You can upgrade it very easily. You make a backup of the original exe file before you patch it. Then, when an update is released, you simply wait for the new no-cd crack. Once that comes out (usually no more than a day, assuming there isn't a universal one out already), you delete your currently cracked exe, update the game, and run the new no-cd crack on the newly patched exe. Takes all of about 5 mins. That's what I do anytime a patch is released. I refuse to leave the CD in my drive just so the game can make sure it's a legal copy.
Does that look like it's going to leave a hanging chad. I hope not, because they don't exist in OC.
It's called Datavote and it's nothing like the Florida system. I believe you were referring to this one
Votomatic and Pollstar are used in completely different counties (if you don't think LA and OC are completely different, you've obviously never visited both of them).
Especially you cant do it with punch ballots, which get less accurate after every counting/handling/moving. IF you've ever worked with a box of those ballots before, well, its pretty simply clear. You take them out of a box and whats in the bottom? A big pile of loose chads.
Except that if they used punch machines with thicker cards like we do in most of Southern California (I can't speak for the whole area, but OC uses this). You have a card with a + next to each candidates name. You line up the pointer on the machine with the candidate and push down. It punches a clean hole right through the card. No messy chads to deal with at the bottom of your box of ballot cards.
There may be some disadvantages to this method, but it seems to work fine for us and you don't have to worry about not completely punching a hole. It acts like a hole punch, there is no paper left behind.
Lucas had his hand in ESB too. The difference is that Irvin Kirshner directed it. That's what made it the best one of the series. Lucas is not a good director, ask any actors (not digital ones) that have worked with him. He just isn't good at telling them what he wants them to do. He'd rather tell an animator "Make it do this" and have the animator make it do that. He's excellent when it comes to visual effects, but not real good when it comes to being a director.
Of course, Richard Marquand directed Jedi, so what does that tell you about him?
Well, for the first one, we didn't take I-10 on our way back, which is probably why we didn't see it. On the second one, if it's anything like the San Diego checkpoint, that's probably why I didn't notice that one. Yeah, it might be there, but a lot of times they just wave you right through (the times I've had to go through it that is).
Is this a post 9/11 thing? Cause last time I was travelling along I10 (late 2000), there was no such thing. I was travelling with 3 other people through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and we never once had to exit.
It was more than a couple of years ago. Not that I agree with it (if people want to risk their lives by not wearing a seatbelt, fine by me), but it was sometime ago. It's the same as the stupid helmet law. Yes, you should wear one to protect yourself. Yes, we're going to make you wear one. This all started, I believe, when the Japanese said that their death rate among motorcycle riders was so much lower because they all have to wear helmets. Well, far be it from us to let another country lead the pack.
I know this is off-topic, but let me say, Welcome to California, land of the socialists, home of those that don't want to think for themselves. And if you drive a car, you'll probably get your registration nearly doubled when it's time to renew all thanks to our Governor who squandered our suprlus and put us into debt and now he needs to pay it off. Please, enjoy your stay:)
This is a simple either-or proposition. Either you can have a near-master-quality movie that you cannot copy, or you cannot have a near-master-quality movie at all.
No, this is what Hollywood wants you to think. Do you really think Joe Schmoe off the street would buy a near-master-quality copy from the kid down the street with the broadband connection? Hell no. Why you ask? What does he do if it doesn't play in his player? Bug the kid to fix it? Yeah, that'll work. Whereas if he buys it at Best Buy he can take it back, tell them it doesn't work in his player, and probably get it exchanged. If it still doesn't work and he can prove it (bring his player to the store), they'll probably give him store credit. It's a simple matter of control. They have it and they don't want to give you any.
Whenever I mention to people about all the movies you can find on the Internet and they ask how to get them and I start to explain it, you can tell they don't want to go through that kind of trouble.
The above poster was correct. You may be happy living with the current limitations, but will you be happy when Hollywood decides that you can only watch that movie when they want to let you watch it? I doubt you will be.
The wear and tear on a VHS tape through normal operation is somewhat less than you might think, so I'm comfortable with the lifespan of the media.
Actually, it's not less then I might think because I've seen it first hand. I don't watch my VHS tapes anymore cause they simply look like crap compared to my DVDs that don't degrade. Quite simply, my copies of Star Wars on VHS are starting to look quite grainy (sp?), while my copy of The Matrix that I've watched at least 20 times still looks superb.
Random access brings nothing to the movie-watching experience, in my opinion. Sit down, dim the lights, open the curtain, and roll the film. When it's over, put it back on the shelf and go on about your business. I don't find myself skipping around.
Then you're one of the few. I know myself personally (and a lot of home theater enthusiasts), might want to watch just this one scene that looks really good or they just want to show it to their friends. Scene selection is a gift from heaven in these situations. No need to fast forward in order to find it, just skip right to it.
I think you'll find that a lot of home theater enthusiasts like myself care more about the quality of the viewing experience than about extra features or random access. There's no random access on a 35 mm roll, after all.
Actually, from what I understand, it's the other way around. Most home theater enthusiasts want the extra features (scene selection, trailers, directors commentary), while the rest of the buying public just wants to watch the movie. And for the record, a lot of the home theater enthusiasts that I know have been switching to digital cameras because they (a) allow you to see your results instantly, (b) allow you to erase those results if you don't like them, and (c) you don't have to buy film ever again.
I hope none of your D-VHS movies ever gets dropped on a magnet or into a bucket of water or some other type of disaster. Since you weren't allowed to make a backup because the media industry deamed you a pirate before you even bought the media (that's really what they're doing) you weren't able to make a copy to use that instead. I'm always freaking out about possibly scratching my DVDs cause I know I'll have to go out and buy another copy, especially my box sets. CDs on the other hand I don't worry about since I make a copy of them all. Scratch a copy, oh well, go burn another one.
Anyway, you must have to much money if you're able to afford a $2000 VCR just to watch your D-VHS tapes that have no random access like a DVD.
The book is worth money since money was spent making it. The lithographs are worth money since money was spent making those (someone has to pay the graphic artists). The soundtrack is worth money (someone had to write the music). The DVD is worth something since someone had to pay to have it mastered (and no, I'm not gonna go out and buy a DVD-R drive and convert all the video (since it's available) to play on my dvd player). In the end, someone has to pay for everything that goes into that box. Perhaps you'd prefer it if I used the word "value". To me, $75 is well worth the "value" that I get out of it. I figure the book would be around 20-30 (most coffee table books cost about that much) and another 15 for the soundtrack. If the game alone is going to retail for $60, $75 is a great "value" for the collector's edition. If you don't want to buy it because of the "slashdot boycott of Blizzard", so be it, just don't base your argument on my use of the word "worth".
Being a collector, I understand what you're saying. It's only worth what people are willing to pay, blah blah blah. IMO, it IS worth $75. Now if they were going to charge $100 for it, then no, I wouldn't think it would be worth that much.
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It may be $64.95 list, but I have yet to see anyone selling preorders for more than $59.95. Also, the collector's edition includes the soundtrack (now on a separate disk), a coffee table book, 4 lithographs(?) (probably the 4 different covers of the game) and something else. In all, the collector's edition is well worth the price.
I apologize, I misunderstood. I do admit that much of what I know of digital projectors comes from what Rick McCallum has told the thousands of Star Wars fans at Celebration 2. That is where I picked up the info about changing out hard drives (which, when they're in one of those carriage things that allows for hot swapping drives, makes them less fragile than normal, with the exception of being dropped).
Everyone likes the AOTC digital version better because Lucas made the film transfer from the DLP instead of from the original HDTV 1900 pixel wide source. If he had used the higher resolution source, the film version would have looked better. And he didn't want that, since he's trying to promote his interests in digital cinema.
The film version would've looked better for the first few days of screenings sure, but after a week or so the film would start to get noticeable scratches and the color will fade. I didn't use to pay that much attention to film quality until I saw digital. Now, the scratches look very nasty to me and all the problems with film are very apparent. I agree that they need to get the resolution upped, but digital still looks superb compared to film (at least to me it does). Now if only my local theatre could even use DLP (Edwards Big Newport, Newport Beach, CA). Largest screen west of the Mississippi.
The system he describes is actually more common then the one you describe. Most of the big digital projectors actually use some kind of RAID array (I don't know the exact RAID number). This makes it possible to change the movie anytime you want. You just pull out the array of drives and swap in the next. It's actually more secure than a DVD-ROM, since most people aren't going to be able to just plug a RAID array into their computer and the data isn't compressed nearly as much as on DVD, so a 2.5 hour feature film weighs in around 30 GB or thereabout.
Digital cinema is really, practically, no different from traditional film cinema. Take the canisters/discs up to the projection booth, load 'em in the projector, and play the movie. When the run is finished, put the reels/discs back in the canisters/FedEx envelope and send 'em back to the distributor.
With the exception that with film, when the run is over, the film has visible scratches in it and the color has faded. With digital cinema, there are no scratches and the color has not faded. It looks as good as when it arrived at the theatre.
You mean his directing style hasn't changed since the originals?! Wow!
If you've seen ANY documentaries on the originals (like From Star Wars to Jedi), you'd know that that has been his directing style from day one.
You'd also know (if you read enough material) that the man doesn't like working with people much, as puppets and CG characters are easier to control. Though, that should be painfully obvious as of Ep1.
Perceptible? Maybe not. But the fact was that a lot of people wanted 32-bit colors and more RAM (as evidenced by the letters in the VooDoo magazine). So instead of giving people what they wanted, they tried to explain why you don't need it. People don't like being told that they don't need it, even if it might be true. Afterall, how many people NEED a 2.2 GHz P4? Besides maybe graphic designers.
They also refused to support 32-bit color stating that it dropped framerates below 60fps. It was true. Framerates dropped down to 59fps. That's why Nvidia went ahead and started supporting 32-bit color. People wanted it and you only took a 1 fps below 60 hit.
ANH was self-contained because it had to be. If it didn't work, no more Star Wars. Luckily, it did. Look at the others after ANH, none of them are self-contained. Hell, I read an old review of Empire where the reviewer even said that it had no beginning and no end. Duh, it's the sequel with another part coming. And screw what Ebert said about Ep2. The man claims to have loved Star Wars since the beginning, when in fact his original review of Star Wars was that it was dumb (no, I don't know his exact wording). He only changed his review when it was a success and after Empire was released. Of course, he gave Empire a glowing review.
The "special" format, I think, is just a compressed form of RAW video. I've got one of those too and you can use VirtualDub to do the recording from the card. By doing that, you can setup file splits. I actually have the model without the tuner, so I just capture video from tape when I need it.
"It is because of their return policy. You open it you bought it."
So you don't shop anywhere for music or software then. Every story around my house has the exact same policy, and it didn't start because of the decrease in sales. It started because of the proliferation of consumer priced CD burners. People take a CD home, copy it, and return it (yes, I have had people say that they could do this, until I mention the return policy). That's every store around my house, Target, Wal-Mart, KMart, Best Buy, CompUSA, etc, etc. I don't know any store that would allow you to return open software or music. Of course, you may not have bitched enough. I once had to return a DVD (there was no DVD in the package). They tried to tell me I was basically SOL. I told them no. They finally agreed to an even exchange (that's all I wanted). Also, I've had some music stores (long time ago) tell me that they can't open it to see if it will play until I explain that I've tried 3 or 4 different copies and they all do the same thing, don't play on my system. They're usually willing to do it at that point (especially if you tell them that you really want to buy it). Hell, if you have to, bring your system in the store and show them the problem. They might just give you store credit, but it's better than nothing.
"With WinXP/Linux/whatever installed with a ton of games, you still would NOT fill an 18gb drive."
Bullshit. I know someone (worked on his computer) that filled a 40 GB drive with just Win98 and games. Yeah, he has a ton of games, but he still filled it up.
Access time, transfer rate, number of drives per channel, yeah, SCSI blows IDE away completely. Cost per GB, no f'ing way. You said it yourself, $260 for 18 GB SCSI. $100 for 80 GB IDE. And how fast of access do you need? My 7200 RPM Maxtor seems to access files quite fast thank you. It may not be 3.7 ms, but I don't need that either. I'm running a gaming machine, not a datacenter. Hell, even with the photo editing and video conversions I do, SCSI wouldn't do shit for me. I need space and CPU power, both of which I have, not access time.
In other words, you need more ports to fix a shoddy component. That's the beauty of firewire (no, I wouldn't use it for a mouse, maybe for a printer and scanner), you don't have to deal with SHARED bandwidth or deal with a choked CPU.
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You can upgrade it very easily. You make a backup of the original exe file before you patch it. Then, when an update is released, you simply wait for the new no-cd crack. Once that comes out (usually no more than a day, assuming there isn't a universal one out already), you delete your currently cracked exe, update the game, and run the new no-cd crack on the newly patched exe. Takes all of about 5 mins. That's what I do anytime a patch is released. I refuse to leave the CD in my drive just so the game can make sure it's a legal copy.
I guess that would be the problem then. She never said "The same thing blah blah blah."
It's my understanding that the line was mis-delivered. Something else was suppose to be there to make it funny, but they cut it.
For your information, this is what we use:
Orange County Voting System
Does that look like it's going to leave a hanging chad. I hope not, because they don't exist in OC.
It's called Datavote and it's nothing like the Florida system. I believe you were referring to this one
Votomatic and Pollstar are used in completely different counties (if you don't think LA and OC are completely different, you've obviously never visited both of them).
Especially you cant do it with punch ballots, which get less accurate after every counting/handling/moving. IF you've ever worked with a box of those ballots before, well, its pretty simply clear. You take them out of a box and whats in the bottom? A big pile of loose chads.
Except that if they used punch machines with thicker cards like we do in most of Southern California (I can't speak for the whole area, but OC uses this). You have a card with a + next to each candidates name. You line up the pointer on the machine with the candidate and push down. It punches a clean hole right through the card. No messy chads to deal with at the bottom of your box of ballot cards.
There may be some disadvantages to this method, but it seems to work fine for us and you don't have to worry about not completely punching a hole. It acts like a hole punch, there is no paper left behind.
Lucas had his hand in ESB too. The difference is that Irvin Kirshner directed it. That's what made it the best one of the series. Lucas is not a good director, ask any actors (not digital ones) that have worked with him. He just isn't good at telling them what he wants them to do. He'd rather tell an animator "Make it do this" and have the animator make it do that. He's excellent when it comes to visual effects, but not real good when it comes to being a director.
Of course, Richard Marquand directed Jedi, so what does that tell you about him?
Well, for the first one, we didn't take I-10 on our way back, which is probably why we didn't see it. On the second one, if it's anything like the San Diego checkpoint, that's probably why I didn't notice that one. Yeah, it might be there, but a lot of times they just wave you right through (the times I've had to go through it that is).
Is this a post 9/11 thing? Cause last time I was travelling along I10 (late 2000), there was no such thing. I was travelling with 3 other people through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and we never once had to exit.
It was more than a couple of years ago. Not that I agree with it (if people want to risk their lives by not wearing a seatbelt, fine by me), but it was sometime ago. It's the same as the stupid helmet law. Yes, you should wear one to protect yourself. Yes, we're going to make you wear one. This all started, I believe, when the Japanese said that their death rate among motorcycle riders was so much lower because they all have to wear helmets. Well, far be it from us to let another country lead the pack.
I know this is off-topic, but let me say, Welcome to California, land of the socialists, home of those that don't want to think for themselves. And if you drive a car, you'll probably get your registration nearly doubled when it's time to renew all thanks to our Governor who squandered our suprlus and put us into debt and now he needs to pay it off. Please, enjoy your stay :)
This is a simple either-or proposition. Either you can have a near-master-quality movie that you cannot copy, or you cannot have a near-master-quality movie at all.
No, this is what Hollywood wants you to think. Do you really think Joe Schmoe off the street would buy a near-master-quality copy from the kid down the street with the broadband connection? Hell no. Why you ask? What does he do if it doesn't play in his player? Bug the kid to fix it? Yeah, that'll work. Whereas if he buys it at Best Buy he can take it back, tell them it doesn't work in his player, and probably get it exchanged. If it still doesn't work and he can prove it (bring his player to the store), they'll probably give him store credit. It's a simple matter of control. They have it and they don't want to give you any.
Whenever I mention to people about all the movies you can find on the Internet and they ask how to get them and I start to explain it, you can tell they don't want to go through that kind of trouble.
The above poster was correct. You may be happy living with the current limitations, but will you be happy when Hollywood decides that you can only watch that movie when they want to let you watch it? I doubt you will be.
The wear and tear on a VHS tape through normal operation is somewhat less than you might think, so I'm comfortable with the lifespan of the media.
Actually, it's not less then I might think because I've seen it first hand. I don't watch my VHS tapes anymore cause they simply look like crap compared to my DVDs that don't degrade. Quite simply, my copies of Star Wars on VHS are starting to look quite grainy (sp?), while my copy of The Matrix that I've watched at least 20 times still looks superb.
Random access brings nothing to the movie-watching experience, in my opinion. Sit down, dim the lights, open the curtain, and roll the film. When it's over, put it back on the shelf and go on about your business. I don't find myself skipping around.
Then you're one of the few. I know myself personally (and a lot of home theater enthusiasts), might want to watch just this one scene that looks really good or they just want to show it to their friends. Scene selection is a gift from heaven in these situations. No need to fast forward in order to find it, just skip right to it.
I think you'll find that a lot of home theater enthusiasts like myself care more about the quality of the viewing experience than about extra features or random access. There's no random access on a 35 mm roll, after all.
Actually, from what I understand, it's the other way around. Most home theater enthusiasts want the extra features (scene selection, trailers, directors commentary), while the rest of the buying public just wants to watch the movie. And for the record, a lot of the home theater enthusiasts that I know have been switching to digital cameras because they (a) allow you to see your results instantly, (b) allow you to erase those results if you don't like them, and (c) you don't have to buy film ever again.
I hope none of your D-VHS movies ever gets dropped on a magnet or into a bucket of water or some other type of disaster. Since you weren't allowed to make a backup because the media industry deamed you a pirate before you even bought the media (that's really what they're doing) you weren't able to make a copy to use that instead. I'm always freaking out about possibly scratching my DVDs cause I know I'll have to go out and buy another copy, especially my box sets. CDs on the other hand I don't worry about since I make a copy of them all. Scratch a copy, oh well, go burn another one.
Anyway, you must have to much money if you're able to afford a $2000 VCR just to watch your D-VHS tapes that have no random access like a DVD.
The book is worth money since money was spent making it. The lithographs are worth money since money was spent making those (someone has to pay the graphic artists). The soundtrack is worth money (someone had to write the music). The DVD is worth something since someone had to pay to have it mastered (and no, I'm not gonna go out and buy a DVD-R drive and convert all the video (since it's available) to play on my dvd player). In the end, someone has to pay for everything that goes into that box. Perhaps you'd prefer it if I used the word "value". To me, $75 is well worth the "value" that I get out of it. I figure the book would be around 20-30 (most coffee table books cost about that much) and another 15 for the soundtrack. If the game alone is going to retail for $60, $75 is a great "value" for the collector's edition. If you don't want to buy it because of the "slashdot boycott of Blizzard", so be it, just don't base your argument on my use of the word "worth".
Being a collector, I understand what you're saying. It's only worth what people are willing to pay, blah blah blah. IMO, it IS worth $75. Now if they were going to charge $100 for it, then no, I wouldn't think it would be worth that much.
It may be $64.95 list, but I have yet to see anyone selling preorders for more than $59.95. Also, the collector's edition includes the soundtrack (now on a separate disk), a coffee table book, 4 lithographs(?) (probably the 4 different covers of the game) and something else. In all, the collector's edition is well worth the price.
I apologize, I misunderstood. I do admit that much of what I know of digital projectors comes from what Rick McCallum has told the thousands of Star Wars fans at Celebration 2. That is where I picked up the info about changing out hard drives (which, when they're in one of those carriage things that allows for hot swapping drives, makes them less fragile than normal, with the exception of being dropped).
Everyone likes the AOTC digital version better because Lucas made the film transfer from the DLP instead of from the original HDTV 1900 pixel wide source. If he had used the higher resolution source, the film version would have looked better. And he didn't want that, since he's trying to promote his interests in digital cinema.
The film version would've looked better for the first few days of screenings sure, but after a week or so the film would start to get noticeable scratches and the color will fade. I didn't use to pay that much attention to film quality until I saw digital. Now, the scratches look very nasty to me and all the problems with film are very apparent. I agree that they need to get the resolution upped, but digital still looks superb compared to film (at least to me it does). Now if only my local theatre could even use DLP (Edwards Big Newport, Newport Beach, CA). Largest screen west of the Mississippi.
The system he describes is actually more common then the one you describe. Most of the big digital projectors actually use some kind of RAID array (I don't know the exact RAID number). This makes it possible to change the movie anytime you want. You just pull out the array of drives and swap in the next. It's actually more secure than a DVD-ROM, since most people aren't going to be able to just plug a RAID array into their computer and the data isn't compressed nearly as much as on DVD, so a 2.5 hour feature film weighs in around 30 GB or thereabout.
Digital cinema is really, practically, no different from traditional film cinema. Take the canisters/discs up to the projection booth, load 'em in the projector, and play the movie. When the run is finished, put the reels/discs back in the canisters/FedEx envelope and send 'em back to the distributor.
With the exception that with film, when the run is over, the film has visible scratches in it and the color has faded. With digital cinema, there are no scratches and the color has not faded. It looks as good as when it arrived at the theatre.
You mean his directing style hasn't changed since the originals?! Wow!
If you've seen ANY documentaries on the originals (like From Star Wars to Jedi), you'd know that that has been his directing style from day one.
You'd also know (if you read enough material) that the man doesn't like working with people much, as puppets and CG characters are easier to control. Though, that should be painfully obvious as of Ep1.
Perceptible? Maybe not. But the fact was that a lot of people wanted 32-bit colors and more RAM (as evidenced by the letters in the VooDoo magazine). So instead of giving people what they wanted, they tried to explain why you don't need it. People don't like being told that they don't need it, even if it might be true. Afterall, how many people NEED a 2.2 GHz P4? Besides maybe graphic designers.
They also refused to support 32-bit color stating that it dropped framerates below 60fps. It was true. Framerates dropped down to 59fps. That's why Nvidia went ahead and started supporting 32-bit color. People wanted it and you only took a 1 fps below 60 hit.
ANH was self-contained because it had to be. If it didn't work, no more Star Wars. Luckily, it did. Look at the others after ANH, none of them are self-contained. Hell, I read an old review of Empire where the reviewer even said that it had no beginning and no end. Duh, it's the sequel with another part coming. And screw what Ebert said about Ep2. The man claims to have loved Star Wars since the beginning, when in fact his original review of Star Wars was that it was dumb (no, I don't know his exact wording). He only changed his review when it was a success and after Empire was released. Of course, he gave Empire a glowing review.
The "special" format, I think, is just a compressed form of RAW video. I've got one of those too and you can use VirtualDub to do the recording from the card. By doing that, you can setup file splits. I actually have the model without the tuner, so I just capture video from tape when I need it.
"It is because of their return policy. You open it you bought it."
So you don't shop anywhere for music or software then. Every story around my house has the exact same policy, and it didn't start because of the decrease in sales. It started because of the proliferation of consumer priced CD burners. People take a CD home, copy it, and return it (yes, I have had people say that they could do this, until I mention the return policy). That's every store around my house, Target, Wal-Mart, KMart, Best Buy, CompUSA, etc, etc. I don't know any store that would allow you to return open software or music. Of course, you may not have bitched enough. I once had to return a DVD (there was no DVD in the package). They tried to tell me I was basically SOL. I told them no. They finally agreed to an even exchange (that's all I wanted). Also, I've had some music stores (long time ago) tell me that they can't open it to see if it will play until I explain that I've tried 3 or 4 different copies and they all do the same thing, don't play on my system. They're usually willing to do it at that point (especially if you tell them that you really want to buy it). Hell, if you have to, bring your system in the store and show them the problem. They might just give you store credit, but it's better than nothing.
"With WinXP/Linux/whatever installed with a ton of games, you still would NOT fill an 18gb drive."
Bullshit. I know someone (worked on his computer) that filled a 40 GB drive with just Win98 and games. Yeah, he has a ton of games, but he still filled it up.
Access time, transfer rate, number of drives per channel, yeah, SCSI blows IDE away completely. Cost per GB, no f'ing way. You said it yourself, $260 for 18 GB SCSI. $100 for 80 GB IDE. And how fast of access do you need? My 7200 RPM Maxtor seems to access files quite fast thank you. It may not be 3.7 ms, but I don't need that either. I'm running a gaming machine, not a datacenter. Hell, even with the photo editing and video conversions I do, SCSI wouldn't do shit for me. I need space and CPU power, both of which I have, not access time.
In other words, you need more ports to fix a shoddy component. That's the beauty of firewire (no, I wouldn't use it for a mouse, maybe for a printer and scanner), you don't have to deal with SHARED bandwidth or deal with a choked CPU.