Au contraire, with a dedicated cheap old PC you can stream Shoutcast for years
Well yes, but he's referring to the Winamp Shoutcast DSP which makes it easy...and lets you voice over as well.
Shucks, I still use the same WS-FTP I downloaded for Windows 95.
It works in modern Windows? I remember trying it in WinXP and it not working well, so I tried CoffeeCup FTP and that was nagware at that time....I ended up with Filezilla (on both Linux and Windows), rarely use it, but it does come in handy sometimes.
(caveat, I've DJ'd on Second Life, but only for fun and but rarely)
well, you could always continue to use Winamp and the Shoutcast DSP. Most of the Windows DJ's I know in SL..(and I know more than a few) just grimace and pay for the SAM license.
For us Linux users, if you want something easy to use that you can use your mic with...IDJC is preferred...though it requires JACK which means it's a PITA to setup if you're running pulseaudio as the default
Grid know what the OSX users use? Simplecast or something I think.
Don't forget Fate, designed by the same guy who later did the Torchlights.
Being a console guy, sad to say, neither Fate or the two Torchlight's have hit the PS3. But the consoles have had their own such games over the years.
Darkstone Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance I and II Champions of Norrath (and the Return to ARms sequel) X-Men Legends I and II Justice League Heroes The Bards Tale (the recent one, not the old 80's classic, has Diablo style gameplay) Hunter the Reckoning Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (also on mobile) Untold Legends (two PSP games and one PS3 game) Sacred 2 Marvel Ultimate Alliance I and II Lord of the Rings: War in the North
yet you think that WASD was popularized because "elitists" that were too "cheap" to buy a joystick?
Yes, those over-privileged upper-middle class guys in the 80's who bought DOS machines and then played demanded that arcade games and action games have keyboard controls because they didn't have joysticks. Mice weren't even a thing then I'm talking about days when there weren't any mouse-look games. the current WASD thing is a relic of that age!
I hate WASD (and keyboard focused controls in general) with a passion. It sucked in the 80's when home computer/PC developers added keyboard controls to action games for all those elitist PC guys too cheap to buy a joystick...and we still have that mess out of tradition.
The mouse is a nice pointing device, but the keyboard sucks as a movement controller.
As usual with these sorts of things, you don't hear from the vast majority who don't have issues, just the few that do.
Personally I noticed one thing, when using the HDMI cable that came with the PS4, my powered HDMI switchbox with a remote didn't want to switch to/from the PS4...changing cables fixed it.
The Military is full of young men....game consoles are VERY popular in the military. From what I've read, bases tend to have reasonable connections...ships less so.
They didn't remove SACD from PS3's that had that feature...they just stopped selling NEW PS3's with that feature, since it was a FAT PS3 feature...like the backwards compatibility.
And as I've said...the biggest complaint about the PS3 from the masses was the price of the launch models.
They did that to save on costs! One of the biggest complaints about the PS3 from the masses was the price...all those features added to the price. So the Slim doesn't have backwards compatibility (No PS2 hardware in it), no SACD, etc etc.
I wouldn't say it was "fucking awful" for one, Firefox under Linux was a much better browser than the PS3's pre-webkit version of netfront (the later webkit version is much better). Until recently, with the release of the TuneIn app, the PS3 couldn't listen to shoutcast/icecast stations. And don't forget Abiword, GIMP, OpenOffice, Nethack, etc etc.
Sony greatly expanded their target audience by advertising the other OS feature(governments, researchers, anyone doing number crunching),
I do not think you understand what "greatly" means...there weren't that many PS3's doing scientific computing, compared to the vast majority that did nothing other than playing games and media.
and for them, it wasn't just a minor inconvenience, it was turning the computers into useless gaming consoles
What? Computational Computing users weren't using them for games and had no reason to ever update the firmware. Didn't effect them in the slightest.
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try XMMS, xmms2, qmmp, you do run Linux, right?
Au contraire, with a dedicated cheap old PC you can stream Shoutcast for years
Well yes, but he's referring to the Winamp Shoutcast DSP which makes it easy...and lets you voice over as well.
Shucks, I still use the same WS-FTP I downloaded for Windows 95.
It works in modern Windows? I remember trying it in WinXP and it not working well, so I tried CoffeeCup FTP and that was nagware at that time....I ended up with Filezilla (on both Linux and Windows), rarely use it, but it does come in handy sometimes.
(caveat, I've DJ'd on Second Life, but only for fun and but rarely)
well, you could always continue to use Winamp and the Shoutcast DSP. Most of the Windows DJ's I know in SL..(and I know more than a few) just grimace and pay for the SAM license.
For us Linux users, if you want something easy to use that you can use your mic with...IDJC is preferred...though it requires JACK which means it's a PITA to setup if you're running pulseaudio as the default
Grid know what the OSX users use? Simplecast or something I think.
Don't forget Fate, designed by the same guy who later did the Torchlights.
Being a console guy, sad to say, neither Fate or the two Torchlight's have hit the PS3. But the consoles have had their own such games over the years.
Darkstone
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance I and II
Champions of Norrath (and the Return to ARms sequel)
X-Men Legends I and II
Justice League Heroes
The Bards Tale (the recent one, not the old 80's classic, has Diablo style gameplay)
Hunter the Reckoning
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (also on mobile)
Untold Legends (two PSP games and one PS3 game)
Sacred 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance I and II
Lord of the Rings: War in the North
NWN is turn based, TFA is talking about ARPG's even though NWN (and others) have mouse based interfaces.
yet you think that WASD was popularized because "elitists" that were too "cheap" to buy a joystick?
Yes, those over-privileged upper-middle class guys in the 80's who bought DOS machines and then played demanded that arcade games and action games have keyboard controls because they didn't have joysticks. Mice weren't even a thing then I'm talking about days when there weren't any mouse-look games. the current WASD thing is a relic of that age!
Yes, because you can plug in a stereo headset with mic into the PS4 controller and route all audio to the controller.
Nintendo do some R&D. Ends up with the Wii. Microsoft and Sony copies and make their own versions.
That's not quite an accurate statement there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zin-gK6NEIY
But unlike PCs, console games don't give you the option of using anything but the default controllers.
.That's not quite an accurate statement, because there are console games that DO give you the option.
I have several within 5 feet of my current position.
I hate WASD (and keyboard focused controls in general) with a passion. It sucked in the 80's when home computer/PC developers added keyboard controls to action games for all those elitist PC guys too cheap to buy a joystick...and we still have that mess out of tradition.
The mouse is a nice pointing device, but the keyboard sucks as a movement controller.
As usual with these sorts of things, you don't hear from the vast majority who don't have issues, just the few that do.
Personally I noticed one thing, when using the HDMI cable that came with the PS4, my powered HDMI switchbox with a remote didn't want to switch to/from the PS4...changing cables fixed it.
Otherwise it's just fine.
I have.....NES and SNES cartdridge connectors can and do go bad.
The NES cartridge connector is notoriously finicky even when relatively new. Same thing can happen to the SNES if you don't get a good connection.
Never had it happen after a power outage, it'll do the PS4 equivalent of fsck (which is an actual BSD fsck) on reboot (just like the PS3 does)
http://www.scei.co.jp/ps4-license/
I'm a Yank, but I do believe that "Maths" is what they call it in the UK.
Oh please, the vast majority of those flash carts was used for piracy. Besides, they were selling mod-chips!
later on installed 3.50 and lost the ability to use a lot of their 3rd party peripherals .
It wasn't a lot, just a few selection bias addled whiners claiming it was "a lot"
The Military is full of young men....game consoles are VERY popular in the military. From what I've read, bases tend to have reasonable connections...ships less so.
They didn't remove SACD from PS3's that had that feature...they just stopped selling NEW PS3's with that feature, since it was a FAT PS3 feature...like the backwards compatibility.
And as I've said...the biggest complaint about the PS3 from the masses was the price of the launch models.
they removed "backwards compatibility"
They did that to save on costs! One of the biggest complaints about the PS3 from the masses was the price...all those features added to the price. So the Slim doesn't have backwards compatibility (No PS2 hardware in it), no SACD, etc etc.
I wouldn't say it was "fucking awful" for one, Firefox under Linux was a much better browser than the PS3's pre-webkit version of netfront (the later webkit version is much better). Until recently, with the release of the TuneIn app, the PS3 couldn't listen to shoutcast/icecast stations. And don't forget Abiword, GIMP, OpenOffice, Nethack, etc etc.
Sony greatly expanded their target audience by advertising the other OS feature(governments, researchers, anyone doing number crunching),
I do not think you understand what "greatly" means...there weren't that many PS3's doing scientific computing, compared to the vast majority that did nothing other than playing games and media.
and for them, it wasn't just a minor inconvenience, it was turning the computers into useless gaming consoles
What? Computational Computing users weren't using them for games and had no reason to ever update the firmware. Didn't effect them in the slightest.
"They" didn't remove it....if anyone did "YOU" did. You had the ultimate choice.
Another option was keeping OtherOS and getting a second PS3 for games, if you liked Linux on Cell so much.
Sony also sued the company that provided the rootkit. They didn't do it in-house.
Also IIRC BMG wasn't owned by Sony when they contracted out for it.