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A. That's why public corporations are a bad thing. B. EA does tend to buy out some innovative companies now and then, like Maxis or Criterion recently. Obviously these people's games make lots of money or else they wouldn't have bought them, yet now look at the 101 different Sims games they've released. They buy innovation then ruin it. Spore looks exciting, but I'm scared to see what EA will do to it down the road...I don't want to see Sporz in 'da Ci-tay 2 years from now:(
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I cut my mp3 collections size down by 1/3 when I converted them over to Oggs...what quality rating are you using??? Here's my experience so far... q0(~64k) is about like 96-128k Mp3, q4(~128k) is equivalent to 192k mp3 and q6(~192k) is like 256k or higher with an mp3.
I don't see how MP3 can be both patented and an ISO standard at the same time... if it's use is restricted, it's not a standard damn it...:::cough::ogg::cough:::
Nice! Guess I never gave the Zodiac the look over it needed? Although it's not clear on storage capabilites...I don't think it has any built in, but might accept SD cards. If it ran Linux it'd be perfect:)
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It's sad to see EA stocks rising yet again while Majesco's has fallen to half of what it was. I guess no one cares about companies that release innovative titles anymore?
What I'd really love to see is a PDA/Pocket PC that has a built in analogue pad like the PSP's and some decent face buttons...plus you'd already have the touch screen for normal PDA type use. Throw in one of those mobile nvidia chips and a nice size flash drive or something on it for downloading games, and hell lets add in music too while we're at it...
Yeah, I'm not really excited about either like I was when the GBA came out...then again, Nintendo said that the DS was supposed to be seperate from the Game Boy line so maybe we'll see a new one next year?
However...that trampoline mini-game on Mario DS almost makes me want to buy one;P
Actually I have considered this side before... and it's not as easy as you put it either. Human beings are naturally violent, it's our nature. When a child is too young to tell the difference from fantasy and reality they can become confused on when violence is okay (ie..rarely). Kids are becoming more and more violent these days. Everyone has violent urges and emotions, but it's how we deal with them that's important. When you can just pick up a bat and beat up someone because you feel like it in a game, that can possibly cause distorted views of the real world with a child. Then again different children mature at different rates and their ability to distinguish between reality and life differs as well. But, I don't know how many people my own age I've heard make comments like "100 points if you hit that guy with your car!" when I was in highschool. Sure it's just a joke, but you can tell in their eyes that they almost considered doing it for a split second and the average person isn't nearly as stable as you would think.
People are also naturally sexual. It's just more out in the open these days. One of the number one reasons kids try to have sex prematurely is because they don't understand it or their just curious. If parents would be more mature and really talk about it with their kids at a young age, they wouldn't feel the need to experiment as much. Sure, it's more realistic to think that your kid would go out and have sex rather than hurt or kill someone, but the simple truth is that they would have went out and tried to have sex regardless of the media. I agree places like Mtv and such treat sex in a very strange and perverted way, but alot of that was already happening long before it.
In the end, I don't feel that movies or videogames influence kids nearly as much as people try to say, but I'm not nieve enough to think it has no effect at all. In reality you wouldn't want your kids to be violent nor promiscuous, so why expose them to either lifestyle when it's not necessary?
SDTVs are dirt cheap right now because everyone's trying to get rid of them...most manufactures will not be making anything but HDTVs after this Christmas... It will be just like finding a DVD player verses a VCR by next year... Whether or not this was because of the FCC is almost impossible to determine.
I don't know if it's included in the current standard...but at one time, wasn't there talk of having a system that would bump down to analogue if you weren't recieving a high enough signal? I know the new digital "HD radio" broadcasters can do this...
The question is not about You (if youre over 17)...it's about if children should do this. Would you rather a kid go out and have sex or kill someone? I think the answer's pretty simple...
It's all politicians...these people don't actually know anything about the real world. They just do what gets them the most attention, votes and money. If an actual parent sat down with GOW and GTA:SA they'd almost all say it's far more adult oriented..but the press only listens to the extremists and retards.
I think it has less to do with nationalism and more to do with the fact that there weren't many Japanese made GAMES on the first Xbox... Where the system is not nearly as important as the actual games they're playing on it. There's supposed to be about 10 times the Japanese support this time, so it should do alot better this go round on that factor alone.
I think this survey has happened too soon personally. Xbox360 hasn't had any real showing in Japan yet...just here in the states. The only thing the Japanese gamers know is from what they've seen happen over here and in magazines. Isn't MS having a big press conference later this month in Japan? And aren't there supposed to be alot of big name Japanese developers on board this time? I think they need to redo this survey after that happens...and then maybe once more when the official prices come out.
I know we're getting off topic here, but I don't think the editors edit very much anymore...they just say, "hey...that one looks cool" and hit ok; not a whole lot of editting going on until later that day with 3 or 4 updates...heh
Wasn't this originally supposed to happen this year? Or was it maybe earlier than that even? Personally I don't think anyone really needs to be forced to switch to digital...it's already happening and people will eventually realize the difference. You can already find most stations broadcast in and HDTV version. And the less people that are still using old NTSC TVs, the less likely it is for broadcasters to continue supporting it.
I'm kind of surprised that GTA 3,VC &SA didn't get AO ratings anyway. I'd think brutal violence would be worth a higher rating than a little sex scene...but some people have f*cked up moral priorities...
Umm...apparently you forgot what happened to the Dreamcast...it was a member of the current gen, whose ruling system is the PS2 which is black. The white rule doesn't happen anymore...no matter how much I loved my Dreamcast;)
Why did these guys think it necessary to make the Xbox360 white? It's pretty common knowledge that people perfer their electronics black. Silver would have been fine too...but white? Yuck... And the whole faceplate thing is a nice idea...but it's only the very front of the console...the rest of the machine is till while like a 10 year old PC:(
Most of us Americans have no clue what's going on with our country. The "news" networks in our country are a joke, but for some reason they all keep believing that we're doing what's good or right, when it's far from it.
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A. That's why public corporations are a bad thing. :(
B. EA does tend to buy out some innovative companies now and then, like Maxis or Criterion recently. Obviously these people's games make lots of money or else they wouldn't have bought them, yet now look at the 101 different Sims games they've released. They buy innovation then ruin it. Spore looks exciting, but I'm scared to see what EA will do to it down the road...I don't want to see Sporz in 'da Ci-tay 2 years from now
I don't buy EA games :)
I cut my mp3 collections size down by 1/3 when I converted them over to Oggs...what quality rating are you using??? Here's my experience so far... q0(~64k) is about like 96-128k Mp3, q4(~128k) is equivalent to 192k mp3 and q6(~192k) is like 256k or higher with an mp3.
I don't see how MP3 can be both patented and an ISO standard at the same time... if it's use is restricted, it's not a standard damn it... :::cough::ogg::cough:::
Nice! Guess I never gave the Zodiac the look over it needed? Although it's not clear on storage capabilites...I don't think it has any built in, but might accept SD cards. If it ran Linux it'd be perfect :)
It's sad to see EA stocks rising yet again while Majesco's has fallen to half of what it was. I guess no one cares about companies that release innovative titles anymore?
What I'd really love to see is a PDA/Pocket PC that has a built in analogue pad like the PSP's and some decent face buttons...plus you'd already have the touch screen for normal PDA type use. Throw in one of those mobile nvidia chips and a nice size flash drive or something on it for downloading games, and hell lets add in music too while we're at it...
Why even bother mentioning the N-Gage for that matter...
Yeah, I'm not really excited about either like I was when the GBA came out...then again, Nintendo said that the DS was supposed to be seperate from the Game Boy line so maybe we'll see a new one next year?
;P
However...that trampoline mini-game on Mario DS almost makes me want to buy one
Actually I have considered this side before... and it's not as easy as you put it either. Human beings are naturally violent, it's our nature. When a child is too young to tell the difference from fantasy and reality they can become confused on when violence is okay (ie..rarely). Kids are becoming more and more violent these days. Everyone has violent urges and emotions, but it's how we deal with them that's important. When you can just pick up a bat and beat up someone because you feel like it in a game, that can possibly cause distorted views of the real world with a child. Then again different children mature at different rates and their ability to distinguish between reality and life differs as well. But, I don't know how many people my own age I've heard make comments like "100 points if you hit that guy with your car!" when I was in highschool. Sure it's just a joke, but you can tell in their eyes that they almost considered doing it for a split second and the average person isn't nearly as stable as you would think.
People are also naturally sexual. It's just more out in the open these days. One of the number one reasons kids try to have sex prematurely is because they don't understand it or their just curious. If parents would be more mature and really talk about it with their kids at a young age, they wouldn't feel the need to experiment as much. Sure, it's more realistic to think that your kid would go out and have sex rather than hurt or kill someone, but the simple truth is that they would have went out and tried to have sex regardless of the media. I agree places like Mtv and such treat sex in a very strange and perverted way, but alot of that was already happening long before it.
In the end, I don't feel that movies or videogames influence kids nearly as much as people try to say, but I'm not nieve enough to think it has no effect at all. In reality you wouldn't want your kids to be violent nor promiscuous, so why expose them to either lifestyle when it's not necessary?
I believe he was being sarcastic...
SDTVs are dirt cheap right now because everyone's trying to get rid of them...most manufactures will not be making anything but HDTVs after this Christmas... It will be just like finding a DVD player verses a VCR by next year... Whether or not this was because of the FCC is almost impossible to determine.
I don't know if it's included in the current standard...but at one time, wasn't there talk of having a system that would bump down to analogue if you weren't recieving a high enough signal? I know the new digital "HD radio" broadcasters can do this...
The question is not about You (if youre over 17)...it's about if children should do this. Would you rather a kid go out and have sex or kill someone? I think the answer's pretty simple...
It's all politicians...these people don't actually know anything about the real world. They just do what gets them the most attention, votes and money. If an actual parent sat down with GOW and GTA:SA they'd almost all say it's far more adult oriented..but the press only listens to the extremists and retards.
I think it has less to do with nationalism and more to do with the fact that there weren't many Japanese made GAMES on the first Xbox... Where the system is not nearly as important as the actual games they're playing on it. There's supposed to be about 10 times the Japanese support this time, so it should do alot better this go round on that factor alone.
I think this survey has happened too soon personally. Xbox360 hasn't had any real showing in Japan yet...just here in the states. The only thing the Japanese gamers know is from what they've seen happen over here and in magazines. Isn't MS having a big press conference later this month in Japan? And aren't there supposed to be alot of big name Japanese developers on board this time? I think they need to redo this survey after that happens...and then maybe once more when the official prices come out.
I know we're getting off topic here, but I don't think the editors edit very much anymore...they just say, "hey...that one looks cool" and hit ok; not a whole lot of editting going on until later that day with 3 or 4 updates...heh
Wasn't this originally supposed to happen this year? Or was it maybe earlier than that even? Personally I don't think anyone really needs to be forced to switch to digital...it's already happening and people will eventually realize the difference. You can already find most stations broadcast in and HDTV version. And the less people that are still using old NTSC TVs, the less likely it is for broadcasters to continue supporting it.
I'm kind of surprised that GTA 3,VC &SA didn't get AO ratings anyway. I'd think brutal violence would be worth a higher rating than a little sex scene...but some people have f*cked up moral priorities...
Umm...apparently you forgot what happened to the Dreamcast...it was a member of the current gen, whose ruling system is the PS2 which is black. The white rule doesn't happen anymore...no matter how much I loved my Dreamcast ;)
Why did these guys think it necessary to make the Xbox360 white? It's pretty common knowledge that people perfer their electronics black. Silver would have been fine too...but white? Yuck... And the whole faceplate thing is a nice idea...but it's only the very front of the console...the rest of the machine is till while like a 10 year old PC :(
That's because the left wings are just as involved as the right wingers...
I seem to remember it only being 51% our fault... the other 49% were actually aware of the real world.
Most of us Americans have no clue what's going on with our country. The "news" networks in our country are a joke, but for some reason they all keep believing that we're doing what's good or right, when it's far from it.