My dad recently showed me an ad for an MP3 player he was interested in. I can't remember which company it was but the player had the ability to use FM radio to play the MP3s on the player through his FM receiver in his home stereo system.
He was willing to purchase it just because of this feature. I wonder if a lot of non-tech people know about this because it seems like a very practical feature that eliminates a lot of connector/compatibility issues. No need to hook up cables, just tune in to the right frequency and you can listen to your music on the home stereo.
Is this a feature that would add a lot to the price of a player? Doesn't this seem like a feature that would be nice for the masses?
Will the GTA series still be Playstation exclusives on the next gen consoles. Does the recent release of the GTA series on Xbox mean it is no longer a PS exclusive for future releases?
You don't have to take every thing so damn literally around here. And, no, you didn't ignore the GTA comparison because you use it in your argument. To ignore the comparison you would have had to delete most of the second paragraph of your post.
And please tell me how using 'they' to describe the people of a country is 'subtle racism'.
I think it is easy to bash Microsoft over this but really, what American electronics companies sell well in Japan? It's not just the XBox that doesn't sell well there. What about American made cars? Do you think they sell well in Japan?
Don't forget you can also use the XBox as a jukebox by ripping your cd's to the 10 gig hard drive. You can get a lot of songs on there and still have plenty of room for game saves.
I prefer iceworld to dust anyday. Why? Does anyone know why? I sure don't.
That will be changing now that both me and my roommate are both on Xbox Live and he just got Counterstrike. On Xbox CS, people actually communicate with each other because we all can. I've never had a mic on my PC CS and neither do a lot of people. I find the quality lackluster compared to XBL. Voices are often muffled and people can be just as annoying as people on XBL. I just miss the chat via keyboard. And the UT 'headshot'.
When I first read your list I thought you were poking fun at them for all their inclusions in the album. I wondered why you were modded up as 'informative' instead of 'funny'. I didn't realize you liked or needed "fan club" membership or color magazines when you buy cds. When I buy a cd I want 10-12 good songs for 10-12 dollars.
Filler songs are killing music sales. For rap music it's filler and skits and introludes, interludes, and outros, etc.etc.etc. You remember those 100 disc cd changers back in the '90s? Okay, they're still around and I want one and they're so cheap I'm wondering why I don't buy one. Anyways, you buy one of those, stuff it with cds, and you'll likely get a filler song or interlude 40-50% of the time. That's why people want to choose which songs they want to download.
It was '92 for me because of the SNES and Street Fighter II. That game rocked. Does anyone else remember how expensive SNES games were? I seem to recall them being $60-$70 for some titles.
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Maybe he was trying for funny but he missed the mark. So just because something has been out for 50 years it has to be read? Do you know how many good books there are that have come out in the past 50 years? No? Neither do I because there are too many to list. I haven't read the books either but will after the movies. I guess I'm a film snob who doesn't want the cinematic experience ruined because it's not faithful to the book. I don't want to be sitting in the theater, knitpicking just cuz some Elves show up at Helm's Deep or Shelob's not in the Two Towers. Boo fuckin hoo.
There was a huge bug that pissed me off. Perhaps some other people ran into it. After facing Malak the first time and returning to the Ebon Hawk, you have to talk to Mission. The only problem is she was invisible from a mission before and your character can't necessarily recognize her. So the game just hangs there on another member, Carth, waiting for Mission to say something. But she never does because your character can't see her! It really pissed me off. I had to call the technical support for help! I'm not sure but I think they had some specific bugs listed in their automated system so they were definitely getting a lot of phone calls about them. The guy I talked to sounded like he had encountered thousands of the same problems for other customers. These companies should make the programmers who are the cause of the bugs answer the technical support lines because that ain't right to have that kind of bugs in a console game. But anyways KOTOR is a great game and definitely worth purchase. Anyone else encounter the bug I did or any others that pissed them off? And when are they gonna have downloads? Anyone have any ideas on what they would be?
It's because people have to replace their broken ones. But anyways I just got F-Zero, Metroid Prime, and Soul Caliber II so my GC is going to be getting some work after sitting dormant for awhile. Which is good cuz the Wavebird controllers kick ass. By far the best console controller ever produced. (Besides Steel Batallion's mammoth.)
Does anyone think it's strange to see Nintendo and Sega's logo pop up on the same screen of some games? Ten years ago they were pretty much the only competition for each other and now Sega's making software for Nintendo. Crazy, man, crazy.
You actually use the PS2 to play DVDs? When I used it for movies the quality seemed to be lacking. Anyone else notice this? It is commendable however that you don't have to buy a stupid $30 remote a la XBox to play DVDs.
I hate Objects Passing Through Other Objects in games. Football games are notorious for this. ESPN Football is the football game I've ever played but I encounter this problem frequently. Balls going through a defender's hands, arms, torso!?!, etc., etc. I think I noticed an instance of O.P.T.O.O. in HalfLife2 demo movie, could be mistaken though.
Who's gonna buy this card just cuz it comes with HL2, especially since the game isn't even out yet. The good thing about this is the fact that the 9800 pro should be going down in price and according tomshardware.com the new ATI card barely surpasses the 9800 Pro in the benchmarks. In two months the 9800 Pro should be within my price range (maybe the all in wonder). One thing someone could shed some light on for me involves the memory. 128 MB vs. 256 MB ? Do I really need 256 MB in the next couple of years because there is quite a difference in price. Thanks.
You're right Prior Restraint. It was in Timothy Zahn's trilogy that takes place after ROTJ. Those books were "Heir to the Empire", "Dark Force Rising", and "The Last Command". I read them in high school and they kick ass.
How about becoming the biggest philanthropist ever. Do a little digging and you'll find Bill Gates has and will be giving away a lot of his fortune. Checkout this http://www.techweb.com/tech/opinion_mad/20030314_m ad . Say what you will about his business practices and products ( Lord knows you guys already have) but giving away 95% of your wealth isn't all that bad, is it?
Downloading movies will never be as popular as going to the theater or renting, especially if the system is anything like Steam. How many people have fast enough broadband to download movies in the amt of time it takes to run down to the local Blockbuster or Hollywood. There is no reliability in the delivery via broadband. Anyways I would prefer Netflix.com over a downloaded movie that would probably be only viewable once.
I think you're also excluding a lot of people if you don't have rental stores. This may shock some of you but there are people out there who have no use for the internet and are getting by in life without it.
Valve doesn't seem to know what they're doing at all with steam. It's a headache for me so I don't think I'm gonna use it til I have to. I'll stick to CS 1.5 because it's just funner (and easier to get in a game) than CS 1.6. I guess I'll have to live without those stupid riot shields but oh well, life goes on.
Look at all this fuss for a game that none of us have even played and for video cards most people don't even have yet. Why don't we wait two weeks (cross my fingers) to see what's up?
I know you can use a microphone on the PC version but I think the quality of on the XBox will be superior. A lot of times the voices on PC are really muffled and hard to understand. The voice communication capabilities on the XBox might actually improve team cooperation.
Then again without a keyboard you won't be able to talk smack to the other team.
I just hope I'll be able to host a game with more than 4 players. I've had that problem with Unreal Championship for Xbox. Is it upload bandwith that affects this? I used to have only 128kbps upload with 1.5 Mbps download on cable. Now I have 256 kbps upload with 1.5 Mbps download on DSL. Will this affect the number of players i can host?
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My dad recently showed me an ad for an MP3 player he was interested in. I can't remember which company it was but the player had the ability to use FM radio to play the MP3s on the player through his FM receiver in his home stereo system.
He was willing to purchase it just because of this feature. I wonder if a lot of non-tech people know about this because it seems like a very practical feature that eliminates a lot of connector/compatibility issues. No need to hook up cables, just tune in to the right frequency and you can listen to your music on the home stereo.
Is this a feature that would add a lot to the price of a player? Doesn't this seem like a feature that would be nice for the masses?
Will the GTA series still be Playstation exclusives on the next gen consoles. Does the recent release of the GTA series on Xbox mean it is no longer a PS exclusive for future releases?
If i recall correctly, and feel free to correct me, early PS2's had problems ( I know mine does) yet people still bought them like hotcakes.
Out of curiosity, what kind of marketing does Microsoft do in Japan? Do they advertise as much (or more) than Nintendo and Sony?
You don't have to take every thing so damn literally around here. And, no, you didn't ignore the GTA comparison because you use it in your argument. To ignore the comparison you would have had to delete most of the second paragraph of your post.
And please tell me how using 'they' to describe the people of a country is 'subtle racism'.
I think it is easy to bash Microsoft over this but really, what American electronics companies sell well in Japan? It's not just the XBox that doesn't sell well there. What about American made cars? Do you think they sell well in Japan?
Don't forget you can also use the XBox as a jukebox by ripping your cd's to the 10 gig hard drive. You can get a lot of songs on there and still have plenty of room for game saves.
I prefer iceworld to dust anyday. Why? Does anyone know why? I sure don't.
That will be changing now that both me and my roommate are both on Xbox Live and he just got Counterstrike. On Xbox CS, people actually communicate with each other because we all can. I've never had a mic on my PC CS and neither do a lot of people. I find the quality lackluster compared to XBL. Voices are often muffled and people can be just as annoying as people on XBL.
I just miss the chat via keyboard. And the UT 'headshot'.
Please offer iceworld as download. please
When I first read your list I thought you were poking fun at them for all their inclusions in the album. I wondered why you were modded up as 'informative' instead of 'funny'. I didn't realize you liked or needed "fan club" membership or color magazines when you buy cds. When I buy a cd I want 10-12 good songs for 10-12 dollars.
Filler songs are killing music sales. For rap music it's filler and skits and introludes, interludes, and outros, etc.etc.etc. You remember those 100 disc cd changers back in the '90s? Okay, they're still around and I want one and they're so cheap I'm wondering why I don't buy one. Anyways, you buy one of those, stuff it with cds, and you'll likely get a filler song or interlude 40-50% of the time. That's why people want to choose which songs they want to download.
Am I even on topic?
It was '92 for me because of the SNES and Street Fighter II. That game rocked. Does anyone else remember how expensive SNES games were? I seem to recall them being $60-$70 for some titles.
Counter-Strike.
I wanna throw in my vote for Sir Anthony Hopkins to play Gandalf and Christopher Walken to play Gollum. Mix it up a little.
Maybe he was trying for funny but he missed the mark. So just because something has been out for 50 years it has to be read? Do you know how many good books there are that have come out in the past 50 years? No? Neither do I because there are too many to list. I haven't read the books either but will after the movies. I guess I'm a film snob who doesn't want the cinematic experience ruined because it's not faithful to the book. I don't want to be sitting in the theater, knitpicking just cuz some Elves show up at Helm's Deep or Shelob's not in the Two Towers. Boo fuckin hoo.
There was a huge bug that pissed me off. Perhaps some other people ran into it. After facing Malak the first time and returning to the Ebon Hawk, you have to talk to Mission. The only problem is she was invisible from a mission before and your character can't necessarily recognize her. So the game just hangs there on another member, Carth, waiting for Mission to say something. But she never does because your character can't see her! It really pissed me off.
I had to call the technical support for help! I'm not sure but I think they had some specific bugs listed in their automated system so they were definitely getting a lot of phone calls about them. The guy I talked to sounded like he had encountered thousands of the same problems for other customers. These companies should make the programmers who are the cause of the bugs answer the technical support lines because that ain't right to have that kind of bugs in a console game.
But anyways KOTOR is a great game and definitely worth purchase. Anyone else encounter the bug I did or any others that pissed them off?
And when are they gonna have downloads? Anyone have any ideas on what they would be?
It's because people have to replace their broken ones. But anyways I just got F-Zero, Metroid Prime, and Soul Caliber II so my GC is going to be getting some work after sitting dormant for awhile. Which is good cuz the Wavebird controllers kick ass. By far the best console controller ever produced. (Besides Steel Batallion's mammoth.)
Does anyone think it's strange to see Nintendo and Sega's logo pop up on the same screen of some games? Ten years ago they were pretty much the only competition for each other and now Sega's making software for Nintendo. Crazy, man, crazy.
You actually use the PS2 to play DVDs? When I used it for movies the quality seemed to be lacking. Anyone else notice this? It is commendable however that you don't have to buy a stupid $30 remote a la XBox to play DVDs.
I hate Objects Passing Through Other Objects in games. Football games are notorious for this. ESPN Football is the football game I've ever played but I encounter this problem frequently. Balls going through a defender's hands, arms, torso!?!, etc., etc. I think I noticed an instance of O.P.T.O.O. in HalfLife2 demo movie, could be mistaken though.
Who's gonna buy this card just cuz it comes with HL2, especially since the game isn't even out yet. The good thing about this is the fact that the 9800 pro should be going down in price and according tomshardware.com the new ATI card barely surpasses the 9800 Pro in the benchmarks. In two months the 9800 Pro should be within my price range (maybe the all in wonder). One thing someone could shed some light on for me involves the memory. 128 MB vs. 256 MB ? Do I really need 256 MB in the next couple of years because there is quite a difference in price. Thanks.
No one wants to pay to play online? What about Everquest and The Sims? There is definitely a growing market for online console gameplay.
Just wait til the Phantom blows everyone out of the H2O, you know?
Hahahahaha!
You're right Prior Restraint. It was in Timothy Zahn's trilogy that takes place after ROTJ. Those books were "Heir to the Empire", "Dark Force Rising", and "The Last Command". I read them in high school and they kick ass.
How about becoming the biggest philanthropist ever. Do a little digging and you'll find Bill Gates has and will be giving away a lot of his fortune. Checkout this http://www.techweb.com/tech/opinion_mad/20030314_m ad . Say what you will about his business practices and products ( Lord knows you guys already have) but giving away 95% of your wealth isn't all that bad, is it?
Downloading movies will never be as popular as going to the theater or renting, especially if the system is anything like Steam. How many people have fast enough broadband to download movies in the amt of time it takes to run down to the local Blockbuster or Hollywood. There is no reliability in the delivery via broadband. Anyways I would prefer Netflix.com over a downloaded movie that would probably be only viewable once.
I think you're also excluding a lot of people if you don't have rental stores. This may shock some of you but there are people out there who have no use for the internet and are getting by in life without it.
Valve doesn't seem to know what they're doing at all with steam. It's a headache for me so I don't think I'm gonna use it til I have to. I'll stick to CS 1.5 because it's just funner (and easier to get in a game) than CS 1.6. I guess I'll have to live without those stupid riot shields but oh well, life goes on.
Look at all this fuss for a game that none of us have even played and for video cards most people don't even have yet. Why don't we wait two weeks (cross my fingers) to see what's up?
I know you can use a microphone on the PC version but I think the quality of on the XBox will be superior. A lot of times the voices on PC are really muffled and hard to understand. The voice communication capabilities on the XBox might actually improve team cooperation.
Then again without a keyboard you won't be able to talk smack to the other team.
I just hope I'll be able to host a game with more than 4 players. I've had that problem with Unreal Championship for Xbox. Is it upload bandwith that affects this? I used to have only 128kbps upload with 1.5 Mbps download on cable. Now I have 256 kbps upload with 1.5 Mbps download on DSL. Will this affect the number of players i can host?
If you can afford to buy a Mac these days, you should be able to afford an Xbox.