"I cannot possibly complain even the slightest about the 128 kbps from the iTunes music store"
Just because you can not hear the compression artefacts does not mean they are not there and audible.
They are there and they are audible.
As was previously stated: Buy your CDs on ebay and have the best quality available (other than vinyl) and encode to any format/bit rate your heart desires.
I sat down and built a play list the other and while the songs came up and were playing he kept saying, "where'd you find that? I got that?" It was all stuff on his computer....
That's me.:)
It is not just due to volume though. I go through phases of likeing different genres of music, so I will often aquire new tracks in one genre as I am moving on to another.
It is realy cool to go back to a genre and find tracks you forgot you had...
But still I want more, I love the fealing of listening to a great new track for the first time.... the fealing kind of dies away the more frequently you listen to it.:(
May be one day spending £60+ a year will get me more than 5 or 6 silver (audio) discs.:P
250,000... and thats 2 months before Europe even gets a look in.:(
How about SKorea? Do they have WoW yet?
/me counts the days untill he can play WoW again.
bengibbs hits the nail on the head.. perhaps if the Met. went and busted the coke snorting execs there would be no story hear cos the lawyers would be going down with them.;)
Troll I know, but so true!
Dam who am I kidding, they wouldnt go down, they can aford to pay off the judges with all those "royalties".
I don't think I'll be shelling out for one till it plays mp3/aac/ogg.
mmm it'd be nice if Sonys new 1Gig MD system would allow for multi format tunes.
Think it only plays ATRAC though, of course.:(
Apart from the fact that ID will probably make most of their money from licensing the engine to other companies, the price point did seem rather high!
That BBC story has a crazy quote:
"Despite the relatively low price of PC games, many gamers are still choosing to resort to piracy rather than pay for legitimate boxed copies," said Matt Pierce, publisher of the computer games magazine, PC Gamer.
"relatively low price"? relative to what? Cheap compared to a bottle of beer at the wanky bars he hangs out in? How the hell do kids afford games that cost £40?
The same way they afford the PC to play it on, hassle their parents! That's who pays.
Personally I have no qualms about getting a pirate copy. I payed for my CD copy but it won't be hear for days so I DLed the ISOs, got the crack and get to play the game I paid for, when I paid for it, insted of a week or two later... this is the 21st century U know!.;)
If they removed the cost CD pressing, manual printing, box Mfr'ing and distribution. Then took off the store mark up.. you are probably getting close to halfing the price of the game to the consumer. Distribute the media via P2P and FTP servers. Then simply charg to buy a valid key for on line play.
Doesn't stop people copying, but I recon plenty would pay £20 for a valid key to play a game they can legally down load or copy from a friend.
I know I would have happily paid for a Woolf:ET key, but it was totally free instead!:)
I believe the "no additional cost" referred to the monthly fee not going up and/or you not needing to pay a second subscription to use the expansion. From what the FAQ on the galaxies sight hear
The last question is: How much will Jump to Lightspeed cost? A:We haven't finalized the retail cost of Jump to Lightspeed, but we expect it will be competitive with other expansions.
So it will be 20-30 where I come from.:( Seeing as I have paid nearly 100 in server fees and 40 for the boxed game, I am not impressed that I am expected to pay a premium for this update.:(
Co Op games are great fun, if it is realy not included in the PC ver. and is only available on the xBox there is no chanced I am buying one so I will simply vote with my feet and not buy it.:(
Sven will be on the HL2 engine, I can hapily do with out buying _another_ game.
I asked this last time this topic came up, but why do M$ get to leave IE and Outlook in Windoz?
There is _no_ way to complleetly remove Outlook from the OS, I have never tried to totaly remove IE but I suspect that the same is true!
I want a ver of Windoz that has no IE, no outlook and no MP. Put them all on a seperate disc with thunderird, Moz, QT and a few other third party apps and I will be happy.:)
Heh, taring them all with the same brush aint nice. I had some great teachers at school, you need to learn to apreciate the good and learn to deal with the bad.:(
This is exactly the sort of blinkered attitude taken by law enforcement in so many 'civilized' countries.
God forbid that the public should learn to protect their families from un-desirable material from the internet themselves...
Then law enforcement would be free to use data on visitors to pertinent sites should a crime related to a particular perversion occur...
So little for thought goes in to policy making these days...
Gerr.. make my blood boil to think of the short sighted ignorant swine that sit at the top of our society.:(
Why does this only apply to media player??
I want to be able to decide not to install IE and Outlook as well as MP when I install windows..
Why would I want an email client on my gateway?
Even worse I cant remove Outlook.. yeah I can uninstall it but the exe pervades no matter what!
I say force them to strip outlook and IE as well so I am free to use a browser and email client of my choice safe in the knowledge that I will never have to see the nonstandard browser and plague like mail client aver again!
The hole of starwars Galaxies is flawed.
There is a great lack of story line in the game which makes it incredibly repetitive!
And there are bugs that cause you to loose money and resources which you have no way of getting back.
I am really struggling to justify my subscription to this game due to the lack of interesting stuff to do.
SW:G defiantly needs some more work on setting up interesting quests and implementing a more definite story line.
They are slowly making progress: Mounts and vehicles were a much needed addition (that should have been present from the start!)
What gets me is they are spending all this time making and modifying new content, when there still exists the bug that makes all your money dissappear form your in game bank account!:(
This is a realy basic, fundimental bug that has been present since very early on. Why oh why have they not fixed it yet? (because it is not easy to find some bugs.:P)
I was stung by it just after christmas and all I got was a message saying my loss was not verifyable so I would not be reimbursed.:(
And I pay 11 a month for this.:/
Exactly!
It is our (UK) prices that are too high.
Still U can totally understand from the BPI point of view, they need to keep profits in the UK and keep them at their current levels to fund their fat cat wages and their gross expenses!
Oh the filthy world of inequality we live in amazes me. Those money grabbing whores.
God forbid that they should realise it is their 100% capitalist self centered busniess model that is fatally flawed rather than the rest of the world.:P
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"I think aardman got what they needed "
;)
Truth m8, they saw Dreamworks coming.
Just because you can not hear the compression artefacts does not mean they are not there and audible.
They are there and they are audible.
As was previously stated: Buy your CDs on ebay and have the best quality available (other than vinyl) and encode to any format/bit rate your heart desires.
That's me. :)
It is not just due to volume though. I go through phases of likeing different genres of music, so I will often aquire new tracks in one genre as I am moving on to another. It is realy cool to go back to a genre and find tracks you forgot you had... But still I want more, I love the fealing of listening to a great new track for the first time.... the fealing kind of dies away the more frequently you listen to it. :(
May be one day spending £60+ a year will get me more than 5 or 6 silver (audio) discs. :P
250,000... and thats 2 months before Europe even gets a look in. :(
/me counts the days untill he can play WoW again.
How about SKorea? Do they have WoW yet?
Will you ever do another strip featuring Lord Kernow?
bengibbs hits the nail on the head.. perhaps if the Met. went and busted the coke snorting execs there would be no story hear cos the lawyers would be going down with them. ;)
Troll I know, but so true!
Dam who am I kidding, they wouldnt go down, they can aford to pay off the judges with all those "royalties".
I don't think I'll be shelling out for one till it plays mp3/aac/ogg. mmm it'd be nice if Sonys new 1Gig MD system would allow for multi format tunes. Think it only plays ATRAC though, of course. :(
That BBC story has a crazy quote:
"Despite the relatively low price of PC games, many gamers are still choosing to resort to piracy rather than pay for legitimate boxed copies," said Matt Pierce, publisher of the computer games magazine, PC Gamer.
;)
:)
"relatively low price"? relative to what? Cheap compared to a bottle of beer at the wanky bars he hangs out in? How the hell do kids afford games that cost £40? The same way they afford the PC to play it on, hassle their parents! That's who pays.
Personally I have no qualms about getting a pirate copy. I payed for my CD copy but it won't be hear for days so I DLed the ISOs, got the crack and get to play the game I paid for, when I paid for it, insted of a week or two later... this is the 21st century U know!.
If they removed the cost CD pressing, manual printing, box Mfr'ing and distribution. Then took off the store mark up.. you are probably getting close to halfing the price of the game to the consumer. Distribute the media via P2P and FTP servers. Then simply charg to buy a valid key for on line play.
Doesn't stop people copying, but I recon plenty would pay £20 for a valid key to play a game they can legally down load or copy from a friend. I know I would have happily paid for a Woolf:ET key, but it was totally free instead!
I believe the "no additional cost" referred to the monthly fee not going up and/or you not needing to pay a second subscription to use the expansion.
:( :(
From what the FAQ on the galaxies sight hear
The last question is:
How much will Jump to Lightspeed cost?
A:We haven't finalized the retail cost of Jump to Lightspeed, but we expect it will be competitive with other expansions.
So it will be 20-30 where I come from.
Seeing as I have paid nearly 100 in server fees and 40 for the boxed game, I am not impressed that I am expected to pay a premium for this update.
Can you say Sven Co-Op?
:(
Co Op games are great fun, if it is realy not included in the PC ver. and is only available on the xBox there is no chanced I am buying one so I will simply vote with my feet and not buy it.
Sven will be on the HL2 engine, I can hapily do with out buying _another_ game.
I asked this last time this topic came up, but why do M$ get to leave IE and Outlook in Windoz?
:)
There is _no_ way to complleetly remove Outlook from the OS, I have never tried to totaly remove IE but I suspect that the same is true!
I want a ver of Windoz that has no IE, no outlook and no MP. Put them all on a seperate disc with thunderird, Moz, QT and a few other third party apps and I will be happy.
Heh, :(
taring them all with the same brush aint nice.
I had some great teachers at school, you need to learn to apreciate the good and learn to deal with the bad.
It should come on the same CD as QT, Real -spit- player, DivX player, Media Player, ThunderBird, Outlook, IE, Galleon etc.
;)
This should be bundled with Windows for the users convenience.
Indeed!
:(
This is exactly the sort of blinkered attitude taken by law enforcement in so many 'civilized' countries.
God forbid that the public should learn to protect their families from un-desirable material from the internet themselves...
Then law enforcement would be free to use data on visitors to pertinent sites should a crime related to a particular perversion occur...
So little for thought goes in to policy making these days...
Gerr.. make my blood boil to think of the short sighted ignorant swine that sit at the top of our society.
I presume the winning terrorists to which you refer are the ones currently residing in positions of great power around the world?
:/
I don't hear of many 'terrorists', in the conventional sense of the word, terrorising to ban necrophile and cannibal web sites.
Why does this only apply to media player?? I want to be able to decide not to install IE and Outlook as well as MP when I install windows.. Why would I want an email client on my gateway? Even worse I cant remove Outlook.. yeah I can uninstall it but the exe pervades no matter what! I say force them to strip outlook and IE as well so I am free to use a browser and email client of my choice safe in the knowledge that I will never have to see the nonstandard browser and plague like mail client aver again!
The hole of starwars Galaxies is flawed. There is a great lack of story line in the game which makes it incredibly repetitive!
And there are bugs that cause you to loose money and resources which you have no way of getting back.
I am really struggling to justify my subscription to this game due to the lack of interesting stuff to do.
SW:G defiantly needs some more work on setting up interesting quests and implementing a more definite story line.
They are slowly making progress: Mounts and vehicles were a much needed addition (that should have been present from the start!)
What gets me is they are spending all this time making and modifying new content, when there still exists the bug that makes all your money dissappear form your in game bank account! :(
:P) :( :/
This is a realy basic, fundimental bug that has been present since very early on. Why oh why have they not fixed it yet? (because it is not easy to find some bugs.
I was stung by it just after christmas and all I got was a message saying my loss was not verifyable so I would not be reimbursed.
And I pay 11 a month for this.
Exactly! It is our (UK) prices that are too high. Still U can totally understand from the BPI point of view, they need to keep profits in the UK and keep them at their current levels to fund their fat cat wages and their gross expenses! Oh the filthy world of inequality we live in amazes me. Those money grabbing whores. God forbid that they should realise it is their 100% capitalist self centered busniess model that is fatally flawed rather than the rest of the world. :P
I agree it deserved to be cancled. :(
They should have made Enterprise more earth bound and concentrated on stories with real issues. :P