"The Sims, the most popular personal computer game ever... is one of the few titles... to strike a chord with... gay men"
haha, i did not know gay men needed special computer games. someone prove this journalist a generalising t00l* and tell me their gay friends are playing Doom3 like everyone else?
*is that in the leet dictionary, i don't know sorry.
Say what? this has gone OT but i have to point out: nobody talks like that, you pick a bitrate and let the encoder (if it's any good) choose joint-stereo or whatever form of channel coupling it wants to give the best perceptable quality for the bitrate. 320kbps per channel would be impossible on anything more than mono material as it takes you over the limit (unless you want freeform MP3s, which nothing is guaranteed to decode). No wonder you were confused, read some of the content here.
yes, i haven't RTFA so i trust you're not making this up. i'll just say, if he thinks WMP is that fantastic and controllable, who wants to be around when someone shows him foobar. i think his head just might explode.
Blade Runner didn't do anything for me either the first time i watched it. it was a let down after all the hype i'd heard (this was the director's cut, 4 years ago). then i watched it again, sure i'd missed something. liked it more. since then i've watched it a couple more times, maybe more. there aren't many films that i can watch more than once. there's even fewer that i enjoy more each time i see them. i swear, someone is sneaking extra scenes into my Blade Runner DVD. it's genuinely spooky. (i'm not even a big fan of Sci-Fi, but this one gets me every time).
Aliens was a terrible action movie directed by James Cameron (he of Titanic cheesiness.. hrm bad pun ok). Alien was a fine sci-fi/horror (mostly haunted-house IMHO & just happened to be set in space with beautiful creature design) movie directed by Ridley Scott (he of Blade Runner classiness).
So i'm having to disagree with you there. having watched both films back to back recently (didn't bother with the rest of the series). or maybe you didn't mean to add that 's'?
Sorry, I just don't understand why the sequel consistently seems to rate higher with the general public..
roger that. i recently decided to avoid risking my arse and unshared any RIAA-label stuff (using 'RIAA-radar'). i only had to unshare a few folders. So i've moved away from big label music without even realising it.. just by expanding my taste. true story.
but seriously, agreed of course, this is not cool. in fact the only word i know to describe it would be (don't hit me!) gay. just look at the hand in that picture.
"and then hot glued shiny beads to the outside."
yes.. that says it all really. clearly a tech, not a fashion designer. too large, too much gold painted plastic. imho. (also the screen would get scratched to hell wouldn't it?) or was this supposed to be a joke and it's too early in the morning..
maybe it'll take fuel cells? (it won't, but it's something to get thinking about. energy density wise. and no i didn't RTFA. i was going to make the same joke but you got there first, bastard;)/also a GBA owner and Ninty fan 4-ever.
i also like how they've curved the stereo speakers towards you, and the control pad away. very natural, very classy. i'm actually starting to feel iwantoneofthose, which i wasn't from the e3 design. guess it proves looks do matter, after all:/ but it's a functional aesthetic aswell, i guess.
"Nintendo has announced the final name of their Nintendo DS handheld, and it will be called... Nintendo DS."
thanks Ravi, thanks Slashdot. i'd be lost without you. (sorry, i must be the only person who thought this was funny. maybe there was some irony in there, or even a changed letter, but i missed it).
disgusted. you are disgusted. i make this mistake all the time:/
agree about the leet speak.
i came very very close the other day to falling for a fake eBay "your account has been hacked, verify your account details" type scam. it was brilliant, no typos, perfect grammar, good layout, and most of all: i was tired when i got it. felt like a right plonker for even believing it for a second. now i have a lot more sympathy for people who fall for these things. thank god i did check the url.
i just installed AvP2 for the PC*, and it has a 'disable logos' option on the startup screen. which does exactly what it says, and is stored in the registry. ah what sweet sweet love i feel for the developers. i might even get round to playing it one day:)
*yeah i'm a few years behind in my gaming.
if a game does something as stupid as what it sounds like Thief 3: Deadly Shadows is doing, i'd just refuse to play it. seriously.
i had the opposite experience. my Sony monitor wouldn't power up (error code), and was out of warranty. it would be expensive for them to collect, and they'd only warranty it for x months after (where x equals 1 IIRC). long story short, after much discussion of what could be wrong the guy gave me the part number of the thing that was likely broken inside it and a place where i could order it (it cost something like a fiver). i never followed it up, being lazy, but i thought that was good service, from a big company like Sony.
gotta disagree with your there mate. i with they'd put optical media in caddies from the start. the number of discs i've had damaged by poeple.. of course that's considered good for the industry isn't it? for travel i see your point, but my dvd collection doesn't travel, and if it did, i'd rip them to whatever device i was carrying.
eh? i'm no expert on HD-DVD, but won't monitors be the only thing most people have that *is* capable of showing the full resolution of HD content? i'm confused. even an average monitor today can do 1280x1024, most people only have TVs with about 625 lines if you're lucky (here in England). If i'm right MS' decision makes perfect sense though.. they leverage their position and people need no extra hardware other than the drive (at pretty minimal extra cost).
hehe, i just had a Maxtor drive fail at 2 years 11 months.. and be very efficiently replaced by Maxtor Ireland, only had to pay shipping (one way). no real point to make, i just wanted people to know it does happen, things do sometimes break just before the warranty ends:).
Also i had an IBM SCSI with a 5 year warranty fail, and they wouldn't replace it because it was OEM. and the supplier never told me. just watch out for that one. im still bitter. that 4GB drive cost over £700 (about $1500), embarrasingly enough. so i got a replacement on house insurance, but still - i never spend that much on things now, then whatever happens, i'm ok..
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haha, i did not know gay men needed special computer games. someone prove this journalist a generalising t00l* and tell me their gay friends are playing Doom3 like everyone else?
*is that in the leet dictionary, i don't know sorry.
for when your particle collider needs that little push over the cliff..
come on, he knows how to do it, he knows Wal-Mart rather well, he posted anon.. it's got to be him!
call the cops. ha, he shouldn't have posted to /., we're too smart for him.
Say what? this has gone OT but i have to point out: nobody talks like that, you pick a bitrate and let the encoder (if it's any good) choose joint-stereo or whatever form of channel coupling it wants to give the best perceptable quality for the bitrate. 320kbps per channel would be impossible on anything more than mono material as it takes you over the limit (unless you want freeform MP3s, which nothing is guaranteed to decode). No wonder you were confused, read some of the content here.
yes, i haven't RTFA so i trust you're not making this up. i'll just say, if he thinks WMP is that fantastic and controllable, who wants to be around when someone shows him foobar. i think his head just might explode.
supertankers are very slow. they have very bad latency. and do these DVDs have cases? :p
chalk up a third person who thinks this is a non-story.
but now isn't there an equal 3-way split between groupthinksthis, groupthinksthat and groupagreesthereisanequalsplitbetweenthisandthat.
now if anyone agrees with this, there'll be even less people to support openoffice :o
Blade Runner didn't do anything for me either the first time i watched it. it was a let down after all the hype i'd heard (this was the director's cut, 4 years ago). then i watched it again, sure i'd missed something. liked it more. since then i've watched it a couple more times, maybe more. there aren't many films that i can watch more than once. there's even fewer that i enjoy more each time i see them. i swear, someone is sneaking extra scenes into my Blade Runner DVD. it's genuinely spooky. (i'm not even a big fan of Sci-Fi, but this one gets me every time).
So i'm having to disagree with you there. having watched both films back to back recently (didn't bother with the rest of the series). or maybe you didn't mean to add that 's'?
Sorry, I just don't understand why the sequel consistently seems to rate higher with the general public..
because he doesn't like music. it's a lack of empathy. Personally, i love the stuff, and couldn't do without it.
you forgot the 1GB of ethernet.
roger that. i recently decided to avoid risking my arse and unshared any RIAA-label stuff (using 'RIAA-radar'). i only had to unshare a few folders. So i've moved away from big label music without even realising it.. just by expanding my taste. true story.
"and then hot glued shiny beads to the outside."
yes.. that says it all really. clearly a tech, not a fashion designer. too large, too much gold painted plastic. imho. (also the screen would get scratched to hell wouldn't it?) or was this supposed to be a joke and it's too early in the morning..
maybe it'll take fuel cells? (it won't, but it's something to get thinking about. energy density wise. and no i didn't RTFA. i was going to make the same joke but you got there first, bastard ;) /also a GBA owner and Ninty fan 4-ever.
i was going to crack a similar one but i won't make myself redundant..
i also like how they've curved the stereo speakers towards you, and the control pad away. very natural, very classy. i'm actually starting to feel iwantoneofthose, which i wasn't from the e3 design. guess it proves looks do matter, after all :/ but it's a functional aesthetic aswell, i guess.
thanks Ravi, thanks Slashdot. i'd be lost without you.
(sorry, i must be the only person who thought this was funny. maybe there was some irony in there, or even a changed letter, but i missed it).
great story! yay for nintendo! i'll buy me a DS!
disgusted. you are disgusted. i make this mistake all the time :/
agree about the leet speak.
i came very very close the other day to falling for a fake eBay "your account has been hacked, verify your account details" type scam. it was brilliant, no typos, perfect grammar, good layout, and most of all: i was tired when i got it. felt like a right plonker for even believing it for a second. now i have a lot more sympathy for people who fall for these things. thank god i did check the url.
lol. i've never played an "mmorpg". don't think i'll start.
*yeah i'm a few years behind in my gaming.
if a game does something as stupid as what it sounds like Thief 3: Deadly Shadows is doing, i'd just refuse to play it. seriously.
i had the opposite experience. my Sony monitor wouldn't power up (error code), and was out of warranty. it would be expensive for them to collect, and they'd only warranty it for x months after (where x equals 1 IIRC). long story short, after much discussion of what could be wrong the guy gave me the part number of the thing that was likely broken inside it and a place where i could order it (it cost something like a fiver). i never followed it up, being lazy, but i thought that was good service, from a big company like Sony.
gotta disagree with your there mate. i with they'd put optical media in caddies from the start. the number of discs i've had damaged by poeple.. of course that's considered good for the industry isn't it? for travel i see your point, but my dvd collection doesn't travel, and if it did, i'd rip them to whatever device i was carrying.
eh? i'm no expert on HD-DVD, but won't monitors be the only thing most people have that *is* capable of showing the full resolution of HD content? i'm confused. even an average monitor today can do 1280x1024, most people only have TVs with about 625 lines if you're lucky (here in England). If i'm right MS' decision makes perfect sense though.. they leverage their position and people need no extra hardware other than the drive (at pretty minimal extra cost).
Also i had an IBM SCSI with a 5 year warranty fail, and they wouldn't replace it because it was OEM. and the supplier never told me. just watch out for that one. im still bitter. that 4GB drive cost over £700 (about $1500), embarrasingly enough. so i got a replacement on house insurance, but still - i never spend that much on things now, then whatever happens, i'm ok..