Not always so simple. Most newer desktop computers no longer come with PS2 ports (I'm speaking from experience with new Dell Desktops here, as I deploy them for my company). Their only input interfaces are USB these days.
Not that it really matters. Back in the early days of the PS2, game bugs weren't exactly super-common. Nowadays, however, companies pump this shit out so fast that they can't do proper Q&A. I'm not necessarily trying to say that bugs are a new thing, just that there are a shittonne more of them these days than ever before.
My point is that the hardware isn't really the problem anymore. Yeah, it's a factor, but it's pointless until they actually start writing code that works for the hardware they can be 100% sure is there.
If the Chinese government were to threaten or cause harm upon employees of any corporation doing business there, be they current or former, it would seriously limit the desire for other countries to want to do business with them. I know my company does some business in China (we do business in other, less hospitable parts of the world, too), and I know that we'd have reservations sending our people into a line of fire.
I also wonder if it leaves the company open to some form of international litigation - having people assualted and injured or even killed because they work for a particular company. It would certainly get you shitcanned on THIS side of the globe.
I also wonder if such an act would be enough to get the United States military force involved in 'defending our interests'. I doubt we really want to take on.. luxembourg right now... let alone Chiner.
The MacBook Pro plays World of Warcraft very very nicely. Outperforms a dual-core G5 by quite a bit. Also plays UT2004 without a hitch. The other games we've tried aren't as graphics intensive.
The only problem is that it runs so damn hot. With WoW, we got the CPU up to 160 degrees F, and decided to turn it off before we cooked the damn thing.
I'm not so certain about that. The Nintendo game-bundling tactic historically comes into play well after the console has been established. They did it with they did it with the N64, the GameCube, the GameBoy Advance, and now the DS. Bundling a game later allows them the flexibility to maintain the original retail price sticker at a minimum cost to the manufacturer, for a longer period of time.
Unless it's a driver for a gigabit or fiber channel nic, there's no reason it won't fit on a floppy. Take what you need, not what you want; you don't really need that huge whiz bang installer crap. Just the driver.sys and driver.inf files will work fine.
'Course, that's pointless if the target machine didn't ship with a floppy drive. Err....
The RIAA and the Sony Entertainment Corporation are NOT LAW-enforcement agencies. They are entities designed to make money. In making said money, they have the means to buy government influence.
This is called corruption, even while the coporation continues to screw the consumer.
The ethical debate we - as citizens, consumers, potentially file-sharers, and ultimately the ones with the votes - have to deal with is: which is more, or in this case less ethical? Corruption at a federal or even International level, or Copyright Infringement?
My major roadblock at this point with getting an Xbox 360 is the cost. I can't drop 399$ on a console. It's ludicrous. To shell out that much on a console with only a handful of playable games is disturbing, almost. Some of the most hyped titles - Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, for example - apparently aren't even worth the plastic the disk is printed on from a playability standpoint.
Bloody hell, I'm consdering just stretching my PS2 until it dies, and then giving up the console gaming entirely. Unless the Wii can blow it all away, then I might keep one of those around, but the Xbox 360, and the PS3 are just too damn expensive.
I really don't care about Bluray, or HD-DVD or this that or whatever. Just want to play some games.
The games aren't too bad. It's an effective way to deliver content, save for the loading times, maybe. I was surprised to find that spinning the disk didn't really eat that much in terms of battery life (note to self: recharge devices before road trip).
Atleast Sony added a flash-memory option to the PSP. I can rip and rerip to my hearts content. Even more... uh... well... stuff that you can't find on a UMD in the states.
If you're on a train, or a bus, or in the back seat of a car, the PSP is an awesome little gadget for a few hours of entertainment. Battlestar looks nice on it.
Sony did royally flub up though, with the whole UMD thing. If they really wanted it to take off, DVD->UMD USB converter + writable UMD discs would be a godsend.
Most users just don't know better, despite best efforts to educate them otherwise, or make the scams obviously fradulent. Ever seen that 'MSN will never ask you for your password!' type banner on things? Know how many people retain it? Very few.
News to me. I've always run Linksys network hardware, and the Macs on my network have always played nice with them. We've got a PowerBook that goes wired and wireless on a WRT54G, and straight wired on a BEFSX41 just fine. We've also got an iBook that goes wireless on the WRT54G just peachy. Never had a problem.
...is that NTP Inc, and Visto don't even have products. I'd never heard of NTP before the Research In Motion fiasco. Come to find out, they're a 'patent-holding' company. What the hell? So you're a bunch of campers. Nice.
Just read that NTP has a large stake in Visto. This just keeps getting better.
I hope to see NTP and Visto get driven into the ground, and RIM come out on top.
'Stop playing that game and finish your homework!'
'Wait! Dad! I'm... uh... helping... fund... the school! YEAH!'
'So that's what that new tax is. [laugh] Alright, kid. Go for it.'
Signed drivers won't matter in this situation. If the chip is going in the PS3, then I'd hope Sony has a decent handle on the hardware that's going in there with it. I'd also hope that they're competant enough to write an operating system with drivers that take correctly catalogue the hardware and it's functionality. The foray of Kernels doesn't really matter when you have a static configuration in terms of hardware and OS.
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And I say your 3 cent Titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!
Not always so simple. Most newer desktop computers no longer come with PS2 ports (I'm speaking from experience with new Dell Desktops here, as I deploy them for my company). Their only input interfaces are USB these days.
Not that it really matters. Back in the early days of the PS2, game bugs weren't exactly super-common. Nowadays, however, companies pump this shit out so fast that they can't do proper Q&A. I'm not necessarily trying to say that bugs are a new thing, just that there are a shittonne more of them these days than ever before.
My point is that the hardware isn't really the problem anymore. Yeah, it's a factor, but it's pointless until they actually start writing code that works for the hardware they can be 100% sure is there.
Yeah, right. Which college do YOU go to?
Frack, mine. Guess you have a point.
If the Chinese government were to threaten or cause harm upon employees of any corporation doing business there, be they current or former, it would seriously limit the desire for other countries to want to do business with them. I know my company does some business in China (we do business in other, less hospitable parts of the world, too), and I know that we'd have reservations sending our people into a line of fire.
I also wonder if it leaves the company open to some form of international litigation - having people assualted and injured or even killed because they work for a particular company. It would certainly get you shitcanned on THIS side of the globe.
I also wonder if such an act would be enough to get the United States military force involved in 'defending our interests'. I doubt we really want to take on.. luxembourg right now... let alone Chiner.
There's a large number of devices that don't use electronics to set off the payload.
The MacBook Pro plays World of Warcraft very very nicely. Outperforms a dual-core G5 by quite a bit. Also plays UT2004 without a hitch. The other games we've tried aren't as graphics intensive.
The only problem is that it runs so damn hot. With WoW, we got the CPU up to 160 degrees F, and decided to turn it off before we cooked the damn thing.
Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new (260721? *shrug*) around here.
Overseas shipping of console units, accessories, and games?
I'm not so certain about that. The Nintendo game-bundling tactic historically comes into play well after the console has been established. They did it with they did it with the N64, the GameCube, the GameBoy Advance, and now the DS. Bundling a game later allows them the flexibility to maintain the original retail price sticker at a minimum cost to the manufacturer, for a longer period of time.
Unless it's a driver for a gigabit or fiber channel nic, there's no reason it won't fit on a floppy. Take what you need, not what you want; you don't really need that huge whiz bang installer crap. Just the driver.sys and driver.inf files will work fine.
'Course, that's pointless if the target machine didn't ship with a floppy drive. Err....
Raiding the home of a citizen is in no way, shape, or form 'civil', regardless of their level of infringement.
Let me be exceedingly clear on this point.
The RIAA and the Sony Entertainment Corporation are NOT LAW-enforcement agencies. They are entities designed to make money. In making said money, they have the means to buy government influence.
This is called corruption, even while the coporation continues to screw the consumer.
The ethical debate we - as citizens, consumers, potentially file-sharers, and ultimately the ones with the votes - have to deal with is: which is more, or in this case less ethical? Corruption at a federal or even International level, or Copyright Infringement?
That is a choice I leave to you.
My major roadblock at this point with getting an Xbox 360 is the cost. I can't drop 399$ on a console. It's ludicrous. To shell out that much on a console with only a handful of playable games is disturbing, almost. Some of the most hyped titles - Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, for example - apparently aren't even worth the plastic the disk is printed on from a playability standpoint.
Bloody hell, I'm consdering just stretching my PS2 until it dies, and then giving up the console gaming entirely. Unless the Wii can blow it all away, then I might keep one of those around, but the Xbox 360, and the PS3 are just too damn expensive.
I really don't care about Bluray, or HD-DVD or this that or whatever. Just want to play some games.
The games aren't too bad. It's an effective way to deliver content, save for the loading times, maybe. I was surprised to find that spinning the disk didn't really eat that much in terms of battery life (note to self: recharge devices before road trip).
Atleast Sony added a flash-memory option to the PSP. I can rip and rerip to my hearts content. Even more... uh... well... stuff that you can't find on a UMD in the states.
If you're on a train, or a bus, or in the back seat of a car, the PSP is an awesome little gadget for a few hours of entertainment. Battlestar looks nice on it.
Sony did royally flub up though, with the whole UMD thing. If they really wanted it to take off, DVD->UMD USB converter + writable UMD discs would be a godsend.
Never gonna happen, though.
...there is no patch for human stupidity.
Most users just don't know better, despite best efforts to educate them otherwise, or make the scams obviously fradulent. Ever seen that 'MSN will never ask you for your password!' type banner on things? Know how many people retain it? Very few.
News to me. I've always run Linksys network hardware, and the Macs on my network have always played nice with them. We've got a PowerBook that goes wired and wireless on a WRT54G, and straight wired on a BEFSX41 just fine. We've also got an iBook that goes wireless on the WRT54G just peachy. Never had a problem.
Would also make sense to add the Rogue class to the Draeni, as 'The Broken' seem to have that sort of stealth/assassin thing down pat...
Course, far be it from me to suggest they don't implement a 'Wandering Minstrel' class or somesuch.
Could you cite your source, please?
I've heard that you play NES games on your GBA. Please tell me how.
...is that NTP Inc, and Visto don't even have products. I'd never heard of NTP before the Research In Motion fiasco. Come to find out, they're a 'patent-holding' company. What the hell? So you're a bunch of campers. Nice.
Just read that NTP has a large stake in Visto. This just keeps getting better.
I hope to see NTP and Visto get driven into the ground, and RIM come out on top.
'Stop playing that game and finish your homework!' 'Wait! Dad! I'm... uh... helping... fund... the school! YEAH!' 'So that's what that new tax is. [laugh] Alright, kid. Go for it.'
Believe it or not, that would get you drunk-er, quick-er than the simple imbibing of the wine.
There will come a day, I'm sure, where we all will be trading in beads and trinkets again.
Probably won't get the kind of deals we did way back when Manhattan was green and leafy, though.
Signed drivers won't matter in this situation. If the chip is going in the PS3, then I'd hope Sony has a decent handle on the hardware that's going in there with it. I'd also hope that they're competant enough to write an operating system with drivers that take correctly catalogue the hardware and it's functionality. The foray of Kernels doesn't really matter when you have a static configuration in terms of hardware and OS.