I agree completely, we should buy all our games, notice how I mentioned I was buying all my titles? I just felt the ease of piracy is one of the main reason for Sony's harware sales dominance. Call me devil's advocate.
IMHO was not using a game storage format you can easily copy with common PC hardware. While I had nintendo consoles, and paid for all my titles, all my friends bought Sony consoles, put on an eye patch and cried "arrrggghh mateyy!"
Wii has another strange storage format, so I rekon they havent learnt from thier biggest mistake with the Gamecube / N64.
Well I bought a brand new boxed PSOne in Kmart no more than 6 months ago for $39.95 AUD. *pre-empting ignorant reply mode* It was in a central Sydney store, not a back water country town.
Even DURING the rise of the NES everyone I knew that had already got themselves C64s or another 8 bit home computer was happy with that system for gaming, and was therefore not interested in getting a NES too.
The C64 for example had some fine arcade style games, that were more than enough for an arcade fix when you didnt have enough money for a day at the arcades.
$114.99 AUD for "Harry Potter and the order of the pheonix"?
I bought the big hardback version of the book for $24 AUD at K-Mart.
Oh and only $434 AUD for the whole set!
I understand that they are long files, and audiobook on cassette or cd is a big box of media, but WE have to pay for the bandwidth to download these big files, and in Australia we have small download limits because of our monopolised Communications Industry. Some plans here have.14c per MB downloads.
Some friends of mine made their own mp3 players back in 1999, again using a mint's tin and some bits from radio shack.
I think they might have read about it on slashdot.... sheesh talk about old news. I've moved on to matchbox beowulf clusters.
For those of you not lucky enough to get today tonight, get your cutting edge current affairs (and latest ufo sightings) from an equivalent US service
here: www.nationalenquirer.com
I agree, and if his site is so usable, why is it full width plain text? My 1600x1200 res browser window means Ive got one paragraph to one line.
Surely it's an important usability fundamental to not have stringy text stretched across wide expanse of white page?
Thank you. Oh and while they're ditching the over-the-top guis, can they ditch the frantic one handed random key slapping (while looking the other way) in an emergency situation?
It's hard to imagine how 30 secs of random keypresses on ANY computer interface could help stop a reactor leak:)
How to double you floppy capacity, a do-it-yourself guide:
1. Ok, *gently* squeeze open the plastic casing of your new floppy disk. If you have difficulty doing this you can start the process off with a hobby knife.
2. Be careful to collect all the springs and sleeves that might fall out, you might need these later;)
3. See that round black disc inside, that's where the data is stored...remove this and open another floppy.
4. Right, now this is the easy bit, simply place the round disc from the other floppy on top of the disc in the second, newly opened, floppy.
5. Now re-assemble this second floppy, making sure to replace any of those springs and things that popped out. You can discard the first floppy casing. If you have trouble re-sealing the casing any old plastic or hobby glue might help. I find the standard 'super glue' products do the job quite nicely. Dont use sticky tape, it simply will not do!
6. *Presto*, your floppy now (theoretically) has twice the storage media capacity.
Disclaimer: No responsiblity is taken by the author, try this at your own risk. You may damage your floppy drive, or (in some rare cases) even loose data!
If this law is passed I'm going to use it as a precedent to lobby for a coaster rebate and try to re-coupe all my losses from countless failed CD burns.
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I agree completely, we should buy all our games, notice how I mentioned I was buying all my titles? I just felt the ease of piracy is one of the main reason for Sony's harware sales dominance. Call me devil's advocate.
IMHO was not using a game storage format you can easily copy with common PC hardware. While I had nintendo consoles, and paid for all my titles, all my friends bought Sony consoles, put on an eye patch and cried "arrrggghh mateyy!"
Wii has another strange storage format, so I rekon they havent learnt from thier biggest mistake with the Gamecube / N64.
Clearly you learnt the meaning of IRONIC from Alanis Morriset.
Well I bought a brand new boxed PSOne in Kmart no more than 6 months ago for $39.95 AUD. *pre-empting ignorant reply mode* It was in a central Sydney store, not a back water country town.
Even DURING the rise of the NES everyone I knew that had already got themselves C64s or another 8 bit home computer was happy with that system for gaming, and was therefore not interested in getting a NES too.
The C64 for example had some fine arcade style games, that were more than enough for an arcade fix when you didnt have enough money for a day at the arcades.
$114.99 AUD for "Harry Potter and the order of the pheonix"? I bought the big hardback version of the book for $24 AUD at K-Mart. Oh and only $434 AUD for the whole set! I understand that they are long files, and audiobook on cassette or cd is a big box of media, but WE have to pay for the bandwidth to download these big files, and in Australia we have small download limits because of our monopolised Communications Industry. Some plans here have .14c per MB downloads.
I hope the choice will mean an increase in Netscape's market share.
Because I'm sick of surfing around and hitting pages with broken HTML / JavaScript code that was clearly only tested on IE.
Clearly eBay should be made to bid for it ;-)
Why was this post moderated as offtopic?
It may have been unfunny, but it was definately topical.
At this rate kids won't be able to play Mario because Princess Peach is dressed too slutty.
Have you seen her in those tiny shorts in Mario Golf (GCN)?
This time next year, expect a nude Peach showering on a Nintendo Revolution near you!
...ipods turn YOU into wood?
bah, I can't believe I just posted one of those.
Wooden Ipod? Look out for a rise in environmentalist ipod muggings. I mean rainforest timber, what was he thinking?
i am 'poised to sleep' with paris hilton.
well maybe not, but i did send her an sms.
Well here's a similar story that was posted in 2000 anyway:
slashdot april 2000 article
A build your own player for 8000 yen uses 32 meg flash card. 8000 yen = approx $78 USD
Some friends of mine made their own mp3 players back in 1999, again using a mint's tin and some bits from radio shack. I think they might have read about it on slashdot.... sheesh talk about old news. I've moved on to matchbox beowulf clusters.
For those of you not lucky enough to get today tonight, get your cutting edge current affairs (and latest ufo sightings) from an equivalent US service here: www.nationalenquirer.com
Help, my brain has been corrupted with real estate acronyms!
I agree, and if his site is so usable, why is it full width plain text? My 1600x1200 res browser window means Ive got one paragraph to one line. Surely it's an important usability fundamental to not have stringy text stretched across wide expanse of white page?
Thank you. Oh and while they're ditching the over-the-top guis, can they ditch the frantic one handed random key slapping (while looking the other way) in an emergency situation? It's hard to imagine how 30 secs of random keypresses on ANY computer interface could help stop a reactor leak :)
How to double you floppy capacity, a do-it-yourself guide: 1. Ok, *gently* squeeze open the plastic casing of your new floppy disk. If you have difficulty doing this you can start the process off with a hobby knife. 2. Be careful to collect all the springs and sleeves that might fall out, you might need these later ;)
3. See that round black disc inside, that's where the data is stored...remove this and open another floppy.
4. Right, now this is the easy bit, simply place the round disc from the other floppy on top of the disc in the second, newly opened, floppy.
5. Now re-assemble this second floppy, making sure to replace any of those springs and things that popped out. You can discard the first floppy casing. If you have trouble re-sealing the casing any old plastic or hobby glue might help. I find the standard 'super glue' products do the job quite nicely. Dont use sticky tape, it simply will not do!
6. *Presto*, your floppy now (theoretically) has twice the storage media capacity.
Disclaimer: No responsiblity is taken by the author, try this at your own risk. You may damage your floppy drive, or (in some rare cases) even loose data!
If this law is passed I'm going to use it as a precedent to lobby for a coaster rebate and try to re-coupe all my losses from countless failed CD burns.