This is a fine example of somebody who has accepted what the radical left have spon-fed him. Sadly, with the unbalanced Canadian electoral sytam, a province full of this sort of idiot rules Canada. This is why Alberta wil seperate. Soon.
The bigger issue with this sort of "Everyone else is building Ferraris, let's build a supercharged Yugo" mentality Nintendo follows is actually limiting. More and more people will be getting HDTV as their sets wear out and as the rollover comes. Building a system without the ability to take advantage of technology that is currently available and soon to be mandatory makes them look like they really don't care about the quality of appearance and sound. To be honest, it looks like they have given up on the home console market and are really only willing to work on the handheld end of things.
I have a standard NTSC TV and a DTS/DD 5.1 surround sound system. I have heard th difference between Digital surround and Por Logic II, and it is a lot bigger than most people realize without hearng it themselves. More importantly, I have it, I want to use it. I am not likely to choose hardware that does not support the things I have (Digital Surround Audio) or the things I will have soon (I will be buying an HDTV in the spring to replace my dying NTSC set). When the time comes to spend a couple of hundred on a new console, I will be utting anything that won't keep up with the times technologically.
There were in Japan. A stronger Japanese presence may have encouraged SEGA to stick around in North America a little longer. The Saturn was a close second to the playstation in Japan up until near the end.
There are actually THREE versions, the Japanese and European releases being the same, except for the language, the North American version missing a semi-hidden weapon in one area, not having the subtitles for Yorda on a second try and with really shitty cover art, as usual.
It is possible, but probably more difficult than you'd want. Another solution would be to simply swap out the CPU for a slower one. That should be easy to find, probably a lot of the owners of the slower machines would swap willingly. Scratch that, EAGERLY!
If you buy the 1.4Ghz box, expecting a 1.5GHz machine, you deserve to be disappointed. I don't see what the problem so many of you have with the concept is. They are guaranteeing minimum levels. You MAY get a better product than you paid for. At worst, you get what was promised. Nobody gets less than their money's worth.
If you want the upgraded box, just wait until Apple officially announces the upgrade. For the time being, beware that you may only end up getting what you pay for.
There seem to be a ridiculous number of "The Nintendo Revolution will save the gaming world, even though we know of no software for it, have only seen a few proof-of-concept demos and have no idea how the control will work in real life" Posts? Kinda funny, kinda sad.
The main thing that kept the MD format on the fringe in the North American market was that the only pre-recorded content for it was from Sony records. In europe and, especially Japan, there was a lot of content available from lots of labels.
Memory stick came on the market at the same time as SD, which was developed by Panasonic. Both were introduced in 2000. Sony did not use CF or Smartmedia due to the size of the media being too large for the size of the devices they wanted to put the memory in. XD was developed by Olympus and Fuji, and is more expensive than memory stick. The ironic thing with XD is that Olympus and Fuji were bragging to retailers about how cheap it is to manufacture when they introduced it in 2001. The price has never come down (in Canada anyway.)
We may not get HBO in this jerkwater counrty, but we do have Movie Central in the west and TMN in the east, and they do have simultaneous premieres for HBO series, so you really do not have an excuse for stealing the show. Yes, I said steal. If you do not agree with my wording, I really don't give a shit.
It's called implied consent. Unless you were under duress, when you asked for the service, you agreed to the terms of the service provider. I used to work for a satellite provider here in Canada, and we actually had a hardcopy terms of service we could send out on request, as well as packing them in with our hardware. If you chose not to read the terms, didn't matter. You asked for the service, that bound you to its terms. Works the same for cable TV.
Then either get a TV or stop whining about not being able to watch TV shows easily, nimrod!
This is the problem with the GNU/OSS crowd.
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This situation demonstrates exactly why the makers of Nessus were right. This whole history of non-contribution, followed by a "Fuck him for going closed source on us! Let's fork the last GPL release and contribute just to spite him!" response is disgusting! Where the fuck were you people while it was still GPL? Why didn't you care enough to contribute then? Why should anybody respect your ideals when this is how you choose to demonstrate them?
Region coding is mostly just used to control release dates and preserve income for the local distributor of a title. It also, in a roundabout way contributes to movies not being released for years, like the Back to the Future Trilogy, which Universal kept out of release until Paramount's overseas distribuition contract for them was expired.
If the Liberal party stays in power much longer, you'll only be able to get "approved in Canada" art and media. Anything else would damage our national identity and weaken our culture.
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This is a fine example of somebody who has accepted what the radical left have spon-fed him. Sadly, with the unbalanced Canadian electoral sytam, a province full of this sort of idiot rules Canada. This is why Alberta wil seperate. Soon.
The bigger issue with this sort of "Everyone else is building Ferraris, let's build a supercharged Yugo" mentality Nintendo follows is actually limiting. More and more people will be getting HDTV as their sets wear out and as the rollover comes. Building a system without the ability to take advantage of technology that is currently available and soon to be mandatory makes them look like they really don't care about the quality of appearance and sound. To be honest, it looks like they have given up on the home console market and are really only willing to work on the handheld end of things. I have a standard NTSC TV and a DTS/DD 5.1 surround sound system. I have heard th difference between Digital surround and Por Logic II, and it is a lot bigger than most people realize without hearng it themselves. More importantly, I have it, I want to use it. I am not likely to choose hardware that does not support the things I have (Digital Surround Audio) or the things I will have soon (I will be buying an HDTV in the spring to replace my dying NTSC set). When the time comes to spend a couple of hundred on a new console, I will be utting anything that won't keep up with the times technologically.
Um, MS didn't buy VPC from Connectix, they bought Connectix themselves. But, thi may be part of the reason why they did.
There were in Japan. A stronger Japanese presence may have encouraged SEGA to stick around in North America a little longer. The Saturn was a close second to the playstation in Japan up until near the end.
Except it wasn't a cartridge adapter, it was a full SMS chipset using the cart port on the genesis for power and a/v output.
I need some help with this post! Where is the link to Goatse?
There are actually THREE versions, the Japanese and European releases being the same, except for the language, the North American version missing a semi-hidden weapon in one area, not having the subtitles for Yorda on a second try and with really shitty cover art, as usual.
Unfortunately, even with the VRAM boost, the chipset in the mini is not up to snuff for most games released in the past year or so for mac.
It is possible, but probably more difficult than you'd want. Another solution would be to simply swap out the CPU for a slower one. That should be easy to find, probably a lot of the owners of the slower machines would swap willingly. Scratch that, EAGERLY!
If you buy the 1.4Ghz box, expecting a 1.5GHz machine, you deserve to be disappointed. I don't see what the problem so many of you have with the concept is. They are guaranteeing minimum levels. You MAY get a better product than you paid for. At worst, you get what was promised. Nobody gets less than their money's worth.
If you want the upgraded box, just wait until Apple officially announces the upgrade. For the time being, beware that you may only end up getting what you pay for.
There seem to be a ridiculous number of "The Nintendo Revolution will save the gaming world, even though we know of no software for it, have only seen a few proof-of-concept demos and have no idea how the control will work in real life" Posts? Kinda funny, kinda sad.
One big factor you seem unaware of is that MD was available in 1988, long before CD-R was available. It was pretty impressive for that time.
The main thing that kept the MD format on the fringe in the North American market was that the only pre-recorded content for it was from Sony records. In europe and, especially Japan, there was a lot of content available from lots of labels.
Memory stick came on the market at the same time as SD, which was developed by Panasonic. Both were introduced in 2000. Sony did not use CF or Smartmedia due to the size of the media being too large for the size of the devices they wanted to put the memory in. XD was developed by Olympus and Fuji, and is more expensive than memory stick. The ironic thing with XD is that Olympus and Fuji were bragging to retailers about how cheap it is to manufacture when they introduced it in 2001. The price has never come down (in Canada anyway.)
The Liberal bias is apparent in referring to any Liberal organization as "Progressive" rather than simply "Liberal".
We may not get HBO in this jerkwater counrty, but we do have Movie Central in the west and TMN in the east, and they do have simultaneous premieres for HBO series, so you really do not have an excuse for stealing the show. Yes, I said steal. If you do not agree with my wording, I really don't give a shit.
It's called implied consent. Unless you were under duress, when you asked for the service, you agreed to the terms of the service provider. I used to work for a satellite provider here in Canada, and we actually had a hardcopy terms of service we could send out on request, as well as packing them in with our hardware. If you chose not to read the terms, didn't matter. You asked for the service, that bound you to its terms. Works the same for cable TV.
Then either get a TV or stop whining about not being able to watch TV shows easily, nimrod!
This situation demonstrates exactly why the makers of Nessus were right. This whole history of non-contribution, followed by a "Fuck him for going closed source on us! Let's fork the last GPL release and contribute just to spite him!" response is disgusting! Where the fuck were you people while it was still GPL? Why didn't you care enough to contribute then? Why should anybody respect your ideals when this is how you choose to demonstrate them?
Considering that the first 2 Predator movies established that they are attracted to heat, what, precisely, made Antarctica a good setting?
Isn't the Gemboy made by Magnetbox?
How much does it cost to take a Real Doll to a movie, anyway?
Region coding is mostly just used to control release dates and preserve income for the local distributor of a title. It also, in a roundabout way contributes to movies not being released for years, like the Back to the Future Trilogy, which Universal kept out of release until Paramount's overseas distribuition contract for them was expired.
If the Liberal party stays in power much longer, you'll only be able to get "approved in Canada" art and media. Anything else would damage our national identity and weaken our culture.