This is a very short sighted comment, but it is excusable considering the video on the site went *kaboom* (mirrordot = your friend)
At the very end of the video, they give wonderful examples of how this technology can be used. To quote directly from the video "true electronic bookmarks and electronic business cards". Instead of relying on my customers/users/whatever to type a 10000 character url, they can just pass the chip over the reader and reach the destination easily.
Im glad that blizzard still patches starcraft (THX2UKOREA!), it shows that they still care about the game. Now what they need to do is impliment a ladder match making system like that in WCIII. That would get rid of the one(fastest) map mania plaguing bn today:(
I can safely assume that most people here have never been to a lot of lan parties with xboxes or have 4 consoles in their room.
This is a wonderful idea. When you have four consoles in a room, the controller cords get very tangled and it takes a LOT of time to untangle them.
Plus, when i am at a lan, we constantly have to have cable extenders because of the piss poor distance on the xbox controllers. The standard feature of wireless controllers would be wonderful. I can sit anywhere in the damn room i please without distance issues.
On the point about charging, Im sure microsoft would put some charging base for the controllers, or have a cable to charge while playing.
This isnt anything new. We have been giving ex-cons in florida bracelets to track their location for ages. It is primarally used for naughty people who shouldnt go into school zones. It works very very well. You can track their speed and location in real time.
400 dollars as a launch price was floated around for a while. Knowing that consoles lose money at launch, i can reasonably deduct that the price of the console is 500 dollars to produce. Now, to give sony credit i will assume that the manufacturing price dropped recently in lieu of their price drop, so roughly 400 dollars.
Sony is not going to say "It costs us xxx to manufacture this product and we are selling it for yyy at a loss of zzz" because that doesnt look good to investors. You have to infer what the launch price is and deduce from there. I could be off by 50 or 100 (i dobut it though), but the fact is that they are losing a lot of money on the psp.
Analysts. Before the launch in japan and before the launch price announcement in the US, everyone was placing the price of the PSP at around 300-400 dollars due to the manufacturing process (do a quick search on google), some were even placing the price as high as 500 assuming that sony wanted to offset the manufacturing costs.
Supposedly, the only reason that the price is so low is because of the DS and its low cost. Granted, SCE president says that the costs of the unit wont come down to profitability range (costs below 250) until march (optimistic estimate), but Sony had to lower their price to its current point because of the below expected price of the DS (Industry analysits were expecting a 200 dollar price for the DS)
Personally, i believe that the DS is just a sideshow for nintendo before the GBA2 (nintendo even calls the DS a "third tier"). I think it was just created to keep the nintendo folks on nintendos side and to keep sony on its toes. If Sony got a firm hold on the handheld market before nintendo could release any kind of compedetor, nintendo would be truly sol.
There isnt. Ive tried looking. The problem is that guests of an account cannot play ranked games (im not in the mood to shell out 50 more dollars a year so my bro can play online with me). Thankfully we play in enough lans that this isnt a big deal, but it is still very very frusturating.
I am REALLY suprised that there isnt a match search system. EVERY other game on xbox live has some form of a match search system. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why Halo 2 (the most popular xbox game) doesnt have a very friendly match search system.
It just proves the reviewers correct when they say the game is not a finished, polished game.
This is no big suprise. With sony losing 200 dollars per unit (it costs 400 dollars to make), and with the US release date around the corner, it isnt that big of a suprise that the eu date is off.
What really annoys me about halo multiplayer is how it is so untested and unrefined. My brother and i only have one xbox and want to play online in regular games. We cant use optimatch system (because guests cannot play in ranked (optimatch) games), so we must play custom games.
This would be fine with us, but the problem is that there is no custom game search feature like in every other online multiplayer.
I just hope that they put in a game listing room so custom games (without inviting friends) can be played easily. However, i really dont have my hopes up considering there has not been any extra features added since i last checked (mid january):(
IIRC, flash memory is not designed to be constantly read. I believe it has a limited amount of flashes, so you wont be able to watch movies from a memory stick.
But it is not illegal for a person to buy a r2 dvd and place subs on it. It is, however, illegal to distribute video + translation (which is what the companies buy -- the distrobution rights in the united states for subbing and/or dubbing (for point, funimation was not able to sub DBZ because pioneer owned the sub rights for the united states. Recently the rights have lapsed and funimation acquired the rights to sub)), but that does bring up a good point on whether distributing just the script is legal or not. A copyright lawyer would have to clear that aspect up.
1. They provide subtitles that are more "fun" (they can get more creative because their jobs don't depend on it being professionally done). This applies very often to the swearing in the dialogue.
Watch Trigun, Kthx.
2. They are more thorough. For example, many fansubs go through the extra length of providing extra notes - something the professionally done official licensed versions almost never do. I truly appreciate these, because it helps explain a lot of cultural idiosyncracies.
Yeah, they do. Check the inserts of the dvd cases. They always have SOMETHING there that explains the cultural differences/meanings. They just dont place it inside the video like subbers have to. Plus the dvd format makes it so the companies cannot make typesetted signs without hardsubbing, and that would create one hell of an uproar (Rahxephon ep1 op)
3. They use better fonts. I've watched many licensed anime and compared the fonts with those of the fansubs. The most common font used is just damned ugly.
This is not the fault of the licensors. DVD format prohibits any other font than the crappy arial font that you see used. Either way, pretty fonts/styling tend to distract from the episode
1. They provide subtitles that are more "fun" (they can get more creative because their jobs don't depend on it being professionally done). This applies very often to the swearing in the dialogue.
This completely depends on the group. All the faster groups sacrifice quality for speed (mainly lacking edits). When I have compared official dvd releases to group releases (A-Keep/Aone) the lines in the dvd made more sense where the lines in the subbed episodes appeared rushed and unpolished. The professional people are able to spend more time and polish the rough edges to make the episode flow perfectly. For example, the translator may translate a line as "The fire rage created ball flew from timmy's hand" and the editor may just edit the line as "the rage created fireball flew from timmy's hand" when the professionals make the line "The fireball flew from timmy's enraged hand" It is the subtle aspects like that that seperate the professionals from the speedsubbers. They can't sit back for a week and edit an episode less they lose their speedsuber status and all the leechers to go with it.
The only area that licensed anime is better is dubbing. But only barely so, because they have professional equipment and voice actors/actresses to do it. Unfortunately, it sounds like they only have 3 actresses and 2 actors for all anime titles because they all sound the same.
Fans dont dub. period. The only dubbing that is done is parody dubs. The amount of work that is required for a dub is insane and it is impossible for a group to do a decent job dubbing and get the series out in any reasonable timeframe.
Liscenced anime is better on many fronts. For one, they have the actual source so you get very crisp high quality dvd's. No matter how good the encoder, you cannot make a twice mpeg4 compressed tv cap look anything like a dvd source.
No, it will not be illegal.
It is illegal to distribute modified works without the permission of the original author; however, there is nothing illegal with releasing a translated script for free (so long as the translation rights have not been bought out in the country that you currently live in) and subbing it for your own use. It is called Fair Use.
If you released the video though... you are kinda sol:P
P.S. IANAL, but this is how it has been explained to me.
While in theory this is a good idea (This has been talked about actively in fansub circles), in practice it will cause as much harm as good.
The problem is you assume that the people who get the R2 dvd's (region 2 -- japan) and soft/hardsub the work will just keep the files for themselves. What will happen is the "0d4y$ubb3rz" will hardsub the script to an avi and release it under their groups name.
This also makes the HKDVD folks lives easier. Instead of using bablefish, they can just get the script via a torrent.
Nothing will change if what you suggest happens. Only the people who translate/time/edit the script will get royally shafted.
Its a real shortage. I checked eight stores over the holidays (only 2 eb's) in four different states (visited parents) and each one of them did not have the slim ps2's or used ps2's. I havent checked recently, but I would expect that not much has changed.
The official statement from Sony was that the holiday demand "exceded their expectations" and was "tough to calculate".
mmmm glad to see they havent fixed the musical bases.
While they laud that there are no computer controled characters in the game; a game of this calabur needs some. There needs to be a bot system that can create battles in the middle of fields instead of right outside bases. I remember the few battles that took part inbetween bases were the best damn experiances i had in that game.
From what i gather in your post, they still havent addressed the repetative nature of the base network. This is the reason why planetside sucks. It is not because the concept sucks, it is the lack of any real, lasting objective (whether it be from the players or one injected by the developers) that kills this game.
I remember playing beta of this game. The two major problems with this game right before launch were the musical bases/zerg rushing and the horrible cone of fire (you could stand point blank and miss a person). They said in the forums that they would never fix the cone of fire (i dont know if they have reversed this stance) and the musical bases is just a part of the game.
This game sucks not because of the lack of players, it sucks because the developers/community wanted an eq-fps. It does not appeal to the hard core fpser. If sony would have not taken such a noobie friendly stance and tweeked the major problems of the game early on they would be in a much better situation than they are in now. For example, have actual objectives instead of "capture the base, run away, recapture the base, run to next base, capture another base, recapture first base...". Instead they focused on the leveling aspect of the game instead of the actual gameplay.
Many fps vets, including myself, were turned off before the end of beta. The lack of a good aiming system and the lack of area damage was inexcusable. This plus the lack of any true obtanaible objective was the death warrant for this game. Planetside had its chance, and it believed that by just being a mmofps would be enough to intice all the gamers to play and stay. Sadly, that is not enough to take the vets away from their free multiplayer UT/Quake/HL and pay for musical base death match.
Read the parent post carefully then read mine again.
My main point is that the parent believed that the scouring IN THE BOOK was horrible and didnt deserve to be there. That alone is pure idioicy. No way around it.
Yes, i can understand why he didnt include it in the theatre film. The majority of the film going public couldnt give a shit about the accuracy of the book to the movie. They just want to be entertained, but to not film it at ALL is plain stupid. To not film it because you think "its stupid" (if what the parent says is accurate, but i highly dobut it) is the most horrible, immature act a person could take. That alone proves that PJ did not care about the accuracy of the movie (no big suprise here considering he bastardized faramir for no real reason and completely redid aragorn's character + arwen's MUCH larger role in the movie). At least give us nerds the ability to see it in the extended version...
Wow. Do you understand the purpose of the scouring of the shire? If you dont just RTFA and get a general summary of what it stands for.
It is a very important chapter that proves the maturity of the hobbits and closes the storyline of Saruman.
BTW. Do you really question the purpose of Tolkien in placing that segment HIS book (I wouldn't consider Tolkien an idiot, and that is what you are calling him)? He had a reason whether you see it or not. Any person who creates a language and an entire world is not going to waste his time writing a pointless, unnecessary segement.
It sounds like a gimick to me. The case is nice, but paying 240 for the case plus paying for the cpu + memory + hdd + graphics + decent soundcard isnt worth it. Unless you have decent parts lying around, it is better to hook up your computer (or a slower, silent comp with a good soundcard) to your sound system and put a remote on it.
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At the very end of the video, they give wonderful examples of how this technology can be used. To quote directly from the video "true electronic bookmarks and electronic business cards". Instead of relying on my customers/users/whatever to type a 10000 character url, they can just pass the chip over the reader and reach the destination easily.
Im glad that blizzard still patches starcraft (THX2UKOREA!), it shows that they still care about the game. Now what they need to do is impliment a ladder match making system like that in WCIII. That would get rid of the one(fastest) map mania plaguing bn today :(
This is a wonderful idea. When you have four consoles in a room, the controller cords get very tangled and it takes a LOT of time to untangle them.
Plus, when i am at a lan, we constantly have to have cable extenders because of the piss poor distance on the xbox controllers. The standard feature of wireless controllers would be wonderful. I can sit anywhere in the damn room i please without distance issues.
On the point about charging, Im sure microsoft would put some charging base for the controllers, or have a cable to charge while playing.
This isnt anything new. We have been giving ex-cons in florida bracelets to track their location for ages. It is primarally used for naughty people who shouldnt go into school zones. It works very very well. You can track their speed and location in real time.
Filters work wonders :)
Every other game has one, so it makes sense that the biggest xbox game of the year should have it also.
Read the psp price information area.
400 dollars as a launch price was floated around for a while. Knowing that consoles lose money at launch, i can reasonably deduct that the price of the console is 500 dollars to produce. Now, to give sony credit i will assume that the manufacturing price dropped recently in lieu of their price drop, so roughly 400 dollars.
Sony is not going to say "It costs us xxx to manufacture this product and we are selling it for yyy at a loss of zzz" because that doesnt look good to investors. You have to infer what the launch price is and deduce from there. I could be off by 50 or 100 (i dobut it though), but the fact is that they are losing a lot of money on the psp.
Supposedly, the only reason that the price is so low is because of the DS and its low cost. Granted, SCE president says that the costs of the unit wont come down to profitability range (costs below 250) until march (optimistic estimate), but Sony had to lower their price to its current point because of the below expected price of the DS (Industry analysits were expecting a 200 dollar price for the DS)
Personally, i believe that the DS is just a sideshow for nintendo before the GBA2 (nintendo even calls the DS a "third tier"). I think it was just created to keep the nintendo folks on nintendos side and to keep sony on its toes. If Sony got a firm hold on the handheld market before nintendo could release any kind of compedetor, nintendo would be truly sol.
I am REALLY suprised that there isnt a match search system. EVERY other game on xbox live has some form of a match search system. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why Halo 2 (the most popular xbox game) doesnt have a very friendly match search system.
It just proves the reviewers correct when they say the game is not a finished, polished game.
This is no big suprise. With sony losing 200 dollars per unit (it costs 400 dollars to make), and with the US release date around the corner, it isnt that big of a suprise that the eu date is off.
This would be fine with us, but the problem is that there is no custom game search feature like in every other online multiplayer.
I just hope that they put in a game listing room so custom games (without inviting friends) can be played easily. However, i really dont have my hopes up considering there has not been any extra features added since i last checked (mid january)
I didnt think flash memory was designed to have constant reading though.
IIRC, flash memory is not designed to be constantly read. I believe it has a limited amount of flashes, so you wont be able to watch movies from a memory stick.
Just imagine what those folks in the porn industry can do with this. Maybe us geeks have a chance!
But it is not illegal for a person to buy a r2 dvd and place subs on it. It is, however, illegal to distribute video + translation (which is what the companies buy -- the distrobution rights in the united states for subbing and/or dubbing (for point, funimation was not able to sub DBZ because pioneer owned the sub rights for the united states. Recently the rights have lapsed and funimation acquired the rights to sub)), but that does bring up a good point on whether distributing just the script is legal or not. A copyright lawyer would have to clear that aspect up.
Watch Trigun, Kthx.
2. They are more thorough. For example, many fansubs go through the extra length of providing extra notes - something the professionally done official licensed versions almost never do. I truly appreciate these, because it helps explain a lot of cultural idiosyncracies.
Yeah, they do. Check the inserts of the dvd cases. They always have SOMETHING there that explains the cultural differences/meanings. They just dont place it inside the video like subbers have to. Plus the dvd format makes it so the companies cannot make typesetted signs without hardsubbing, and that would create one hell of an uproar (Rahxephon ep1 op)
3. They use better fonts. I've watched many licensed anime and compared the fonts with those of the fansubs. The most common font used is just damned ugly.
This is not the fault of the licensors. DVD format prohibits any other font than the crappy arial font that you see used. Either way, pretty fonts/styling tend to distract from the episode
1. They provide subtitles that are more "fun" (they can get more creative because their jobs don't depend on it being professionally done). This applies very often to the swearing in the dialogue.
This completely depends on the group. All the faster groups sacrifice quality for speed (mainly lacking edits). When I have compared official dvd releases to group releases (A-Keep/Aone) the lines in the dvd made more sense where the lines in the subbed episodes appeared rushed and unpolished. The professional people are able to spend more time and polish the rough edges to make the episode flow perfectly. For example, the translator may translate a line as "The fire rage created ball flew from timmy's hand" and the editor may just edit the line as "the rage created fireball flew from timmy's hand" when the professionals make the line "The fireball flew from timmy's enraged hand" It is the subtle aspects like that that seperate the professionals from the speedsubbers. They can't sit back for a week and edit an episode less they lose their speedsuber status and all the leechers to go with it.
The only area that licensed anime is better is dubbing. But only barely so, because they have professional equipment and voice actors/actresses to do it. Unfortunately, it sounds like they only have 3 actresses and 2 actors for all anime titles because they all sound the same.
Fans dont dub. period. The only dubbing that is done is parody dubs. The amount of work that is required for a dub is insane and it is impossible for a group to do a decent job dubbing and get the series out in any reasonable timeframe.
Liscenced anime is better on many fronts. For one, they have the actual source so you get very crisp high quality dvd's. No matter how good the encoder, you cannot make a twice mpeg4 compressed tv cap look anything like a dvd source.
If you released the video though... you are kinda sol :P
P.S. IANAL, but this is how it has been explained to me.
The problem is you assume that the people who get the R2 dvd's (region 2 -- japan) and soft/hardsub the work will just keep the files for themselves. What will happen is the "0d4y$ubb3rz" will hardsub the script to an avi and release it under their groups name.
This also makes the HKDVD folks lives easier. Instead of using bablefish, they can just get the script via a torrent.
Nothing will change if what you suggest happens. Only the people who translate/time/edit the script will get royally shafted.
The official statement from Sony was that the holiday demand "exceded their expectations" and was "tough to calculate".
While they laud that there are no computer controled characters in the game; a game of this calabur needs some. There needs to be a bot system that can create battles in the middle of fields instead of right outside bases. I remember the few battles that took part inbetween bases were the best damn experiances i had in that game.
From what i gather in your post, they still havent addressed the repetative nature of the base network. This is the reason why planetside sucks. It is not because the concept sucks, it is the lack of any real, lasting objective (whether it be from the players or one injected by the developers) that kills this game.
This game sucks not because of the lack of players, it sucks because the developers/community wanted an eq-fps. It does not appeal to the hard core fpser. If sony would have not taken such a noobie friendly stance and tweeked the major problems of the game early on they would be in a much better situation than they are in now. For example, have actual objectives instead of "capture the base, run away, recapture the base, run to next base, capture another base, recapture first base...". Instead they focused on the leveling aspect of the game instead of the actual gameplay.
Many fps vets, including myself, were turned off before the end of beta. The lack of a good aiming system and the lack of area damage was inexcusable. This plus the lack of any true obtanaible objective was the death warrant for this game. Planetside had its chance, and it believed that by just being a mmofps would be enough to intice all the gamers to play and stay. Sadly, that is not enough to take the vets away from their free multiplayer UT/Quake/HL and pay for musical base death match.
When will they scrap this project and work on getting us back to the moon.
My main point is that the parent believed that the scouring IN THE BOOK was horrible and didnt deserve to be there. That alone is pure idioicy. No way around it.
Yes, i can understand why he didnt include it in the theatre film. The majority of the film going public couldnt give a shit about the accuracy of the book to the movie. They just want to be entertained, but to not film it at ALL is plain stupid. To not film it because you think "its stupid" (if what the parent says is accurate, but i highly dobut it) is the most horrible, immature act a person could take. That alone proves that PJ did not care about the accuracy of the movie (no big suprise here considering he bastardized faramir for no real reason and completely redid aragorn's character + arwen's MUCH larger role in the movie). At least give us nerds the ability to see it in the extended version...
It is a very important chapter that proves the maturity of the hobbits and closes the storyline of Saruman.
BTW. Do you really question the purpose of Tolkien in placing that segment HIS book (I wouldn't consider Tolkien an idiot, and that is what you are calling him)? He had a reason whether you see it or not. Any person who creates a language and an entire world is not going to waste his time writing a pointless, unnecessary segement.
It sounds like a gimick to me. The case is nice, but paying 240 for the case plus paying for the cpu + memory + hdd + graphics + decent soundcard isnt worth it. Unless you have decent parts lying around, it is better to hook up your computer (or a slower, silent comp with a good soundcard) to your sound system and put a remote on it.