Hell, yes! Have you ever played SMS Power!'s retranslation? It is far more faithful to the Japanese original than the butchered official release. Get it here.
Now, I'm sure we could trace bits of both OS's source back to NeXTSTEP and DOS (and likely earlier), but that's hardly relevant or meaningful.
It's a bit more complicated. Mac OS X has the old Mac interface on top of Nextstep (Unix-like), that's simple. Windows' interface comes from the Cairo project, and the internals come from Windows NT, which in turn inherits from DOS, OS/2, and - important but oft ignored - the DEC Prism project (which also spawned the Alpha processor). In a sense, it may be closer to VMS than to DOS.
Why target PCs running Windows if Microsoft itself is not interested in Windows PCs as gaming platform? The last AAA title MS released for Windows was Halo 2 six years ago!
And that was a terrible rushed port. I've tried to play it recently, and it ran worse than a modern game like Crysis 2.
By number of victims, Stalin was by far the scummier one.
You know what they say about hindsight, but maybe the right course of action for the USA in WW2 would have been to act opportunistic: stay out, let nazis and reds fight to the end, and only then swiftly move in to crush the weakened victor, whoever it is.
I don't know, so don't quote me on this, but I suspect ^H^H^H^H^H hope that the reason vinyl sounds better is that it's mastered with less compression, since only people who care about music listen to vinyl.
Sometimes. For example, RHCP's Stadium Arcadium is excellent on vinyl (audiophile favorite Steve Hoffman) and squashed on CD (the infamous Vlado Meller). On the other hand, Metallica's Death Magnetic is the same absolute compressed shit on vinyl and CD, yet pretty good on Guitar Hero.
On the contrary, the lack of dynamics kills the 'oomph' of metal. When everything is as loud as possible, you can't get the drums to peak above the other instruments. The result is some lifeless yet draining music.
It would be ridiculous for me to make a Jonas Brothers record using the techniques and procedures I normally use. The techniques used to make many modern pop records involve a lot of compression and that’s what those consumers want, according to the labels. A lot of the processing that audiophiles criticize is a style thing and part of the music itself.
Crushed dynamic range and signal clipping are not a "style" or "part of the music itself". They are production errors. They are defects. If done in purpose, they are a sign of defective thinking -- "it has to be as loud as the latest #1" rather than "it has to sound as good as possible".
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Maybe you should just emulate the PlayStation version instead.
I'd take a Panzer Dragoon Saga remake over a FF7, for three reasons:
- It is harder to emulate the Saturn
- PDS is quite rare and mad expensive
- PDS is hands down the best RPG ever
the original Zelda is more of an action game than role-playing.
Zelda is not action, nor RPG: it is action-RPG.
Note that I did not say "an" action-RPG. Zelda is the genre.
remember [...] the original Phantasy Star?
Hell, yes! Have you ever played SMS Power!'s retranslation? It is far more faithful to the Japanese original than the butchered official release. Get it here.
my outdated (not getting an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich) smartphone
You call THAT outdated? I still use a 1100.
See the title... Computer games.
Now, I'm sure we could trace bits of both OS's source back to NeXTSTEP and DOS (and likely earlier), but that's hardly relevant or meaningful.
It's a bit more complicated. Mac OS X has the old Mac interface on top of Nextstep (Unix-like), that's simple. Windows' interface comes from the Cairo project, and the internals come from Windows NT, which in turn inherits from DOS, OS/2, and - important but oft ignored - the DEC Prism project (which also spawned the Alpha processor). In a sense, it may be closer to VMS than to DOS.
Is it one of those rubber keyboards? I heard they're awful for typing. As this is the main purpose of a keyboard, that's a bit of a big deal...
There was essentially one thing wrong: it was written by the same retards who did Transformers.
Why target PCs running Windows if Microsoft itself is not interested in Windows PCs as gaming platform? The last AAA title MS released for Windows was Halo 2 six years ago!
And that was a terrible rushed port. I've tried to play it recently, and it ran worse than a modern game like Crysis 2.
And that's a pity. No matter how many megapixels you cram into a cell phone, it simply has no room for the optics that make a camera any good.
In Europe, the last religious generation will have died out
If they don't turn into Eurabia, that is.
By number of victims, Stalin was by far the scummier one.
You know what they say about hindsight, but maybe the right course of action for the USA in WW2 would have been to act opportunistic: stay out, let nazis and reds fight to the end, and only then swiftly move in to crush the weakened victor, whoever it is.
Clearly IP laws are needed and useful.
That's debatable.
Are you kidding me, or just out of touch with reality?
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name me one way you can get digital music that has had anywhere near the impact of iTunes
BitTorrent.
The flute is a heavy, metal instrument.
If people are too stupid to use words correctly, whatever they say is irrelevant.
This kind of work condition is absolutely unacceptable.
No. Irrational laws do.
I don't know, so don't quote me on this, but I suspect ^H^H^H^H^H hope that the reason vinyl sounds better is that it's mastered with less compression, since only people who care about music listen to vinyl.
Sometimes. For example, RHCP's Stadium Arcadium is excellent on vinyl (audiophile favorite Steve Hoffman) and squashed on CD (the infamous Vlado Meller). On the other hand, Metallica's Death Magnetic is the same absolute compressed shit on vinyl and CD, yet pretty good on Guitar Hero.
On the contrary, the lack of dynamics kills the 'oomph' of metal. When everything is as loud as possible, you can't get the drums to peak above the other instruments. The result is some lifeless yet draining music.
I must disagree about this point:
It would be ridiculous for me to make a Jonas Brothers record using the techniques and procedures I normally use. The techniques used to make many modern pop records involve a lot of compression and that’s what those consumers want, according to the labels. A lot of the processing that audiophiles criticize is a style thing and part of the music itself.
Crushed dynamic range and signal clipping are not a "style" or "part of the music itself". They are production errors. They are defects. If done in purpose, they are a sign of defective thinking -- "it has to be as loud as the latest #1" rather than "it has to sound as good as possible".
Can you buy a Mac without OSX?
Well, you'd have to be really stupid. Why pay more for a Mac and not use the very thing that makes a Mac worth buying?
So what can replace them as a way to publicly commemorate an event?
Google's custom logos.