That was Sony's publicly given reason, but new PSPs, both Slim and Brite, are already immune to the pandora's battery even though the batteries are easily swappable.
...the fact that the battery is not 'user serviceable', which means they took away the battery door, put a warranty sticker over the battery and will charge you to replace the battery. Fun, eh?
http://www.gamebase64.com/ This database has 20000 games. Those are just the ones they've found and it doesn't even include actual applications, only games. The total number of programs for the C-64 is probably far more than 50000.
There's a warning on the comparison site that a number of players, big name free players, don't correctly play Theora. In fact, Media Player Classic doesn't play it that video all. It's been many months since I've encountered a video that program couldn't play, so why if it's this great open source media codec do so many programs, some of them open source themselves, have a problem playing it?
It's not paranoia. It's the idea that I give up system resources, however small, to an updater for an app I might play with once a month or so. That 99% of the population you deal with - I bet they bitch that their computers gradually become slower as they age. You know why? Those people let a bunch of little programs like this run rampant on their computer eventually eating it up. Besides, apps can check for updates when they start up and ask you if you want to update then. Memory-resident updaters are never necessary. Ever.
And don't forget to turn off the scheduled event to turn the service back on. And don't forget to do it all over again every time you install/update anything by Google. Also, the instructions to kill it don't seem to be the same all the time. Maybe it depends on exactly what app you're installing. Maybe it's just Google trying to screw with my mind. Google Update needs to die.
"Are you on a single-core machine?" If you're suggesting that should matter for web browsing something is very very wrong. As the other poster said, Firefox works and works well. And the weather is nice here in Bizarro World.
Psst. No, it can't. Unless you've deliberately used a third party tool to remove all traces, parts of it are still there. I'd rather have most viruses on my computer than I would Starforce drivers.
If you install a Valve game from a CD it does not download the game. It will download updates, but those are a good thing.
Other PC games require you to insert the disc every time you boot the game. This could be considered equally atrocious as what Steam does. If you don't have a network connection no game for you versus no disc no game for you.
Steam only delivers ads for other Steam games. Not for Coca Cola or some crap. While it may install a startup agent(I don't remember honestly) it can easily be turned off. No steam code on startup on my system.
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but Steam doesn't piss me off. It's acceptable to me. My biggest problem is that the Steam client itself performs like it was written in QuickBASIC.
That was what I thought when I first saw a computer mouse. Do I expect this will revolutionize computing? Maybe, but probably not. Does that mean it's not cool? Naw, it's cool and my inner geek wants one. It's good to see Microsoft is indeed trying to make new stuff. That's more than we can say about them a lot of the time.
Actually, you're the one taking me out of context. I said nothing about the leaders or any members of the government. I said the government itself - meaning the structure - is largely the same.
And contrary to a lot of public opinion, particularly here on/., Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for pretty much anything except current event politics. Are you suggesting Thailand is NOT a Parliamentary government?
which corrupt part of that at all is similar to the British government. (Please spare your lame gag about the British government being corrupt, it's not the same at all)
Wikipedia:
Thailand - Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy
UK - Parliamentary system and Constitutional monarchy
A search for Parliamentary democracy redirects to Parliamentary system.
But the ratings board is not a government entity nor are ratings legally binding in the US. This is why we see "special unrated" editions of half the movies out there now.
The Thai government is similar to the British government. The royalty is respected and influential, but has no actual power. Also, Thailand, like much of Asia, has a freely democratic government but does NOT have inherent freedom of speech like the US does. Movies have to pass a censor board, for example. Violence is apparently okay, but nudity and insults to the king or Buddhism are not.
There are a LOT of games in MAME that are utterly terrible. I don't consider the "signal-to-noise" ratio any better on arcade games than any other platform.
My opinion has always been this: If you take a random game from any system in history chances are it sucks. Most games, let's face it, aren't very good. And the gems that there are, whether they be recent or past, will be remembered, probably through more of those rose-colored glasses people have been going on about.
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This is acceptable IF the base game is free. If the Koreans can do it so can Codemasters.
That was Sony's publicly given reason, but new PSPs, both Slim and Brite, are already immune to the pandora's battery even though the batteries are easily swappable.
...the fact that the battery is not 'user serviceable', which means they took away the battery door, put a warranty sticker over the battery and will charge you to replace the battery. Fun, eh?
This is Sega making a Sonic game in the 21st century. You just KNOW they're going to find some way to fuck it up. It's company policy.
http://www.gamebase64.com/ This database has 20000 games. Those are just the ones they've found and it doesn't even include actual applications, only games. The total number of programs for the C-64 is probably far more than 50000.
There's a warning on the comparison site that a number of players, big name free players, don't correctly play Theora. In fact, Media Player Classic doesn't play it that video all. It's been many months since I've encountered a video that program couldn't play, so why if it's this great open source media codec do so many programs, some of them open source themselves, have a problem playing it?
It's not paranoia. It's the idea that I give up system resources, however small, to an updater for an app I might play with once a month or so. That 99% of the population you deal with - I bet they bitch that their computers gradually become slower as they age. You know why? Those people let a bunch of little programs like this run rampant on their computer eventually eating it up. Besides, apps can check for updates when they start up and ask you if you want to update then. Memory-resident updaters are never necessary. Ever.
And don't forget to turn off the scheduled event to turn the service back on. And don't forget to do it all over again every time you install/update anything by Google. Also, the instructions to kill it don't seem to be the same all the time. Maybe it depends on exactly what app you're installing. Maybe it's just Google trying to screw with my mind. Google Update needs to die.
...you mean zombie PROGRAMS. Damn.
[puts shotgun down]
"Are you on a single-core machine?" If you're suggesting that should matter for web browsing something is very very wrong. As the other poster said, Firefox works and works well. And the weather is nice here in Bizarro World.
The overhead for Steam is atrocious. Close to 30 seconds to start up and 127MB of VM just to exist before starting any games.
And don't tell me it's my computer. 'cause it's not.
Psst. No, it can't. Unless you've deliberately used a third party tool to remove all traces, parts of it are still there. I'd rather have most viruses on my computer than I would Starforce drivers.
Dibs on the TV franchise rights! Neander-thon! Saturdays at 8!
If you install a Valve game from a CD it does not download the game. It will download updates, but those are a good thing.
Other PC games require you to insert the disc every time you boot the game. This could be considered equally atrocious as what Steam does. If you don't have a network connection no game for you versus no disc no game for you.
Steam only delivers ads for other Steam games. Not for Coca Cola or some crap. While it may install a startup agent(I don't remember honestly) it can easily be turned off. No steam code on startup on my system.
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but Steam doesn't piss me off. It's acceptable to me. My biggest problem is that the Steam client itself performs like it was written in QuickBASIC.
That was what I thought when I first saw a computer mouse. Do I expect this will revolutionize computing? Maybe, but probably not. Does that mean it's not cool? Naw, it's cool and my inner geek wants one. It's good to see Microsoft is indeed trying to make new stuff. That's more than we can say about them a lot of the time.
Actually, you're the one taking me out of context. I said nothing about the leaders or any members of the government. I said the government itself - meaning the structure - is largely the same.
/., Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for pretty much anything except current event politics. Are you suggesting Thailand is NOT a Parliamentary government?
And contrary to a lot of public opinion, particularly here on
which corrupt part of that at all is similar to the British government. (Please spare your lame gag about the British government being corrupt, it's not the same at all)
Wikipedia:
Thailand - Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy
UK - Parliamentary system and Constitutional monarchy
A search for Parliamentary democracy redirects to Parliamentary system.
But the ratings board is not a government entity nor are ratings legally binding in the US. This is why we see "special unrated" editions of half the movies out there now.
...if we get over 256 the DoJ might crash.
The Thai government is similar to the British government. The royalty is respected and influential, but has no actual power. Also, Thailand, like much of Asia, has a freely democratic government but does NOT have inherent freedom of speech like the US does. Movies have to pass a censor board, for example. Violence is apparently okay, but nudity and insults to the king or Buddhism are not.
I was just thinking how I needed some more drive space.
PlaysForSure!
There are a LOT of games in MAME that are utterly terrible. I don't consider the "signal-to-noise" ratio any better on arcade games than any other platform.
My opinion has always been this: If you take a random game from any system in history chances are it sucks. Most games, let's face it, aren't very good. And the gems that there are, whether they be recent or past, will be remembered, probably through more of those rose-colored glasses people have been going on about.
...it'll only take 128MB of RAM and 30% of your processor!*
* Requirements in Vista may be higher
Ah, yes. Weapons of mass-bullying. I still have nightmares of the Wedgietron 2000.