Time after time slashdotters complain about there being no good OGG players, when iRiver's iHP120 has been out for months: iRiver iHP120 at Amazon
It has a 20GB harddrive, plays MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV and ASF, has high quality MP3 recording with adjustable bitrate, has an FM Tuner, optical out, in-line remote with backlit screen, a longer battery life than iPod (16 hrs), and acts as a USB 2.0 harddrive with no software. Note that a firmware upgrade is required for OGG playback, but most of my music is in OGG and it plays perfectly with the update.
Enter the Matrix is "awful"? Have you played it or is that based on some review? While it is certainly flawed, I think that all of its flaws can be directly related to the differences between movies and games. Its an inconsistant experience, the sort of game where you are exhilarated with one fight/level but bored or frustrated by the next. But to call it awful is a gross exageration. Firing an MP5 through a slow motion cartwheel, doing a shooting dive with dual MAC-11s, and snapping an enemies neck with a jump kick off a wall are just a few of the moves in EtM. Its not very intellectual, but you can't tell me its not fun.
EtM's Main flaws:
*Full Motion Video cutscenes pull you out of the action too often
*Animation that relies too heavily on motion capture is sometimes incredible but other times robotic and abruptly transitioned
*Uninteractive enviroments
*Fighting system that is too automatic
*Crummy driving levels
*Too short
All of these flaws combine to create a game that is more like a movie where you control the fight scenes. Its not perfect, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun.
When someone says scooter I picture the toy Razor Scooters or a Segway, both of which have the rider standing on a flat platform. This is really a Moped, which is much more practical. The presentation also shows something which they call a Moped, but which actually looks like a full motorcycle. Riding a hydrogen powered motorcycle would not be at all embarrissing compared to riding something like a Segway.
The tests used in the review are two Quake III based tests and 3d Mark 2001. Part of the reason for such a small increase (23-48%) with 300% of the processor is not just the difference between PIII and Celeron architectures, but because the 3D Card is a more important consideration then the processor in these types of tests. Some office benchmarks or video encoding speed would have been valuable metrics for comparing processors.
If you watch the first Animatrix short, "Second Renaissance," you will see that the machines are not in fact evil. They only wanted equality, and the human rulers would not allow it. I strongly suspect that they had no desire to eliminate the human race, and instead imprisoned humans in the Matrix so that mankind could be as happy as possible without troubling the machine society.
I wouldn't believe for a minute that the PS2 could handle graphics anything like what Doom III is supposed to have. That even the XBox can handle it without significantly reducing the detail would supprise me. So MS is trying to keep Nintendo from producing a crippled port of their own. We care again...why?
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Time after time slashdotters complain about there being no good OGG players, when iRiver's iHP120 has been out for months: iRiver iHP120 at Amazon It has a 20GB harddrive, plays MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV and ASF, has high quality MP3 recording with adjustable bitrate, has an FM Tuner, optical out, in-line remote with backlit screen, a longer battery life than iPod (16 hrs), and acts as a USB 2.0 harddrive with no software. Note that a firmware upgrade is required for OGG playback, but most of my music is in OGG and it plays perfectly with the update.
Enter the Matrix is "awful"? Have you played it or is that based on some review? While it is certainly flawed, I think that all of its flaws can be directly related to the differences between movies and games. Its an inconsistant experience, the sort of game where you are exhilarated with one fight/level but bored or frustrated by the next. But to call it awful is a gross exageration. Firing an MP5 through a slow motion cartwheel, doing a shooting dive with dual MAC-11s, and snapping an enemies neck with a jump kick off a wall are just a few of the moves in EtM. Its not very intellectual, but you can't tell me its not fun. EtM's Main flaws: *Full Motion Video cutscenes pull you out of the action too often *Animation that relies too heavily on motion capture is sometimes incredible but other times robotic and abruptly transitioned *Uninteractive enviroments *Fighting system that is too automatic *Crummy driving levels *Too short All of these flaws combine to create a game that is more like a movie where you control the fight scenes. Its not perfect, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun.
When someone says scooter I picture the toy Razor Scooters or a Segway, both of which have the rider standing on a flat platform. This is really a Moped, which is much more practical. The presentation also shows something which they call a Moped, but which actually looks like a full motorcycle. Riding a hydrogen powered motorcycle would not be at all embarrissing compared to riding something like a Segway.
The tests used in the review are two Quake III based tests and 3d Mark 2001. Part of the reason for such a small increase (23-48%) with 300% of the processor is not just the difference between PIII and Celeron architectures, but because the 3D Card is a more important consideration then the processor in these types of tests. Some office benchmarks or video encoding speed would have been valuable metrics for comparing processors.
If you watch the first Animatrix short, "Second Renaissance," you will see that the machines are not in fact evil. They only wanted equality, and the human rulers would not allow it. I strongly suspect that they had no desire to eliminate the human race, and instead imprisoned humans in the Matrix so that mankind could be as happy as possible without troubling the machine society.
I wouldn't believe for a minute that the PS2 could handle graphics anything like what Doom III is supposed to have. That even the XBox can handle it without significantly reducing the detail would supprise me. So MS is trying to keep Nintendo from producing a crippled port of their own. We care again...why?