I'm not sure I'd call WoW's game engine 'second to none'. It has numerous technical issues that continue to haunt it even today, and judging from the very odd occurances of things that were working fine suddenly going buggy on an update that didn't touch anything that should have been related I wouldn't put much stock on it's code being very clean either. Basically, it's power has come at costs in other areas.
That prosecutor, the police officers involved, and most importantly the judges on the majority side should all be fired right now! I've never heard of something so idiotic in the legal system before. Bringing charges under these conditions, and worse actually finding the people guilty should never have happened. Any reasonable party with a ounce of common sense would have stopped this case and simply proceeded with a warning.
I dearly hope this continues to get appealed and gets crushed by a higher court, because right now I have to say the entire Florida legal system just showed how utterly without sense it is.
20-30 IS eating batteries. My wireless controller often goes 100+ quite easily without battery change. Now, that doesn't mean it's a 'this thing sucks' kinda draw back, but that is rather short for a wireless using replaceable batteries.
About the only way I can see the Street Fighter movie succeeding is if they throw in a ton of special effects this time and actual give the fighter their special moves. Oh yeah, and keep Van Damage as far from it as possible.
It's difficult to be wrong about a definition especially when we lacked one. As well, although it's nice to classify things, those classes really have to have some good basis on them which so far this definition is showing lack of.
Well, the article goofed. Neptune isn't the problem, it's all the other junk out there. However, it is also clear from reading the MSNBC article that they also haven't defined 'clearing' so this new scientific definition is fuzzy at the moment.
Actually, no. The definition has said nothing about what 'clearing' means. If you read the MSNBC article it is clear that this is going to be a problem.
For those 10 Million people, you'd still be paying $600 because you'd need the HDMI which your current Xbox360 doesn't have.
Either that or you're doing the $500 model on PS3 which contrary to all the talk is a 100% functional option, unlike the $300 Xbox 360.
I feel the same way. It's so brain dead what they're doing. What could have sold me on 360 has now made me even more anti-MS than usual. I prefer they sit on the license than use it for another generic FPS that will just get raped by the likes of UT seris and Halo series. What a waste of good development money and a great license.
Couldn't agree more. I don't care if you think the stores are too lax in their selling of these types of games, there is no way in *bleep* that your kid should have $50 or more to buy a game that you don't know about. In fact, if your kid has $50 unaccounted for, that he/she uses it to buy a violent video game should be the least of your worries. I'd be far more worried about that kid getting their hands on a real weapon, or drugs.
Depends on what you mean by 'bring in more money'. Sony is actually barely profitable, and often in the red during specific quarters. Microsoft, while they makes boat loads of money off their office and OS products are actually in the red most often on their games division (I believe Xbox is responsible for a 4 billion dollar loss for the company).
4) I've heard of overheating but not of some massive defects, wouldn't this be in some of the regular gaming news sites if there were (IGN, Gamespy etc)?
IGN actually has reported this. Apparently darn near every Xbox 360 at the IGN offices has failed. Unfortunately, it's an insider article so I can't directly link. Apparently it is Roundtable 159.
That said, maybe IGN is a bad place for Xbox 360 for some reason, but either way it has been reported.
Honestly, they're asking for a lot with the PS3. $600 for a console is too much, and most of the people I know could honestly care about the additional features. It can play blu-ray? Great...except I can't afford a TV that the movies will look good on, and I'm not too keen on replacing my (perfectly fine) DVD collection this soon.
I'm a bit confused by people who say things like this. If you don't have a TV that can utilize it than why are you burning $100 to get the extra function that you can't use anyway? Beyond that, I don't see any contract anywhere that says you have to replace your DVDs. Did I miss the memo?
Hypothetical: I put a PS2 game into my PS3, intending to play it (even though there won't be any rumble). The PS2 game says "Please insert Memroy Card into slot 1." On the core PS3, there is no "slot 1."
Rig the PS3 to automatically save PS2 and PS1 games to the hard drive? What about PS2 games that use the PS2s hard drive? They're few and far between, yes, but they are out there, so pointing all saving to the hard drive will break some backwards compatability.
You probably do both. You reserve a section of the HDD as a specially formatted 'memory card' slot and the rest is open for free use by HDD enabled games. This isn't rocket science. It's actually quite easy.
We still need to see the end result, but a decently enabled backwards compatibility could easy work on both versions equally.
As my Evolution instruction often reminded us, Darwin did not invent evolution, nor is evolution his theory. Darwin was the guy who first proposed Natural Selection, a theorized mechanism by which evolution can occur (although even this had precursor theories by earlier fellas who never seem to get any credit).
The only thing broken here is The National Institute for Media and the Family itself with it's broken record speaches and utterly useless 'report cards'. The ESRB shot back at these twits a couple times already, and I have to 100% with the ESRB in this case. The Institute has no interest in accuracy of ratings. They are only interested in their sound bites, and frankly they have long since lost any credibility in my book.
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The court ordered them to do something very specific.. and they didn't.
Instead, they chose to filter 100% of the words by refusing to give Australia the product. That it's available via 3rd parties doesn't change that. Australia does not, and should not, have duristiction over the entire planet, and as such Kazaa should not need to comply anymore. Saying otherwise basically opens up every software company on the planet to every hair-brained law any government on the planet comes up with.
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I'm not sure I'd call WoW's game engine 'second to none'. It has numerous technical issues that continue to haunt it even today, and judging from the very odd occurances of things that were working fine suddenly going buggy on an update that didn't touch anything that should have been related I wouldn't put much stock on it's code being very clean either. Basically, it's power has come at costs in other areas.
I dearly hope this continues to get appealed and gets crushed by a higher court, because right now I have to say the entire Florida legal system just showed how utterly without sense it is.
Yeah, no doubt. I smell lawsuit coming and I doubt they'll have much of a defense.
I knew you could drown in the stuff, but dying from drinking too much of it? Wow. Didn't know that.
I don't know why this was modded insightful when it is wrong. The Sixaxis does detect linear motion as well as tilt.
I might find this funny... IF you had got it right. There are 6 axis: 3 rotational, 3 directional. Is this so hard to understand?
20-30 IS eating batteries. My wireless controller often goes 100+ quite easily without battery change. Now, that doesn't mean it's a 'this thing sucks' kinda draw back, but that is rather short for a wireless using replaceable batteries.
About the only way I can see the Street Fighter movie succeeding is if they throw in a ton of special effects this time and actual give the fighter their special moves. Oh yeah, and keep Van Damage as far from it as possible.
It's just this sort of thing that shows us why monopolies are BAD!
It's difficult to be wrong about a definition especially when we lacked one. As well, although it's nice to classify things, those classes really have to have some good basis on them which so far this definition is showing lack of.
Well, the article goofed. Neptune isn't the problem, it's all the other junk out there. However, it is also clear from reading the MSNBC article that they also haven't defined 'clearing' so this new scientific definition is fuzzy at the moment.
Actually, no. The definition has said nothing about what 'clearing' means. If you read the MSNBC article it is clear that this is going to be a problem.
For those 10 Million people, you'd still be paying $600 because you'd need the HDMI which your current Xbox360 doesn't have. Either that or you're doing the $500 model on PS3 which contrary to all the talk is a 100% functional option, unlike the $300 Xbox 360.
It hasn't disproven anything. All it shown is some games can get by with DVD, not that all games can get by with it.
I feel the same way. It's so brain dead what they're doing. What could have sold me on 360 has now made me even more anti-MS than usual. I prefer they sit on the license than use it for another generic FPS that will just get raped by the likes of UT seris and Halo series. What a waste of good development money and a great license.
Couldn't agree more. I don't care if you think the stores are too lax in their selling of these types of games, there is no way in *bleep* that your kid should have $50 or more to buy a game that you don't know about. In fact, if your kid has $50 unaccounted for, that he/she uses it to buy a violent video game should be the least of your worries. I'd be far more worried about that kid getting their hands on a real weapon, or drugs.
No way you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy on a guy's doorstep. In the bathroom/bedroom, sure, but not on his doorstep.
Depends on what you mean by 'bring in more money'. Sony is actually barely profitable, and often in the red during specific quarters. Microsoft, while they makes boat loads of money off their office and OS products are actually in the red most often on their games division (I believe Xbox is responsible for a 4 billion dollar loss for the company).
IGN actually has reported this. Apparently darn near every Xbox 360 at the IGN offices has failed. Unfortunately, it's an insider article so I can't directly link. Apparently it is Roundtable 159.
That said, maybe IGN is a bad place for Xbox 360 for some reason, but either way it has been reported.
Honestly, they're asking for a lot with the PS3. $600 for a console is too much, and most of the people I know could honestly care about the additional features. It can play blu-ray? Great...except I can't afford a TV that the movies will look good on, and I'm not too keen on replacing my (perfectly fine) DVD collection this soon. I'm a bit confused by people who say things like this. If you don't have a TV that can utilize it than why are you burning $100 to get the extra function that you can't use anyway? Beyond that, I don't see any contract anywhere that says you have to replace your DVDs. Did I miss the memo?
Hypothetical: I put a PS2 game into my PS3, intending to play it (even though there won't be any rumble). The PS2 game says "Please insert Memroy Card into slot 1." On the core PS3, there is no "slot 1." Rig the PS3 to automatically save PS2 and PS1 games to the hard drive? What about PS2 games that use the PS2s hard drive? They're few and far between, yes, but they are out there, so pointing all saving to the hard drive will break some backwards compatability. You probably do both. You reserve a section of the HDD as a specially formatted 'memory card' slot and the rest is open for free use by HDD enabled games. This isn't rocket science. It's actually quite easy. We still need to see the end result, but a decently enabled backwards compatibility could easy work on both versions equally.
As my Evolution instruction often reminded us, Darwin did not invent evolution, nor is evolution his theory. Darwin was the guy who first proposed Natural Selection, a theorized mechanism by which evolution can occur (although even this had precursor theories by earlier fellas who never seem to get any credit).
Wrong, Blu-ray does support managed copy. It was added a couple months ago.
The only thing broken here is The National Institute for Media and the Family itself with it's broken record speaches and utterly useless 'report cards'. The ESRB shot back at these twits a couple times already, and I have to 100% with the ESRB in this case. The Institute has no interest in accuracy of ratings. They are only interested in their sound bites, and frankly they have long since lost any credibility in my book.
Instead, they chose to filter 100% of the words by refusing to give Australia the product. That it's available via 3rd parties doesn't change that. Australia does not, and should not, have duristiction over the entire planet, and as such Kazaa should not need to comply anymore. Saying otherwise basically opens up every software company on the planet to every hair-brained law any government on the planet comes up with.