Yah, in the old days before the firmware was opened up (such as last week), we trolled the forums to get DI to add features. Lots of those, most notably Ogg support, were added. People continually suggest adding Tivo like features to the radio recording, and even the mic and line-in recording. I say this because it will probably appear in the firmware pretty soon.
Back in the day, and I haven't used DC in a few years, all the hubs had disclaimers saying they were not responsible for illegal shares, and that law enforcement officers could not enter. Did these hubs not do that, or did those disclaimers have no legal value?
"Sony will also build in a dedicated security engine, which it *hopes* will eliminate game piracy and attempts to hack the system." (emphasis mine)
Oh, just like with the PS2 and PS1, right? Even the GBA has a flash card you can use to play ROMs and NES games. I understand that they need to be able to say they put effort into preventing piracy, I just found it funny they had hope.
Don't forget Ogg Vorbis support, several open source Linux synch clients, and all the great firmware features listed there. Also, refer to a previous/. article about the Neuros
Well, you also have nuts claiming that civilizations are thriving on the Moon, Mars, comets, etc as we speak. Nuts turning a hill into a monumental statue of a face, and sand dunes into a canyon sized glass worm. No matter what happens, we can assume there will be people whose preachings deviate from the obvious. It's best just to ignore them.
Yah, I think it's a great idea. How cool is it in Oddworld to be drinking Sobe, or riding those grinding shoes from Sonic Adventure 2 (can't remember the name)? Ads for the NBA and stuff in sports games add an extra touch of realism, too. I'd rather have it that way, knowing the publisher making my favorite game is making extra money, than getting cheesy fake ads for no reason a la GTA3. I suppose I would be annoyed if one of the ads got in my way, but I've yet to experience that.
Sounds like a cool idea, and I'm not sure if they've done this either. I know that if I were sending a magazine out to a ~million readers, I would place great stock in my editing. The Distributed Proofreaders project probably wouldn't want to be held liable for the mistakes of volunteers, especially with the possibility of trolls.
I often here praising the 'natural'. People who think 'natural' pills are better than ones not marketed as such, for example. People who think it's crucial that we preserve nature are the worst, though. They talk about how we need to 'give back to our planet' by protecting species and leaving nature's wonders untouched... I don't understand, are we not natural? Something a tree or a lion does is natural, but our actions are not? If the Lion were to kill an endangered species of Elephant (or whatever), it's natural. If we do it it's murder of the worst kind? Is it a religeous belief, that God created the planet for us? It seems like such 'naturalists' aren't religeous...
I'm not trying to flame such people, as I honestly feel I don't understand them. Maybe if I were better educated on the subject I could pass better judgement...
Or you could buy an MP3 player with a voice recorder built in, such as the Neuros or one of the iRiver players. They'll be MUCH cheaper, and have better battery life, so you can probably get one of the bigger (HDD wise) models and store 50 million hours of lecturing...
As is mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, though, many profs won't like you recording them, you'll need to ask.
People want long play times from their games (I know I do), so your solution may not be all encompassing. I've heard more people crying that their latest $50 adventure game only gave them 10hrs of enjoyment, than complaints that they got bored half way through. There are dozens of games I would love to play, but I don't have the money or time for. That doesn't mean I would want the games I do play crippled by some length limitation requirement by publishers.
I agree, what exactly will this legislation change? Boxes already have ratings clearly marked... The backs explain why it got the rating it got, and what it means.... and as you implied, most stores have signs warning parents.
Maybe it's just where I live, but I see stores refusing to sell GTA and the like to minors all the time. I really don't think anything more needs to be done...
Were you in uprorious laughter from my post's parent before you read mine, and then you suddenly lost its humour? If not, you have no reason to be upset. I wasn't trying to be a know-it-all, nor was I refuting his post. I was making a relavent clarification. I think it's pretty hypocritical to complain about me spoiling the fun by being pedantic by telling me how I was supposed to respond. Feel free to reply citing my spelling or grammatical errors; I don't care. Get it?
I saw the HDR, and was also impressed. It seemed like somewhat of a step backward, though. Maybe it's just because it's still in developement, but the HDR monitor was ~twice as thick as the LCD it was demoed next to, and I imagine it uses more power and costs more. Since OLED is supposed to be brighter, thinner, and cheaper, shouldn't we focus our research on that? I suppose HDR is useful because it works NOW, but I'd rather see an OLED display in my future laptop than one of these beasts...
After having read about 3D displays and how great they are, I was very dissapointed with the ones being showed at Siggraph. They seemed like those old hollographic baseball cards... but for $5,000. Seing it is a sensation that's hard to describe, and I think that may be why I thought it would be cooler than it is. Either way, I won't be buying one for my living room in their current state.
The demo of the doors that were only visible as open when looking through glasses was much cooler. If that's what you described as using polarized light, I don't think it did. Though the glasses had dark lenses, I believe they were just LCDs that only allowed certain frames from the monitor to be viewed. That way they could show 100 fps, or whatever, that are actually 5 different 20fps scenes alternating. By using one of five glasses, you could see all five scenes from one source... in 3D.
I also liked the booth where you could stand around a 3D monitor with a touch screen in a square table, and each of the four sides showed a different thing. One application showing it as a poker table, where you have to look from your side to see your cards. Unfortunately, you had to look from exactly the right angle to see anything.
I concurr, Sony products seems to be most profitable when they use to existing formats. Mini Discs, Betamax, and ATRAC haven't been too succesful. Wheras releasing movies in the theatre and on DVD, music CDs, PS games on CD and DVD, and casette tape and CD players have been quite succesful. I suppose they hope no one will notice, since the sync software will do the converting, not the user.
Though I said that when they introduced the Playstation, and look how that turned out...
Regardless, there are dozens of players on the mark with more features than Apple's. It's subjective, but I think many of them look better and are easier to use. The far majority of them are much cheaper. Despite all this, the iPod dominates the market.
It's a style thing, and fasion has great turnover. The iPod will be forgotten at some point, just as I threw out my last poncho the other day. The way Sony will prove me wrong again will probably be in its marketing. I'm sure they can throw together a better campaign than Apple with their greater resources.
Certainly not. When they moved RE development to the DC and rereleased all the old games in the series on that platform, they were $20 IIRC. The GC pricing was an odd choice, since I don't believe anything of any signifigance was added...
My take: I'm all in favor of classic game remakes, it's just that many tend to go wrong. Whether it's pricing (Capcom releasing half decade old RE games on the GC at full price), or poor quality porting (Sega's DC Smash Packs), the majority of them seem to go wrong. Some even manage to be overambitios, such as the GBC port of that SNES DKC game, putting games on hardware they're too advanced for, despite their age. However, for every one of those there is a Zelda Bonus Disk (I speak of the promotional GC one) that does our nostalgia right.
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Yah, in the old days before the firmware was opened up (such as last week), we trolled the forums to get DI to add features. Lots of those, most notably Ogg support, were added. People continually suggest adding Tivo like features to the radio recording, and even the mic and line-in recording. I say this because it will probably appear in the firmware pretty soon.
Back in the day, and I haven't used DC in a few years, all the hubs had disclaimers saying they were not responsible for illegal shares, and that law enforcement officers could not enter. Did these hubs not do that, or did those disclaimers have no legal value?
"Sony will also build in a dedicated security engine, which it *hopes* will eliminate game piracy and attempts to hack the system." (emphasis mine)
Oh, just like with the PS2 and PS1, right? Even the GBA has a flash card you can use to play ROMs and NES games. I understand that they need to be able to say they put effort into preventing piracy, I just found it funny they had hope.
Don't forget Ogg Vorbis support, several open source Linux synch clients, and all the great firmware features listed there. Also, refer to a previous /. article about the Neuros
ThinkGeek started carrying the Neuros in the last few days.
Well, you also have nuts claiming that civilizations are thriving on the Moon, Mars, comets, etc as we speak. Nuts turning a hill into a monumental statue of a face, and sand dunes into a canyon sized glass worm. No matter what happens, we can assume there will be people whose preachings deviate from the obvious. It's best just to ignore them.
Yah, I think it's a great idea. How cool is it in Oddworld to be drinking Sobe, or riding those grinding shoes from Sonic Adventure 2 (can't remember the name)? Ads for the NBA and stuff in sports games add an extra touch of realism, too. I'd rather have it that way, knowing the publisher making my favorite game is making extra money, than getting cheesy fake ads for no reason a la GTA3. I suppose I would be annoyed if one of the ads got in my way, but I've yet to experience that.
Sounds like a cool idea, and I'm not sure if they've done this either. I know that if I were sending a magazine out to a ~million readers, I would place great stock in my editing. The Distributed Proofreaders project probably wouldn't want to be held liable for the mistakes of volunteers, especially with the possibility of trolls.
You can't own Thunderbird, man. That's what OSS is all about...
I often here praising the 'natural'. People who think 'natural' pills are better than ones not marketed as such, for example. People who think it's crucial that we preserve nature are the worst, though. They talk about how we need to 'give back to our planet' by protecting species and leaving nature's wonders untouched... I don't understand, are we not natural? Something a tree or a lion does is natural, but our actions are not? If the Lion were to kill an endangered species of Elephant (or whatever), it's natural. If we do it it's murder of the worst kind? Is it a religeous belief, that God created the planet for us? It seems like such 'naturalists' aren't religeous...
I'm not trying to flame such people, as I honestly feel I don't understand them. Maybe if I were better educated on the subject I could pass better judgement...
Certainly is a long lasting fad! The conference involves games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders. I remember those games being popular 30 years ago...
Or you could buy an MP3 player with a voice recorder built in, such as the Neuros or one of the iRiver players. They'll be MUCH cheaper, and have better battery life, so you can probably get one of the bigger (HDD wise) models and store 50 million hours of lecturing...
As is mentioned elsewhere in the discussion, though, many profs won't like you recording them, you'll need to ask.
Crossover Office is essentially Wine++, right? It supports MSOffice, but you would still have to buy that separately.
People want long play times from their games (I know I do), so your solution may not be all encompassing. I've heard more people crying that their latest $50 adventure game only gave them 10hrs of enjoyment, than complaints that they got bored half way through. There are dozens of games I would love to play, but I don't have the money or time for. That doesn't mean I would want the games I do play crippled by some length limitation requirement by publishers.
I didn't get the impression trends were bad from it... I don't think it meant to imply that.
I agree, what exactly will this legislation change? Boxes already have ratings clearly marked... The backs explain why it got the rating it got, and what it means.... and as you implied, most stores have signs warning parents.
Maybe it's just where I live, but I see stores refusing to sell GTA and the like to minors all the time. I really don't think anything more needs to be done...
Were you in uprorious laughter from my post's parent before you read mine, and then you suddenly lost its humour? If not, you have no reason to be upset. I wasn't trying to be a know-it-all, nor was I refuting his post. I was making a relavent clarification. I think it's pretty hypocritical to complain about me spoiling the fun by being pedantic by telling me how I was supposed to respond. Feel free to reply citing my spelling or grammatical errors; I don't care. Get it?
Their population is ~1 billion, so 60 million is ~6%.
I saw the HDR, and was also impressed. It seemed like somewhat of a step backward, though. Maybe it's just because it's still in developement, but the HDR monitor was ~twice as thick as the LCD it was demoed next to, and I imagine it uses more power and costs more. Since OLED is supposed to be brighter, thinner, and cheaper, shouldn't we focus our research on that? I suppose HDR is useful because it works NOW, but I'd rather see an OLED display in my future laptop than one of these beasts...
After having read about 3D displays and how great they are, I was very dissapointed with the ones being showed at Siggraph. They seemed like those old hollographic baseball cards... but for $5,000. Seing it is a sensation that's hard to describe, and I think that may be why I thought it would be cooler than it is. Either way, I won't be buying one for my living room in their current state.
The demo of the doors that were only visible as open when looking through glasses was much cooler. If that's what you described as using polarized light, I don't think it did. Though the glasses had dark lenses, I believe they were just LCDs that only allowed certain frames from the monitor to be viewed. That way they could show 100 fps, or whatever, that are actually 5 different 20fps scenes alternating. By using one of five glasses, you could see all five scenes from one source... in 3D.
I also liked the booth where you could stand around a 3D monitor with a touch screen in a square table, and each of the four sides showed a different thing. One application showing it as a poker table, where you have to look from your side to see your cards. Unfortunately, you had to look from exactly the right angle to see anything.
I concurr, Sony products seems to be most profitable when they use to existing formats. Mini Discs, Betamax, and ATRAC haven't been too succesful. Wheras releasing movies in the theatre and on DVD, music CDs, PS games on CD and DVD, and casette tape and CD players have been quite succesful. I suppose they hope no one will notice, since the sync software will do the converting, not the user.
Though I said that when they introduced the Playstation, and look how that turned out...
Regardless, there are dozens of players on the mark with more features than Apple's. It's subjective, but I think many of them look better and are easier to use. The far majority of them are much cheaper. Despite all this, the iPod dominates the market.
It's a style thing, and fasion has great turnover. The iPod will be forgotten at some point, just as I threw out my last poncho the other day. The way Sony will prove me wrong again will probably be in its marketing. I'm sure they can throw together a better campaign than Apple with their greater resources.
Certainly not. When they moved RE development to the DC and rereleased all the old games in the series on that platform, they were $20 IIRC. The GC pricing was an odd choice, since I don't believe anything of any signifigance was added...
My take: I'm all in favor of classic game remakes, it's just that many tend to go wrong. Whether it's pricing (Capcom releasing half decade old RE games on the GC at full price), or poor quality porting (Sega's DC Smash Packs), the majority of them seem to go wrong. Some even manage to be overambitios, such as the GBC port of that SNES DKC game, putting games on hardware they're too advanced for, despite their age. However, for every one of those there is a Zelda Bonus Disk (I speak of the promotional GC one) that does our nostalgia right.
'The way I figure it (and I'm guessing here...'
He doesn't seem to know whether or not SushiX was a 'real' person at some point in his history, though he does seem to know he is no longer.