+1 for CrashPlan.
I use them to backup all my files; there are no default restrictions on what gets uploaded (Carbonite does not upload music and videos by default), and the whole thing works smoothly. I want to get a NAS in addition to CrashPlan, but I can feel good knowing all my data is safe in case of a hard drive crash.
Also, CrashPlan just came out with an iPhone app with which you can download files from your online backup and view them on your phone.
Note, however, that the classic controller is an attachment for the Wiimote (just like the nunchuck).
Also, the Wiimote is $40 and the nunchuck is $20.
However, the stereo controls the iPod. Any half-smart person would plug the iPod in beforehand and control it through the stereo system. If a person is dumb enough to try to plug an iPod into the glove box while driving, they don't deserve to drive.
That dead horse also known as "The Matrix" was flogged not once, but twice in 2005. One version, "Enter the Matrix," actually re-wrote the ending of the final movie which would be a big deal if I remembered what happened.
I think the writer really means "Path of Neo", not "Enter the Matrix" which came out a few years ago.
Of course, this depends on the market that you're in, but here in Baton Rouge, there is a local game store called GameWare in the Mall of Louisiana. Some items that set it apart from the EB upstairs are:
1) An arcade, including DDR. It also has some machines like Guitar Freaks (I think that's the name of the game).
2) All the current consoles (PS2, GameCube, XBox and XBox 360), handhelds (GBA/Micro, DS, PSP) and PC have some space in the store.
3) Preowned games, systems and accessories for older generations, including NES, SNES, N64, PS, Dreamcast, Genesis.
4) Possibly most importantly, the ability to buy items imported from Japan. Want a pink DS? They've got it. White PSP? No problem. Jump Superstars? Walk in and buy it. Anime stuff? Sure. Imported CDs of video game music? Got that too. Not only do they have all of this in stock, but they also are modestly priced. The pink DS is only $10 more, which in my opinion is a convience charge for being able to pick it up instead of ordering from Lik-Sang and the like.
So, in my opinion, yes there is room for the locally owned game store. You just need to differentiate yourself from the big-market competition. And, in case you're wondering, it gets all the games and systems at the same time the big stores do.
What if they're not as behind as you think they are? What if Nintendo shows off the Revolution at E3 and pulls an Apple and says "You like the Revolution (or whatever its name may end up being)? Well it's shipping tomorrow and will be in stores next week. We're shipping millions of units all across the globe for a simultaneous release." That would be a revolution in itself.
After a long visit to the planet Kypton, the Man Of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane.
instead of...
...based on D.C. Comics' 1993 series in which Superman was killed by a creature named Doomsday and then brought back to life more powerful than before.
Now you could argue that a 2 - 3 hour movie couldn't do the Doomsday/World Without a Superman/All the Fake Supermen/Return of Superman plot that took up countless comic books justice. I think I'd rather see them try, or make multiple movies out of it. A series of movies seems to be the hot thing right now (LotR, Harry Potter, Narnia, etc.). Of course, the quality of the movies is always in question, but done right, I think it would produce a much better product than "Clark leaves for a while and comes back."
What the original poster meant was that the only thing you can do online is races. You can't play the MK battle mode, which is basically ride around special tracks and shoot weapons at each other. If someone gets hit three times, they lose, and the last man standing wins.
I don't know if such an update is even possible, but I would enjoy it if it were.
The slim PS2 is also a top-loading console, and that's the only one you can buy in a store now. I believe they changed to this because of all the problems with the tray mechanisms.
The top-loading made more sense IMO with cartridges; instead of opening the door, sliding the cart in, and pushing it down, you just push the cart down in the top. My GameCube is on top of my TV because it's top-loading and doesn't open up in the shelves of my cabinet.
They should move to the tray-loading, or slot-loading a la Revolution.
I saw the 360 yesterday at Best Buy. Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed. It looks like they gave it a video card upgrade and put it in a new shell. It had a FPS war game demo on it (can't remember the name, maybe Medal of Honor 2? The game is out on the current gen's consoles). Naturally, there were a bunch of people around it because it's The Next Big Thing(R) supposedly. Same controller, new video card. I can get the same experience by putting a new video card in my computer, at equal or lesser price.
Sure, it doesn't have the storage space than an ipod does, but it costs half as much than an ipod, and the screen is *much* larger (4.3" 16:9 widescreen).
Half as much? The 30GB video iPod is $300, and the PSP is $250. How is that half?
The 60GB video iPod is $400. PSP is still $250. Again, not half.
Add a 1GB card for the PSP for approximately $100, and the PSP is more expensive than the 30 GB iPod and has 1/30 of the storage capacity. All of that for a bigger screen? Oh but you can buy the UMDs for $20 - 40. That's cost-effective.
I have a PSP, but I have it for games (which aren't much to talk about either, but I may get the GTA soon).
I love how he says that these people "trained extensively" on video games. Because pressing a button on a controller or mouse is obviously equivilent to firing a gun accurately.
I'd also love to hear him explain how using the BFG trains you for anything at all.
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+1 for CrashPlan. I use them to backup all my files; there are no default restrictions on what gets uploaded (Carbonite does not upload music and videos by default), and the whole thing works smoothly. I want to get a NAS in addition to CrashPlan, but I can feel good knowing all my data is safe in case of a hard drive crash. Also, CrashPlan just came out with an iPhone app with which you can download files from your online backup and view them on your phone.
Note, however, that the classic controller is an attachment for the Wiimote (just like the nunchuck). Also, the Wiimote is $40 and the nunchuck is $20.
But Wii Play is only available in Japan, Australia, and Europe.
However, the stereo controls the iPod. Any half-smart person would plug the iPod in beforehand and control it through the stereo system. If a person is dumb enough to try to plug an iPod into the glove box while driving, they don't deserve to drive.
The first run of Nintendo DS did come with a demo of Metroid Prime: Hunters. I think the Wii will come with Wii Sports as a sort of demo title.
Don't give Lucas any ideas... before you know it we'll have IV - VI "Super Special" Edition with Jar Jar thrown in.
Nintendo had demo software for the controller at last year's TGS. One such demo was Metroid Prime 2 rigged up to play with the Revolution controller.
That dead horse also known as "The Matrix" was flogged not once, but twice in 2005. One version, "Enter the Matrix," actually re-wrote the ending of the final movie which would be a big deal if I remembered what happened.
I think the writer really means "Path of Neo", not "Enter the Matrix" which came out a few years ago.
Of course, this depends on the market that you're in, but here in Baton Rouge, there is a local game store called GameWare in the Mall of Louisiana. Some items that set it apart from the EB upstairs are:
1) An arcade, including DDR. It also has some machines like Guitar Freaks (I think that's the name of the game).
2) All the current consoles (PS2, GameCube, XBox and XBox 360), handhelds (GBA/Micro, DS, PSP) and PC have some space in the store.
3) Preowned games, systems and accessories for older generations, including NES, SNES, N64, PS, Dreamcast, Genesis.
4) Possibly most importantly, the ability to buy items imported from Japan. Want a pink DS? They've got it. White PSP? No problem. Jump Superstars? Walk in and buy it. Anime stuff? Sure. Imported CDs of video game music? Got that too. Not only do they have all of this in stock, but they also are modestly priced. The pink DS is only $10 more, which in my opinion is a convience charge for being able to pick it up instead of ordering from Lik-Sang and the like. So, in my opinion, yes there is room for the locally owned game store. You just need to differentiate yourself from the big-market competition. And, in case you're wondering, it gets all the games and systems at the same time the big stores do.
I don't know how you consider the big hulking mass that is Ganondorf another Captain Falcon.
What if they're not as behind as you think they are? What if Nintendo shows off the Revolution at E3 and pulls an Apple and says "You like the Revolution (or whatever its name may end up being)? Well it's shipping tomorrow and will be in stores next week. We're shipping millions of units all across the globe for a simultaneous release." That would be a revolution in itself.
Wishful thinking? Probably. Impossible? Maybe, maybe not.
I'm not too sure... from IMDB:
...based on D.C. Comics' 1993 series in which Superman was killed by a creature named Doomsday and then brought back to life more powerful than before.
After a long visit to the planet Kypton, the Man Of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane. instead of...
Now you could argue that a 2 - 3 hour movie couldn't do the Doomsday/World Without a Superman/All the Fake Supermen/Return of Superman plot that took up countless comic books justice. I think I'd rather see them try, or make multiple movies out of it. A series of movies seems to be the hot thing right now (LotR, Harry Potter, Narnia, etc.). Of course, the quality of the movies is always in question, but done right, I think it would produce a much better product than "Clark leaves for a while and comes back."
Do the files contain DRM?
I would think that they do, but it would be great if they didn't.
I second that. Stunts is incredible. If only they would make an updated version... I made some crazy tracks in Stunts.
What the original poster meant was that the only thing you can do online is races. You can't play the MK battle mode, which is basically ride around special tracks and shoot weapons at each other. If someone gets hit three times, they lose, and the last man standing wins.
I don't know if such an update is even possible, but I would enjoy it if it were.
Oh, you mean in the same way you can't reset the parental control code for DVDs on a used PS2?
But in order to play Halo, do you need the hard drive for the 360?
I would suspect that you do (I thought I remembered reading that backwards-compatibility required the hard drive), but I'm not sure.
Yeah, but it's still not a different strategy. Different in this generation, perhaps, but not different overall.
How is Sony doing something different by taking huge losses on the system for years? MS hasn't made money on the X-Box yet!
The slim PS2 is also a top-loading console, and that's the only one you can buy in a store now. I believe they changed to this because of all the problems with the tray mechanisms.
The top-loading made more sense IMO with cartridges; instead of opening the door, sliding the cart in, and pushing it down, you just push the cart down in the top. My GameCube is on top of my TV because it's top-loading and doesn't open up in the shelves of my cabinet.
They should move to the tray-loading, or slot-loading a la Revolution.
I saw the 360 yesterday at Best Buy. Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed. It looks like they gave it a video card upgrade and put it in a new shell. It had a FPS war game demo on it (can't remember the name, maybe Medal of Honor 2? The game is out on the current gen's consoles). Naturally, there were a bunch of people around it because it's The Next Big Thing(R) supposedly. Same controller, new video card. I can get the same experience by putting a new video card in my computer, at equal or lesser price.
Sure, it doesn't have the storage space than an ipod does, but it costs half as much than an ipod, and the screen is *much* larger (4.3" 16:9 widescreen).
Half as much? The 30GB video iPod is $300, and the PSP is $250. How is that half?
The 60GB video iPod is $400. PSP is still $250. Again, not half.
Add a 1GB card for the PSP for approximately $100, and the PSP is more expensive than the 30 GB iPod and has 1/30 of the storage capacity. All of that for a bigger screen? Oh but you can buy the UMDs for $20 - 40. That's cost-effective.
I have a PSP, but I have it for games (which aren't much to talk about either, but I may get the GTA soon).
Well, if they go this route, then they're gonna have to patent black also.
I love how he says that these people "trained extensively" on video games. Because pressing a button on a controller or mouse is obviously equivilent to firing a gun accurately.
I'd also love to hear him explain how using the BFG trains you for anything at all.
Maybe once cell phones become worthwhile as phones first, then I'll consider converging the two. Until then, I'll keep my iPod separate.