Most fansubs are still infinitely worse. Illiterate geeks who know neither the language they're translating from nor the language they're translating to, instead taking every opportunity to show off their shallow knowledge of Japanese culture in the form of a screenful of text explaining some obscure, completely irrelevant detail while completely missing the original's references to western culture.
Sort of off-topic, but does anyone manufacture WiFi PC Cards that fit in to the bottom slot of laptops?
To elaborate, my laptop (like many others) has two card slots placed on top of eachother. In one slot I have a USB2 card, which means I can't fit another card with an "upwards" bulge underneath. However no-one seems to make cards with the connector/antenna placed the other way around. Do such cards really not exist, or does anyone have another solution to the problem?
(It's also a major WTF why the bottom card slot isn't placed upside down or why the connector can't accept cards oriented either way - the port pins could be configured according to the plastic notch that now prevents insertion the wrong way around.)
I used to play Planetside quite a lot, and while the lack of permanent progress annoyed me for a bit I eventually realized that "winning" wasn't the point, but rather the process of fighting the enemy and conquering bases. No other online game has matched the fun of being part of a well-organized squad/outfit assaulting some base, or the desperate fights to keep that single remaining tower on a continent against the enemy zerg. The utter chaos of two armies clashing was also fun, especially when the third one would try to take advantage of the situation and sneak up on both. Sure the game was boring at times - during "off hours" a single player on foot could capture entire continents - but on the whole it was well worth the subscription fee.
Jez San might object to the "first" bit
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Jez San of the late Argonaut Software received the title in 2002. Good research!
Sony have been good to hobbyists with the Yaroze and PS2 Linux kit and have hinted in interviews they may create a similar kit for the PSP, letting you run code from memory sticks.
Sony made the Yaroze kit for the PS1 and the Linux kit for the PS2 (and let's not forget Yabasic). In terms of openness Sony are the best of the console manufacturers.
If I want to play the original I can - no need to pay for that. Besides, a graphically touched up version already exists (Pirates! Gold from 1993), selling the same game yet one more time does smell like a cynical cash-in.
No, based on the features I've read it's going to be a dodgy remake by Sid Meier. Maybe they've added something more, but when I last looked (many months ago) it seemed to be the same game with newer graphics.
The people who whine how Nintendo is only for kiddies need sex in their advertisement. Boom, it's "mature" and you can buy one without your friends pointing and laughing!
My guess is they put in more (and better) handling of broken HTML. In a way understandable - when IE "grew up" web standards were in a flux and people handcoded webpages with barely adequate knowledge of the language. Thus proper handling of wrong code became a necessity.
Vendor-supplied PR copy and a few overclocking benchmarks does not a review make.
You don't waste a whole page on the bleeding cardboard box the thing came in.
Selling the products you review makes people doubt your objectivity.
Same goes for advertising.
Reviews should include some sort of an opinion, otherwise it's just a product summary.
I've stopped reading hardware "review" and "enthusiast" sites, as I can get the same pathetic excuses for insights straight from the manufacturer's webpages with less hassle and popups.
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Most fansubs are still infinitely worse. Illiterate geeks who know neither the language they're translating from nor the language they're translating to, instead taking every opportunity to show off their shallow knowledge of Japanese culture in the form of a screenful of text explaining some obscure, completely irrelevant detail while completely missing the original's references to western culture.
Videogames have been region-coded since the early 80s.
It still wouldn't run on my PPC box.
To elaborate, my laptop (like many others) has two card slots placed on top of eachother. In one slot I have a USB2 card, which means I can't fit another card with an "upwards" bulge underneath. However no-one seems to make cards with the connector/antenna placed the other way around. Do such cards really not exist, or does anyone have another solution to the problem?
(It's also a major WTF why the bottom card slot isn't placed upside down or why the connector can't accept cards oriented either way - the port pins could be configured according to the plastic notch that now prevents insertion the wrong way around.)
I used to play Planetside quite a lot, and while the lack of permanent progress annoyed me for a bit I eventually realized that "winning" wasn't the point, but rather the process of fighting the enemy and conquering bases. No other online game has matched the fun of being part of a well-organized squad/outfit assaulting some base, or the desperate fights to keep that single remaining tower on a continent against the enemy zerg.
The utter chaos of two armies clashing was also fun, especially when the third one would try to take advantage of the situation and sneak up on both. Sure the game was boring at times - during "off hours" a single player on foot could capture entire continents - but on the whole it was well worth the subscription fee.
Jez San of the late Argonaut Software received the title in 2002. Good research!
It would probably use one of the new, low-power G4 models which are claimed to be able to run at 1.25GHz without a fan.
Not every PPC box is a Macintosh, nor can all Macs run OSX.
Sony have been good to hobbyists with the Yaroze and PS2 Linux kit and have hinted in interviews they may create a similar kit for the PSP, letting you run code from memory sticks.
Sony made the Yaroze kit for the PS1 and the Linux kit for the PS2 (and let's not forget Yabasic). In terms of openness Sony are the best of the console manufacturers.
Fortunately the launched satellite only had scientific equipment on board (or so they claim).
Yikes!
Nuclear space mines, self-defense cannon!
"Software Automated Mouth". I sure am happy that I'm wasting neurons on things like that!
Based on personal experience I take that as an argument for outsourcing.
Remember the old "We see further" ad? Oh the irony..
The Gamecube CPU is based on the 750, not the 440.
If I want to play the original I can - no need to pay for that. Besides, a graphically touched up version already exists (Pirates! Gold from 1993), selling the same game yet one more time does smell like a cynical cash-in.
No, based on the features I've read it's going to be a dodgy remake by Sid Meier. Maybe they've added something more, but when I last looked (many months ago) it seemed to be the same game with newer graphics.
The people who whine how Nintendo is only for kiddies need sex in their advertisement. Boom, it's "mature" and you can buy one without your friends pointing and laughing!
Good for you. Remind me, what was your point again?
My guess is they put in more (and better) handling of broken HTML. In a way understandable - when IE "grew up" web standards were in a flux and people handcoded webpages with barely adequate knowledge of the language. Thus proper handling of wrong code became a necessity.
- Vendor-supplied PR copy and a few overclocking benchmarks does not a review make.
- You don't waste a whole page on the bleeding cardboard box the thing came in.
- Selling the products you review makes people doubt your objectivity.
- Same goes for advertising.
- Reviews should include some sort of an opinion, otherwise it's just a product summary.
I've stopped reading hardware "review" and "enthusiast" sites, as I can get the same pathetic excuses for insights straight from the manufacturer's webpages with less hassle and popups.