"If they have only copied the ideas, but used original artwork etc., then that is an entirely different situation. For example, storylines are not inherently subject to copyright, which is lucky for every "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" romance author."
Hey pal, this is Slashdot. It goes more like "boy downloads girl, boy faps off to girl, boy deletes girl" round these parts.
A few of the popular games? It supports practically every single popular game ever made for the Xbox! I don't think anyone outside Japan (where the Xbox sold dismally) can list more than 5 popular Xbox titles that don't run on the 360. I looked through that list and couldn't find any at all that I played that aren't currently supported.
As for whether or not the machines are powerful enough, don't forget the PS3 is much more powerful than the 360 (though it lacks memory, but which still more than enough to emulate the PS2). If the 360 can emulate the most complex Xbox games, there's no reason the PS3 can't emulate the rather basic PS2, especially since emulators on the PC can already emulate the PS2 quite well. But as for the Xbox, all the emulators can run a grand total of TWO GAMES! Which does give us a good idea of what's possible and what isn't.
Nope. Total control over the machine is what matters most to MS and Sony. Piracy may even have helped sales, every year everyone that gets banned buys a new console.. but Microsoft makes billions of dollars with very little production costs with Live. If everyone's machine was JTAG'd, M$ would really be pissed.
Notice how the JTAG exploit was patched before it was released, by blowing efuses. Meanwhile every single version of the 360's optical drives has been hacked to play backups.. even the slim / s / 250. If Microsoft wanted to stop that, they could have paid $3 more for the DVD mobo's to have non-writable firmware... stopping the piracy instantly.
Control over the core system is what matters. Once that is lost, hackers can do anything they want, and that is what scares MS and Sony the most.
A 100% software emulator to run PS2 software on the PS3 is entirely possible. The Xbox 1 is a much more powerful system than the PS2, and the Xbox 360 (which is inferior to the PS3) can emulate it perfectly, all in software. So it's only a matter of time before a PS2 emulator appears on the PS3.
The funny thing about this is Sony has recently patented a hardware PS2 addon for the PS3.. if/when the homebrew scene releases a PS2 emulator, Sony is going to look very stupid....and greedy to almost every PS3 owner in the world!
I never purchased a CD, simply because I never thought it was worth the money. But once I could download for free, I did. If I had to pay money for music I wouldn't, I'd just go without, the way I did before there was a free alternative. No 'lost sales' from me. Not one.
That's not entirely true. Simply install GeckOs onto the Wii, insert the disc with the needed update files, and GeckOS will install just the needed IOS files, nothing more. You can then run the game just as if you'd fully updated your system.
I'm still on 3.2 and every single game works, even the ones 'requiring' a system update.
....the more power they have in influencing government policy and society's attitudes towards [insert controversial issue here]. The lobbyists already own Congress.
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran.
..for me at least.
I couldn't play for more than 5 minutes without it crashing fully. I tried the patches, I tried different gfx drivers, sound drivers, even a 2nd computer.
It crashed EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
Then I got a PS2 and it hasn't crashed once. I haven't looked back since. I loved computer gaming since my VIC-20 and C-64 days.. and never had a console then. But it's just too much a task to get PC games running. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME and not spend hours troubleshooting.
Will they kick out students simply because the MAFIAA sent them a strongly worded letter? It would be the simplest and cheapest thing for them to do, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Even if they are 'guilty'.. what if someone downloaded a ROM of a NES game he has in his basement at home? A track from a CD that doesn't play anymore? A no-cd patch for a game so he can play it on his laptop wherever he goes? According to their draconian proposal, all of these would mean you are cut off from the internet.. forever. Is it me or is that f&*king crazy?
A University should be fighting the powers that be, not aiding and abetting them.
"P2P file sharing isn't just about stealing music and movies. What if I have a legitimate use for it?"
Why are they perpetuating the myth that copyright infringement is stealing? Being a university, you'd think they'd have a bit of a clue.. at least their law department should make them aware of the facts, not the MAFIAA spin.
Are those pro-muslim quotes from google, the same site that claims anything anti-muslim is racist?
Google dumps news sites that criticize
radical Islam
Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a
number of
online news publications that include frank discussions of radical
Islam - the
New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just
discovered.
Frank Salvato, who began the agreement with Google News last September,
said he
received a reply from the company's help desk indicating there had been
complaints of "hate speech" on his site, as first reported by media
watchdog
Newsbusters.org.
Newsbusters says it has observed a pattern of intolerance toward
conservative
sites that deal with radical Islam and terrorism.
Rusty Shackleford, owner of The Jawa Report, received a similar e-mail
message
March 29 informing him: "Upon recent review, we've found that your site
contains
hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News."
Two weeks later, Jim Sesi's MichNews.com was cut off, with Google
providing
three examples of "hate speech" by conservative writer J. Grant Swank,
Jr.
Newsbusters commented: "At first blush, one can easily ignore such
business
decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being
routine.
However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively
small
technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce)
a degree
of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess."
The media watchdog noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in
February
2005 her difficulties in becoming part of Google News. Charles Johnson
of Little
Green Footballs had a similar complaint.
When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its
mission was
to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using
new
methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide.
According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all
searches
conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google.
Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has
received
other complaints of liberal bias.
Last June, a conservative book publisher said Google rejected his ad
for a book
critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept
anti-Bush themes.
Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The
Women
Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without further
explanation, due
to "unacceptable content."
As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google
employees went
to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior
adviser
to Google.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to
Democratic
presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard
Dean.
Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role
in
helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the
new book.
In May 2005, Google rejected an attempt by the conservative activist
group
RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
while
continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay,
R-Texas.
Also, Google agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have
the search
engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy."
In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision to
rank news
articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement
to large
and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over
conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent.
thought so.. fucking idiot.
Google dumps news sites that criticize
radical Islam
Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a
number of
online news publications that include frank discussions of radical
Islam - the
New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just
discovered.
Frank Salvato, who began the agreement with Google News last September,
said he
received a reply from the company's help desk indicating there had been
complaints of "hate speech" on his site, as first reported by media
watchdog
Newsbusters.org.
Newsbusters says it has observed a pattern of intolerance toward
conservative
sites that deal with radical Islam and terrorism.
Rusty Shackleford, owner of The Jawa Report, received a similar e-mail
message
March 29 informing him: "Upon recent review, we've found that your site
contains
hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News."
Two weeks later, Jim Sesi's MichNews.com was cut off, with Google
providing
three examples of "hate speech" by conservative writer J. Grant Swank,
Jr.
Newsbusters commented: "At first blush, one can easily ignore such
business
decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being
routine.
However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively
small
technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce)
a degree
of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess."
The media watchdog noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in
February
2005 her difficulties in becoming part of Google News. Charles Johnson
of Little
Green Footballs had a similar complaint.
When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its
mission was
to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using
new
methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide.
According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all
searches
conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google.
Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has
received
other complaints of liberal bias.
Last June, a conservative book publisher said Google rejected his ad
for a book
critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept
anti-Bush themes.
Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The
Women
Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without further
explanation, due
to "unacceptable content."
As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google
employees went
to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior
adviser
to Google.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to
Democratic
presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard
Dean.
Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role
in
helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the
new book.
In May 2005, Google rejected an attempt by the conservative activist
group
RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
while
continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom
DeLay,
R-Texas.
Also, Google agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have
the search
engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy."
In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision to
rank news
articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement
to large
and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over
conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent.
Full Article
Back to Top
- --- Group News Mmmm sorta summer break for the game world. Everyones too concerned with next gen. P.S. to slashdot/theinquerir(douches) - "Local Memory" is the RSX memory, and the CPU shouldn't be reading from this directly at all. Idiots. Legacy, Loyalty, Love and Respect. FUCK THE REST. - Fox Unit 2006 (aka The Joy & The Sorrow) Old friendships never die. Remember that.
Err.. wouldnt it make more sense for them to download a decent quality copy off the net and mass duplicate that? For new releases they could just record the Malay soundtrack from the cinema and use VirtuaDub to add it to the decent copy. Whats their obsession with using analog sources?
"Perhaps the rest of the PC industry could counter this rise of the console by designing a standard PC spec for gaming. First create a few simple categories. I suggest "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 1, 2 and 3". In each category spec out three of four machines (eg one amd with a nvidia, one intel with nvidia, etc) built with decent components. Level 1 machines have top of the range components, level 2 is where most people will be, level 3 is entry gaming. The games publishers could just test their game against these machines specs and get a tick in the "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 2 Compatible" (or whatever) box."
Thats actually a brilliant idea. I'm going to do it.. I'll be rich, bitch. See you when I drive past you in my limo, sucker!
If the xbox 360 can have half the amount of original games that the Dreamcast had, I'm getting one.
And yes, even though I hate Microsoft, Sony has become the new Evil. DRM on *everything* seems to be their goal, and the PS3 will be the ultimate foot-in-the door in their quest to lock down all things digital.
At the risk of being modded redundant, please stop buying Sony products, and get your family and friends to do the same. They are an evil company who are now betting the farm on the PS3/Blu Ray combo. Make that a failure and Sony will collapse.
I wonder how long it would take Microsoft if this happened to them. What? Theres already dozens of known exploits for the worlds #1 browser, and the multi billion dollar company behind it doesnt do anything about it?
" Off hand, i'd say a lot? Ayu, Hikki, all the idol singers, etc have a large circulation. Not to mention cpop and kpop like BoA with followings all over. "
What you fail to mention is that all these acts copy exactly what the NA crap machine spewed out 6 months ago. Whatever Britney does, expect the local manufactured singer/band to do, albeit a few months later. Same shit, different smell.
That said, BT p2p downloads in these countries (ie not corporate-driven ones like iTunes) pretty much have an equal number of local and foreign content. If its in the top 20 of either the US or the country in question, the sheep will be downloading the garbage that passes for popular music in equal amounts. I know this because I have done surveys in this area.
Modern popular music is at its lowest point in history.
Slashdot Mirror
"If they have only copied the ideas, but used original artwork etc., then that is an entirely different situation. For example, storylines are not inherently subject to copyright, which is lucky for every "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" romance author."
Hey pal, this is Slashdot. It goes more like "boy downloads girl, boy faps off to girl, boy deletes girl" round these parts.
A few of the popular games? It supports practically every single popular game ever made for the Xbox! I don't think anyone outside Japan (where the Xbox sold dismally) can list more than 5 popular Xbox titles that don't run on the 360. I looked through that list and couldn't find any at all that I played that aren't currently supported.
As for whether or not the machines are powerful enough, don't forget the PS3 is much more powerful than the 360 (though it lacks memory, but which still more than enough to emulate the PS2). If the 360 can emulate the most complex Xbox games, there's no reason the PS3 can't emulate the rather basic PS2, especially since emulators on the PC can already emulate the PS2 quite well. But as for the Xbox, all the emulators can run a grand total of TWO GAMES! Which does give us a good idea of what's possible and what isn't.
Nope. Total control over the machine is what matters most to MS and Sony. Piracy may even have helped sales, every year everyone that gets banned buys a new console.. but Microsoft makes billions of dollars with very little production costs with Live. If everyone's machine was JTAG'd, M$ would really be pissed.
Notice how the JTAG exploit was patched before it was released, by blowing efuses. Meanwhile every single version of the 360's optical drives has been hacked to play backups.. even the slim / s / 250. If Microsoft wanted to stop that, they could have paid $3 more for the DVD mobo's to have non-writable firmware... stopping the piracy instantly.
Control over the core system is what matters. Once that is lost, hackers can do anything they want, and that is what scares MS and Sony the most.
A 100% software emulator to run PS2 software on the PS3 is entirely possible. The Xbox 1 is a much more powerful system than the PS2, and the Xbox 360 (which is inferior to the PS3) can emulate it perfectly, all in software. So it's only a matter of time before a PS2 emulator appears on the PS3.
The funny thing about this is Sony has recently patented a hardware PS2 addon for the PS3.. if/when the homebrew scene releases a PS2 emulator, Sony is going to look very stupid....and greedy to almost every PS3 owner in the world!
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=264597
I never purchased a CD, simply because I never thought it was worth the money. But once I could download for free, I did. If I had to pay money for music I wouldn't, I'd just go without, the way I did before there was a free alternative. No 'lost sales' from me. Not one.
That's not entirely true. Simply install GeckOs onto the Wii, insert the disc with the needed update files, and GeckOS will install just the needed IOS files, nothing more. You can then run the game just as if you'd fully updated your system.
I'm still on 3.2 and every single game works, even the ones 'requiring' a system update.
....the more power they have in influencing government policy and society's attitudes towards [insert controversial issue here]. The lobbyists already own Congress.
This is a Bad Thing.
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23371706-details/Yes,%20we%20are%20biased%20on%20religion%20and%20politics,%20admit%20BBC%20executives/article.do
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html
And straight from the horses mouth:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6763205.stm
..for me at least. I couldn't play for more than 5 minutes without it crashing fully. I tried the patches, I tried different gfx drivers, sound drivers, even a 2nd computer. It crashed EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Then I got a PS2 and it hasn't crashed once. I haven't looked back since. I loved computer gaming since my VIC-20 and C-64 days.. and never had a console then. But it's just too much a task to get PC games running. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME and not spend hours troubleshooting.
Will they kick out students simply because the MAFIAA sent them a strongly worded letter? It would be the simplest and cheapest thing for them to do, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Even if they are 'guilty'.. what if someone downloaded a ROM of a NES game he has in his basement at home? A track from a CD that doesn't play anymore? A no-cd patch for a game so he can play it on his laptop wherever he goes? According to their draconian proposal, all of these would mean you are cut off from the internet.. forever. Is it me or is that f&*king crazy?
A University should be fighting the powers that be, not aiding and abetting them.
From the OU FAQ:
"P2P file sharing isn't just about stealing music and movies. What if I have a legitimate use for it?"
Why are they perpetuating the myth that copyright infringement is stealing? Being a university, you'd think they'd have a bit of a clue.. at least their law department should make them aware of the facts, not the MAFIAA spin.
Are those pro-muslim quotes from google, the same site that claims anything anti-muslim is racist? Google dumps news sites that criticize radical Islam Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a number of online news publications that include frank discussions of radical Islam - the New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just discovered. Frank Salvato, who began the agreement with Google News last September, said he received a reply from the company's help desk indicating there had been complaints of "hate speech" on his site, as first reported by media watchdog Newsbusters.org. Newsbusters says it has observed a pattern of intolerance toward conservative sites that deal with radical Islam and terrorism. Rusty Shackleford, owner of The Jawa Report, received a similar e-mail message March 29 informing him: "Upon recent review, we've found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News." Two weeks later, Jim Sesi's MichNews.com was cut off, with Google providing three examples of "hate speech" by conservative writer J. Grant Swank, Jr. Newsbusters commented: "At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce) a degree of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess." The media watchdog noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in February 2005 her difficulties in becoming part of Google News. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs had a similar complaint. When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its mission was to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using new methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide. According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google. Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has received other complaints of liberal bias. Last June, a conservative book publisher said Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes. Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without further explanation, due to "unacceptable content." As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean. Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role in helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the new book. In May 2005, Google rejected an attempt by the conservative activist group RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Also, Google agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision to rank news articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement to large and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent. thought so.. fucking idiot.
Google dumps news sites that criticize radical Islam Search engine giant Google has cut off its news relationship with a number of online news publications that include frank discussions of radical Islam - the New Media Journal becoming the latest termination, as its owner just discovered. Frank Salvato, who began the agreement with Google News last September, said he received a reply from the company's help desk indicating there had been complaints of "hate speech" on his site, as first reported by media watchdog Newsbusters.org. Newsbusters says it has observed a pattern of intolerance toward conservative sites that deal with radical Islam and terrorism. Rusty Shackleford, owner of The Jawa Report, received a similar e-mail message March 29 informing him: "Upon recent review, we've found that your site contains hate speech, and we will no longer be including it in Google News." Two weeks later, Jim Sesi's MichNews.com was cut off, with Google providing three examples of "hate speech" by conservative writer J. Grant Swank, Jr. Newsbusters commented: "At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce) a degree of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess." The media watchdog noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in February 2005 her difficulties in becoming part of Google News. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs had a similar complaint. When Google News launched its beta site in April 2002, it said its mission was to construct an unbiased news engine free of human intervention using new methods of aggregating news from sources worldwide. According to the April Nielsen/NetRatings report, 49 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. in March 2006 were carried out on Google. Along with the dropping of conservative news providers, Google has received other complaints of liberal bias. Last June, a conservative book publisher said Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes. Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without further explanation, due to "unacceptable content." As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean. Schmidt also contributed the maximum amount to Sen. Clinton, whose role in helping her husband intimidate his female accusers is addressed in the new book. In May 2005, Google rejected an attempt by the conservative activist group RightMarch.com to run ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Also, Google agreed to allow the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision to rank news articles in search results by "quality," giving preferential placement to large and predominately liberal media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over conservative news sources, even if they are more recent or pertinent. Full Article Back to Top
- --- Group News
Mmmm sorta summer break for the game world. Everyones too concerned
with next gen. P.S. to slashdot/theinquerir(douches) - "Local Memory"
is the RSX memory, and the CPU shouldn't be reading from this directly
at all. Idiots.
Legacy, Loyalty, Love and Respect. FUCK THE REST.
- Fox Unit 2006 (aka The Joy & The Sorrow)
Old friendships never die. Remember that.
theinquerir? 8)
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3467288
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2005/11/22/21h 17m54s
Err.. wouldnt it make more sense for them to download a decent quality copy off the net and mass duplicate that? For new releases they could just record the Malay soundtrack from the cinema and use VirtuaDub to add it to the decent copy. Whats their obsession with using analog sources?
..they'd do a quick background check on all potential defendants, costing them thousands but saving them millions worth of bad PR. Idiots.
"Perhaps the rest of the PC industry could counter this rise of the console by designing a standard PC spec for gaming. First create a few simple categories. I suggest "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 1, 2 and 3". In each category spec out three of four machines (eg one amd with a nvidia, one intel with nvidia, etc) built with decent components. Level 1 machines have top of the range components, level 2 is where most people will be, level 3 is entry gaming. The games publishers could just test their game against these machines specs and get a tick in the "PC Gaming Machine 2005 Level 2 Compatible" (or whatever) box."
Thats actually a brilliant idea. I'm going to do it.. I'll be rich, bitch. See you when I drive past you in my limo, sucker!
Best. Console. Ever.
If the xbox 360 can have half the amount of original games that the Dreamcast had, I'm getting one.
And yes, even though I hate Microsoft, Sony has become the new Evil. DRM on *everything* seems to be their goal, and the PS3 will be the ultimate foot-in-the door in their quest to lock down all things digital.
Blu-Ray. Just say no!
At the risk of being modded redundant, please stop buying Sony products, and get your family and friends to do the same. They are an evil company who are now betting the farm on the PS3/Blu Ray combo. Make that a failure and Sony will collapse.
You're on!
On a totally unrelated note, this is the EULA for this post:
I'll give $5 to anyone who can fix this Mozilla exploit within a week. And here's the catch: whoever can't has to give *me* the $5.
How can I possibly lose! EULA's rule! 8)
within a week.
I wonder how long it would take Microsoft if this happened to them. What? Theres already dozens of known exploits for the worlds #1 browser, and the multi billion dollar company behind it doesnt do anything about it?
Impossible.
As an Asian person myself, with many many asian friends, I can't honestly, truthfully, and accurately tell you that you don't know shiiiiitt.
The original poster is correct. North American content is NOT popular around the world, as many Americans would like to believe (and I'm one of them).
And no they are NOT copies. God, grow up!"
NOT copies? Thats funny dude! Look at the Britney clones, the hip-hop clones and most laughably the gangsta clones. Not much else left, is there?
You obviously dont know shiiiit, and bringing race into the matter is juvenile.
" Off hand, i'd say a lot? Ayu, Hikki, all the idol singers, etc have a large circulation. Not to mention cpop and kpop like BoA with followings all over. "
What you fail to mention is that all these acts copy exactly what the NA crap machine spewed out 6 months ago. Whatever Britney does, expect the local manufactured singer/band to do, albeit a few months later. Same shit, different smell.
That said, BT p2p downloads in these countries (ie not corporate-driven ones like iTunes) pretty much have an equal number of local and foreign content. If its in the top 20 of either the US or the country in question, the sheep will be downloading the garbage that passes for popular music in equal amounts. I know this because I have done surveys in this area.
Modern popular music is at its lowest point in history.