Let's just make the **IA happy and say I was making a personal backup copy.
The disk seems to have two sessions, a data and an audio. The audio session seems to be unreadable if you just put the CD into a Windows box and expect to be able to rip audio. Windows just seems to ignore the audio session. I suspect that the TOC has been screwed up.
My work around was quite simple. First turn off auto run because it will pop up an EULA when you put the CD in to install the Suncomm crap. I got an image of the CD fine with Alcohol. I then burned it with CloneCD. When I put the copy into the CD-ROM drive, iTunes picked it up as an audio CD. I can only assume that CloneCD wrote the TOC correctly.
As far as Linux goes, I only tried K3b and it could get a good image from the CD.
Yeah, all for the low price of your arm, leg and first born.
There isn't even enough decent crap to justify 7 tuners. Or more importantly, enough crap for me to want to pay for 7 tuners. And I don't think they make a TB of decent TV a year anyway.
It depends on how developers use it. If they actually spend time and energy exploiting the second screen for unique purposes, it'll be cool.
But I have this bad feeling that other than a handful of Nintendo games and a few third parties, we are going to get a lot of mini-maps, item screens and playbooks.
Wait a second, ATi is going to bundle CS2 with there new cards? What about all of those HL2 vouchers they gave out with the last generation of cards?
Man ATi is a smart company. They are giving away these little paper coupons that people have to hold on to for at least good year before they are worth anything, but people feel like they are saving $50. Hell, they might never be worth anything. Whoever came up with that deserves at least, "Corporate Minion of the Month."
So anything from the company they paid so much for? Any word of a Perfect Dark sequel, a new Banjo game or a Conker follow up? Or hell, even something original? I was holding out hope that they were holding out for this E3.
God, I loved that company back in the days of the N64. What the hell happened? I'd like to blame it on Microsoft, as they are generally responsible for all things evil in the world, but the company hasn't really released a good game for this generation of consoles. I can see why Nintendo decided to take the money and run.
Haven't they sold like 50 million of the things? Is it possible that sales are dropping off because there isn't all that many people who don't have one that want one? And considering that they don't make money off of used console sales, it's not hard to believe that profits are starting to drop off.
Sony needs to watch itself, and not pull a Nintendo. Nintendo was on top and then got stomped by the new guy, Sony. Sony's got the oldest console at the highest price. They need to avoid becoming arrogant.
Guild Wars is actually looking like it has a lot of potential. Screenshots aren't much to go on, but it looks better than WoW. I'm really interested in seeing what some ex-Blizzard developers can do.
But it is not going to be coming out for a while. At least we all can test it during E3. They are planning a public alpha during the conference so that everyone, not just gaming press can test it out for themselves.
First the GC->GBA connectvity, which no game developer has been able to come up with a killer app for, and now handheld with two screens.
How much is going to cost me for a second screen? How is this going to be laid out? Seems like a two screened GameBoy would be pretty akward. And the most important question, will there be a game that use the second screen in a unique enough manner to warrant buying this thing.
Please Niintendo, I want to love you. Why must you keep coming up with these retarded ideas?
When The Sims first came out, I was interested enough to pickup a copy. I played for a few weeks, but quickly lost interest. I play games to escape reality and have fun, not micromanage an avatar who can't figure out how to sucessfully his own house.
For The Sims 2 to get me to buy it, they are going to need to let me play as someone else. I live in the subarbs, why should my character have to? Why does he have to work a regularly scheduled job?
I guess what I am trying to say is: Why does the Sims make us live a life that is so average? My life is pretty damn average, why should I pay $50(Plus a couple hunderd in "expansion packs") to live an equally boring life?
Hey! Microsoft spent a lot of money testing unser interfaces, and after 5.23 million dollers, 121,002 man-hours, and two os revision they chand it: it now "My Network Places"
No wonder Windows cost so much. That's $43 per work hour! And that would be 121 people working for 4 years!
The Athlon 64 will ship in "Really Really Fast but at a lower clock speed+", "No Really, its Faster but just not fast than No Really, its Faster+" and "So Fast, make you wanna gently tap yo Mama+"
$200 will buy you a piece of crap computer, I'm glad that Slashdot linked me to an article telling me that.
The only thing related to Lindows in that article is that it told us Lindows has poor USB support.
The Gamecube media isn't mini-DVD, its a format known as GameCube Optical Disc(GOD:) ) and was developed by the hard to spell parent company of Panasonic..
To play pirated games you'd have to find some way get the GameCube read an alien format, and spin the disc the otherway. The Gamecube normally spins its disc backwards.
I think it would just be easier to buy the game...
I wouldn't mind something that recorded for, say 10 minutes, then started over again. It would only stop recording, and save the most recent data when a collision occured. It could determine who was at fault, and help improve safety.
But I will not have all of my actions while driving tracked and recorded. And I bet most Americans would feel the same way.
Slashdot Mirror
A Slashdotter with a girlfriend. We are going to need the video evidence to prove that!
Shouldn't our top physicists be working on something more important that Santa Claus? Can their Ion shield protect us against this?
So now I can walk around with a real life cliche in my pocket, and use it to enter foriegn countries?
Now I just have to wait for the day that my PDA, phone and laptop can form a wireless Beowulf cluster that I can wear...
Wait, you have to remember that this is the same company that had a search engine that returned like 20 results for the term "Linux"
Let's just make the **IA happy and say I was making a personal backup copy. The disk seems to have two sessions, a data and an audio. The audio session seems to be unreadable if you just put the CD into a Windows box and expect to be able to rip audio. Windows just seems to ignore the audio session. I suspect that the TOC has been screwed up.
My work around was quite simple. First turn off auto run because it will pop up an EULA when you put the CD in to install the Suncomm crap. I got an image of the CD fine with Alcohol. I then burned it with CloneCD. When I put the copy into the CD-ROM drive, iTunes picked it up as an audio CD. I can only assume that CloneCD wrote the TOC correctly.
As far as Linux goes, I only tried K3b and it could get a good image from the CD.
I believe we've paid around for our gasoline with the lives of about 800 U.S. soliders.
Yeah, all for the low price of your arm, leg and first born.
There isn't even enough decent crap to justify 7 tuners. Or more importantly, enough crap for me to want to pay for 7 tuners. And I don't think they make a TB of decent TV a year anyway.
So he's the bastard that is responsible for all that spyware I'm consiantly cleaning off of computers.
Thanks alot buddy!
So they are basically planning sequels of their popular games for the PS2, and spinoffs of these games for handheld platforms.
God, I though only EA was supposed to act like that.
It depends on how developers use it. If they actually spend time and energy exploiting the second screen for unique purposes, it'll be cool.
But I have this bad feeling that other than a handful of Nintendo games and a few third parties, we are going to get a lot of mini-maps, item screens and playbooks.
Wait a second, ATi is going to bundle CS2 with there new cards? What about all of those HL2 vouchers they gave out with the last generation of cards?
Man ATi is a smart company. They are giving away these little paper coupons that people have to hold on to for at least good year before they are worth anything, but people feel like they are saving $50. Hell, they might never be worth anything. Whoever came up with that deserves at least, "Corporate Minion of the Month."
So anything from the company they paid so much for? Any word of a Perfect Dark sequel, a new Banjo game or a Conker follow up? Or hell, even something original? I was holding out hope that they were holding out for this E3.
God, I loved that company back in the days of the N64. What the hell happened? I'd like to blame it on Microsoft, as they are generally responsible for all things evil in the world, but the company hasn't really released a good game for this generation of consoles. I can see why Nintendo decided to take the money and run.
Sony needs to watch itself, and not pull a Nintendo. Nintendo was on top and then got stomped by the new guy, Sony. Sony's got the oldest console at the highest price. They need to avoid becoming arrogant.
Guild Wars is actually looking like it has a lot of potential. Screenshots aren't much to go on, but it looks better than WoW. I'm really interested in seeing what some ex-Blizzard developers can do.
But it is not going to be coming out for a while. At least we all can test it during E3. They are planning a public alpha during the conference so that everyone, not just gaming press can test it out for themselves.
How much is going to cost me for a second screen? How is this going to be laid out? Seems like a two screened GameBoy would be pretty akward. And the most important question, will there be a game that use the second screen in a unique enough manner to warrant buying this thing. Please Niintendo, I want to love you. Why must you keep coming up with these retarded ideas?
You've also got to hold it with the screen side out to use it as a cell phone.
How did Nokia ever approve this design?
Robots to defend our military bases, what could possibly go wrong...
When The Sims first came out, I was interested enough to pickup a copy. I played for a few weeks, but quickly lost interest. I play games to escape reality and have fun, not micromanage an avatar who can't figure out how to sucessfully his own house.
For The Sims 2 to get me to buy it, they are going to need to let me play as someone else. I live in the subarbs, why should my character have to? Why does he have to work a regularly scheduled job?
I guess what I am trying to say is: Why does the Sims make us live a life that is so average? My life is pretty damn average, why should I pay $50(Plus a couple hunderd in "expansion packs") to live an equally boring life?
Does UPS, Fedex or USPS ship Uranium? Bit of a nasty suprise for the delivery guy.
Hey! Microsoft spent a lot of money testing unser interfaces, and after 5.23 million dollers, 121,002 man-hours, and two os revision they chand it: it now "My Network Places"
No wonder Windows cost so much. That's $43 per work hour!
And that would be 121 people working for 4 years!
The Athlon 64 will ship in "Really Really Fast but at a lower clock speed+", "No Really, its Faster but just not fast than No Really, its Faster+" and "So Fast, make you wanna gently tap yo Mama+"
We, like everyone else, do not know anything about WinFS other than it will be possibly be used in Lognhorn, and will replace FAT32 and NTFS.
90% of the article was a completly different topic, how the older FSes work.
$200 will buy you a piece of crap computer, I'm glad that Slashdot linked me to an article telling me that. The only thing related to Lindows in that article is that it told us Lindows has poor USB support.
The Gamecube media isn't mini-DVD, its a format known as GameCube Optical Disc(GOD :) ) and was developed by the hard to spell parent company of Panasonic..
To play pirated games you'd have to find some way get the GameCube read an alien format, and spin the disc the otherway. The Gamecube normally spins its disc backwards.
I think it would just be easier to buy the game...
I wouldn't mind something that recorded for, say 10 minutes, then started over again. It would only stop recording, and save the most recent data when a collision occured. It could determine who was at fault, and help improve safety.
But I will not have all of my actions while driving tracked and recorded. And I bet most Americans would feel the same way.