Not really...all three consoles are coming into the end of their lifecycles, and lets face it, $99-$69 isn't a bad price for a second console. None of the several computers I've owned over the past 8 years have run any sort of Microsoft OS. As a rabid anti-MS troll, I'm ashamed to admit that I'm really impressed with my XBox.
I plan on picking up the GameCube sometime in the next week, but I don't see it as a direct competitor to the X-Box...it's purely a gaming console, and it's insane to pass up a chance to get a good current gen console at this price.
One of the earliest, and most controversial games (pre-Pac Man) to be released was Death Race 5000...a sweet little game based on the movie of the same name where you racked up points by killing pedestrians with your car.
People love to complain about how the morals are getting worse in this country and the youth are wild in the streets. When two kids watching a violent show, listening to an angry song, or playing a particularly bloody video game, decide to act out these activities in the real world, you have to question whether the problem is with a form of entertainment with millions of fans who can exist in society without being a liability to the people around them, or the handful of kids who need an excuse to harm others.
If people wanted broadband, they would have it. More americans would rather spend their dollars on either having fake tits or squeezing fake tits to change things in the USA.
These are probably the same idiots that actually leave the house occasionally to see a movie in theaters, rather than download a zero-day cam release to watch on their 21 inch flatscreen monitors. The same people who pursue fortunes and adventure outside the realm of Everquest and engage in games and activities that exercise more than just their thumb muscles.
And some of those people may still have a library card.
The fact that landline based telco service in the U.S. charge a flat fee for local calls is a pretty good reason for not adopting a State-owned system for communication or internet access. Not everyone feels the need to be hooked up to the internet 24-7, and not everyone needs to have a phone attatched to their hip at all times. People in the U.S. who hook up to the internet with their built-in 56k modems aren't charged by the minute for slow page loads, so there's less of an incentive to switch to broadband, especially for occasional users. It's still cheaper to have a landline phone and a dial-up ISP in the U.S., and for a lot of occasional users, that's a choice that private companies offer where anything else would be overkill and $200-$400 hundred bucks more over the course of a year.
Most non hardcore gamers want the eye candy...they also want simpler controls and more options and territory for exploration when they're not competing or solving puzzles. The appeal of the Sims was in playing your characters the way you wanted to play them...Family Man, Adulturess, Playboy, or as the Lewd Dirty Old Dude. As long as you met certain objectives and goals, you could shape the social lives and leisure time activities pretty much in any manner you wanted. Fighting someone in SoulCalibur, and then inviting them out for a drink and some general tomfoolery after you complete your mission would be a blast.
I'd suggest some morphing software and enough frames to make the movement subtle. I'm curious if there's a point where the movement is so subtle that it appears the GIF is stationary but it still has the illusion of depth.
It's not Total Recall.
The interesting thing about the story is that the company is so big the government can't touch them, so they spend their time harassing the employees...however, since the employees have had their minds wiped to protect the company's intellectual property, they're of no use to the police.
If we wouldn't have jumped the gun on requiring existing stations to get on the HDTV bandwagon (which was a 10 year old technology at the time) we could have used a lot less bandwidth by going to a compressed signal that offered the same benefits. With technologies like ReplayTV, MPEG, and better hardware, theres no reason we need to waste the amount of bandwidth we've allotted to a technology that very few consumers are willing to shell out the cash for.
When a majority of the television programs being offered on broadcast stations (reality TV, game shows) do not require cinema viewing conditions, is it any wonder why the HDTV market hasn't caught fire.
The only thing that made me angry about the iMac DV/Jaguar problem is that Apple Tech support should have at least let me know that the firmware needed to be updated when I told them I was calling in reference to a DV iMac.
My copy of Jaguar was new (which would have been covered in the service agreement), but I mistakenly thought the problem was with the hardware which was not.
I spent $75 to have a tech tell me the computer was fried, and it wasn't until I did a search on Google that I found the solution to the problem.
According to XLR8, a few people weren't so lucky...placing the guts of their iMacs into a beige case and running their monitor off the back port.
That's why you wait for the Centropy release...
It's my guess that this is what the BBC is going on about. All Telesyncs are not created equal, in fact, some should (like the version you downloaded) be considered Cams.
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Not really...all three consoles are coming into the end of their lifecycles, and lets face it, $99-$69 isn't a bad price for a second console. None of the several computers I've owned over the past 8 years have run any sort of Microsoft OS. As a rabid anti-MS troll, I'm ashamed to admit that I'm really impressed with my XBox.
I plan on picking up the GameCube sometime in the next week, but I don't see it as a direct competitor to the X-Box...it's purely a gaming console, and it's insane to pass up a chance to get a good current gen console at this price.
I, for one, welcome our new PC gaming overlords.
It would add a whole new dimension to the game, or a solitare deck would require a lot fewer physical cards.
One of the earliest, and most controversial games (pre-Pac Man) to be released was Death Race 5000...a sweet little game based on the movie of the same name where you racked up points by killing pedestrians with your car. People love to complain about how the morals are getting worse in this country and the youth are wild in the streets. When two kids watching a violent show, listening to an angry song, or playing a particularly bloody video game, decide to act out these activities in the real world, you have to question whether the problem is with a form of entertainment with millions of fans who can exist in society without being a liability to the people around them, or the handful of kids who need an excuse to harm others.
These are probably the same idiots that actually leave the house occasionally to see a movie in theaters, rather than download a zero-day cam release to watch on their 21 inch flatscreen monitors. The same people who pursue fortunes and adventure outside the realm of Everquest and engage in games and activities that exercise more than just their thumb muscles.
And some of those people may still have a library card.
The fact that landline based telco service in the U.S. charge a flat fee for local calls is a pretty good reason for not adopting a State-owned system for communication or internet access. Not everyone feels the need to be hooked up to the internet 24-7, and not everyone needs to have a phone attatched to their hip at all times. People in the U.S. who hook up to the internet with their built-in 56k modems aren't charged by the minute for slow page loads, so there's less of an incentive to switch to broadband, especially for occasional users. It's still cheaper to have a landline phone and a dial-up ISP in the U.S., and for a lot of occasional users, that's a choice that private companies offer where anything else would be overkill and $200-$400 hundred bucks more over the course of a year.
Most non hardcore gamers want the eye candy...they also want simpler controls and more options and territory for exploration when they're not competing or solving puzzles. The appeal of the Sims was in playing your characters the way you wanted to play them...Family Man, Adulturess, Playboy, or as the Lewd Dirty Old Dude. As long as you met certain objectives and goals, you could shape the social lives and leisure time activities pretty much in any manner you wanted. Fighting someone in SoulCalibur, and then inviting them out for a drink and some general tomfoolery after you complete your mission would be a blast.
The analogy is fine. The original poster wanted to know why do the courts still consider DeCSS a trade secret?
I'm in Detroit. I'm connected through G.M.
...or when you have the capability of reading Slashdot during a power outage, especially in Detroit.
I'd suggest some morphing software and enough frames to make the movement subtle. I'm curious if there's a point where the movement is so subtle that it appears the GIF is stationary but it still has the illusion of depth.
It's not Total Recall. The interesting thing about the story is that the company is so big the government can't touch them, so they spend their time harassing the employees...however, since the employees have had their minds wiped to protect the company's intellectual property, they're of no use to the police.
If we wouldn't have jumped the gun on requiring existing stations to get on the HDTV bandwagon (which was a 10 year old technology at the time) we could have used a lot less bandwidth by going to a compressed signal that offered the same benefits. With technologies like ReplayTV, MPEG, and better hardware, theres no reason we need to waste the amount of bandwidth we've allotted to a technology that very few consumers are willing to shell out the cash for. When a majority of the television programs being offered on broadcast stations (reality TV, game shows) do not require cinema viewing conditions, is it any wonder why the HDTV market hasn't caught fire.
The only thing that made me angry about the iMac DV/Jaguar problem is that Apple Tech support should have at least let me know that the firmware needed to be updated when I told them I was calling in reference to a DV iMac. My copy of Jaguar was new (which would have been covered in the service agreement), but I mistakenly thought the problem was with the hardware which was not. I spent $75 to have a tech tell me the computer was fried, and it wasn't until I did a search on Google that I found the solution to the problem. According to XLR8, a few people weren't so lucky...placing the guts of their iMacs into a beige case and running their monitor off the back port.
That's why you wait for the Centropy release... It's my guess that this is what the BBC is going on about. All Telesyncs are not created equal, in fact, some should (like the version you downloaded) be considered Cams.