Hear, Hear! I found Bastilla's voice acting to be particularly good.
The only voice that disappointed me was the Jedi Master who was the same species as Yoda. He spoke in normal sentence order instead of Yoda's trademark "Object Subject Verb" pattern. It just didn't make sense that that speech pattern was some personal affectation of Yoda's, rather than the product of the native language of the race.
As long as the PSP is mpeg compatible somehow with MP3 playback, this thing will have a thousand uses without any games.
You haven't heard? The PSP is only going to support ATRAC playback; if it 'supports' mp3s at all, it will be by transcoding them with it's authoritarian SonicStage software, and nothing more, like with their minidisc players.
As far as codecs go, Harrison mentions the ATRAC audio support of the system, but the article goes on to say that MP3 will not be supported by the system -- this is in contrast to versions of the official specs that list MP3 as a supported codec. It was always known that PSP would push Sony's proprietary ATRAC3plus audio codec, for both security and corporate reasons, but it was assumed that ATRAC would mostly be the codec for UMD Audio and downloadable content releases, so it is unknown where this will fall out in the end (a third party MP3 player would be a given if Sony doesn't provide it, and users would have to convert their previously-encoded music files to the ATRAC format, so if this is the case, we're not sure what ends Sony plans to meet by omitting the feature.)
Given that, I kind of doubt they'll support letting anyone throw any old mpeg 2 file on it for playback. It's going to be a locked, proprietary system all the way.
I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
That's rather alarmist, don't you think?
The odds that a microbe that spent the last few eons living in an arctic lake beneath several kilometers of ice would thrive and wreck havoc in a 37C human body strike me as infintesimly small. Further to that, the chances that Al Qaeda, the Tamil Tigers, or Cobra itself are going to infiltrate the artic and spirit away with these microbes are too ridiculous to entertain.
Yup, even if developing. I was evaluating some toolkits to use for some strictly-for-my-own-use apps which had to be crossplatform (between Windows XP and Linux, at least) and that took QT out of the running instantly.
Then we're all screwed. Removing the duplicates from the parent's punctuation suggestions and adding in the alphanumeric set gives a 48 character set. 48^6 = 12,230,590,464. If they're already using punctuation, this would mean that there'd be more cars than people by the end of the decade.
They want to capitilize on the name recognition of Spider Man while at the same time making a superhero that more Indians can relate to culturally.
So in their version, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are going to almost kiss each other and then spin away from each other and spend the next twenty minutes singing and dancing?
Pre-disposition to any number of diseases, neuroses, personality traits, etc, etc. In the wrong hands, that information could be used to say, deny you any and all health insurance in perpetuity, even if you never develop any of the diseases hinted at by your DNA.
He has no evidence that the University knew he was cheating three years ago. Read the article again.
What he's really saying is that, since the University didn't catch him the first time he plagarised and warn him about it, they shouldn't be allowed to punishment if they catch him at any subsquent time. This is as silly and stupid as saying that if a burglar isn't caught the first time he robs somebody, he should be free to keep on robbing people without fear of punishment, because nobody told him it was wrong after the first time he did it.
In most places, using all or part of one of your own pre-existing works without proper citation is grounds for being brought up on charges of academic dishonesty.
It pays to completely read and understand your University's academic standards.
So, as far as I see it, the regulations itself are what make the companies act as they do.
But Canada's privacy regulations are, if anything, more stringent than the equivalent US laws. So you're theory fails to account for why Canadian companies take a better (as opposed to worse, which your theory would suggest) attitude towards consumer privacy.
It's hilarious when people use that phrase. Nobody gets "convicted" of being a monopolist. It's not even illegal to be one.
The phrase "Convicted monopolist" doesn't necessarily imply that they were convicted of being a monopolist, but merely that they have both been convicted and are a monopolist. The obvious (and indeed correct) interpretation of that phrase is that they were convicted of illegaly leveraging said monopoly.
Anyway, Red Hat has their little immoral qualms as well--for instance, anyone remember the removal of the Taiwanese flag?
Oh yeah, that's totally the equivalent of years of illegal leveraging, hundreds of instances of sabotaging compatibility with a competitor, and untold volumes of FUD. Bravo, sir, for pointing out such an incredibly apt comparison.
Wow, can you believe it?? People have different standards of conduct for convicted monopolists than they have for honest companies. And they're willing to cut a company that hasn't pulled this kind of crap before more slack than a company that makes a habit of it.
But if you wish to play a game that has cutting edge technology (FarCry) & the freedom of customization (Half-Life) then playing on a windows pc is the best place for that.
Huh, now I know where to look if I want to play cutting edge technology, or freedom of customiztion. Usually, though, I just want to play fun games, so I'll stick with a console, thanks.
No, winamp supports mpeg-4 aacs, but it doesn't recognize them (for whatever reason) when they're wrapped in an mpeg4 container.
There's a download that will let winamp "see" the aac in the mp4 container.
Blame Nintendo for making the most expensive current console now that the PS2 is down to $150 and a GCN + GBA with non-defective display + cable is $210?
Give me a fucking break. "The Gamecube is more expensive than PS2 if we throw in some randomly selected periphals on the GCN side". What in the hell does that prove?
By similar (il)logic: The PS2 costs $300.00. (PS2 + Final Fantasy XI with hard drive + EyeToy). After all, you need those peripherals to play a very few selected games, just like in the case of GBA + GCN connectivity.
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Hear, Hear! I found Bastilla's voice acting to be particularly good.
The only voice that disappointed me was the Jedi Master who was the same species as Yoda. He spoke in normal sentence order instead of Yoda's trademark "Object Subject Verb" pattern. It just didn't make sense that that speech pattern was some personal affectation of Yoda's, rather than the product of the native language of the race.
As long as the PSP is mpeg compatible somehow with MP3 playback, this thing will have a thousand uses without any games.
You haven't heard? The PSP is only going to support ATRAC playback; if it 'supports' mp3s at all, it will be by transcoding them with it's authoritarian SonicStage software, and nothing more, like with their minidisc players.
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As far as codecs go, Harrison mentions the ATRAC audio support of the system, but the article goes on to say that MP3 will not be supported by the system -- this is in contrast to versions of the official specs that list MP3 as a supported codec. It was always known that PSP would push Sony's proprietary ATRAC3plus audio codec, for both security and corporate reasons, but it was assumed that ATRAC would mostly be the codec for UMD Audio and downloadable content releases, so it is unknown where this will fall out in the end (a third party MP3 player would be a given if Sony doesn't provide it, and users would have to convert their previously-encoded music files to the ATRAC format, so if this is the case, we're not sure what ends Sony plans to meet by omitting the feature.)
Given that, I kind of doubt they'll support letting anyone throw any old mpeg 2 file on it for playback. It's going to be a locked, proprietary system all the way.
I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
That's rather alarmist, don't you think?
The odds that a microbe that spent the last few eons living in an arctic lake beneath several kilometers of ice would thrive and wreck havoc in a 37C human body strike me as infintesimly small. Further to that, the chances that Al Qaeda, the Tamil Tigers, or Cobra itself are going to infiltrate the artic and spirit away with these microbes are too ridiculous to entertain.
Yup, even if developing. I was evaluating some toolkits to use for some strictly-for-my-own-use apps which had to be crossplatform (between Windows XP and Linux, at least) and that took QT out of the running instantly.
Then we're all screwed. Removing the duplicates from the parent's punctuation suggestions and adding in the alphanumeric set gives a 48 character set. 48^6 = 12,230,590,464. If they're already using punctuation, this would mean that there'd be more cars than people by the end of the decade.
I, for one, welcome our new automotive overlords.
They want to capitilize on the name recognition of Spider Man while at the same time making a superhero that more Indians can relate to culturally.
So in their version, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are going to almost kiss each other and then spin away from each other and spend the next twenty minutes singing and dancing?
Officials say that, at this time, they are unsure whether or not the Amiga is affected. Precaution is urged.
"Never tested. Sold as is."
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"Never tested. Sold as is."
"Never tested. Sold as is."
My spider-sense is tingling. I can just see the: "Oh, nothing works? Sorry, man, I never tested it. As is. Bye"
He actually has a Pippen. Did a double take, when I saw it.
What information does a DNA "fingerprint" reveal?
Pre-disposition to any number of diseases, neuroses, personality traits, etc, etc. In the wrong hands, that information could be used to say, deny you any and all health insurance in perpetuity, even if you never develop any of the diseases hinted at by your DNA.
Move to Linux == Good (insofar as it's always nice to see someone new adopt it), their other corporate practices == Bad.
This isn't hard to grasp at all, unless your mindset demands an absolutely Black and White worldview.
It's news for nerds.
If all you're after is important news, wouldn't CNN or the BBC be a better site on which to spend your time?
Such an effort is doomed to be a miserable failure.
I actually bought BeOS, I also bought OS/2 - what shall I buy next, it will fail.
Windows? Please?
He has no evidence that the University knew he was cheating three years ago. Read the article again.
What he's really saying is that, since the University didn't catch him the first time he plagarised and warn him about it, they shouldn't be allowed to punishment if they catch him at any subsquent time. This is as silly and stupid as saying that if a burglar isn't caught the first time he robs somebody, he should be free to keep on robbing people without fear of punishment, because nobody told him it was wrong after the first time he did it.
In most places, using all or part of one of your own pre-existing works without proper citation is grounds for being brought up on charges of academic dishonesty.
It pays to completely read and understand your University's academic standards.
So, as far as I see it, the regulations itself are what make the companies act as they do.
But Canada's privacy regulations are, if anything, more stringent than the equivalent US laws. So you're theory fails to account for why Canadian companies take a better (as opposed to worse, which your theory would suggest) attitude towards consumer privacy.
It's hilarious when people use that phrase. Nobody gets "convicted" of being a monopolist. It's not even illegal to be one.
The phrase "Convicted monopolist" doesn't necessarily imply that they were convicted of being a monopolist, but merely that they have both been convicted and are a monopolist. The obvious (and indeed correct) interpretation of that phrase is that they were convicted of illegaly leveraging said monopoly.
Anyway, Red Hat has their little immoral qualms as well--for instance, anyone remember the removal of the Taiwanese flag?
Oh yeah, that's totally the equivalent of years of illegal leveraging, hundreds of instances of sabotaging compatibility with a competitor, and untold volumes of FUD. Bravo, sir, for pointing out such an incredibly apt comparison.
Wow, can you believe it?? People have different standards of conduct for convicted monopolists than they have for honest companies. And they're willing to cut a company that hasn't pulled this kind of crap before more slack than a company that makes a habit of it.
How crazy is that?</sarcasm>
But if you wish to play a game that has cutting edge technology (FarCry) & the freedom of customization (Half-Life) then playing on a windows pc is the best place for that.
Huh, now I know where to look if I want to play cutting edge technology, or freedom of customiztion. Usually, though, I just want to play fun games, so I'll stick with a console, thanks.
No, winamp supports mpeg-4 aacs, but it doesn't recognize them (for whatever reason) when they're wrapped in an mpeg4 container. There's a download that will let winamp "see" the aac in the mp4 container.
Don't forget about the excellent Shogun: Total War.
This boils down to: "If we'd just stop breaking the law, our products would be cheaper".
Can you say "Co-processor that's identical to the processor in the GBA"? 'Cause that's the real answer.
Blame Nintendo for making the most expensive current console now that the PS2 is down to $150 and a GCN + GBA with non-defective display + cable is $210?
Give me a fucking break. "The Gamecube is more expensive than PS2 if we throw in some randomly selected periphals on the GCN side". What in the hell does that prove?
By similar (il)logic: The PS2 costs $300.00. (PS2 + Final Fantasy XI with hard drive + EyeToy). After all, you need those peripherals to play a very few selected games, just like in the case of GBA + GCN connectivity.