I heard a rumour that at least one games store gets extra unpaid work out of its employees, by only contracting them for a very small number of hours a week, but have them rota-ed in for the hours the store needs them for. Then, they expect them to stay late unpaid to hoover up and clean up the store, on top of their rotated hours. Should anyone complain, they find themselves rotated down to the minimum number of hours they were contracted for.
.. and legitimacy for YouTube, I guess the first major change will be the removal of all copyrighted video and subsequent policing of the site. At the time of writing, there's a hell of a lot of copyrighted shows on there. Granted, you can't easily download them, but it's still legally dodgy at best and downright illegal at worst.
Who could deliberately sabotage their chip, and when they're caught shoplifting, they could just say that you didn't realize their chip was faulty. Who'd be able to prove different?
Thing is, if you have a SD TV in the UK, you can have your 360 connected via a scart cable. Which is as sharp a picture as you can get on a SD telly, and the text is entirely legible in that mode.
As for HD games, my thoughts on it mirror my thoughts on HD movies. If a game needs to me HD to be worth playing, then it isn't worth playing at all.
The ability to update an operating system and games is a bad thing, as far as a consoles are concerned. One of the reasons I bought an X-Box was so I wouldn't have to deal with patches. And by and large, the games for that console were released bug-free - because Microsoft explicitly said that Live could not be used for patches (I believe it was used once, for a patch for Unreal Tournament).
Yet now, Live on the 360 appears to act as a standard patch and OS delivery system. Hence we've had games released that deleted saves, wiped your online score and worse. If I wanted patching/updating, I'd buy a console.
That's what I'd consider myself anyway. I've been playing games for a while, and both this and the fact I've recently started using a Gamefly style rental service, seems to have left me with a low tolerance for crappy games. If I come up against a really stupid thing in a game then I usually end up shoving it back it the rental envelope. Granted, I occasionally take it back out and try again, but mostly it ends up going straight back to the rental place.
I seem to recall there being licence agreements in some games saying that the users are effectively renting the software. Granted, the control was then with the user, but they still, in theory, had the ability to declare any game a pirate copy, legally dodgy as that may be.
.. says the article. And thanks to the 360's Live Camera, just like a party, they can now get drunk and flash their various bodyparts at you. Truly, this is a bold new age of gaming.
I'm only half kidding, either. Given that YouTube inhabitants are usually only slightly more sane than your average MySpace user, I suspect it won't be long before spoof or remix videos start cropping up.
Or maybe not, since they're probably already working on a PS3 version of their clip-on 360 Intercooler. Although having said that, I found the intercooler actually caused problems - I had red ring errors occasionally on my 360 and have had none in the two weeks since I took it off.
Because some communities tend to be rather picky about what you put up. Even if it's only slightly visible, some drama queen or snooty neighbour may kick up a fuss about it.
Thanks, Slashdot. Just when I'd forgotten about the 'anal bleaching' procedure shown on Channel 5 a while back, this topic title brought all the horror flooding back.
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.. which was the Dragons Lair style button pushing sections. These cropped up way to often, turning an action RPG into a Simple Simon style action tester.
The downside is that the 'Sega Arcade' featured in the game doesn't actually have any playable Sega games in it.
.. whether 'non-game' means anything but the games, or anything unconnected in any way to the games. If it's the first, they'll have ended up with the merchandising rights to any Earthworm Jim toys/cartoons etc.
.. how people will jump through hoops for something free/money off. The site offered about 1.5% which is pretty piss poor. I sure as hell wasn't going to dump google just for the sake of discount that wouldn't even cover postage.
Even if it didn't offer full caller ID on a landline, being able to see if the call was domestic or international would be great. Because here in the UK, pretty much every international call you get is some stooge in India trying to flog you something. Add a button to cut the call off remotely and you'd have a great piece of kit.
What bothers me about the Wii is not that it may not be as a powerful. My concern is that it's lacking a hard disk - a device which let the X-Box handle games like Halo, a title which would have required long load times on the PS2. I'm going to wait and see how well the Wii handles loading games before I invest in one.
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I guess we'll hear teens talking on X-Box Live about their bitchin' new brain cylinders next.
I heard a rumour that at least one games store gets extra unpaid work out of its employees, by only contracting them for a very small number of hours a week, but have them rota-ed in for the hours the store needs them for. Then, they expect them to stay late unpaid to hoover up and clean up the store, on top of their rotated hours. Should anyone complain, they find themselves rotated down to the minimum number of hours they were contracted for.
.. and legitimacy for YouTube, I guess the first major change will be the removal of all copyrighted video and subsequent policing of the site. At the time of writing, there's a hell of a lot of copyrighted shows on there. Granted, you can't easily download them, but it's still legally dodgy at best and downright illegal at worst.
As a vegetarian, I insist that all references to 'Halal beef' must be replaced with 'Ethically Killed Tofurkey'
Who could deliberately sabotage their chip, and when they're caught shoplifting, they could just say that you didn't realize their chip was faulty. Who'd be able to prove different?
.. specifically, that there are no more Phantom jokes left. Whatever will journos do now?
Thing is, if you have a SD TV in the UK, you can have your 360 connected via a scart cable. Which is as sharp a picture as you can get on a SD telly, and the text is entirely legible in that mode. As for HD games, my thoughts on it mirror my thoughts on HD movies. If a game needs to me HD to be worth playing, then it isn't worth playing at all.
The ability to update an operating system and games is a bad thing, as far as a consoles are concerned. One of the reasons I bought an X-Box was so I wouldn't have to deal with patches. And by and large, the games for that console were released bug-free - because Microsoft explicitly said that Live could not be used for patches (I believe it was used once, for a patch for Unreal Tournament). Yet now, Live on the 360 appears to act as a standard patch and OS delivery system. Hence we've had games released that deleted saves, wiped your online score and worse. If I wanted patching/updating, I'd buy a console.
That's what I'd consider myself anyway. I've been playing games for a while, and both this and the fact I've recently started using a Gamefly style rental service, seems to have left me with a low tolerance for crappy games. If I come up against a really stupid thing in a game then I usually end up shoving it back it the rental envelope. Granted, I occasionally take it back out and try again, but mostly it ends up going straight back to the rental place.
I seem to recall there being licence agreements in some games saying that the users are effectively renting the software. Granted, the control was then with the user, but they still, in theory, had the ability to declare any game a pirate copy, legally dodgy as that may be.
.. says the article. And thanks to the 360's Live Camera, just like a party, they can now get drunk and flash their various bodyparts at you. Truly, this is a bold new age of gaming.
So just what do Nasa think they're doing focusing their telescopes on his house? Are they trying to see what lottery numbers he uses?
I'm only half kidding, either. Given that YouTube inhabitants are usually only slightly more sane than your average MySpace user, I suspect it won't be long before spoof or remix videos start cropping up.
.. 100% of those 20% followed their survey reply with 'r U lesbAin? my PuSSy is hott 4u. wAnna cYber?'
I hear she's campaigning not to have have this technology used in any russian research vessels.
Or maybe not, since they're probably already working on a PS3 version of their clip-on 360 Intercooler. Although having said that, I found the intercooler actually caused problems - I had red ring errors occasionally on my 360 and have had none in the two weeks since I took it off.
Because some communities tend to be rather picky about what you put up. Even if it's only slightly visible, some drama queen or snooty neighbour may kick up a fuss about it.
.. that you'll pay your money, open the boxes they send you to find that they all contain egg cartons and a few tubes of pritt-stick?
Thanks, Slashdot. Just when I'd forgotten about the 'anal bleaching' procedure shown on Channel 5 a while back, this topic title brought all the horror flooding back.
.. which was the Dragons Lair style button pushing sections. These cropped up way to often, turning an action RPG into a Simple Simon style action tester. The downside is that the 'Sega Arcade' featured in the game doesn't actually have any playable Sega games in it.
.. whether 'non-game' means anything but the games, or anything unconnected in any way to the games. If it's the first, they'll have ended up with the merchandising rights to any Earthworm Jim toys/cartoons etc.
.. how people will jump through hoops for something free/money off. The site offered about 1.5% which is pretty piss poor. I sure as hell wasn't going to dump google just for the sake of discount that wouldn't even cover postage.
.. for unmanned invisible aircraft. Wonder Woman's had one for ages.
Even if it didn't offer full caller ID on a landline, being able to see if the call was domestic or international would be great. Because here in the UK, pretty much every international call you get is some stooge in India trying to flog you something. Add a button to cut the call off remotely and you'd have a great piece of kit.
What bothers me about the Wii is not that it may not be as a powerful. My concern is that it's lacking a hard disk - a device which let the X-Box handle games like Halo, a title which would have required long load times on the PS2. I'm going to wait and see how well the Wii handles loading games before I invest in one.