Ship before the end of the year. However XBox 2 games are already in development to meet their end of 2005. Oddly enough this is currently being done through PowerMac G5's running an "XBox2 Emulator" but this does mean that development is going on now, not starting the end of this year. Though I still largely agree with the article that rushing the XBox2 could be a big mistake. Not to mention the rumors persist that it'll lack a Hard Drive and thereby probably drop backwards compatibility, a killer move for themselves.
Perhaps they chose Autozone as an easy target? Cars aren't normally associated with computers that much so... perhaps they expect a non-tech based company to just get scared and settle for cash or maybe just do a bad job defending itself? This could just be their way of trying to stab at a large and noticeable, but "weak" target.
The art is good, however Asuka or should I say Kate looks like she's in her early twenties. One of the major parts of the plot in Evangelion involves all the pilots being 13. And her and Ray sure as hell don't look 13, 18 at the youngest. I perfectly understand Americanizing it a bit. The world's not Japanese and a film of the magnitude this thing would be would more than likely get shown around quite a bit. However they do need to at least keep to the plot as closely as they can. If it's just a bunch of robots fighting monsters then it could be neat but it's not Evangelion.
It's not in the ABC article but it is in it's PC Magazine twin...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1408924,00.as p
I think he's asking for so opinions so why not talk to him rather than bitch about it here?
However.. they're not. This is more a, "We're working on it, it's not done but here's what we've got so far." It's not meant to perpetuate linux to anyone, just to let the linux users waiting on the port see what's done so far and even give it a go.
Yet you forget the true benefit of open source software. If it's open, anyone else can get access to it and port it to whatever OS they desire. Open source software is a test in freedom in that pretty much anything can happen, give or take a few things depending on which license of many you're under. So looking at the current open source ripping tools.. I'd say any OS.
I'm sorry, a part of me would like to agree with you but I just can't. The honor system was the basis of old shareware. And old shareware is mostly dead. It doesn't work because most people just don't respect the fact that the programs they get ahold of actually took work to be made. The vast majority shareware apps these days use serial numbers for this very reason, and even then it takes little more than a google search these days to even get around that. It's not that Blizzard hates the community, it's that they can't trust them. It's pretty much the exact same reason I lock my door everynight. I don't hate my home town but I certainly don't trust them.
Yeah, heaven forbid they take their time to release an "update" that just adds a ton of extra features to an older game that's pretty much clean of bugs..
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And OSX isn't cheap either, every year, they have a new $129 that kills backwards compatability(you want new iTunes? buy 10.2 for $129) And people complain about Mircosoft's "forced upgrades"? How much would Mircosoft be bashed if they started to tie payed services into XP like.mac ? People flip out when they buy out an anti-virus company to assumably integrate it with Windows Update.
Well let's see.. for one, we've had one "forced upgrade." That was 10.2. 10.1 was needed for a lot of software but it was also quite free to everyone with 10.0. I also managed to get a perfectly legal copy of 10.2 for $70 just by shopping aorund online. That's a full version; far less than you'd pay for an MS Upgrade, and about how much you'd pay for a commercially packaged linux distro. I won't even get into whether or not 10.2 was worth being called a major upgrade. I personally think from the feature list it is but that's my opinion. As for.mac.. who cares? So if you want to spent a hundred bucks a year to get a set of extra internet features that are tied to the OS; why not? Apple doesn't make you. So you're missing an email account and some web/storage space, big deal. Go sign up for one of a couple hundred free places or just use your ISP.
How can this possibly be accurate?
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You're basically asking for a lot of people to submit their opinions. This will show you what the people who participated in it prefer, but it doesn't really reveal much in they way of actual sound quality. Everyone has their own opinions already about which audio codec is supperior. The only way you could rule out the placebo affect is to give the test blind, so that they have no clue which file is which. Even then since the results are being turned in on good faith, you have to accept that some people may simply lie about the results based on their own biases. You'd need an objectional third party to administer a test like this, and even then almost no one would agree on a third party in the end. If someone's favorite format lost they'd just bitch about the test being rigged. The only un arguable test would to actully compare the integrity of the audio to the original via an olliscope or some other device. Audio's not my area of expertise so I could be wrong there. It seems to me it's best to just not worry about it and use what you're happy with. Seeing a test like this wouldn't change my mind really. "Person A liked Audio B encoded with mp3 the best!" It just doesn't seem to hold that much sway over me.
I personally haven't had any degredation on my packages and all the English is perfectly legible. Additionally, the Maison Ikkoku set is $80, but I'm getting a 10 disc set, with 96, not 26 episodes. It's not a matter of comparing $180 to $70, it's a matter of comparing $180 to $30. And even then, I never said that was a justification; but why I personally do it.
One of the things pointed out in the DVD section is that the logos of Anime Cartoon and Video Animation (Animation Video) look the same meaning they're the same company. That's kinda funny considering they actually are two different companes. Animation Video's logo looks like Anime Cartoon's because AC releases better quality sets and so they wanna be associated with that.
PS - Another logo in that same section actually IS another name/logo for Anime Cartoon. And it doesn't look similar at all. Just goes to show that you can't recognize piracy with copying for even priates copy wachother.;)
I enjoy buying bootleg Hong Kong DVD sets. I'm not trying to justfy it, it's still a form of piracy. But so is just about every song and movie you download off the net. The primary difference is that I still get relatively nice packaging and sets at prices that are sane enough for me to afford. I can't justify spending $300 to watch an entire series. And some sets, like Maison Ikkoku that I've gotten don't have good US alternatives. Viz Video was once releasing it at $30 a two episode tape but stopped before they even finished. Even then this is a 96 episode series. Would anyone in their right mind pay $1440 just to watch a TV show? (Although I do believe Viz Video has recently started to release the show in a series of pricey boxed DVD sets - Unsure of how these will be)
As a few others have said you can not protray the same story in two hours that was done in thirteen. However, it is possible to give a new story carrying the same point. Evangelion's ending, both the abstract TV series ending and the End of Evangelion movie carry a single definite philosophical point, a reason for all of the crazy shit you just listed to happen. That's what truly made Evangelion beautiful. As long as they can carry to goal, the very purpose of Evangelion into a movie, then it should do well.
It's not a matter of destroying public information. It's a matter of destroying what was private information. This has absolutely nothing to do with fascism at all. The Patriot Act makes a lot of what would be private information availible to the government, something that is quite possibly unconstituional (Hopefully the Supreme Court will take a look at it soon..). The librarians want to uphold that kind of privacy and so they're choosing to destroy the information rather than leave it to be confiscated by someone in the government. They're taking a risk for what has always been until recently an American freedom.
Hardly. The man has made many games, and true most of them are kind of childish in design. What I can't understand is why people are bitching about it NOW. The entire Zelda series has always been relatively childish in design from the very first one on. Even on the Nintendo 64 Link looked more like a cartoon than a real person.
And how does one man's decision in game design not give gamers a choice on the Game Cube? I've seen the Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat series on it so where are they stopping people from making violent games? If you don't like a game, don't buy it; but don't complain about it either.
I personally think that Loki's behavior as a company shows they had a lot more problems than a rumored bad leader. They ported game after game, without paying their programmers? Not being ABLE to? And no one questioned they they kept agreeing to more and more contracts to port games that they would have to pay back as well as their own people? And no one there questioned this? I'm sorry but it's impossible for this to be one mans fault. I'm tired of hearing pathetic excuses made by linux zealots. It's never linux or the community's fault that something falls though, it's always microsoft or some other nonsense. Zealots of all OSes are worthless, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. None do any good for anyone.
Although free, in the gray area.. emulators and roms gives you access to thousands of wonderful games. You can find many good NES, GB, Genesis, SNES, and Arcade emus for both MacOS 9 and X. I would personally reccomend RockNES, Snes9x (MacOS X version really shaping up lately with gamepad support), gnuboy (simple but quite powerful and compatible), Generator, and MacMAME (Same as Snes9x).
Every single OS and platform has it's zealots. In my opinion there are three main kinds of users. Users, Proud Users, and Zealots. Users just use the computer and don't really care what it is. Proud users exist for most platforms, and they will promote their favored system, but not care in a real negative fasion what others are using. That cateogory makes up a large portion of Mac, Linux, and other "alternative" platforms. Now, EVERY OS has it's zealots. They will put down everyone. This includes Windows, Mac, and clearly linux. And it's my experience that there are far more zealots then there are proud users among all the platforms. The only OS that I would say has almost no proud users would be Windows. Seriously, when's the last time you met a Windows user that loves to use Windows and doesn't put down Mac/Linux/etc?
That could mean it's vaporware, but past due? OpenBeOS hasn't made ANY release date promises, so how can it be past due and past a release date? They're recreating an entire OS from the ground up (and technicallly up to the ground). That's years of work. (Their goal is an R5 clone, so they have roughly seven years of work to do, I'm sure they'll move faster than that since they're not innovating it yet but you get the idea.)
MacOnLinux basically loads OS 9 in a simulator. And that's what he got working, not OS 9 itself. Yes he's able to use most (non hardware specific) MacOS apps, but he did NOT get MacOS to boot, and without cracking Apple's bios, that's not gonna happen. He provided proper hardware and then made a small emulation field, it doesn't look like he accomplished anything new there at all.
That article reads like a fantasy story. It would explain a few things if it was true, but there's not a single scrap of evidence mentioned here. I didn't even notice a single name of a person that relayed this story, let alone any legitimate evidence. Loki was a great idea but it flopped. Most Linux users just aren't gamers, or will buy the Windows version since they don't want to wait. That's a sad fact with almost all alternate platform gaming. And unless someone can show me an article or atleast someone's valid testomony, I see no reason to believe it failed for any other reason.
They slow down every few weeks? Well for filesystems like FAT16/32, NTFS, and HFS/+; it's reccomended you degragment your HD every few weeks. It helps basically clean up how cluttered the disk layout can get on some file systems and normally causes a noticable improvement if it's been about a month.
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Ship before the end of the year. However XBox 2 games are already in development to meet their end of 2005. Oddly enough this is currently being done through PowerMac G5's running an "XBox2 Emulator" but this does mean that development is going on now, not starting the end of this year. Though I still largely agree with the article that rushing the XBox2 could be a big mistake. Not to mention the rumors persist that it'll lack a Hard Drive and thereby probably drop backwards compatibility, a killer move for themselves.
Perhaps they chose Autozone as an easy target? Cars aren't normally associated with computers that much so... perhaps they expect a non-tech based company to just get scared and settle for cash or maybe just do a bad job defending itself? This could just be their way of trying to stab at a large and noticeable, but "weak" target.
The art is good, however Asuka or should I say Kate looks like she's in her early twenties. One of the major parts of the plot in Evangelion involves all the pilots being 13. And her and Ray sure as hell don't look 13, 18 at the youngest. I perfectly understand Americanizing it a bit. The world's not Japanese and a film of the magnitude this thing would be would more than likely get shown around quite a bit. However they do need to at least keep to the plot as closely as they can. If it's just a bunch of robots fighting monsters then it could be neat but it's not Evangelion.
It's not in the ABC article but it is in it's PC Magazine twin... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1408924,00.as p
I think he's asking for so opinions so why not talk to him rather than bitch about it here?
I work part time for my school and every system we setup gets an install of both Netscape 4 and 7. Which includes AIM no matter what these days.
However.. they're not. This is more a, "We're working on it, it's not done but here's what we've got so far." It's not meant to perpetuate linux to anyone, just to let the linux users waiting on the port see what's done so far and even give it a go.
Yet you forget the true benefit of open source software. If it's open, anyone else can get access to it and port it to whatever OS they desire. Open source software is a test in freedom in that pretty much anything can happen, give or take a few things depending on which license of many you're under. So looking at the current open source ripping tools.. I'd say any OS.
I'm sorry, a part of me would like to agree with you but I just can't. The honor system was the basis of old shareware. And old shareware is mostly dead. It doesn't work because most people just don't respect the fact that the programs they get ahold of actually took work to be made. The vast majority shareware apps these days use serial numbers for this very reason, and even then it takes little more than a google search these days to even get around that. It's not that Blizzard hates the community, it's that they can't trust them. It's pretty much the exact same reason I lock my door everynight. I don't hate my home town but I certainly don't trust them.
Yeah, heaven forbid they take their time to release an "update" that just adds a ton of extra features to an older game that's pretty much clean of bugs..
And OSX isn't cheap either, every year, they have a new $129 that kills backwards compatability(you want new iTunes? buy 10.2 for $129) And people complain about Mircosoft's "forced upgrades"? How much would Mircosoft be bashed if they started to tie payed services into XP like .mac ? People flip out when they buy out an anti-virus company to assumably integrate it with Windows Update.
Well let's see.. for one, we've had one "forced upgrade." That was 10.2. 10.1 was needed for a lot of software but it was also quite free to everyone with 10.0. I also managed to get a perfectly legal copy of 10.2 for $70 just by shopping aorund online. That's a full version; far less than you'd pay for an MS Upgrade, and about how much you'd pay for a commercially packaged linux distro. I won't even get into whether or not 10.2 was worth being called a major upgrade. I personally think from the feature list it is but that's my opinion. As for .mac.. who cares? So if you want to spent a hundred bucks a year to get a set of extra internet features that are tied to the OS; why not? Apple doesn't make you. So you're missing an email account and some web/storage space, big deal. Go sign up for one of a couple hundred free places or just use your ISP.
You're basically asking for a lot of people to submit their opinions. This will show you what the people who participated in it prefer, but it doesn't really reveal much in they way of actual sound quality. Everyone has their own opinions already about which audio codec is supperior. The only way you could rule out the placebo affect is to give the test blind, so that they have no clue which file is which. Even then since the results are being turned in on good faith, you have to accept that some people may simply lie about the results based on their own biases. You'd need an objectional third party to administer a test like this, and even then almost no one would agree on a third party in the end. If someone's favorite format lost they'd just bitch about the test being rigged. The only un arguable test would to actully compare the integrity of the audio to the original via an olliscope or some other device. Audio's not my area of expertise so I could be wrong there. It seems to me it's best to just not worry about it and use what you're happy with. Seeing a test like this wouldn't change my mind really. "Person A liked Audio B encoded with mp3 the best!" It just doesn't seem to hold that much sway over me.
Who said anythign about specifics? The qualities of the parts don't logically imply the qualities of the whole. Otherwise it's a fallacy.
I personally haven't had any degredation on my packages and all the English is perfectly legible. Additionally, the Maison Ikkoku set is $80, but I'm getting a 10 disc set, with 96, not 26 episodes. It's not a matter of comparing $180 to $70, it's a matter of comparing $180 to $30. And even then, I never said that was a justification; but why I personally do it.
One of the things pointed out in the DVD section is that the logos of Anime Cartoon and Video Animation (Animation Video) look the same meaning they're the same company. That's kinda funny considering they actually are two different companes. Animation Video's logo looks like Anime Cartoon's because AC releases better quality sets and so they wanna be associated with that. PS - Another logo in that same section actually IS another name/logo for Anime Cartoon. And it doesn't look similar at all. Just goes to show that you can't recognize piracy with copying for even priates copy wachother. ;)
I enjoy buying bootleg Hong Kong DVD sets. I'm not trying to justfy it, it's still a form of piracy. But so is just about every song and movie you download off the net. The primary difference is that I still get relatively nice packaging and sets at prices that are sane enough for me to afford. I can't justify spending $300 to watch an entire series. And some sets, like Maison Ikkoku that I've gotten don't have good US alternatives. Viz Video was once releasing it at $30 a two episode tape but stopped before they even finished. Even then this is a 96 episode series. Would anyone in their right mind pay $1440 just to watch a TV show? (Although I do believe Viz Video has recently started to release the show in a series of pricey boxed DVD sets - Unsure of how these will be)
As a few others have said you can not protray the same story in two hours that was done in thirteen. However, it is possible to give a new story carrying the same point. Evangelion's ending, both the abstract TV series ending and the End of Evangelion movie carry a single definite philosophical point, a reason for all of the crazy shit you just listed to happen. That's what truly made Evangelion beautiful. As long as they can carry to goal, the very purpose of Evangelion into a movie, then it should do well.
It's not a matter of destroying public information. It's a matter of destroying what was private information. This has absolutely nothing to do with fascism at all. The Patriot Act makes a lot of what would be private information availible to the government, something that is quite possibly unconstituional (Hopefully the Supreme Court will take a look at it soon..). The librarians want to uphold that kind of privacy and so they're choosing to destroy the information rather than leave it to be confiscated by someone in the government. They're taking a risk for what has always been until recently an American freedom.
Hardly. The man has made many games, and true most of them are kind of childish in design. What I can't understand is why people are bitching about it NOW. The entire Zelda series has always been relatively childish in design from the very first one on. Even on the Nintendo 64 Link looked more like a cartoon than a real person. And how does one man's decision in game design not give gamers a choice on the Game Cube? I've seen the Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat series on it so where are they stopping people from making violent games? If you don't like a game, don't buy it; but don't complain about it either.
I personally think that Loki's behavior as a company shows they had a lot more problems than a rumored bad leader. They ported game after game, without paying their programmers? Not being ABLE to? And no one questioned they they kept agreeing to more and more contracts to port games that they would have to pay back as well as their own people? And no one there questioned this? I'm sorry but it's impossible for this to be one mans fault. I'm tired of hearing pathetic excuses made by linux zealots. It's never linux or the community's fault that something falls though, it's always microsoft or some other nonsense. Zealots of all OSes are worthless, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. None do any good for anyone.
Although free, in the gray area.. emulators and roms gives you access to thousands of wonderful games. You can find many good NES, GB, Genesis, SNES, and Arcade emus for both MacOS 9 and X. I would personally reccomend RockNES, Snes9x (MacOS X version really shaping up lately with gamepad support), gnuboy (simple but quite powerful and compatible), Generator, and MacMAME (Same as Snes9x).
Every single OS and platform has it's zealots. In my opinion there are three main kinds of users. Users, Proud Users, and Zealots. Users just use the computer and don't really care what it is. Proud users exist for most platforms, and they will promote their favored system, but not care in a real negative fasion what others are using. That cateogory makes up a large portion of Mac, Linux, and other "alternative" platforms. Now, EVERY OS has it's zealots. They will put down everyone. This includes Windows, Mac, and clearly linux. And it's my experience that there are far more zealots then there are proud users among all the platforms. The only OS that I would say has almost no proud users would be Windows. Seriously, when's the last time you met a Windows user that loves to use Windows and doesn't put down Mac/Linux/etc?
That could mean it's vaporware, but past due? OpenBeOS hasn't made ANY release date promises, so how can it be past due and past a release date? They're recreating an entire OS from the ground up (and technicallly up to the ground). That's years of work. (Their goal is an R5 clone, so they have roughly seven years of work to do, I'm sure they'll move faster than that since they're not innovating it yet but you get the idea.)
MacOnLinux basically loads OS 9 in a simulator. And that's what he got working, not OS 9 itself. Yes he's able to use most (non hardware specific) MacOS apps, but he did NOT get MacOS to boot, and without cracking Apple's bios, that's not gonna happen. He provided proper hardware and then made a small emulation field, it doesn't look like he accomplished anything new there at all.
That article reads like a fantasy story. It would explain a few things if it was true, but there's not a single scrap of evidence mentioned here. I didn't even notice a single name of a person that relayed this story, let alone any legitimate evidence. Loki was a great idea but it flopped. Most Linux users just aren't gamers, or will buy the Windows version since they don't want to wait. That's a sad fact with almost all alternate platform gaming. And unless someone can show me an article or atleast someone's valid testomony, I see no reason to believe it failed for any other reason.
They slow down every few weeks? Well for filesystems like FAT16/32, NTFS, and HFS/+; it's reccomended you degragment your HD every few weeks. It helps basically clean up how cluttered the disk layout can get on some file systems and normally causes a noticable improvement if it's been about a month.