I loved them too, but they were doo damn unreliable and slow, especially once 250Mb Zip discs became available. I actually picked up an internal IDE card so I could have an LD120 as well as two disc drives and two HDDs.
But the US SNES was ugly beyond sin. The one we have in the UK is a lovely piece of kit, same shape as the Japanese one I think and the controller buttons are four different colours instead of the purple and lilac you lot in the colonies got.
Microsoft have really impressed me with XBox Live and have used it to really deliver on the 360, so much so that, even as a die hard Nintendo Whore I'm picking up a 360 next week (Oblivion swung me over the edge).
I'll still be getting a Wii, but I think that (and a lot of gamers seem to agree) the difference in titles and experience make two consoles justifiable this time round (first time ever for me).
MS have made a lot of smart moves and deserve to keep a number two position this time round; just behind Nintendo:) Sony are in for a bumpy ride.
What did they expect, a list of all local crack joints with directions?
In the UK, a crackpot is more traditionally someone who would be regarded as just past "eccentric". The woman with 86 cats in a one room apartment who yells at you out her window would be a "crackpot".
I used to be able to beat less experienced players in SFII whilst blindfolded by a combination of guessing what they would do and mashing the controls.
Are they planning a tax on all PC hardware, peripherals etc too, or just on a complete system? If the latter, the geeks are laughing al the way to the BBC torrent sites:)
Well, $10000 should be about right to fill a 60gig iPod. Since iTunes lets you copy music to an unlimited number of iPods that looks like a great eBay opportunity for an unscrupulous winner...
In principle I see your point, but if you have just installed this in your living room you are not in an ideal position to be doing complex computer tasks. iTunes already has all the functionality to do this with a couple of button presses, so doing it via a remote should be pretty easy. Pop in CD, up pops the option to play or rip. select rip, software checks CDDB and asks "Is this the right album", select yes and off it goes.
Personally, I would be using this as a front end to data stored elsewhere so would be doing media management sitting in front of the computer anyway, but ripping CDs should be an easy task with a remote.
Either I'm missing something or there is an impression that the US is the only country to still use miles. Speed limits and distances in the UK are all in MPH/miles.
Living in Northern Ireland makes for fun as once you cross the border to the Republic of Ireland you switch to KM for distance and MPH for speed limits whilst they're in the transistional phase to metric:)
The entire point was that it meant miracles couldn't just be tossed out without thinking. They were akin to special moves or combos in a fighting game, they required a certain amount of skill and precision to cast and were something to be practised to allow you to become more adept at them.
Oops, I guess that one slipped past the sarcasm radar. I'm posting from the UK so all the "your" references were off the mark.
The first paragraph was a side-swipe at the attitude that seems to prevail from some corners of the US, hence I started the the second paragraph with "But seriously". Apologies if it was misconstrued.
I stand by the rest of the comment, and I don't think it only applied to the US, but to the human race as a whole.
Yes yes, but the US military is trying to *help* these people. I guess it isn't their fault they are too simple to understand.
In all seriousness though, it seems to be inbuilt that humans are happy to kill other humans to achieve their aims when those people stand in their way, yet we have a soft spot, or at least ambivalence towards the rest of the animal kingdom that makes us more likely to kill another human than a kitten.
I'm not saying that when push comes to shove it wouldn't happen if the cost/benefit ratio (or at least the bad press/benefit ratio) was high enough, but it does seem we'll go out of our way to protect animals and not humans.
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From the summary:
:)
"while current president Tatsumi Kimishima has been elevated to chairman and CEO"
OK, don't read TFA but at least read TFS
I loved them too, but they were doo damn unreliable and slow, especially once 250Mb Zip discs became available. I actually picked up an internal IDE card so I could have an LD120 as well as two disc drives and two HDDs.
But the US SNES was ugly beyond sin. The one we have in the UK is a lovely piece of kit, same shape as the Japanese one I think and the controller buttons are four different colours instead of the purple and lilac you lot in the colonies got.
Microsoft have really impressed me with XBox Live and have used it to really deliver on the 360, so much so that, even as a die hard Nintendo Whore I'm picking up a 360 next week (Oblivion swung me over the edge).
:) Sony are in for a bumpy ride.
I'll still be getting a Wii, but I think that (and a lot of gamers seem to agree) the difference in titles and experience make two consoles justifiable this time round (first time ever for me).
MS have made a lot of smart moves and deserve to keep a number two position this time round; just behind Nintendo
Dead girls don't say no ;)
That's why games are a test of your skill and you improve with practice.
Stuart
In the UK, a crackpot is more traditionally someone who would be regarded as just past "eccentric". The woman with 86 cats in a one room apartment who yells at you out her window would be a "crackpot".
Stuart
Miata is American for Mazda MX5, right?
Stuart
I used to be able to beat less experienced players in SFII whilst blindfolded by a combination of guessing what they would do and mashing the controls.
Stuart
Are they planning a tax on all PC hardware, peripherals etc too, or just on a complete system? If the latter, the geeks are laughing al the way to the BBC torrent sites :)
Stuart
Well, $10000 should be about right to fill a 60gig iPod. Since iTunes lets you copy music to an unlimited number of iPods that looks like a great eBay opportunity for an unscrupulous winner...
Stuart
Wait a minute, they're using squirrels?
This game is going to be a damn sight weirder than I thought.
Stuart
Tried it, didn't like it. On the other hand, I found no difficulty in completely Mario64 using the standard D-Pad... Maybe I'm a freak.
Stuart
Probably
next up...... the clitoris. nature's rubik's cube.....
Stuart
Look out the window?
Stuart
In principle I see your point, but if you have just installed this in your living room you are not in an ideal position to be doing complex computer tasks. iTunes already has all the functionality to do this with a couple of button presses, so doing it via a remote should be pretty easy. Pop in CD, up pops the option to play or rip. select rip, software checks CDDB and asks "Is this the right album", select yes and off it goes.
Personally, I would be using this as a front end to data stored elsewhere so would be doing media management sitting in front of the computer anyway, but ripping CDs should be an easy task with a remote.
Stuart
"I know, it's a crushing bore, but it's just this national hangup we've had since we used to own you fellows."
Either I'm missing something or there is an impression that the US is the only country to still use miles. Speed limits and distances in the UK are all in MPH/miles.
:)
Living in Northern Ireland makes for fun as once you cross the border to the Republic of Ireland you switch to KM for distance and MPH for speed limits whilst they're in the transistional phase to metric
Stuart
For some reason, I always felt that it should be spelled "Mundays".
Regardless, I believe you'd get your ass kicked for saying something like that.
Stuart
That would have been my second answer.
/. is simple...
The first, and presumably the reason this was posted to
Imagine a Beowolf cluster...
Stuart
The entire point was that it meant miracles couldn't just be tossed out without thinking. They were akin to special moves or combos in a fighting game, they required a certain amount of skill and precision to cast and were something to be practised to allow you to become more adept at them.
Stuart
Oops, I guess that one slipped past the sarcasm radar. I'm posting from the UK so all the "your" references were off the mark.
The first paragraph was a side-swipe at the attitude that seems to prevail from some corners of the US, hence I started the the second paragraph with "But seriously". Apologies if it was misconstrued.
I stand by the rest of the comment, and I don't think it only applied to the US, but to the human race as a whole.
Stuart
Yes yes, but the US military is trying to *help* these people. I guess it isn't their fault they are too simple to understand.
In all seriousness though, it seems to be inbuilt that humans are happy to kill other humans to achieve their aims when those people stand in their way, yet we have a soft spot, or at least ambivalence towards the rest of the animal kingdom that makes us more likely to kill another human than a kitten.
I'm not saying that when push comes to shove it wouldn't happen if the cost/benefit ratio (or at least the bad press/benefit ratio) was high enough, but it does seem we'll go out of our way to protect animals and not humans.
Stuart
Because for the most part animals really aren't a major threat the way other humans are?
Stuart
And even those are priced at £1.89, which at the current exchange rate is $3.31. You thought the pricing for the tunes was bad?
Stuart