A lot of the good stuff on there isn't even music.
This, for example, is a nice collection of binaural nature sounds. They're basically just very well done, relaxing sounds (ocean, frogs, etc.), that you could use to help relax, take a nap, meditate, etc.
There are some nice indie/old tracks too, though much of that is pretty cruddy.
It's mostly that they're abusing the concerns that the Christian extremists (yet another vocal minority) raise in order to make money. Most such people probably don't really give a crap about the content, but they'll put on a heck of a show for the courts.
As for how violence seems to mean far less to people than sex in movies, TV, etc.: if one got uppity about violence, the newscasts would have to start cutting down on a lot of content, wars and crap that seems to be happening all the time would have to be hushed and support would be reduced, etc. Anyone who does oppose violence and such, therefore, gets far less media coverage because their view point is not wanted by the media folks.
How are "zones" going to be enforced? I mean, I thought current Xbox Live is supposed to prevent assholes, racists, cheaters, etc., yet I still see them everywhere. You can send negative feedback, you can email Microsoft, but there are still people like that [I]everywhere[/I]. (The lag is also prevelent in many games, but that's a bit besides the point.)
In any case, I'm canceling my XBL subscription for the second time now because of this crap, and I have no intention of renewing (I did it for Halo 2, but that really didn't meet expectations). I'd much rather play solo or multiplayer on the PC.
This is what they're banking on with the Revolution's ROM purchases/downloads. Nintendo realizes that a lot of people download and play their old games. I do it myself with the Xbox.
Hopefully, but perhaps not so likely, part of that console's stated DS compatiblity will involve uploading purchased ROMs. Sort of like one would do with a PC and an MP3 player. I think that would be genius; it would definately cement a purchase of the console for myself.
I don't mind. The publishers fought for an injunction (and won in BC) against revealing information on something that people didn't even sign an NDA on.
That seems like a step in the very wrong direction. And with politics, only a few steps have to be taken before one falls right over the cliff. So, eh, why not "stick it to the man"? Or whatnot.
I've got a v1.0 Xbox, and it's even louder than the later versions (though the DVD drive hasn't given me problems). I'd wait until you hear reports about problems from any console before buying.
Windows has had the hosts file, located in that directory (\system32\drivers\etc\) for awhile. Probably something to do with Microsoft's using a BSD TCP/IP stack and whatnot.
Have you tested it in the options screen? Enable the microphone volume boost if it's quiet, which it seems always to be by default.
Also, the voice chat only lets you chat to certain people. Holding B allows you to chat to your squad mates (only). Holding V, iff you are a squad leader or commander, allows you to chat among other leaders and the commander.
One can't voice chat to people out of these ranges, which I'm pretty thankful for after hearing game-wide VOIP in Xbox Live and the likes. A 64 play game with the chat going to everyone on the team would probably eliminate the usefulness of the feature.
Longhorn's transparency uses some fancy effect to make things under the transparent element look "blurry". It's like you were looking through a fogged/foggy piece of glass. I think that was probably implemented to deal with this (Windows has been capable of transparency since 2k, though it's not accelerated). Don't know if it will help, but there you have it.
But it was completely irrelevant to the matter in question.
He said that a better question was to ask why MS Word and Excel weren't rated by the ESRB. That's not the same thing, and you can't call it "a better question". It's my opinion that such a comment doesn't merit a +4.
I have writing "Mod parent up" posts, but I think this time it's semi-necessary. The mods who gave that rating to the grand parent post are quite wrong here.
As the parent said: The minigames included in Word and Excel have nothing to do with the ESRB, because Word and Excel (seeing as they're not games) were never submitted for a rating.
Not to mention that Sega was smarting already from the Saturn (hard to develop for, poorly marketed, etc. A horrible flop). The Dreamcast again wasn't marketed well, and unlike Microsoft, Sega just didn't have the wads of money and the third-party support.
Release date was only part of Sega's problem, they were already going downhill.
I have experienced no problems emulating many of the older consoles, including Nintendo's NES and SNES. The Nintendo 64 is indeed more difficult, but that's not being helped by the fact that you're using Project 64 X (one of the first, and now quite outdated N64 emulators for the Xbox)
And at that, I've got no idea what the heck a "Big-Ass Emulator Disc" is supposed to be. Is it a DVD with a compilation of emulators on it? You've probably got out-of-date versions of them all, I'd think...
I was only stating this because it's quite relevant to the article (which is on Knoppix), and rebukes the "you can't do NTFS with Knoppix" arguement. I like the PEbuilder as well; I use a variant of it myself because I can use Windows specific utilities, since Windows naturally has more Windows-related tools.
Captive, as I said, utilizes the actual NTFS driver via Wine. I have not had a single issue writing with it.
According to the article, both console's CPUs will be, for real-world applications (and not silly benchmarks) about that speed. Twice as fast as the Xbox.
Interestingly though, the article also says that the two GPUs (which are again nearly the same in performance) will be much better than their predeccesors. The other components will be fairly improved as well, so overall the consoles will be over 2x as fast as Xbox 1. Not as powerful as the manufacturers claim, of course, but still a good improvement over the last generation of consoles.
On the other hand... Now Nintendo's claims that its Revolution will be "only" two or three times more powerful than the Gamecube don't seem so bad. I always root for the underdog, and I like their lack of crazy hype so far.
Knoppix has a utility called "Captive". This nice little utility allows you to actually use the NTFS driver from a Windows installation (Knoppix supports NTFS Reading right off the bat) in order to get fully working NTFS Read/Write.
You could also put the NTFS(.sys?) driver on a USB drive, or a floppy to use. OR you could use Captive's builtin ability to download some service pack from Microsoft's website and automatically grab the file from there, though it takes awhile to download and I'm sure Microsoft doesn't like it. But heck, if you're burning a copy of Windows to a CD, I'm sure you don't care about EULA nonsense.
That doesn't so much conflict with software patents as it does (more importantly?) with copyrights. Same reason that sites distributing Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative have been shut down, the people don't have legal permission to redistribute the codecs.
They also said something along the lines of it being "likely" or "probable" (or some such synonym) that people would eventually run Windows on there. So it can't be horribly different. But yes, I see what you mean, they didn't say it could use the currently existing Windows XP or anything.
That is why you're supposed to limit your network to people you actually know and trust and maybe one level beyond that.
It's not like the social bookmark sites, where you wander around stranger's bookmarks when the site notices that you have similiar tastes. You have to manually place all of your friends/family/trusted people into the program, and it gives you little reports for every site you visit. Heck, I don't think it even lets you share bookmarks, though if it does that isn't the main features.
That's typically used, but "beta" can also mean something that's meant for testing by the greater public. There are no real guidelines for development stage names:)
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A lot of the good stuff on there isn't even music.
This, for example, is a nice collection of binaural nature sounds. They're basically just very well done, relaxing sounds (ocean, frogs, etc.), that you could use to help relax, take a nap, meditate, etc.
There are some nice indie/old tracks too, though much of that is pretty cruddy.
It's mostly that they're abusing the concerns that the Christian extremists (yet another vocal minority) raise in order to make money. Most such people probably don't really give a crap about the content, but they'll put on a heck of a show for the courts.
As for how violence seems to mean far less to people than sex in movies, TV, etc.: if one got uppity about violence, the newscasts would have to start cutting down on a lot of content, wars and crap that seems to be happening all the time would have to be hushed and support would be reduced, etc. Anyone who does oppose violence and such, therefore, gets far less media coverage because their view point is not wanted by the media folks.
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How are "zones" going to be enforced? I mean, I thought current Xbox Live is supposed to prevent assholes, racists, cheaters, etc., yet I still see them everywhere. You can send negative feedback, you can email Microsoft, but there are still people like that [I]everywhere[/I]. (The lag is also prevelent in many games, but that's a bit besides the point.)
In any case, I'm canceling my XBL subscription for the second time now because of this crap, and I have no intention of renewing (I did it for Halo 2, but that really didn't meet expectations). I'd much rather play solo or multiplayer on the PC.
This is what they're banking on with the Revolution's ROM purchases/downloads. Nintendo realizes that a lot of people download and play their old games. I do it myself with the Xbox.
Hopefully, but perhaps not so likely, part of that console's stated DS compatiblity will involve uploading purchased ROMs. Sort of like one would do with a PC and an MP3 player. I think that would be genius; it would definately cement a purchase of the console for myself.
I don't mind. The publishers fought for an injunction (and won in BC) against revealing information on something that people didn't even sign an NDA on.
That seems like a step in the very wrong direction. And with politics, only a few steps have to be taken before one falls right over the cliff. So, eh, why not "stick it to the man"? Or whatnot.
I've got a v1.0 Xbox, and it's even louder than the later versions (though the DVD drive hasn't given me problems). I'd wait until you hear reports about problems from any console before buying.
Windows has had the hosts file, located in that directory (\system32\drivers\etc\) for awhile. Probably something to do with Microsoft's using a BSD TCP/IP stack and whatnot.
Have you tested it in the options screen? Enable the microphone volume boost if it's quiet, which it seems always to be by default.
Also, the voice chat only lets you chat to certain people. Holding B allows you to chat to your squad mates (only). Holding V, iff you are a squad leader or commander, allows you to chat among other leaders and the commander.
One can't voice chat to people out of these ranges, which I'm pretty thankful for after hearing game-wide VOIP in Xbox Live and the likes. A 64 play game with the chat going to everyone on the team would probably eliminate the usefulness of the feature.
Longhorn's transparency uses some fancy effect to make things under the transparent element look "blurry". It's like you were looking through a fogged/foggy piece of glass. I think that was probably implemented to deal with this (Windows has been capable of transparency since 2k, though it's not accelerated). Don't know if it will help, but there you have it.
*shrug*
It's the fun of the testing. And with a new (Microsoft) OS, you're bound to find plenty of nice juicy bugs.
But it was completely irrelevant to the matter in question.
He said that a better question was to ask why MS Word and Excel weren't rated by the ESRB. That's not the same thing, and you can't call it "a better question". It's my opinion that such a comment doesn't merit a +4.
*shrug*
I have writing "Mod parent up" posts, but I think this time it's semi-necessary. The mods who gave that rating to the grand parent post are quite wrong here.
As the parent said: The minigames included in Word and Excel have nothing to do with the ESRB, because Word and Excel (seeing as they're not games) were never submitted for a rating.
Not to mention that Sega was smarting already from the Saturn (hard to develop for, poorly marketed, etc. A horrible flop). The Dreamcast again wasn't marketed well, and unlike Microsoft, Sega just didn't have the wads of money and the third-party support.
Release date was only part of Sega's problem, they were already going downhill.
I have experienced no problems emulating many of the older consoles, including Nintendo's NES and SNES. The Nintendo 64 is indeed more difficult, but that's not being helped by the fact that you're using Project 64 X (one of the first, and now quite outdated N64 emulators for the Xbox)
And at that, I've got no idea what the heck a "Big-Ass Emulator Disc" is supposed to be. Is it a DVD with a compilation of emulators on it? You've probably got out-of-date versions of them all, I'd think...
Source? I'm curious.
I was only stating this because it's quite relevant to the article (which is on Knoppix), and rebukes the "you can't do NTFS with Knoppix" arguement. I like the PEbuilder as well; I use a variant of it myself because I can use Windows specific utilities, since Windows naturally has more Windows-related tools.
Captive, as I said, utilizes the actual NTFS driver via Wine. I have not had a single issue writing with it.
This, this a good point.
According to the article, both console's CPUs will be, for real-world applications (and not silly benchmarks) about that speed. Twice as fast as the Xbox.
Interestingly though, the article also says that the two GPUs (which are again nearly the same in performance) will be much better than their predeccesors. The other components will be fairly improved as well, so overall the consoles will be over 2x as fast as Xbox 1. Not as powerful as the manufacturers claim, of course, but still a good improvement over the last generation of consoles.
On the other hand... Now Nintendo's claims that its Revolution will be "only" two or three times more powerful than the Gamecube don't seem so bad. I always root for the underdog, and I like their lack of crazy hype so far.
Allow me to be the first to ask:
What?
Knoppix has a utility called "Captive". This nice little utility allows you to actually use the NTFS driver from a Windows installation (Knoppix supports NTFS Reading right off the bat) in order to get fully working NTFS Read/Write.
You could also put the NTFS(.sys?) driver on a USB drive, or a floppy to use. OR you could use Captive's builtin ability to download some service pack from Microsoft's website and automatically grab the file from there, though it takes awhile to download and I'm sure Microsoft doesn't like it. But heck, if you're burning a copy of Windows to a CD, I'm sure you don't care about EULA nonsense.
They're MTV games, what type of "plot" and "gameplay" are there supposed to be?
That doesn't so much conflict with software patents as it does (more importantly?) with copyrights. Same reason that sites distributing Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative have been shut down, the people don't have legal permission to redistribute the codecs.
They also said something along the lines of it being "likely" or "probable" (or some such synonym) that people would eventually run Windows on there. So it can't be horribly different. But yes, I see what you mean, they didn't say it could use the currently existing Windows XP or anything.
That is why you're supposed to limit your network to people you actually know and trust and maybe one level beyond that.
It's not like the social bookmark sites, where you wander around stranger's bookmarks when the site notices that you have similiar tastes. You have to manually place all of your friends/family/trusted people into the program, and it gives you little reports for every site you visit. Heck, I don't think it even lets you share bookmarks, though if it does that isn't the main features.
That's typically used, but "beta" can also mean something that's meant for testing by the greater public. There are no real guidelines for development stage names :)