Obviously if you listen to music that doesn't suck so bad that you have to distort it to pieces to stand listening to it, you won't have this problem.
You can listen to the Beatles loudly. You can listen to Queen loudly. You can listen to anything loudly, and people do. It's not just the top 40 crap that's on those MP3 players, you know.
I really don't see the point you're trying to make with that statement.
The rule of thumb I've been using at college: if the bus/heater/conversation/etc. is so loud that I can't hear my music over it, the iPod goes off.
Unfortunately, no one seems to pay attention to articles like these. I've heard plenty of music that's being played much too loud; the best example so far was hearing music from the study cubicle next door with both doors closed and my iPod on. To be fair, the tops are open, but that's not much of a comfort.
I worry sometimes, even though I don't really need to. It turns out that I usually use the lower (and occasionally lowest) volume settings, and I can hear just fine with them. Even as I type, though, I can feel my right ear ringing ever so slightly...and I'm praying that it's just the congestion that my allergies brings on.
If nothing else, though, you can be sure that someone's going to find a way to treat or possibly reverse hearing loss. If they don't, then America's just going to fall behind the rest of the world in yet another category.
Whatever you do, don't forget about us laptop users.
My native resolution is 1280x800. Fixed width anything is going to look like garbage on my machine, as no one designs pages for widescreen aspect ratios.
It's been said plenty of times before, but designing for a fixed resolution is a bad idea. This is just one of the reasons why.
No. GameStop bought EB Games. If you'd like, there are plenty of articles on Slashdot and who knows how many other sites; this was just the first to poop up.
And I've heard nothing about GameStop managers being fired, but I do know that they've axed EB employees in Philly, EB's former headquarters.
For crying out loud...would a 30 second Google search to check your facts kill you people?
Name another game console that does this. I, for one, have never heard of brand new consoles crashing with a multitude of errors and of games that trigger the crash.
Actually, that quote was from IGN's article almost directly.
"Kameo is a game that will last players weeks but not months," as mentioned in the Closing Comments section.
And if you've got the time to play games for more than two hours a day, more power to you. I know that my lifestyle is different - I'm a college student with very little free time - but even then, I'd be perfectly content with a shorter game if the experience is a good one. Beyond Good and Evil and Max Payne come to mind...
Judging from both sets of reviews, it looks like Project Gotham Racing 3 - which scored a 10/10 on 1UP - is the only sure winner of the 360 launch games thus far."
Ignoring the fact that you can't pick a winner from "both sets of reviews" when it's only included in one of them...
The "games have to get nine out of ten to be worth playing" mentality bothers me. A lot. Scores are inflated to the point where they're almost meaningless anyway; even though Black and White was a good game, do you really think it would have been consistently rated at the 90% level if it wasn't so anticipated and so hyped? The 10/10 on PGR3 means jack except for it's the obligatory launch title that everyone is expected to buy with the console. What console hasn't launched with at least one game in the 9/10 or above range?
Personally, I know I'd have more fun with Kameo than I would PGR3. I've got racing games, and plenty of them. I'd much rather have an experience that's new instead of something that we see modified and released anew every six months in some form.
It's also a letdown to see how the scores are determined. Kameo was scored lower because it's only going to last "weeks, not months?" Give me a fucking break - weeks of entertainment for $50 is still pretty darn good, all things considered, and Kameo also seems to be one of the few 360 launch titles that has a plot of some kind. Apparently, that's become a bad thing.
Also, how will MS set the price on 3rd-party games? Seems shady to me.
Nintendo did the same with the Game Boy Advance at launch, and did so by (if I remember this correctly) making the licenses expensive to the point where other developers had to have a higher MSRP to make a profit.
Of course, that didn't last for very long, and I doubt it will here.
The "I'm going to pirate because the record companies are fucking us over" excuse actually holds water!
I'm just not going to pay $15 for the right to listen to music in a fixed order in a certain CD player on the second Tuesday of each month between five and eight PM. The things Sony is demanding go against the concept of fair use...and I get the feeling that thi story could do just as much damage as the rootkit one did, if not more.
"But how many people are going to want more than 100 songs at a time? My guess woul dbe almost everyone."
My 512MB iPod Shuffle (which I received for free) can hold maybe 150 songs at most. That translates to eight and a half hours of music with the 128kbps AAC compression, and that's more than enough for bus rides or walking to classes and then swapping out songs when I get bored with the mix in a few days.
Yes...because you didn't even glance at the article, apparently.
Beyond the Storm: Shadows of the Big Easy is a collection of short stories, essays, art and role-playing game materials inspired by the culture, landscape, and city of New Orleans. With contributions from three continents and from across the spectrum of role-playing, all the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to support Katrina Disaster Relief. Join the authors and artists as they explore the Big Easy as it could have been and how it might be...
At no point in the page did they say what the roleplaying was about, let alone claim that it allows you to "roleplay the disaster."
Do you really think that Google would be dumb enough to take the hugely negative backlash that would come with giving people adware or spyware?
There are other search engines, other e-mail providers, and other ways to get the services Google offers. If Google starts...well, being evil, then I'll just jump ship and get my needs filled elsewhere. And I know that I wouldn't be alone in doing so.
"Again, Slashdot is my model for this: the readers, as long as their comments are well organized, are often at least as interesting as the writers."
So what happens with the other 85% of comments?
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There are no "Star Wars" films in production, and never will be. I doubt that Lucas would buy Pixar and force them to work on the television series, and since he's still got his close ties to ILM>..I don't see any reason at all for this to happen.
Look at how many indie films have been made with consumer-level equipment. Look at the movies that are still done with hand-drawn animation or with puppets that are moved frame by frame. People can still take amazing pictures in black and white, and sometimes stylized is better than realistic or fancy, a la Sin City (ignoring the technology that went into it for effects like the splashes of color).
Books are fragile. They need to be preserved somehow.
Would Google be allowed to store scanned copies of books even if the authors opt out? Someday, those print copies are going to be destroyed or deteriorate to the point of uselessness, which means that Google could be archiving works that might otherwise be lost forever.
I still don't get the uproar over the scanning, because it's not like the entire book is made available for free. The search is so crippled that it makes me think the people who are upset have never used it before.
And why shouldn't they? You're not going to be hacking into the Revolution to make it run Linux; I'd suspect the controls would make for a slightly wacky computing experience. You're never going to need to upgrade the system.
More importantly, as the last gen showed us, power doesn't mean much anymore. The three systems were able to offer very comparable experiences with the consoles differing in power, save for the fact that the Xbox versions of titles tend to be prettier than PS2 or GC ports. Hell, there were plenty of tri-console titles even in the last generation; even if the PS1 version of Spider-Man, for instance, was uglier, it still played the same as the Dreamcast version. If the specs didn't matter then, why should they now?
If I buy a console, it's for the games. Not for the specs. The era of classifying systems by bits is over.
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You can listen to the Beatles loudly. You can listen to Queen loudly. You can listen to anything loudly, and people do. It's not just the top 40 crap that's on those MP3 players, you know.
I really don't see the point you're trying to make with that statement.
The rule of thumb I've been using at college: if the bus/heater/conversation/etc. is so loud that I can't hear my music over it, the iPod goes off.
Unfortunately, no one seems to pay attention to articles like these. I've heard plenty of music that's being played much too loud; the best example so far was hearing music from the study cubicle next door with both doors closed and my iPod on. To be fair, the tops are open, but that's not much of a comfort.
I worry sometimes, even though I don't really need to. It turns out that I usually use the lower (and occasionally lowest) volume settings, and I can hear just fine with them. Even as I type, though, I can feel my right ear ringing ever so slightly...and I'm praying that it's just the congestion that my allergies brings on.
If nothing else, though, you can be sure that someone's going to find a way to treat or possibly reverse hearing loss. If they don't, then America's just going to fall behind the rest of the world in yet another category.
My native resolution is 1280x800. Fixed width anything is going to look like garbage on my machine, as no one designs pages for widescreen aspect ratios.
It's been said plenty of times before, but designing for a fixed resolution is a bad idea. This is just one of the reasons why.
Beyond that...the textbook is always a good choice. Type it, check it a few times, and then add it to the dictionary. :)
Who's to say they won't attempt a DS version at some point?
Coincidence? I think not!
And I've heard nothing about GameStop managers being fired, but I do know that they've axed EB employees in Philly, EB's former headquarters.
For crying out loud...would a 30 second Google search to check your facts kill you people?
The waste removal system isn't really tied to the udders at all.
Maybe this isn't as much of an issue as you think it is.
Please, for the love of god, let's not turn this into an N-Gage joke.
Name another game console that does this. I, for one, have never heard of brand new consoles crashing with a multitude of errors and of games that trigger the crash.
"Kameo is a game that will last players weeks but not months," as mentioned in the Closing Comments section.
And if you've got the time to play games for more than two hours a day, more power to you. I know that my lifestyle is different - I'm a college student with very little free time - but even then, I'd be perfectly content with a shorter game if the experience is a good one. Beyond Good and Evil and Max Payne come to mind...
Ignoring the fact that you can't pick a winner from "both sets of reviews" when it's only included in one of them...
The "games have to get nine out of ten to be worth playing" mentality bothers me. A lot. Scores are inflated to the point where they're almost meaningless anyway; even though Black and White was a good game, do you really think it would have been consistently rated at the 90% level if it wasn't so anticipated and so hyped? The 10/10 on PGR3 means jack except for it's the obligatory launch title that everyone is expected to buy with the console. What console hasn't launched with at least one game in the 9/10 or above range?
Personally, I know I'd have more fun with Kameo than I would PGR3. I've got racing games, and plenty of them. I'd much rather have an experience that's new instead of something that we see modified and released anew every six months in some form.
It's also a letdown to see how the scores are determined. Kameo was scored lower because it's only going to last "weeks, not months?" Give me a fucking break - weeks of entertainment for $50 is still pretty darn good, all things considered, and Kameo also seems to be one of the few 360 launch titles that has a plot of some kind. Apparently, that's become a bad thing.
Nintendo did the same with the Game Boy Advance at launch, and did so by (if I remember this correctly) making the licenses expensive to the point where other developers had to have a higher MSRP to make a profit.
Of course, that didn't last for very long, and I doubt it will here.
I'm just not going to pay $15 for the right to listen to music in a fixed order in a certain CD player on the second Tuesday of each month between five and eight PM. The things Sony is demanding go against the concept of fair use...and I get the feeling that thi story could do just as much damage as the rootkit one did, if not more.
My 512MB iPod Shuffle (which I received for free) can hold maybe 150 songs at most. That translates to eight and a half hours of music with the 128kbps AAC compression, and that's more than enough for bus rides or walking to classes and then swapping out songs when I get bored with the mix in a few days.
100 songs is more than it sounds like.
Beyond the Storm: Shadows of the Big Easy is a collection of short stories, essays, art and role-playing game materials inspired by the culture, landscape, and city of New Orleans. With contributions from three continents and from across the spectrum of role-playing, all the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to support Katrina Disaster Relief. Join the authors and artists as they explore the Big Easy as it could have been and how it might be...
At no point in the page did they say what the roleplaying was about, let alone claim that it allows you to "roleplay the disaster."
There are other search engines, other e-mail providers, and other ways to get the services Google offers. If Google starts...well, being evil, then I'll just jump ship and get my needs filled elsewhere. And I know that I wouldn't be alone in doing so.
So what happens with the other 85% of comments?
There are no "Star Wars" films in production, and never will be. I doubt that Lucas would buy Pixar and force them to work on the television series, and since he's still got his close ties to ILM>..I don't see any reason at all for this to happen.
Look at how many indie films have been made with consumer-level equipment. Look at the movies that are still done with hand-drawn animation or with puppets that are moved frame by frame. People can still take amazing pictures in black and white, and sometimes stylized is better than realistic or fancy, a la Sin City (ignoring the technology that went into it for effects like the splashes of color).
Technology doesn't change artistic quality. Expectations do.
Would Google be allowed to store scanned copies of books even if the authors opt out? Someday, those print copies are going to be destroyed or deteriorate to the point of uselessness, which means that Google could be archiving works that might otherwise be lost forever.
I still don't get the uproar over the scanning, because it's not like the entire book is made available for free. The search is so crippled that it makes me think the people who are upset have never used it before.
And why shouldn't they? You're not going to be hacking into the Revolution to make it run Linux; I'd suspect the controls would make for a slightly wacky computing experience. You're never going to need to upgrade the system.
More importantly, as the last gen showed us, power doesn't mean much anymore. The three systems were able to offer very comparable experiences with the consoles differing in power, save for the fact that the Xbox versions of titles tend to be prettier than PS2 or GC ports. Hell, there were plenty of tri-console titles even in the last generation; even if the PS1 version of Spider-Man, for instance, was uglier, it still played the same as the Dreamcast version. If the specs didn't matter then, why should they now?
If I buy a console, it's for the games. Not for the specs. The era of classifying systems by bits is over.
Someone didn't get the joke here...
Isn't that the one that makes your ship blow up if you get caught pushing the wrong buttons?