles(tie fighters), big vehicles(AT-ATs), then eventually star destroyers and entire planets.
You then would have a score of "light side/dark side". Pick up more imperial objects, and you're a jedi. Pick up rebel stuff, you're in cohorts with Darth Vader.
I better stop now before someone at Lucasarts reads this post and actually makes it in conjunction with Namco.
Is this the kind of guy who would have written in that godawful MONDO 2000 magazine? Does anyone remember that? I read a few issues, and later realized it was utter, nonsensical performance art GARBAGE.
Funny you should mention that. I bought a cheap 18 dollar drill from the brand "Tool Shop". I looked at the drill next to it, which was by Black & Decker. Different color, same exact plastic moulding for the drill body, but for over twice the price.
(has anyone noticed Slashdot going suckingly slow to reply to a thread? I should not have to hit Reload)
Yep, and let's not a forget it's a site where boys cant keep their shirts on and the girls can't keep their pants on, at least to the pictures. Myspace is not even close to being a file sharing site. It's a site to prove to the world you have no idea how to make a web page. Hey, let's embed a jay-z video and an eminem video on the same page!
Utterly stupid. You could use certain people's profiles as stress tests for firefox.
...was called Block Out. It was available in the arcades and on the PC. To me, it seemed like a 3-d version of Tetris. And man was it ever fun. It got frustrating when you got to the three-dimensional pieces, and didn't have enough room and/or time to slot it in.
To me that game was highly underrated. I love puzzle games, and chances are there's a puzzle game concept that's a template that will be used by several companies. I just wish they, when a clone was made, added some spice to it. Imagine alternate versions of Tetris pieces. Imagine a sliding row or two(manually or automatically on a power-up) to make things more fun.
Reminds me of the Atari disaster a while back. One executive thought the consumer would buy not one but TWO copies of the same Atari title. One for the house, the other for their ski resort.
Which makes me question if there were 500 xbox 360s for sale at a single place, did they have more than 500 copies of a single game title? If so, wow that's not a good idea. Or, they have extra stock in anticpation of people scratching their disks.
Start selling entertainment centers that have more shelves than the average one.
Because jeesh, just what I need is yet ANOTHER console on my overwhelmed ent. center I bought for $20. The stereo, cable box, tivo, ps2, and other stuff.
Oh, and start selling stereo units that can hook up to yet another console.
I dunno, this is quite possbily the most quiet home entertainment format launch I have ever lived to see. But alas I will probably be not using this format in the near future since I don't have an HTDV. It's not worth the extra grand or 2 for a better resolution movie.
Comcast has their video on demand infrastructure in place. Free & pay movies & shows.
What's available?
The same old tv shows over again(no new shows put in), incomplete seasons of shows, z-grade movies, ie nothing anybody would want to watch.
If Google can get top-rate shows that people would actually want to watch(either just-aired or classic), more power to them. Comcast, even though they are a mega-corp, can't seem to get any decent programming on their VOD.
Well, actually I'm surfing channels with the cable box remote & cable channels, not via the TiVO. The TiVO is just going through channel 3, so channel surfing on that wouldn't take me very far.
The thing that turned me off to LocationFree was the super-high price tag. Wow, all that money just to be able to watch TV on a handheld. Sure, it takes out the red tape of hooking up your PSP to your PC and transferring files and such, but not worth spending money on.
Just give me some affordable and/or free games, dangit!
I was lucky enough to be given a TiVO(forgot the series), hacked to 80 gigs, and Ethernet,etc. While it is nice to be able to pause live tv, the only thing I didn't like was the latency with pressing buttons on the cable box.
You try to punch in 040 and you get 0 4 2 seconds later showing up on the TV. I would say 60% of my channel changes were unsuccesful due to the cable box's timeouts. I thought the batteries were bad in my remote control. So I bypassed the tivo entirely, and it switched channels just fine, nice & fast.
Is there a way to turn off "pausable tv" and just push the video straight through? I can live without it. I just wish when I did a plain(ie not scheduled) recording it didn't stop after a half hour. BTW I have no tiVo service. Just using it as a VCR.
told the spammer to compose an email of apology to the CIS account holders he spammed with his full name and legitimate email address.
Yeah, becuase what the spammer needs to do is send out MORE emails as punishment. Jeesh. No, money talks.
If you ask me, it's kind of ridiculous to impose a restriction of that sort on a spammer who probably didn't actually do the spamming, but outsourced that to some kid in Russia.
And if we don't put harsh penalties to 'accessories to crime', we'll have spammers thriving non-stop in the USA since it would all be outsourced, ie the spam problem would never stop. I don't see it as ridiculous as all. A 11 billion dollar fine just might scare off a few would-be US-based spammers.
I think this story was meant to be posted in the "It's funny. Laugh" section, for which all Infinium's stories belong.
Seriously, Infininum seems to be more of an entertainer than a provider. Their scthick is the Phantom game console, which is ever so eternally delayed, with their comedy troupe of lawyers, CEOs and PR people. We are waiting for Godot, but his name's Phantom in this case. If there was a glitzy hollywood sign with their game console on it, it would have a sticker on it that says "held 5th year over!", for this high-brow comedy of bumbling investors.
I bought a PSP several months ago, a used one with 1.5. I admit, I haven't been playing it as much as I thought I would be. Only have Burnout for it, but 99% of my playtime is with console emulators.
You think I could trade it in at gamestop or something for a new DS? I want access to cheap games, and the GBA seems to have plenty, while there isn't bupkis for the PSP commercially.
Okay, no comparison here. In the Max Headroom world, it's illegal to turn off your tv. But if this converter(great, my entertainment center is filled to capacity already) is what I need to watch the Edison Carter show or Wacketts, then I'll do it. Hey, maybe I can use that dusty s-video jack on the back of my existing TV since my stereo won't(unless its just for DVD).
There needs to be a new Carmageddon made, with a new graphics engine, and back to the original style of gameplay. Carmageddon TDR(the 3rd game) was done by some other company, and it sucked. It was slower paced, and focused more on missions than just plain 'ol races. Nowhere could I get 5x combos anymore for it was too slow.
Mind you, the Carmageddon 'races' weren't much for races. You had more fun just driving around, doing crazy stunts, running over peds, dodging cops, and playing chicken with the other racers. But it was fun. It was mindless fun. I can't think of a game like that today that just lets you drive around at your own leisure, aside from Grand Theft Auto.
Now if you want to see a sequel that should not have existed, try Blood Storm. It was a Mortal Kombat ripoff that was a sequel to Time Killers. It is quite possibly the most godawful gory fighting game ever made since Tatoo Assassins. It's so fun to play since it's so bad.
One look at psp-hacks.com, and there are UMD loaders, and other "exploits" for post 1.5 firmware. The exploits posted are just concepts, but nothing concrete.
Almost everything on psp-hacks.com consists of incredibly complicated, sometimes poorly documented, and sometimes confusing instructions. Oh, and it might brick your PSP.
The state of PSP hacking is very very immature IMO. With the risk of "bricking" a PSP, I dare not put my foot in such things, and just stick to emulators.
That every electronics manufacturer agrees to NEVER EVER make wall-wart power supplies ever again. Is it that much to include a standard plug a few inches long from the transformer? I don't want to have to buy bigger and bigger power strips to accomidate a flawed design. 3 years ago I bought an HP printer that had this implemented. Just a few months ago, I bought another HP printer that went back to the wall wart design.
And while we are at it, is it that hard to label the peripheral that goes to said wall-wart power supply? C'mon, make it easy for everyone.
Please. Otherwise, sell me a box of mini extension cords and labels.
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I have quite a few rss'ed website feeds on my customized google home page. But often they are several entries behind the real website's offerings(fark.com happens a lot). Any way to fix this firefox side?
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I'd like to turn them into a hosts.txt file, resolve ALL of them to 127.0.0.1 and then put that file on my dad's computer.
Then he won't call me so often to fix it when it's bogged down with all that junk.
Quicktime on the Mac is absolutely great mainly because it's so tightly integrated into the system and has sooo ma
.wmv file before trying to run it in WMP, it gives you some lame-ass excuse not to play.
Apple integration of qt into OS = good
MS integration of browser into OS = bad
Huh?
Mac users, don't shed a tear. WMP, IMO is bad for a number of reasons when you look at the competition. I gave WMP 10 an honest try on my work computer to keep a list of whatever MP3s I had on my system at the time. For some strange reason I get duplicates of the same song, in consecutive order. No way to easily clear that out either.
The GUI is a big mess in either version 9 or 10. They try to put too much on the screen at one time. Compare that to the nice and tiny Winamp.
I hate the seek-ahead/rewind. You don't see it in realtime like quicktime has.
In version 9 they introduced a slight delay of controls when you went to fullscreen mode. No longer is it instantaneous like it was in previous versions.
It's very wimpy when you try to play just-downloaded files, etc. If you as much as look as a
I change the privacy settings like the error message said to, so i can see album info for tracks, and it still won't do it.
There's a freakin update every weeek it seems for it, yet it doesn't get any better.
Screw it, I'll use ITunes for MP3 management and winamp for quick play(ie play an mp3 without messing with the library)
I remember a CBS sitcom with a bunch of geeks in an office. They wren't IT people, but they were geeks by far. I think a few has-beens were on it. Anyone know what show I was thinking of? They had transitions between scenes consisting of a computer's desktop.
The less-popular half of Bosom Buddies was on it, and I think maybe Patrick Dempsey.
And what does changing of the CEOs have any effect on the Phantom release? Nothing. The changing of the non-guard.
A year from now they will have some guy with severe brain damage as the CEO. When he will do interviews with gaming magazines, he'll just drool and respond with "muuuuauhahthppttt", and it would provide no more concrete information on the release date than previous CEOs.
I know I'm going to burn in hell for that comment.
Not to sound harsh, but this is just one reason why Zonk should be replaced with someone else for the Slashdot games section. We get articles like this(we need a fark Ironic tag for this story) and the excessive tabloid-like hype/speculation articles that go way off the charts.
I can see it now. Some blogger stubs his toe on an Xbox 360 power supply. 2 minutes later Zonk posts a "Are Xbox 360 power supplies injuring our children?" and suddenly Jack Thompson's chasing it like an ambulance.
If that is so, there better be a Star Wars light sabre game. You know, in addition to the 99E99 star wars games already out there. Wired magazine made a joke of a Katamari Damacy rip-off called "Adhedsive Death Star", which I assume you roll up a smaller Death Star around and pick up various Star Wars objects.
I can just see it now. First you pick up malocholrans(whatever those creaturs are for the force), jedi training balls, Darth maul's probe, "off" light sabers, then work your way up to droids, small vehicles(tie fighters), big vehicles(AT-ATs), then eventually star destroyers and entire planets.
You then would have a score of "light side/dark side". Pick up more imperial objects, and you're a jedi. Pick up rebel stuff, you're in cohorts with Darth Vader.
I better stop now before someone at Lucasarts reads this post and actually makes it in conjunction with Namco.
Is this the kind of guy who would have written in that godawful MONDO 2000 magazine? Does anyone remember that? I read a few issues, and later realized it was utter, nonsensical performance art GARBAGE.
Funny you should mention that. I bought a cheap 18 dollar drill from the brand "Tool Shop". I looked at the drill next to it, which was by Black & Decker. Different color, same exact plastic moulding for the drill body, but for over twice the price.
(has anyone noticed Slashdot going suckingly slow to reply to a thread? I should not have to hit Reload)
Yep, and let's not a forget it's a site where boys cant keep their shirts on and the girls can't keep their pants on, at least to the pictures. Myspace is not even close to being a file sharing site. It's a site to prove to the world you have no idea how to make a web page. Hey, let's embed a jay-z video and an eminem video on the same page!
Utterly stupid. You could use certain people's profiles as stress tests for firefox.
...was called Block Out. It was available in the arcades and on the PC. To me, it seemed like a 3-d version of Tetris. And man was it ever fun. It got frustrating when you got to the three-dimensional pieces, and didn't have enough room and/or time to slot it in.
To me that game was highly underrated. I love puzzle games, and chances are there's a puzzle game concept that's a template that will be used by several companies. I just wish they, when a clone was made, added some spice to it. Imagine alternate versions of Tetris pieces. Imagine a sliding row or two(manually or automatically on a power-up) to make things more fun.
Reminds me of the Atari disaster a while back. One executive thought the consumer would buy not one but TWO copies of the same Atari title. One for the house, the other for their ski resort.
Which makes me question if there were 500 xbox 360s for sale at a single place, did they have more than 500 copies of a single game title? If so, wow that's not a good idea. Or, they have extra stock in anticpation of people scratching their disks.
Start selling entertainment centers that have more shelves than the average one.
Because jeesh, just what I need is yet ANOTHER console on my overwhelmed ent. center I bought for $20. The stereo, cable box, tivo, ps2, and other stuff.
Oh, and start selling stereo units that can hook up to yet another console.
I dunno, this is quite possbily the most quiet home entertainment format launch I have ever lived to see. But alas I will probably be not using this format in the near future since I don't have an HTDV. It's not worth the extra grand or 2 for a better resolution movie.
Comcast has their video on demand infrastructure in place. Free & pay movies & shows.
What's available?
The same old tv shows over again(no new shows put in), incomplete seasons of shows, z-grade movies, ie nothing anybody would want to watch.
If Google can get top-rate shows that people would actually want to watch(either just-aired or classic), more power to them. Comcast, even though they are a mega-corp, can't seem to get any decent programming on their VOD.
Well, actually I'm surfing channels with the cable box remote & cable channels, not via the TiVO. The TiVO is just going through channel 3, so channel surfing on that wouldn't take me very far.
The thing that turned me off to LocationFree was the super-high price tag. Wow, all that money just to be able to watch TV on a handheld. Sure, it takes out the red tape of hooking up your PSP to your PC and transferring files and such, but not worth spending money on.
Just give me some affordable and/or free games, dangit!
...is the blasted latency.
I was lucky enough to be given a TiVO(forgot the series), hacked to 80 gigs, and Ethernet,etc. While it is nice to be able to pause live tv, the only thing I didn't like was the latency with pressing buttons on the cable box.
You try to punch in 040 and you get 0 4 2 seconds later showing up on the TV. I would say 60% of my channel changes were unsuccesful due to the cable box's timeouts. I thought the batteries were bad in my remote control. So I bypassed the tivo entirely, and it switched channels just fine, nice & fast.
Is there a way to turn off "pausable tv" and just push the video straight through? I can live without it. I just wish when I did a plain(ie not scheduled) recording it didn't stop after a half hour. BTW I have no tiVo service. Just using it as a VCR.
told the spammer to compose an email of apology to the CIS account holders he spammed with his full name and legitimate email address.
Yeah, becuase what the spammer needs to do is send out MORE emails as punishment. Jeesh. No, money talks.
If you ask me, it's kind of ridiculous to impose a restriction of that sort on a spammer who probably didn't actually do the spamming, but outsourced that to some kid in Russia.
And if we don't put harsh penalties to 'accessories to crime', we'll have spammers thriving non-stop in the USA since it would all be outsourced, ie the spam problem would never stop. I don't see it as ridiculous as all. A 11 billion dollar fine just might scare off a few would-be US-based spammers.
I think this story was meant to be posted in the "It's funny. Laugh" section, for which all Infinium's stories belong.
Seriously, Infininum seems to be more of an entertainer than a provider. Their scthick is the Phantom game console, which is ever so eternally delayed, with their comedy troupe of lawyers, CEOs and PR people. We are waiting for Godot, but his name's Phantom in this case. If there was a glitzy hollywood sign with their game console on it, it would have a sticker on it that says "held 5th year over!", for this high-brow comedy of bumbling investors.
UT = Unreal Tournament.
I bought a PSP several months ago, a used one with 1.5. I admit, I haven't been playing it as much as I thought I would be. Only have Burnout for it, but 99% of my playtime is with console emulators.
You think I could trade it in at gamestop or something for a new DS? I want access to cheap games, and the GBA seems to have plenty, while there isn't bupkis for the PSP commercially.
Okay, no comparison here. In the Max Headroom world, it's illegal to turn off your tv. But if this converter(great, my entertainment center is filled to capacity already) is what I need to watch the Edison Carter show or Wacketts, then I'll do it. Hey, maybe I can use that dusty s-video jack on the back of my existing TV since my stereo won't(unless its just for DVD).
There needs to be a new Carmageddon made, with a new graphics engine, and back to the original style of gameplay. Carmageddon TDR(the 3rd game) was done by some other company, and it sucked. It was slower paced, and focused more on missions than just plain 'ol races. Nowhere could I get 5x combos anymore for it was too slow.
Mind you, the Carmageddon 'races' weren't much for races. You had more fun just driving around, doing crazy stunts, running over peds, dodging cops, and playing chicken with the other racers. But it was fun. It was mindless fun. I can't think of a game like that today that just lets you drive around at your own leisure, aside from Grand Theft Auto.
Now if you want to see a sequel that should not have existed, try Blood Storm. It was a Mortal Kombat ripoff that was a sequel to Time Killers. It is quite possibly the most godawful gory fighting game ever made since Tatoo Assassins. It's so fun to play since it's so bad.
One look at psp-hacks.com, and there are UMD loaders, and other "exploits" for post 1.5 firmware. The exploits posted are just concepts, but nothing concrete.
Almost everything on psp-hacks.com consists of incredibly complicated, sometimes poorly documented, and sometimes confusing instructions. Oh, and it might brick your PSP.
The state of PSP hacking is very very immature IMO. With the risk of "bricking" a PSP, I dare not put my foot in such things, and just stick to emulators.
That every electronics manufacturer agrees to NEVER EVER make wall-wart power supplies ever again. Is it that much to include a standard plug a few inches long from the transformer? I don't want to have to buy bigger and bigger power strips to accomidate a flawed design. 3 years ago I bought an HP printer that had this implemented. Just a few months ago, I bought another HP printer that went back to the wall wart design.
And while we are at it, is it that hard to label the peripheral that goes to said wall-wart power supply? C'mon, make it easy for everyone.
Please. Otherwise, sell me a box of mini extension cords and labels.
I have quite a few rss'ed website feeds on my customized google home page. But often they are several entries behind the real website's offerings(fark.com happens a lot). Any way to fix this firefox side?