Planned obsolesence? What are you talking about? Since when does upgrading a product line make every other product obsolete? My Mac does not have the fastest processor, but it won't be obsolete for years to come. Going from 68k to PPC made older Macs obsolete. Introducing OSX made machines that would not run almost obsolete. Inroducing faster processors just makes some machines seem a bit slower.
Stop obsessing about being on the cutting edge! I've always considered it a boon that the Mac product line is updated so quickly. If the current lineup does not meet your needs, wait six months and try again.
Actually, there is one WW album online at the Apple Music Store, believe it or not (Hybrid Vigor). But I only need one more to complete my collection, and I've not been able to find it anywhere (Town & Country). I was damn surprised to find even Hybrid Vigor there. But it was released on Island's label. Most of the others were Watermelon Records, and I don't think they're affiliated with anyone larger.
One day I'm going to get around to seeing them live. By the way, which album/song is your favorite?
...and neither does Apple. You want to burn 1000 CDs of your new track? You can. You may have to make a slight alteration to your playlist every 10 burns, but you can do it.
You want to copy your new file to 1000 computers? You can do it. Just burn it to a CD, then rip it off as an MP3, OGG, or unprotected ACC. The loss in quality is absolutely negligable. And you can then even more easily burn it to 1000 CDs.
This DRM scheme amounts to little more than a gentle, one-time reminder that you shouldn't do those things. But it by no means prevents you from doing it. What more do you want?! Oh, yeah- free music.
If you're the kind of person who finds any DRM scheme offensive. no matter how non-restricting or easily removed, then you're probably not interested in paying for music anyway. So who cares?
The point is that without the paltry DRM that they did implement, the record lables would not have given them song one to sell at their store. This DRM implementation is about the fairest and most lenient compromise that you will ever find. I mean, come on! All it really does is add a few extra steps between the user and a totally DRM-free file. This is just to prevent casual copiers (which make up the vast majority of listeners) from making copies without thinking about it. And it prevents people from easily making thousands of CDs to sell.
If you really want to remove the DRM then, as others have said, it is very easy to do. And you can burn as many damn CDs as you want with these files! DRM not fair? Please! About the only thing you cannot do is copy a file to more than three computers. That's it. And you can even do that if you burn then re-rip it. So quit yer whinin'!
But if even this does not satisfy you, then by all means stick to Kazaa. I'll probably still use P2P services for those odd Pogues, Coil, or Webb Wilder tracks that I cannot get from the iStore. But if they ever get around to adding them, I'll pay for them.
Very good rules. I try to follow most of them. I also actively keep a blacklist of products that I will not buy, no matter how useful they might be, if the company that sells them participates in any kind of forceful advertising.
You'd be amazed at the vast amount of products you can live without.
Near as I can tell, Safari will NOT recognize the dozens of Keychain entries that Camino has already established. And I can tell you that I absolutely will NOT retrain another browser with all of those names, passwords, and random bits of info. So I'm staying with Camino for now.
Also, I like having all of my bookmarks displayed vertically next to my browser window. Can't seem to do that in Safari.
It was most certainly NOT a single player game. My friends and I would play for hours in the University computer lab on a room full of networked Mac SEs. A dozen of us would play together at the same time. What a blast!
At the end of WWII they could have just said, "OK, everything is now under US control." With military forces deployed all over the globe and all other superpowers devastated by war, the US was the only thing left.
Well, yes. Except that Russia owned half of Europe. And had the bomb by 1949.
Then the Cold War began.
But besides that, we were the only think left. Yup.
It's not that they can't do it, its that they shouldn't do it. It's such a blatant rip off of the Apple ads that it makes them seem rather foolish and desperate.
But then, they rip off so much from so many companies, that I think we've come to expect this sort of behavior from MS.
Hmmm. Just thought of this. I believe that Raul Endymion does not appear until the third book, "Endymion." I sincerely hope they're not trying to cram all four books into one movie. Its says on the site "one or three movies." God, let it be three.
We will never get much farther unless we find a more efficient, less expensive way of building vessels and machinery. And you can blame congress and their love of pork for most of it.
You already listed these:
Mario Sunshine
Metroid Prime
Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2
Super Smash Brothers Melee
So, let me add:
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
(this is going to be, and already is, hailed
as one of the best games ever made, as was
its predecessor)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Resident Evil 0
Skies of Arcadia Legends
(Dreamcast version no longer counts)
Animal Crossing
(Don't laugh. It may sound silly to you,
but a lot of people will disagree.)
Ikaruga
Robotech Battlecry
Any future Metroid game
(Will be at least one more.)
Well, mine plus yours equals a dozen (actually, it's a lucky thirteen.) Now, let's dubunk a few of YOUR must haves:
Splinter Cell
(Soon to be available on Gamecube and PC,
so it's not exclusive. Sorry.)
Sega GT 2002
(I insert this merely as personal opinion
but... a racing game... YAWN. Racing game
lovers feel free to ignore this.)
Unreal Championship
(If you have a PC, then UT 2003 is a better
game. Most people do, so this isn't very
compelling.)
NFL Fever 2003
(Other platforms may not get THIS football
game, but there are SO many others, who
cares? Really?)
DOA3
(Again, my own opinion but... another
fighting game? And not even a very good one
from what I've read.)
Morrowind
(A console exclusive, yes. But again, since
it is available on PC, which more people
have, this is no reason to buy a console)
HALO
(Soon to be available on both PC & Mac. You
had a monopoly on this for a while, but get
over it.
I suppose I could find something to say about your remaining three, but I'd much rather play Metroid Prime than research XBox games. Some of my comments are pure opinion, but several of your so-called exclusives are hardly that, and are not a compelling reason to choose the XBox over another console.
From then on, Systems carried authentication chips which publishers had to not just buy access to, but had to submit their code for an extensive approval process.
I don't know about that. Remember, there were a few games for the NEW that were not authorized by Nintendo. Tengen released some games, one of which was Gauntlet, that came in the funky, black cartridges, with no Nintendo seals or logos in sight, and a disclaimer that that said that the games were not officially appoved by Nintendo. I think that there had been an earlier, approved version of Gauntlet in the normal grey case, but something happened, and Tengen went rogue.
And the Sega Genesis had a few similar games, as well. My favorite Genesis game of all time, Star Control, had a wierd cartridge design and was not officially approved.
As a person who has played it, I can tell you that you are way off.
But don't take my word for it, take the word of the numerous gaming sites who rank it as one of the best console games of all time. It's no more a rehash of Doom than Super Metroid was.
Why don't you try playing it?
Then again, when you REALLY boil them down, almost every game ever made can be reduced to a simple a-b-c premise like the one you proposed.
Absolutely true. I owned and loved my NES for years, then switched to the Sega Genesis when I was about 17 because Nintendo games seemed to childish. After the Genesis, I left console gaming behind altogether. Only in the past year have I begun to realize what I missed out on.
About 6 months ago I bought a used N64 and a copy of Ocarina of Time on eBay. Wow. I have yet to play a game that tops it, and I've played a lot of them.
I'm really looking forward to getting a GameCube for XMas and picking up a copy of Metroid Prime, then the New Zelda in March.
Screw "mature" games. They bore me. I must still be a child, after all.
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$2000 for the low-end machine.
It may be a great computer, but Jobs has lost his fucking mind.
That's a $600 increase.
Planned obsolesence? What are you talking about? Since when does upgrading a product line make every other product obsolete? My Mac does not have the fastest processor, but it won't be obsolete for years to come. Going from 68k to PPC made older Macs obsolete. Introducing OSX made machines that would not run almost obsolete. Inroducing faster processors just makes some machines seem a bit slower.
Stop obsessing about being on the cutting edge! I've always considered it a boon that the Mac product line is updated so quickly. If the current lineup does not meet your needs, wait six months and try again.
Did it ever bother you that one of the theme tunes in this game was "Yes, We Have No Bannannas?"
Actually, there is one WW album online at the Apple Music Store, believe it or not (Hybrid Vigor). But I only need one more to complete my collection, and I've not been able to find it anywhere (Town & Country). I was damn surprised to find even Hybrid Vigor there. But it was released on Island's label. Most of the others were Watermelon Records, and I don't think they're affiliated with anyone larger.
One day I'm going to get around to seeing them live. By the way, which album/song is your favorite?
...and neither does Apple. You want to burn 1000 CDs of your new track? You can. You may have to make a slight alteration to your playlist every 10 burns, but you can do it.
You want to copy your new file to 1000 computers? You can do it. Just burn it to a CD, then rip it off as an MP3, OGG, or unprotected ACC. The loss in quality is absolutely negligable. And you can then even more easily burn it to 1000 CDs.
This DRM scheme amounts to little more than a gentle, one-time reminder that you shouldn't do those things. But it by no means prevents you from doing it. What more do you want?! Oh, yeah- free music.
And another thing...
If you're the kind of person who finds any DRM scheme offensive. no matter how non-restricting or easily removed, then you're probably not interested in paying for music anyway. So who cares?
The point is that without the paltry DRM that they did implement, the record lables would not have given them song one to sell at their store. This DRM implementation is about the fairest and most lenient compromise that you will ever find. I mean, come on! All it really does is add a few extra steps between the user and a totally DRM-free file. This is just to prevent casual copiers (which make up the vast majority of listeners) from making copies without thinking about it. And it prevents people from easily making thousands of CDs to sell.
If you really want to remove the DRM then, as others have said, it is very easy to do. And you can burn as many damn CDs as you want with these files! DRM not fair? Please! About the only thing you cannot do is copy a file to more than three computers. That's it. And you can even do that if you burn then re-rip it. So quit yer whinin'!
But if even this does not satisfy you, then by all means stick to Kazaa. I'll probably still use P2P services for those odd Pogues, Coil, or Webb Wilder tracks that I cannot get from the iStore. But if they ever get around to adding them, I'll pay for them.
Very good rules. I try to follow most of them. I also actively keep a blacklist of products that I will not buy, no matter how useful they might be, if the company that sells them participates in any kind of forceful advertising.
You'd be amazed at the vast amount of products you can live without.
Unless, of course, they announce that they've found a way to broadcast electricity over Bluetooth. Now that would be worthy of a week's notice!
Near as I can tell, Safari will NOT recognize the dozens of Keychain entries that Camino has already established. And I can tell you that I absolutely will NOT retrain another browser with all of those names, passwords, and random bits of info. So I'm staying with Camino for now.
Also, I like having all of my bookmarks displayed vertically next to my browser window. Can't seem to do that in Safari.
It was most certainly NOT a single player game. My friends and I would play for hours in the University computer lab on a room full of networked Mac SEs. A dozen of us would play together at the same time. What a blast!
Well, yes. Except that Russia owned half of Europe. And had the bomb by 1949.
Then the Cold War began.
But besides that, we were the only think left. Yup.
Please. Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that only MEN are silly enough to spend $450 on a new video card every six months.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
It's not that they can't do it, its that they shouldn't do it. It's such a blatant rip off of the Apple ads that it makes them seem rather foolish and desperate.
But then, they rip off so much from so many companies, that I think we've come to expect this sort of behavior from MS.
Hmmm. Just thought of this. I believe that Raul Endymion does not appear until the third book, "Endymion." I sincerely hope they're not trying to cram all four books into one movie. Its says on the site "one or three movies." God, let it be three.
Noooooooooooooo! Please, please, please, don't let Leonardo ruin one of my favorite SciFi series of all time! God, no.
Personally, I see DiCaprio as a poor man's Matt Damon. Anything he can do, Damon can do better.
Please. I've seen wurs spelling.
"I bent my Wookie!"
-Ralph Wiggum
Homer goes to College! Best Epiosode Ever!
We will never get much farther unless we find a more efficient, less expensive way of building vessels and machinery. And you can blame congress and their love of pork for most of it.
Any takers? Sure, I'll give it a go. Let's see...
You already listed these:
Mario Sunshine
Metroid Prime
Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2
Super Smash Brothers Melee
So, let me add:
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
(this is going to be, and already is, hailed
as one of the best games ever made, as was
its predecessor)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Resident Evil 0
Skies of Arcadia Legends
(Dreamcast version no longer counts)
Animal Crossing
(Don't laugh. It may sound silly to you,
but a lot of people will disagree.)
Ikaruga
Robotech Battlecry
Any future Metroid game
(Will be at least one more.)
Well, mine plus yours equals a dozen (actually, it's a lucky thirteen.) Now, let's dubunk a few of YOUR must haves:
Splinter Cell
(Soon to be available on Gamecube and PC,
so it's not exclusive. Sorry.)
Sega GT 2002
(I insert this merely as personal opinion
but... a racing game... YAWN. Racing game
lovers feel free to ignore this.)
Unreal Championship
(If you have a PC, then UT 2003 is a better
game. Most people do, so this isn't very
compelling.)
NFL Fever 2003
(Other platforms may not get THIS football
game, but there are SO many others, who
cares? Really?)
DOA3
(Again, my own opinion but... another
fighting game? And not even a very good one
from what I've read.)
Morrowind
(A console exclusive, yes. But again, since
it is available on PC, which more people
have, this is no reason to buy a console)
HALO
(Soon to be available on both PC & Mac. You
had a monopoly on this for a while, but get
over it.
I suppose I could find something to say about your remaining three, but I'd much rather play Metroid Prime than research XBox games. Some of my comments are pure opinion, but several of your so-called exclusives are hardly that, and are not a compelling reason to choose the XBox over another console.
From what I understand, Nintendo manages to sell the GameCube for a slight profit.
Plus, their games are better!
I don't know about that. Remember, there were a few games for the NEW that were not authorized by Nintendo. Tengen released some games, one of which was Gauntlet, that came in the funky, black cartridges, with no Nintendo seals or logos in sight, and a disclaimer that that said that the games were not officially appoved by Nintendo. I think that there had been an earlier, approved version of Gauntlet in the normal grey case, but something happened, and Tengen went rogue.
And the Sega Genesis had a few similar games, as well. My favorite Genesis game of all time, Star Control, had a wierd cartridge design and was not officially approved.
As a person who has played it, I can tell you that you are way off.
But don't take my word for it, take the word of the numerous gaming sites who rank it as one of the best console games of all time. It's no more a rehash of Doom than Super Metroid was.
Why don't you try playing it?
Then again, when you REALLY boil them down, almost every game ever made can be reduced to a simple a-b-c premise like the one you proposed.
Switching back to a non-tabbed browser is like switching back to a one-button mouse: feels like cutting off an arm.
It may be fast, but I gotta have tabs and a sidebar for my bookmarks. If they ad these two features, I'll use it.
I tried it, and it IS fast. Too bad.
Absolutely true. I owned and loved my NES for years, then switched to the Sega Genesis when I was about 17 because Nintendo games seemed to childish. After the Genesis, I left console gaming behind altogether. Only in the past year have I begun to realize what I missed out on.
About 6 months ago I bought a used N64 and a copy of Ocarina of Time on eBay. Wow. I have yet to play a game that tops it, and I've played a lot of them.
I'm really looking forward to getting a GameCube for XMas and picking up a copy of Metroid Prime, then the New Zelda in March.
Screw "mature" games. They bore me. I must still be a child, after all.