I live in Evanston IL, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the number '25,619' come out of my download rate from Speakeasy. I have a menubar (macintosh) addon that displays my ethernet throughput, and it topped out at about 3.0MB/Sec. I am quite happy with with Comcast, for once.
1080p won't benefit too many people right now. But, by 2009, it'll probably benefit a lot more people - why not make a product that people can enjoy now, and enjoy more later?
Personally I don't see the logic in buying anything less than a 1080p TV. I have a 1080p Westinghouse 42", while my parents have a 1080i Sony Bravia, and a 720p Samsung something-or-other. Gears Of War upscaled to 1080p still looks better (to me) than at 720p, and HD-DVD is dreamy at 1080p.
You should probably realize that 'most' of the PC world generally doesn't build their own computers. I own a Mac (g5) but I still build PCs when I can afford it. Nonetheless, I know my little 16 year old brother would absolutely love to have a Mac that could play windows games.
I don't really see how this is a jab at Microsoft. It seems that Bizzarre studios are the ones that have actually done this, and not MS.
On the other hand, I never thought I'd be defending MS.
Well, the mess of buttons is one thing, but after using Reason for a while, nothing can beat it in representing signal flow.
I'd love to have the Reason design elements in a waveform editing application.
Actually, both Protools LE 6.9.2 and TDM 6.9.2 are out and available for download (or purchase, if need be). 6.9.2 adds not much aside from Tiger compatability and maybe a few small bug fixes.
Now what I'd like to know is when they're going to scrap their shitty interface and hire an interactivity design that knows what he's doing. And preferably, knows about sound design as well.
I am both ridiculously amused by this, and also deeply saddened. While the DS is not particularly great right now, at the least it had the 'Full library of GBA games' to go along with it. Now the PSP does too.
Nintendo's made some pretty dumb moves with the DS, but if they let something like this slip pass their radar, I'll have lost all hope for them.
I don't expect this to last very long with both Sony AND Nintendo gunning for it.
In fact, i'm in my early twenties. Being at a college where Art History courses are required, i'd love to be able to play my DS and say 'No no, I've got the Palm software installed on it. I'm taking notes. Really.'
Here's a simple thought: Make these downloads startable before the whole thing is finished. If they can get it downloading fast enough (and most quicktime trailers can be set to auto-play once a certain amount is downloaded, based on download speed), the movie could be started before it's completely downloaded.
Now, a 5-10 minute wait before the first 30 minutes of my movie is downloaded, or 15 minutes to the movie rental shop, plus searching for the movie I want, plus hoping it's in stock, plus coming back, making the popcorn, and putting the DVD in...
I'd go with the downloads. Assuming they're fast enough.
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I live in Evanston IL, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the number '25,619' come out of my download rate from Speakeasy. I have a menubar (macintosh) addon that displays my ethernet throughput, and it topped out at about 3.0MB/Sec. I am quite happy with with Comcast, for once.
1080p won't benefit too many people right now. But, by 2009, it'll probably benefit a lot more people - why not make a product that people can enjoy now, and enjoy more later?
Personally I don't see the logic in buying anything less than a 1080p TV. I have a 1080p Westinghouse 42", while my parents have a 1080i Sony Bravia, and a 720p Samsung something-or-other. Gears Of War upscaled to 1080p still looks better (to me) than at 720p, and HD-DVD is dreamy at 1080p.
And though it seems to have lost me my place in the comments-list, I thank you for that. :D
You should probably realize that 'most' of the PC world generally doesn't build their own computers. I own a Mac (g5) but I still build PCs when I can afford it. Nonetheless, I know my little 16 year old brother would absolutely love to have a Mac that could play windows games.
I don't really see how this is a jab at Microsoft. It seems that Bizzarre studios are the ones that have actually done this, and not MS. On the other hand, I never thought I'd be defending MS.
A better question than that would be 'Who watches the Mac users?' Did Blizzard bother to make The Warden cross-platform?
Utterly agreed.
Well, the mess of buttons is one thing, but after using Reason for a while, nothing can beat it in representing signal flow. I'd love to have the Reason design elements in a waveform editing application.
Actually, both Protools LE 6.9.2 and TDM 6.9.2 are out and available for download (or purchase, if need be). 6.9.2 adds not much aside from Tiger compatability and maybe a few small bug fixes. Now what I'd like to know is when they're going to scrap their shitty interface and hire an interactivity design that knows what he's doing. And preferably, knows about sound design as well.
Odd. All the movies I've seen have been in full color. If it's not a GBA emulator, it's at least got Gameboy Color support.
I am both ridiculously amused by this, and also deeply saddened. While the DS is not particularly great right now, at the least it had the 'Full library of GBA games' to go along with it. Now the PSP does too. Nintendo's made some pretty dumb moves with the DS, but if they let something like this slip pass their radar, I'll have lost all hope for them. I don't expect this to last very long with both Sony AND Nintendo gunning for it.
In fact, i'm in my early twenties. Being at a college where Art History courses are required, i'd love to be able to play my DS and say 'No no, I've got the Palm software installed on it. I'm taking notes. Really.'
Here's a simple thought: Make these downloads startable before the whole thing is finished. If they can get it downloading fast enough (and most quicktime trailers can be set to auto-play once a certain amount is downloaded, based on download speed), the movie could be started before it's completely downloaded. Now, a 5-10 minute wait before the first 30 minutes of my movie is downloaded, or 15 minutes to the movie rental shop, plus searching for the movie I want, plus hoping it's in stock, plus coming back, making the popcorn, and putting the DVD in... I'd go with the downloads. Assuming they're fast enough.