Here here! Super Monkey Ball (and SMB2) are amazingly good. It looks amazing too.:)
Oh dear. Now I want to play Super Monkey Ball. But I must finish Metroid Prime first (never got around to that before and it was pissing me off), then Prince of Persia... SMB kinda monopolized my life for three-ish weeks when I got it...
My biggest pet peeve with cell phones is "custom" ringtones. You know what I mean -- "Sign up for service with $COMPANY and you will receive a new phone with colour display and 300 custom ringtomes!".
That would be all fine and dandy if there were only 300 phones in existence. But there aren't. Every single little high school teeny bopper has one. And they all pick the same ringtone. And it sounds like ass. *Twitch*
Having never heard of Cosmic Race before, I threw it at Google and came across this review... one of the complaints the author had was the controls. (D-pad strafed up, down, left, and right. Turning was circle + square, acceleration/brake the shoulder buttons.)
I was reading them over and I can see how they make sense -- they're quite similar to using WSAD to strafe and +mlook, except it's just turning instead of looking around.
Yup, new tactics are being employed. For example, I built a nice private, encrypted peer-to-peer network using WASTE. Kazaa, and all the viruses/fake files/incorrectly named files/spyware/trojans are a distant memory.;)
Question. When a music download site puts a restriction such as "you can only burn this to an audio CD X number of times" on a track, what's preventing somebody from burning the audio CD once, re-ripping it to.OGG?
Again, you really should pay more attention to your web browsing. I downloaded QuickTime a few weeks ago and was pissed that it included iTunes. So I went back to the download page and looked at the different download options, and low and behold, there was an option to just download QuickTime, no iTunes.
It has _always_ been there, mon ami. Therefore, I submit that your statement:
"They only just added the seperate installer for quicktime base on the HUGE amount of complaints they recieved for the past week."
was complely made up as it has absolutely no factual basis.
Perhaps if you actually paid attention to what you were doing, instead of bitching when something doesn't behave precisely as you expected, you'd get more milage out of the web.
*Shrug* Don't start attacking me just because you didn't RTFP. I don't quite see how that's mature/intelligent/fair/logical... but that does explain why you are posting as an anonymous coward instead of being willing to back up your opinions.;)
Actually, if you were to actually READ THE OPTIONS ON THE DOWNLOAD PAGE (link), instead of just blindly clicking "submit", you would see the following options:
Download the free player Select your operating system:
[ ] Mac OS X v10.2.5-10.2.8 [ ] Mac OS 8.6/9 [ ] Win 98/Me/2000/XP [*] QuickTime and iTunes for Windows 2000/XP
Perhaps you should concider reading the entire page before bitching about it on Slashdot. It makes you look like a jackass.:P
This isn't me attacking the United States; however, you must certainly concede that MANY companies in the states are focused primarily on their domestic interests without seeing that there is a global community forming.
If I wanted to attack the United States, I would bring up things like.. say.. the fact that a movie star is now the govenor of California, that the president is a complete and total moron who has, in a little over a year, managed to destroy much of what the United Nations stood for, the fact that the US government continually lies to it's citizens, the fact that the goverment brainwashed the US populus with the Sept 11-Terrorist / Iraq-Saddam connection. (2/3rds of the citizens of the US think that Iraq was involved in the Sept 11 attacks. The ENTIRE REST OF THE WHOLE WORLD knows that this was false and the country was lied to.) Or the right-wing government. Or privatized health care. I can continue, but this is about iTunes and Apple.
Touche. I bet you're right -- Apple, most likely, at least THOUGHT about selling music globally, but when they saw that the record labels weren't going to allow it, they didn't exactly fight for it, did they?
My parents always emphasized effort over success -- if you expect somebody to do something, if they can't, but have at least TRIED, then they deserve at least some credit. It appears, at least to me, that Apple just said "What? You don't want to sell music to Canada? If we fight over this then it will delay the launch of iTunes? Fuck it then, we'll just deal with the United States." instead of actually making an effort to get the record labels to adapt to the global Internet community.
Hell, I LOVE iTunes. I was even ready to purchase some tracks when, low and behold, they didn't want to take my money. That's just stupid. =/
Ok, I see what you're saying, and you're right -- for the most part, music licencing is region-specific. That is exactly what's cheesing me off.:P
The Internet is a global community; I'm of the opinion that, if a software company is going to release a product to said community, then EVERY member of that community should be able to use it. (Or, if not, at least have a large message on the site indicating this.)
As it stands, I'd love to use iTunes, but Apple only bothered to think about the United States when it determined the licencing scheme. That is, in a word, crap.:P
I wasn't trying to imply that (well, kinda, but not directly). Rather, what I'm frustrated with is the fact that it appears as though the major online music retailers didn't even bother to concider audiences outside the United States.
The Apple iTunes website doesn't even make it clear that I, as a Canadian citizen, are not welcome to pay their artists for their music. It didn't even occur to them that maybe, JUST MAYBE, there may be people in countries outside the US which might also be interested in using their software.
Canada has a significantly higher adoption of broadband internet (either cable or xDSL) then in the United States. The Internet is a global community; it's time that major corporations started treating it that way.
It's so cool that anybody who doesn't live in the United States can't use it! THAT'S SO FREAKING COOL, ISN'T IT!? ARRGH!!
[Breathes]
Seriously though. One would have thought that, when releasing a product to a world-wide audience, the software would be usuable by said audience. As it stands, when things like this happen, it just demonstrates that the United States still thinks that it's the center of the Universe. Grrr.
I used to work for GameSpy, running 3DActionPlanet -- violence in video games was a topic which we coveredseveraltimes.
Yeah, it's possible that violent games cause violence in teens... but isn't it also possible that violent teens are DRAWN to violent games?:)
Stupid people. Take some fucking responsibility!
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Here here! Super Monkey Ball (and SMB2) are amazingly good. It looks amazing too. :)
Oh dear. Now I want to play Super Monkey Ball. But I must finish Metroid Prime first (never got around to that before and it was pissing me off), then Prince of Persia... SMB kinda monopolized my life for three-ish weeks when I got it...
My biggest pet peeve with cell phones is "custom" ringtones. You know what I mean -- "Sign up for service with $COMPANY and you will receive a new phone with colour display and 300 custom ringtomes!".
That would be all fine and dandy if there were only 300 phones in existence. But there aren't. Every single little high school teeny bopper has one. And they all pick the same ringtone. And it sounds like ass. *Twitch*
Having never heard of Cosmic Race before, I threw it at Google and came across this review... one of the complaints the author had was the controls. (D-pad strafed up, down, left, and right. Turning was circle + square, acceleration/brake the shoulder buttons.)
... *shrug* :)
I was reading them over and I can see how they make sense -- they're quite similar to using WSAD to strafe and +mlook, except it's just turning instead of looking around.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn was pretty fucking sweet. Even my mom, who doesn't even LIKE sci-fi liked it. Show some respect. ;)
Yup, new tactics are being employed. For example, I built a nice private, encrypted peer-to-peer network using WASTE. Kazaa, and all the viruses/fake files/incorrectly named files/spyware/trojans are a distant memory. ;)
You can -- smoke a bowl. :)
:P
420.
Question. When a music download site puts a restriction such as "you can only burn this to an audio CD X number of times" on a track, what's preventing somebody from burning the audio CD once, re-ripping it to .OGG?
It has _always_ been there, mon ami. Therefore, I submit that your statement:was complely made up as it has absolutely no factual basis.
Perhaps if you actually paid attention to what you were doing, instead of bitching when something doesn't behave precisely as you expected, you'd get more milage out of the web.
*Shrug* Don't start attacking me just because you didn't RTFP. I don't quite see how that's mature/intelligent/fair/logical... but that does explain why you are posting as an anonymous coward instead of being willing to back up your opinions.
Actually, if you were to actually READ THE OPTIONS ON THE DOWNLOAD PAGE (link), instead of just blindly clicking "submit", you would see the following options:
:P
Download the free player
Select your operating system:
[ ] Mac OS X v10.2.5-10.2.8
[ ] Mac OS 8.6/9
[ ] Win 98/Me/2000/XP
[*] QuickTime and iTunes for Windows 2000/XP
Perhaps you should concider reading the entire page before bitching about it on Slashdot. It makes you look like a jackass.
I'm going to have to pirate music extra-hard from now on, just to get my money's worth!
Dam straight. If they're going to force me to pay for it then I'm gonna use it, god dammit.
I see. That makes sense -- and, as the poster you're replying to pointed out, white does have the advantage. That never really occured to me. Merci. :)
If the want to determine who is best -- man or machine -- shouldn't they have it out of an odd-number of matches?
Or would that make too much sense?
Hahahahah. Nice catch. I missed that when reading the parent's post. :P
I'm Canadian. I love 2 hours away from the United States.
And take my word for it, there is NOBODY here who envies the United States. Pity might be a better word.
This isn't me attacking the United States; however, you must certainly concede that MANY companies in the states are focused primarily on their domestic interests without seeing that there is a global community forming.
If I wanted to attack the United States, I would bring up things like.. say.. the fact that a movie star is now the govenor of California, that the president is a complete and total moron who has, in a little over a year, managed to destroy much of what the United Nations stood for, the fact that the US government continually lies to it's citizens, the fact that the goverment brainwashed the US populus with the Sept 11-Terrorist / Iraq-Saddam connection. (2/3rds of the citizens of the US think that Iraq was involved in the Sept 11 attacks. The ENTIRE REST OF THE WHOLE WORLD knows that this was false and the country was lied to.) Or the right-wing government. Or privatized health care. I can continue, but this is about iTunes and Apple.
I'm in Canada, chief. Not from the UK. I'm a two-hour drive away from the oh-so-glorious United States, in fact.
Touche. I bet you're right -- Apple, most likely, at least THOUGHT about selling music globally, but when they saw that the record labels weren't going to allow it, they didn't exactly fight for it, did they?
My parents always emphasized effort over success -- if you expect somebody to do something, if they can't, but have at least TRIED, then they deserve at least some credit. It appears, at least to me, that Apple just said "What? You don't want to sell music to Canada? If we fight over this then it will delay the launch of iTunes? Fuck it then, we'll just deal with the United States." instead of actually making an effort to get the record labels to adapt to the global Internet community.
Hell, I LOVE iTunes. I was even ready to purchase some tracks when, low and behold, they didn't want to take my money. That's just stupid. =/
Ok, I see what you're saying, and you're right -- for the most part, music licencing is region-specific. That is exactly what's cheesing me off. :P
:P
The Internet is a global community; I'm of the opinion that, if a software company is going to release a product to said community, then EVERY member of that community should be able to use it. (Or, if not, at least have a large message on the site indicating this.)
As it stands, I'd love to use iTunes, but Apple only bothered to think about the United States when it determined the licencing scheme. That is, in a word, crap.
I wasn't trying to imply that (well, kinda, but not directly). Rather, what I'm frustrated with is the fact that it appears as though the major online music retailers didn't even bother to concider audiences outside the United States.
The Apple iTunes website doesn't even make it clear that I, as a Canadian citizen, are not welcome to pay their artists for their music. It didn't even occur to them that maybe, JUST MAYBE, there may be people in countries outside the US which might also be interested in using their software.
Canada has a significantly higher adoption of broadband internet (either cable or xDSL) then in the United States. The Internet is a global community; it's time that major corporations started treating it that way.
It's so cool that anybody who doesn't live in the United States can't use it! THAT'S SO FREAKING COOL, ISN'T IT!? ARRGH!!
[Breathes]
Seriously though. One would have thought that, when releasing a product to a world-wide audience, the software would be usuable by said audience. As it stands, when things like this happen, it just demonstrates that the United States still thinks that it's the center of the Universe. Grrr.
Reading Donald Trump's response made me laugh out loud. Everybody in the computer lab here looked at me. :P
Hahaha. Gatorware gets MY vote :)
Does it spy on me? Yes. Is it software? Yes. Therefore, Gator = Spyware.
QED.
I used to work for GameSpy, running 3DActionPlanet -- violence in video games was a topic which we covered several times. Yeah, it's possible that violent games cause violence in teens... but isn't it also possible that violent teens are DRAWN to violent games? :)
Stupid people. Take some fucking responsibility!