But you see, the hard drive comes bundled with the system. There will be little (if any) profit made there. On the other hand, that $40 memory card probably only costs $5-$10 to make. They will make a tidy profit off of those.
It does ok. Every now and then there's a show it just can't handle, but even that is usually fixed by killing all other open programs or rebooting. I also use the DiVX player when I can which is MUCH better than Windows Media Player at handling the low system resources. I usually look for the HDTV-LOL files as they play the best on my system.
Gasoline companies fit under the umbrella of "energy providers" so unless you're going to hook that generator up to a bicycle or something, it's not going to run.
So I guess the PIII 450 with a Radeon TV out card that I plugged into the RF Modulator so I can watch torrents of movies and shows on my 29" Sanyo TV doesn't count? Did I mention it's hooked up to a fancy-schmancy 10-year-old-$200 surround sound system?
As long as the ads don't get in the way of the game (ex. the 30's Strarbucks sighting mentioned earlier), I really don't care. It's not that big a deal to me if a guy is drinking a generic cola or a Pepsi. It also doesn't matter if a cityscape has billboards with -gasp- real products on them.
There is also the argument that sports games should have in-game advertisering. I really think in-game advertising helped legitimize Jet Moto as a concept (If only they had a team Rad).
You didn't happen to work for a paper company in Slough did you?
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I LOVE each game you mentioned (especially Syndicate) but to be fair they're all PC games. I know most of them got console ports but most of the ports were terrible. The best port of that lot I can think of is Syndicate for the Atari Jaguar and it was mediocre at best. What GTA did was take an not-so-innovative idea that has been a staple of PC gaming forever and brought it to the masses on a console (and actually did a decent job of it).
That would be interesting, but I think it would be more interesting to have counters of vulnerabilities found in other OSes since they almost never get mentioned on Slashdot. Windows vulnerabilities seem to happen FAR less often than the Irix boxen I used to be in charge of.
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"It's great that OSS is making the Windows platform so rich, it bad that it's creating inertia to change platform entirely."
Then the platform is not worth changing. I use Windows at work an Linux on most of my home machines (minus the wife's computer and the TV box). I've got to say that from a stability perspective, there's not much different between the two anymore. (I'd still LOVE to have a kill -9 for Windows.) I prefer Linux. I use it at home. It just doesn't run all the apps I need it to for work (financial software for example is SEVERELY lacking). Windows is good enough that if I can get the OSS and free-as-in-beer apps along with it, that's fine by me. Apparently that's also fine with most other people.
I've installed Cygwin and Emacs to my Windows install at work. I was looking for some sort of grep functionality a while back and decided Cygwin was the way to go since I also get a BASH shell and piping, too. I also installed emacs a long time ago. It's the Emacs for Windows, not the one for Cygwin. Both of those have increased my productivity tremendously without needed to install a full-blown Linux distro on the box.
I agree. I was waiting to see what happened to Yoda that was so bad that he exiled himself to Dagobah. I was expecting him to somehow help Anakin's transformation into Vader something along those lines where Yoda's presence led to something catastrophic. Instead he just lost a fight with Palpatine. No wonder Yoda didn't want to help Luke in RoTJ. According to what we've seen from Yoda, Luke should've gone into hiding after Empire and waited for another generation to give it a try.
So Hollywood now thinks gamers like Sci-Fi and TV Series that border on being Sci-Fi? That sounds like the old Hollywood view of video gamers to me. Now if you were to say that Hollywood is increasing the use of video games as they tie into movies and TV, I would agree with you.
"has Hollywood finally figured out how to realistically depict gaming culture?"
Anyone who thinks this is a recent trend needs to check out what I call the "Video Hockey Trilogy." The movies "Swingers," "Beautiful Girls," and "Chasing Amy" all had pretty prominent scenes where main characters in the movie sat around and played video hockey. These weren't the guys from "War Games" or "Cloak and Dagger." They were just normal people who enjoyed playing hockey on the Genesis ("Beautiful Girls" MIGHT have been an SNES). They also played it pretty realistically. Nobody looked like they were having seizures except for a character from "Swingers." The seizure like movements there were in line with what you would expect from the character.
Yeah. See they're going to ignore Secret Wars entirely. I can tell you this because this movie is "SPIDERMAN 3." There was a lot happening in Secret Wars that didn't have anything to do with our favorite webslinger. They'll just come up with a reasonable (I hope) backstory that covers everything it needs to in a short amount of time. Longwinded backgrounds will not do so well in a teen action movie.
"From the responses here and elsewhere, it simply lists all media after deleting P2P apps."
That would be ideal. God forbid the parent would talk to the child about the list returned. If I were to see something like "Buffy Season 2 Episode 1.avi" and my kid can't come up with a reasonable explanation of how it got to be on our computer in a legal manner, I'm going to delete it.
It concerns me that legal files might be accidentally removed. Like any program that removes files, changes registry values, etc, it's a good idea to get some reviews of the product to make sure it works before blindly installing and using it. This idea is pretty new. It might take a while for a product to come along that does a good job. Ideally, I'd like to see something that lists the files and gives you an easy way to preview and delete the files. As a parent, I could see the value of that. It would give me the chance to ask my kid about each file before deleting.
Calm down there, guy. The reds aren't taking over. No need to drive up into the hills of Colorado. This is software you can elect to download and run yourself. It's not something they're running remotely targeting unsuspecting users. Personally, I think it's a good idea for those who aren't so computer literate but have kids who are.
"Then I would actually go to the movie theatre instead of waiting for the DVD. The inability to watch a movie in peace and quiet is the primary factor in dissuading me from going to the local multiplex. Still waiting for the management of said multiplexes to wake up to this fact."
Multiplexes are well-aware that many people are avoiding theaters due to the rudeness of the preteen/young adult crowd (especially as it relates to cell phones). However, this crowd is their bread and butter. They will not lift a finger to throw out the last bastion of theater ticket sales. (I do realize that the youngsters aren't the only ones using cellphones in the theater. They are just the most prevalent.)
What they could do since most theaters have about 10 - 20 screens now is to institute two types of screens, quiet and casual. On casual screens, you would be prepared to deal with the hooliganry of the youngsters while quiet screens could have ushers kick out any patrons who are loud. It would be kind of like my university library where there are "discussion" floors and "quiet" floors. If you're talking too much on a quiet floor, someone will kindly ask you to leave pretty quickly. This would especially work well with a new release that might be on four or more screens its opening weekend.
"More than two thirds of all video gamers feel that video games already surpass, or will soon at least equal movies"
If you're out there labeling yourself as a video gamer, I'd imagine that you would feel that way. I'll bet if you ask people who label themselves "movie goers" if video games already surpass ore will soon at least equal movies, they'd give a much different response.
I see a lot of posters trying to make themselves feel better about the next-gen pricing structures by adjusting yesteryear's system launch prices for inflation. This will not give you an accurate picture of what's going on for two reasons:
1. Electronics are getting cheaper. How much was that TV you bought in 1983 adjusted for inflation? How about the VCR you bought in 1985 for $250? Or even your refrigerator or oven? The price of a next-gen system SHOULD be cheaper by this logic.
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2. Consoles are becoming more powerful compared to their peers. Back in the day when the NES came out, it was significantly less powerful a machine than the PCs of the time and the arcade machines of the time. Now the XBox and PS2 are about 3/4 as capable as a PC that came out around launch. As these consoles become more and more powerful compared to their peers, they SHOULD become more expensive.
The important thing isn't what the XBox 360 or PS3 will cost compared to the NES. It's far more important that you think the XBox 360 is a good value from the money. Judging by these "adjusting for inflation" defenses, I get the idea that a lot of people aren't happy with the price but are willing to pay it.
As much as I was stoked to get the PS1, after a short time I only had a few games I played regularly: Madden series, GameDay series, Jet Moto (only 1, NOT 2 or 3), and Twisted Metal 1 and 2. I was very disappointed at the utter lack of 2D platformers. I've just never been a fan of the 3D platformers like Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot (and I really wanted to like Bandicoot after his awesome Pizza Hut commercials). If I remember correctly, Sony really discourged 2D development. Whatever the reason, the PS1 ushered in a 3D revolution even if it was a bit premature.
I'm not trolling here, but why exactly is caps lock used "extensively by people who have been taught to type?" Just curious in what types of situations the layman typer is not using caps lock to their potential advantage.
On some legacy data entry systems I've used before, we have needed to enter information on older records in all caps, but needed to mark some newer fields on old records with a lowercase x. That doesn't really mean caps "reverse" is a very useful key. I just thought it was interesting that there is at least one situation where a caps reverse can be useful.
My biggest complaint about caps lock is that it's very rarely used but is layed out on most keyboards opposite the enter key. Shouldn't we be able to shove caps lock into a deep dark hole on the keyboard and use that space for a key that's used a bit more often (like control)?
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But you see, the hard drive comes bundled with the system. There will be little (if any) profit made there. On the other hand, that $40 memory card probably only costs $5-$10 to make. They will make a tidy profit off of those.
It does ok. Every now and then there's a show it just can't handle, but even that is usually fixed by killing all other open programs or rebooting. I also use the DiVX player when I can which is MUCH better than Windows Media Player at handling the low system resources. I usually look for the HDTV-LOL files as they play the best on my system.
Gasoline companies fit under the umbrella of "energy providers" so unless you're going to hook that generator up to a bicycle or something, it's not going to run.
Wonder who wrote this trojan? Could it be a certain company that doesn't want you loading unauthorized software?
So I guess the PIII 450 with a Radeon TV out card that I plugged into the RF Modulator so I can watch torrents of movies and shows on my 29" Sanyo TV doesn't count? Did I mention it's hooked up to a fancy-schmancy 10-year-old-$200 surround sound system?
As long as the ads don't get in the way of the game (ex. the 30's Strarbucks sighting mentioned earlier), I really don't care. It's not that big a deal to me if a guy is drinking a generic cola or a Pepsi. It also doesn't matter if a cityscape has billboards with -gasp- real products on them.
There is also the argument that sports games should have in-game advertisering. I really think in-game advertising helped legitimize Jet Moto as a concept (If only they had a team Rad).
You didn't happen to work for a paper company in Slough did you?
I LOVE each game you mentioned (especially Syndicate) but to be fair they're all PC games. I know most of them got console ports but most of the ports were terrible. The best port of that lot I can think of is Syndicate for the Atari Jaguar and it was mediocre at best. What GTA did was take an not-so-innovative idea that has been a staple of PC gaming forever and brought it to the masses on a console (and actually did a decent job of it).
That would be interesting, but I think it would be more interesting to have counters of vulnerabilities found in other OSes since they almost never get mentioned on Slashdot. Windows vulnerabilities seem to happen FAR less often than the Irix boxen I used to be in charge of.
"It's great that OSS is making the Windows platform so rich, it bad that it's creating inertia to change platform entirely."
Then the platform is not worth changing. I use Windows at work an Linux on most of my home machines (minus the wife's computer and the TV box). I've got to say that from a stability perspective, there's not much different between the two anymore. (I'd still LOVE to have a kill -9 for Windows.) I prefer Linux. I use it at home. It just doesn't run all the apps I need it to for work (financial software for example is SEVERELY lacking). Windows is good enough that if I can get the OSS and free-as-in-beer apps along with it, that's fine by me. Apparently that's also fine with most other people.
I've installed Cygwin and Emacs to my Windows install at work. I was looking for some sort of grep functionality a while back and decided Cygwin was the way to go since I also get a BASH shell and piping, too. I also installed emacs a long time ago. It's the Emacs for Windows, not the one for Cygwin. Both of those have increased my productivity tremendously without needed to install a full-blown Linux distro on the box.
I agree. I was waiting to see what happened to Yoda that was so bad that he exiled himself to Dagobah. I was expecting him to somehow help Anakin's transformation into Vader something along those lines where Yoda's presence led to something catastrophic. Instead he just lost a fight with Palpatine. No wonder Yoda didn't want to help Luke in RoTJ. According to what we've seen from Yoda, Luke should've gone into hiding after Empire and waited for another generation to give it a try.
So Hollywood now thinks gamers like Sci-Fi and TV Series that border on being Sci-Fi? That sounds like the old Hollywood view of video gamers to me. Now if you were to say that Hollywood is increasing the use of video games as they tie into movies and TV, I would agree with you.
"has Hollywood finally figured out how to realistically depict gaming culture?"
Anyone who thinks this is a recent trend needs to check out what I call the "Video Hockey Trilogy." The movies "Swingers," "Beautiful Girls," and "Chasing Amy" all had pretty prominent scenes where main characters in the movie sat around and played video hockey. These weren't the guys from "War Games" or "Cloak and Dagger." They were just normal people who enjoyed playing hockey on the Genesis ("Beautiful Girls" MIGHT have been an SNES). They also played it pretty realistically. Nobody looked like they were having seizures except for a character from "Swingers." The seizure like movements there were in line with what you would expect from the character.
Yeah. See they're going to ignore Secret Wars entirely. I can tell you this because this movie is "SPIDERMAN 3." There was a lot happening in Secret Wars that didn't have anything to do with our favorite webslinger. They'll just come up with a reasonable (I hope) backstory that covers everything it needs to in a short amount of time. Longwinded backgrounds will not do so well in a teen action movie.
"From the responses here and elsewhere, it simply lists all media after deleting P2P apps."
That would be ideal. God forbid the parent would talk to the child about the list returned. If I were to see something like "Buffy Season 2 Episode 1.avi" and my kid can't come up with a reasonable explanation of how it got to be on our computer in a legal manner, I'm going to delete it.
It concerns me that legal files might be accidentally removed. Like any program that removes files, changes registry values, etc, it's a good idea to get some reviews of the product to make sure it works before blindly installing and using it. This idea is pretty new. It might take a while for a product to come along that does a good job. Ideally, I'd like to see something that lists the files and gives you an easy way to preview and delete the files. As a parent, I could see the value of that. It would give me the chance to ask my kid about each file before deleting.
Calm down there, guy. The reds aren't taking over. No need to drive up into the hills of Colorado. This is software you can elect to download and run yourself. It's not something they're running remotely targeting unsuspecting users. Personally, I think it's a good idea for those who aren't so computer literate but have kids who are.
"Then I would actually go to the movie theatre instead of waiting for the DVD. The inability to watch a movie in peace and quiet is the primary factor in dissuading me from going to the local multiplex. Still waiting for the management of said multiplexes to wake up to this fact."
Multiplexes are well-aware that many people are avoiding theaters due to the rudeness of the preteen/young adult crowd (especially as it relates to cell phones). However, this crowd is their bread and butter. They will not lift a finger to throw out the last bastion of theater ticket sales. (I do realize that the youngsters aren't the only ones using cellphones in the theater. They are just the most prevalent.)
What they could do since most theaters have about 10 - 20 screens now is to institute two types of screens, quiet and casual. On casual screens, you would be prepared to deal with the hooliganry of the youngsters while quiet screens could have ushers kick out any patrons who are loud. It would be kind of like my university library where there are "discussion" floors and "quiet" floors. If you're talking too much on a quiet floor, someone will kindly ask you to leave pretty quickly. This would especially work well with a new release that might be on four or more screens its opening weekend.
"More than two thirds of all video gamers feel that video games already surpass, or will soon at least equal movies"
If you're out there labeling yourself as a video gamer, I'd imagine that you would feel that way. I'll bet if you ask people who label themselves "movie goers" if video games already surpass ore will soon at least equal movies, they'd give a much different response.
I see a lot of posters trying to make themselves feel better about the next-gen pricing structures by adjusting yesteryear's system launch prices for inflation. This will not give you an accurate picture of what's going on for two reasons:
1. Electronics are getting cheaper. How much was that TV you bought in 1983 adjusted for inflation? How about the VCR you bought in 1985 for $250? Or even your refrigerator or oven? The price of a next-gen system SHOULD be cheaper by this logic.
- BUT -
2. Consoles are becoming more powerful compared to their peers. Back in the day when the NES came out, it was significantly less powerful a machine than the PCs of the time and the arcade machines of the time. Now the XBox and PS2 are about 3/4 as capable as a PC that came out around launch. As these consoles become more and more powerful compared to their peers, they SHOULD become more expensive.
The important thing isn't what the XBox 360 or PS3 will cost compared to the NES. It's far more important that you think the XBox 360 is a good value from the money. Judging by these "adjusting for inflation" defenses, I get the idea that a lot of people aren't happy with the price but are willing to pay it.
There's no way Flynn can match the deaf, dumb blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball.
As much as I was stoked to get the PS1, after a short time I only had a few games I played regularly: Madden series, GameDay series, Jet Moto (only 1, NOT 2 or 3), and Twisted Metal 1 and 2. I was very disappointed at the utter lack of 2D platformers. I've just never been a fan of the 3D platformers like Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot (and I really wanted to like Bandicoot after his awesome Pizza Hut commercials). If I remember correctly, Sony really discourged 2D development. Whatever the reason, the PS1 ushered in a 3D revolution even if it was a bit premature.
I'm not trolling here, but why exactly is caps lock used "extensively by people who have been taught to type?" Just curious in what types of situations the layman typer is not using caps lock to their potential advantage.
On some legacy data entry systems I've used before, we have needed to enter information on older records in all caps, but needed to mark some newer fields on old records with a lowercase x. That doesn't really mean caps "reverse" is a very useful key. I just thought it was interesting that there is at least one situation where a caps reverse can be useful.
My biggest complaint about caps lock is that it's very rarely used but is layed out on most keyboards opposite the enter key. Shouldn't we be able to shove caps lock into a deep dark hole on the keyboard and use that space for a key that's used a bit more often (like control)?