I just tried to install Peter Jackson's King Kong on my PC, only to yank it off because the Starforce copy protection causes all sorts of problems. Plus, I don't like having to upgrade my hardware every 2 years to keep playing. I'm basically lazy, and I like just poppint in the disk and playing a damn game.
to Movie Maker. There is nothing anywhere near that simple to use or basic. The few projects I know of (kdenlive, avidemux) are still overkill by comparison.
your $600 bucks doesn't get you anything more than 'very good games'. Back in the days of the N64, half that got you Mario 64, an amazing and revolutionary game, and a third of that got you Final Fantasy VII. The PS3 doesn't have a killer app. To be fair, I don't think any console's had one at launch since the Dreamcast (i.e. SoulCalibre).
made the mediocre Super Dragonball Z... And StreetFighter III played fine if you weren't hardcore. Yeah, the parry system was useless to you, but it was still loads of fun and a joy to watch. Hell, try playing GGX or SoulCalibur or (*shudder*) King of Fighters XI against a tournament grade player and it's brutal. If you think you need to be hardcore to play SFIII, you don't play a lot of fighting games...
They probably just don't want the legal hassle and expense of releasing it. They'll be patents and cross licensing involved, and they'd have to vet all the code before releasing it.
Jesus, that game was hilarious. It was a God awful first gen Sega Saturn Fighting game. One of the characters had a move where he tossed his opponent over his shoulder, and since one ring out won the match you could beat the entire game by stepping backwards until you're at the edge, and then doing a throw. Then there was the girl who's sliding low kick animation was just her jump animation turned 90 Degrees. Jesus that game was awful.
GE isn't suppose to stop pirates, not yet anyway. It's so when Grandmama Miffi gets home and plugs in the new computa-r she got from the guy at the swap meet, she finds out she's been hornswaggled (well, her Grandson does, but you get the idea).
I do consulting work, and my customers want wireless. They've been sold on it by the big box retailers and they want it. The people who need to fix this are the ISPs and phone companies, who ought to be rolling out municipal wireless. But they're too busy trying to figure out how to charge the most money for the least service, so they're twiddling their thumbs.
it just doesn't work. If you're lucky, you can change channels and get it going, but at a certain point it just confuses the wireless cards. I've tried better routers and cards ( I haven't ponied up for one of those really expensive ones from Apple ).
What the heck are we going to do about everyone and his bro having his own wireless router? It's a special kind of heck when you've got an apartment complex with 7 or 8 or 10 wireless networks all in range and all competing. Add to that cell phones, wireless cameras, printers, etc, etc, and wireless is rapidly becoming useless...
but what do you suggest as an alternative. Without the FDA, I don't see how we'd ever have heard about the AntiFreeze in the toothpaste. The news services didn't report it until the FDA caught it.
It's not worse by a long shot. Hell, just a week or so ago there was a major problem with toothpaste having antifreeze in it (well, a component of antifreeze), and the FDA was advising people to toss out any antifreeze from China. I'll bloody well take what I can get for regulation, even if it's not perfect.
because people's taste in art varies, a lot. Anything that has had enough effort put into it to be called 'art' is going to turn some people off. And it's just ever so much more profitable to sell 10 million boy band albums than 10 million albums from 20 or 30 thousand different artists. Economies of scale and what not.
People starve when you do. The free market is concerned with short term profit (the 10 to 30 years it takes to get filthy, stinkin' rich), not with the long term viability of our food supply. This doesn't mean socialism, but it sure has hell means regulation.
because Microsoft will just stop selling XP, problem solved.
That said, XP is the finest OS Microsoft ever released, but I haven't had the scratch to try Vista. I still prefer Linux, but XP is a vast improvement over 9x and a noticeable improvement to 2k ( if only for VSS, which lets you use el cheapo back up software reliably ). I still prefer a solid linux install for my desktop, but as much as I'd hate to admit it, Microsoft is, albeit slowly, improving.
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I just tried to install Peter Jackson's King Kong on my PC, only to yank it off because the Starforce copy protection causes all sorts of problems. Plus, I don't like having to upgrade my hardware every 2 years to keep playing. I'm basically lazy, and I like just poppint in the disk and playing a damn game.
You must be European?
That's not a bug, it's a feature!
because we all know how well software modems work, right?
to Movie Maker. There is nothing anywhere near that simple to use or basic. The few projects I know of (kdenlive, avidemux) are still overkill by comparison.
Where other candidates barred from the parliament election Putin is running in?
your $600 bucks doesn't get you anything more than 'very good games'. Back in the days of the N64, half that got you Mario 64, an amazing and revolutionary game, and a third of that got you Final Fantasy VII. The PS3 doesn't have a killer app. To be fair, I don't think any console's had one at launch since the Dreamcast (i.e. SoulCalibre).
made the mediocre Super Dragonball Z... And StreetFighter III played fine if you weren't hardcore. Yeah, the parry system was useless to you, but it was still loads of fun and a joy to watch. Hell, try playing GGX or SoulCalibur or (*shudder*) King of Fighters XI against a tournament grade player and it's brutal. If you think you need to be hardcore to play SFIII, you don't play a lot of fighting games...
They probably just don't want the legal hassle and expense of releasing it. They'll be patents and cross licensing involved, and they'd have to vet all the code before releasing it.
The laws have changed quite a bit. Unless you pretty rich, you can't just walk away from your debt anymore like you used to...
do I keep the games I've downloaded? Or do they lock me out?
Jesus, that game was hilarious. It was a God awful first gen Sega Saturn Fighting game. One of the characters had a move where he tossed his opponent over his shoulder, and since one ring out won the match you could beat the entire game by stepping backwards until you're at the edge, and then doing a throw. Then there was the girl who's sliding low kick animation was just her jump animation turned 90 Degrees. Jesus that game was awful.
GE isn't suppose to stop pirates, not yet anyway. It's so when Grandmama Miffi gets home and plugs in the new computa-r she got from the guy at the swap meet, she finds out she's been hornswaggled (well, her Grandson does, but you get the idea).
every non-IE browser out there is a victory for web standards in general.
I do consulting work, and my customers want wireless. They've been sold on it by the big box retailers and they want it. The people who need to fix this are the ISPs and phone companies, who ought to be rolling out municipal wireless. But they're too busy trying to figure out how to charge the most money for the least service, so they're twiddling their thumbs.
it just doesn't work. If you're lucky, you can change channels and get it going, but at a certain point it just confuses the wireless cards. I've tried better routers and cards ( I haven't ponied up for one of those really expensive ones from Apple ).
What the heck are we going to do about everyone and his bro having his own wireless router? It's a special kind of heck when you've got an apartment complex with 7 or 8 or 10 wireless networks all in range and all competing. Add to that cell phones, wireless cameras, printers, etc, etc, and wireless is rapidly becoming useless...
a PC is still cheaper than a Mac if 'good enough' is good enough.
but what do you suggest as an alternative. Without the FDA, I don't see how we'd ever have heard about the AntiFreeze in the toothpaste. The news services didn't report it until the FDA caught it.
It's not worse by a long shot. Hell, just a week or so ago there was a major problem with toothpaste having antifreeze in it (well, a component of antifreeze), and the FDA was advising people to toss out any antifreeze from China. I'll bloody well take what I can get for regulation, even if it's not perfect.
because people's taste in art varies, a lot. Anything that has had enough effort put into it to be called 'art' is going to turn some people off. And it's just ever so much more profitable to sell 10 million boy band albums than 10 million albums from 20 or 30 thousand different artists. Economies of scale and what not.
People starve when you do. The free market is concerned with short term profit (the 10 to 30 years it takes to get filthy, stinkin' rich), not with the long term viability of our food supply. This doesn't mean socialism, but it sure has hell means regulation.
I had punch out toy cars and planes when I was 6. How the hell do you patent playing a board game with them? Jesus.
because Microsoft will just stop selling XP, problem solved. That said, XP is the finest OS Microsoft ever released, but I haven't had the scratch to try Vista. I still prefer Linux, but XP is a vast improvement over 9x and a noticeable improvement to 2k ( if only for VSS, which lets you use el cheapo back up software reliably ). I still prefer a solid linux install for my desktop, but as much as I'd hate to admit it, Microsoft is, albeit slowly, improving.
are owned in part or whole by soda manufacturers, wouldn't that be counter productive?