You're missing the point. You can't take those 120Gig drives with you, and you can't rely on that CD-RW/DVD-RW to be reliable enough for mission critical stuff. Not to mention that you can't make changes to the cd's without either a complete reburn or a hack (and I've had too many DirectCD discs go bad to call them reliable). Ever see a cdrw survive being used for 6 months, shipped to printing companies, back, and then reused? But then again you've got 240Gigs of stationary storage so you could just ship one of those Hard drives right?
Its hard to put a limit on the price of having that kind of peace of mind.
What I think would solve all of this would be a paper map on the cart with a listing under it of where everything is located. Some stores put this on the back of where the little kid seat is in the cart. Other stores use this for ad space. I think this makes it so simple to tell what is where, Looking for SPAM? Canned meats... aisle 5, quick look at the map and you're there. No typing, no computer needed.
People love to over-complicate the solution to simple problems.
Good argument, but then how do you explain their unbalievable success the last 60 years or so? I agree that other teams have tried to buy a championship and failed in the past, but none of them have had the 70+ years of practice at buying championships that the yankees have had. The old saying practice makes perfect exists for a reason.
Or maybe they're just lucky right? 26 world series could have happened to anyone, cubs and redsox included?
"Even if there are [independent basball teams], they're certainly not going to make it into the World Series. The public doesn't complain because all the teams are apparently subject to the same rules. No team "wins" just because they have the richest owner."
and of course, it also sucks that when your PS2 breaks you no longer have a tv tuner, dvd player or tivo. All in one appliances suck because when one breaks, they all break.
Geeze the whole thing is painted in that glowing orange, with great attention to detail it seems.
And then there's that toggle switch. Straight from Radio Shack and the cheapest looking switch I've ever seen. Talk about blowing it. It looks like they stole it off of a mixing board from the 70's.
This is the stupidest idea ever. and every time an article comes up regarding this I'm reminded of how poor motion capture games are. Nothing like this will be able to compare to Mario Party, super monkey ball and the likes as far as fun during a party, etc.
This might catch on for video conferencing, and for really young children still fascinated by seeing themselves on TV, but I know that I play video games to enter a new world, not see how crappy my living room looks on my television.
What about all the successful worms games? The randomness of the levels is what makes the game more fun, you never know what you're going to have to work with next. And you'll know that no one has played the level to death to achieve an unfair advantage.
Of course this would be horrible if it does come ot pass, but imagine it does. Instantly Kazaa's way of offshore thinking would be the norm. I can see Sealand and HavenCo wishing for this bill to pass as well, since it would probably mean that all P2P networks' distribution points would exist in countries such as itself.
I for one would never put personal information into a p2p app. The hassels of the p2p networks like kazaa are already pretty bad (popups, spyware, horrible coding that slows computers to a crawl). Who's to say that a Kazaa lite to get around this law won't be made? Klite is here because users are fed up with the current problems, I can't see it would stop there.
Either way, water seeks its own level and things will eventually solve themselves. Hopefully it doesn't pass, but if it does it won't mean the end of the world like the DMCA has.
I was under the impression that MD couldn't replace DAT for criticl uses because recordings tend to drift on MD. Has this been fixed? Or was this never a problem and I've just been misinformed all these years?
So they're working on all of this emulation and its great, but I've been pretty pissed to see that the last 4 big competitors to sony's consoles all came with 4 native controller ports and sony still wants to bleed as much money out of their customers as possible. Maybe they can work on solving their problem with trying to make you buy a multitap every time you buy a sony system.
I wouldn't be so mad if the damn multitaps worked at least. I've had to replace 3 multitaps over the life of my ps1 and ps2's because ports stopped working. At $30 each thats enough to almost piss me off from buying a new ps3 if it doesn't have four ports, emulation or not.
Quite a unique product? My Intel USB video camera has had games based on it for at least 4 years. There's one with a ball that you hit by, well hitting the ball. Another equally stupid game had something to do with a ribbon I think.
I really don't think the eyetoy can grab the attention of the (US) ps2 crowd very well unless sony comes up with a killer app for it. On the PC side this hasn't been gaming, but instead video conferencing. I'd pay $30-50 to be able to see family halfway across the country, but to hit a ball onscreen by waving my arm, I'd have to pass.
Anyone find it weird that of all the possible periodicals which covered this story Slashdot picked the Kansas City Star? I mean, seriously, was the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle booked?
The old games. Remember Sonic the Hedghog on the Sega Genesis? Granted there was no real "save" feature, however haflway through the levels there was the blue progress marker which when you ran through turned red and kept you there if you died.
Even the newest sonic games still have this marker, you don't have to go back all the way to the start, and its a small goal to reach for on your way to completing the whole level. However you can't just arbitrarily save every 30 seconds so that you have almost *no* penality for a death.
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Its hard to put a limit on the price of having that kind of peace of mind.
yea jewel cases are way better.
People love to over-complicate the solution to simple problems.
Or maybe they're just lucky right? 26 world series could have happened to anyone, cubs and redsox included?
And I hate the Yankees for this exact reason.
and of course, it also sucks that when your PS2 breaks you no longer have a tv tuner, dvd player or tivo. All in one appliances suck because when one breaks, they all break.
And then there's that toggle switch. Straight from Radio Shack and the cheapest looking switch I've ever seen. Talk about blowing it. It looks like they stole it off of a mixing board from the 70's.
Jeebus I wish I had mod points right now.
wow... comedy isn't your biggest strength huh?
Americans are not a Race, they're a nation, this is not racism, its Nationalism!
That's great but who are the chefs?
Could store it away for a rainy day and only use it when your network fails. Wouldn't cost much at all.
I thought you said Marky Mark
This might catch on for video conferencing, and for really young children still fascinated by seeing themselves on TV, but I know that I play video games to enter a new world, not see how crappy my living room looks on my television.
What about all the successful worms games? The randomness of the levels is what makes the game more fun, you never know what you're going to have to work with next. And you'll know that no one has played the level to death to achieve an unfair advantage.
I for one would never put personal information into a p2p app. The hassels of the p2p networks like kazaa are already pretty bad (popups, spyware, horrible coding that slows computers to a crawl). Who's to say that a Kazaa lite to get around this law won't be made? Klite is here because users are fed up with the current problems, I can't see it would stop there.
Either way, water seeks its own level and things will eventually solve themselves. Hopefully it doesn't pass, but if it does it won't mean the end of the world like the DMCA has.
I was under the impression that MD couldn't replace DAT for criticl uses because recordings tend to drift on MD. Has this been fixed? Or was this never a problem and I've just been misinformed all these years?
exactly
in this case its not about the money.
if you have e. coli on your floors the 5 second rule is the least of your worries.
I wouldn't be so mad if the damn multitaps worked at least. I've had to replace 3 multitaps over the life of my ps1 and ps2's because ports stopped working. At $30 each thats enough to almost piss me off from buying a new ps3 if it doesn't have four ports, emulation or not.
I really don't think the eyetoy can grab the attention of the (US) ps2 crowd very well unless sony comes up with a killer app for it. On the PC side this hasn't been gaming, but instead video conferencing. I'd pay $30-50 to be able to see family halfway across the country, but to hit a ball onscreen by waving my arm, I'd have to pass.
Anyone find it weird that of all the possible periodicals which covered this story Slashdot picked the Kansas City Star? I mean, seriously, was the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle booked?
Even the newest sonic games still have this marker, you don't have to go back all the way to the start, and its a small goal to reach for on your way to completing the whole level. However you can't just arbitrarily save every 30 seconds so that you have almost *no* penality for a death.
you should have applied for a patent.