I'm not so sure about the effect of FF will have on PS3. Sure, it will sell alot of hardware for sony, but I remember square annoncing that there will be multiple versions of FF13 for nearly all platforms. The main or 'real' FF13 is still exclusive to the PS3, but if you also have multiple spin off on the wii, xbox and even ds (if I remember well), the effect it will have on sony hardware sale will not be as important as in the past generation, IMO.
For those too lazy, apparently some people over the ministry of agriculture of Japan were caught editing the Gundam page on Wikipedia while they were supposed to work. Hence the phrase "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam".
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Well, isn't that the fault of the marketing department? They know how to increase hype, and they probably got a ultra wide budget to do so.
Tell me about it. I just bough a nice pair of headphones, a pair of Grado SR80. They are 95USD / 150CND. That made sense some time ago but now it's just ridiculous. I'm all for buying from local stores but even when you factor shipping and duty charges I ended up saving about 35$ by ordering them from a US online store.
"16% of the total population" without any kind of medical insurance is already way too much. I still can't believe why the US, who is able to pour billions in their military, and even in other country's military for god sake, can't put a basic free and universal medical insurance for its people.
> The White Album is still forty-five freakin' dollars!
I still don't get why albums that are that old cost so much. The other day I tried to buy one from 1969. It was 28.99$ CND. No special booklet or anything. Just a plain old album in its cheap plastic case. Why the insane price? Obviously the artist, label, distributor and co. made (or failed to made) profit with this album. It's almost 40 years later now so I doubt you're finally gonna break even or something.
And to think you can buy an old DVD for 9.99$ or even less....
I dunno, but I was using xbmc for some years and its far from perfect, even just for a media center.
- It doesnt allow you to decode hi def video. - Contrary to what you claim, it only outputs at 480i. - It's hard to update since it's illegal to distribute in binary form, so you're stuck to deal with l33t forums and such to get one, or find the MS compiler and compile the sources (on windows). - There is alot of formats it doesnt support, like ogg, matroska video, vob subtitles, quicktime, mp4..etc - For some reasons the ftp server suck incredibly. You *really* have to be careful of the name of the file you're sending, because otherwise most of the time it will be rejected, *after all the fricking data has been transfered*.
What I would want is just a neat interface to an easily updatable mplayer, but never manage to find one.
Well yeah, I understand that the content of the dvd is scrambled. But if you do a bit to bit copy, like most burner apps let you do, you don't care if you can't make sense of those bit. You just copy them to the DVD+/-R, in their scrambled state. The result is a disc that is identical to the original, so it will play just fine in a normal DVD player. I'm pretty sure that I'm still missing something though...
The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software
What? If you have a computer with a dvd writer, surely you also have something like nero installed. Maybe I've been away from windows for too long, but I don't remember seeing some form of protection to do a 1:1 copy of a DVD. Thinking about it, that would have made sense. Is there such a protection in commercial burning application?
I remember when the big 3 was announcing their forthcoming console. The Xbox 360 press event made it to slashdot's front page. So did the PS3, while the Wii was tucked away in the game section. Forward two years from then, and it's Nintendo press conference that made it to the front page, while Sony and Microsoft are nowhere to be found. How things changes...
Well, I guess it depends of the definition of a great band. Most of the music I listen to have way more than just 2-3 good songs on their album, and I refuse to categorize most of the bands I enjoy as 'great bands'. To me, it's more like:
Good bands have, says, 75%+ of good pieces on a album, great bands are able to pull off such album on 2-3 occasions without repeating themselves too much.
You should not stop listening to a song just because the rest of the album is crap, however maybe you could try to refine a bit your taste and I'm certain you'll find plenty of new bands with a much higher ratio of good vs not very good songs on an album.
The distribution model is only relevant when big store like Walmart refuse to sell such titles. The main problem here is that console manufacturers refuse to even *licensed* those AO titles. You still need to go through Nintendo/Sony/MS in order to have your game published, online or not.
Dude, you just can't compare those numbers like that. The xbox has a x86 cpu, while the game cube has a power pc. Clock speeds are totally unrelated in this case, because a power pc can do much more per cycle than a pentium. Do you remember the gigahertz race?
The only thing that keeps me away from apple tv right now is that it doesnt have a dvd player. This is stupid. I don't want to have a standalone dvd player AND a apple tv to stream divx. It's yet another remote, another set of inputs taken behind the tv, another electronic appliance that drains electricity even when turn off...etc
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I just tried that and it didn't work. I'm (unfortunately) using Vista.
I'm not so sure about the effect of FF will have on PS3. Sure, it will sell alot of hardware for sony, but I remember square annoncing that there will be multiple versions of FF13 for nearly all platforms. The main or 'real' FF13 is still exclusive to the PS3, but if you also have multiple spin off on the wii, xbox and even ds (if I remember well), the effect it will have on sony hardware sale will not be as important as in the past generation, IMO.
There is still Metal Gear solid though...
Wow, that worked! I was in English(US), I changed to English(UK) and then switch back to US. Now I have the IMAP tab. Cool!
Boooo-urns!
...and a new one who isnt used to playing in the big leagues.We're not talking about the same Nintendo, me thinks.
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For those too lazy, apparently some people over the ministry of agriculture of Japan were caught editing the Gundam page on Wikipedia while they were supposed to work. Hence the phrase "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam".
Well, isn't that the fault of the marketing department? They know how to increase hype, and they probably got a ultra wide budget to do so.
Tell me about it. I just bough a nice pair of headphones, a pair of Grado SR80. They are 95USD / 150CND. That made sense some time ago but now it's just ridiculous. I'm all for buying from local stores but even when you factor shipping and duty charges I ended up saving about 35$ by ordering them from a US online store.
Wow. You made an italic dot!
"16% of the total population" without any kind of medical insurance is already way too much. I still can't believe why the US, who is able to pour billions in their military, and even in other country's military for god sake, can't put a basic free and universal medical insurance for its people.
> The White Album is still forty-five freakin' dollars!
I still don't get why albums that are that old cost so much. The other day I tried to buy one from 1969. It was 28.99$ CND. No special booklet or anything. Just a plain old album in its cheap plastic case. Why the insane price? Obviously the artist, label, distributor and co. made (or failed to made) profit with this album. It's almost 40 years later now so I doubt you're finally gonna break even or something.
And to think you can buy an old DVD for 9.99$ or even less....
I dunno, but I was using xbmc for some years and its far from perfect, even just for a media center.
- It doesnt allow you to decode hi def video.
- Contrary to what you claim, it only outputs at 480i.
- It's hard to update since it's illegal to distribute in binary form, so you're stuck to deal with l33t forums and such to get one, or find the MS compiler and compile the sources (on windows).
- There is alot of formats it doesnt support, like ogg, matroska video, vob subtitles, quicktime, mp4..etc
- For some reasons the ftp server suck incredibly. You *really* have to be careful of the name of the file you're sending, because otherwise most of the time it will be rejected, *after all the fricking data has been transfered*.
What I would want is just a neat interface to an easily updatable mplayer, but never manage to find one.
Click that magical little read more link below to continue the thought.
No no no no. That's sooo web 1.0. Now we say after the jump! You're so out of touch with the current trends of the blogosphere!
Same here.
Haaa. That explains it. Thanks!
Well yeah, I understand that the content of the dvd is scrambled. But if you do a bit to bit copy, like most burner apps let you do, you don't care if you can't make sense of those bit. You just copy them to the DVD+/-R, in their scrambled state. The result is a disc that is identical to the original, so it will play just fine in a normal DVD player. I'm pretty sure that I'm still missing something though...
The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software
What? If you have a computer with a dvd writer, surely you also have something like nero installed. Maybe I've been away from windows for too long, but I don't remember seeing some form of protection to do a 1:1 copy of a DVD. Thinking about it, that would have made sense. Is there such a protection in commercial burning application?
I remember when the big 3 was announcing their forthcoming console. The Xbox 360 press event made it to slashdot's front page. So did the PS3, while the Wii was tucked away in the game section. Forward two years from then, and it's Nintendo press conference that made it to the front page, while Sony and Microsoft are nowhere to be found. How things changes...
Well, I guess it depends of the definition of a great band. Most of the music I listen to have way more than just 2-3 good songs on their album, and I refuse to categorize most of the bands I enjoy as 'great bands'. To me, it's more like:
Good bands have, says, 75%+ of good pieces on a album, great bands are able to pull off such album on 2-3 occasions without repeating themselves too much.
You should not stop listening to a song just because the rest of the album is crap, however maybe you could try to refine a bit your taste and I'm certain you'll find plenty of new bands with a much higher ratio of good vs not very good songs on an album.
The distribution model is only relevant when big store like Walmart refuse to sell such titles. The main problem here is that console manufacturers refuse to even *licensed* those AO titles. You still need to go through Nintendo/Sony/MS in order to have your game published, online or not.
The dev kits are about 2000$. It's just that they're not available to the general public.
That's GH3. You're talking about the 80s version (witch I think is just GH2 with new songs). Yes, they found a real cow cash.
99% of the people who didn't played this game yet are STILL unable to see that this is a GAME we're talking about.
Dude, you just can't compare those numbers like that. The xbox has a x86 cpu, while the game cube has a power pc. Clock speeds are totally unrelated in this case, because a power pc can do much more per cycle than a pentium. Do you remember the gigahertz race?
The only thing that keeps me away from apple tv right now is that it doesnt have a dvd player. This is stupid. I don't want to have a standalone dvd player AND a apple tv to stream divx. It's yet another remote, another set of inputs taken behind the tv, another electronic appliance that drains electricity even when turn off...etc