I think DVD drive defects and failures are going to be the new RRoD for the 360. Everyone I know has had to replace their systems at least once due to RRoD issues (I'm on my third). However, now I hear alot of problems with the DVD drive (clicking, scratching, unable to read discs, complete failure).
Unfortunately, Microsoft will explicitly tell you that it's not covered under your warranty, and you have to pay for the repairs. The most irritating thing is my current refurb had a defective DVD drive right out of the box. Several games bomb out with disc read errors (with alot of clicking involved). It seems like any game that's disc intensive is unplayable. The 4th disc of Lost Odyssey wouldn't even load up in my system.
Luckily for me, I can rip the discs using the NXE feature and the game works fine. For now.
Well, if you're a new homeowner, they sort of are. And just like the bailouts, this isn't free money. It has to be paid back in full, either over the course of 15 years or upon sale of your house.
I seem to recall pretty much all "Survival Horror" are third person shooters. And Dead Space follows the formula of survival horror. Not to mention there's a new Silent Hill, Blood Siren, and the upcoming RE 5. I even believe there's an upcoming Fatal Frame coming for the Wii as well. So claiming survival horror is dead is not very well researched.
However, I completely agree that Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead are not survival horror.
You know, I keep seeing that quote and people trying to build controversy with it. However, I can't seem to find anyone who says what question was asked or a transcript of the press conference (perhaps someone here can).
"Do you have any involvement with Blagojevich's 'pay for play' scandal?"
compared to
"Have you talked about the open senate seat with Blagojevich?"
The questions have very different implications on the intent of that answer.
I believe the confiscation is the only part about this that we shouldn't be up in arms about. Running unauthorized programs on school computers was spelled out very clearly in the student handbook when I was back in school, and that was nearly a decade ago.
However, if she confiscated the disks that were just on him and being run on a computer, then yes, the teacher was very much in the wrong.
DHL is now about an order of magnitude worse than the post office for domestic delivery. Even for places they say they can do next-day delivery to, actual delivery can take more than a week.
I'll second that. Last year, their next-day delivery took 3 weeks.
(No, that's not sarcasm, it actually took three weeks.)
Games for Windows is a good idea done wrong, and only if you have an Xbox360. I thought it was nice to have a cross-platform friends and all that. However, it's very poorly implemented.
They tie settings and saves into your profile and you have to be signed in (either locally or on Live). There are workarounds for this, but I'm not so hot on extra work to play your save game files.
If you want to compare achievements with your PC version and someone's Xbox version, you can't (without pen and paper). Live thinks that a version for windows and a version for the 360 is two completely different games.
When it opts to update your games it sometimes offers no feedback that it's working, or that it has completed successfully. It usually just dumps you back to the desktop when completed.
Sometimes, it's the culprit for game crashes and BSOD's.
They should've added it as an optional feature instead of making it a requirement to use. My first experience with it was in Fallout 3. At first it was nifty, but after coming across all of the problems mentioned above, I'm not so sure it's worth the hassle.
I often find my case is helped when cross examination is delivered from the trapeze. Though I find the judge is not amused when I use the clown car to approach the bench.
Shady lawyers are there when you "need" them also. Summarized in this anecdote:
I had a friend who was in a pretty bad car accident with his best friend, who was driving at the time. They both went to the hospital and had bills to pay, etc. My friend (the non-driver) hired a lawyer to assist with the insurance companies. The first thing the lawyer did without consent was to sue the driver. As soon as the non-driver friend found out, he told the lawyer that he never had any intention of suing the driver. The lawyer said "Ok, but you have to pay for services already rendered on the matter." Which, once you saw the bill, basically was his way of saying "You're either going to sue him so I get my cut, or I'm just going to charge you my cut I would have gotten." Given the large amount of demanded money by the lawyer that he could not afford, he ended up suing his friend.
Luckily, there were no long term injuries from the accident, and the driver was understanding when the story was explained to him.
I have yet to turn on my 360, put in a game, and have it tell me I've only got two activations left before I need to call the developer and beg to have one more.
Try this little experiment:
1. Buy something from the XBLA
2. When finished downloading, turn off your 360 and unplug the network cable.
3. Turn it back on and try to play your newly paid for game
4. Swear about DRM becase you cannot play the new game.
Not every game has this issue, but a large portion does. I initially noticed this when I moved and had no Internet connection for a week. I wasn't too happy that I couldn't play the games on my hard drive that I paid for.
So yea, no activation limit on the DRM, but if you're not signed into Live, odds are you can't play your purchased arcade games either.
Ah, a fellow Verizon customer! You can tell who we are because we tend to repeat the same thing three or four time three or four time three or four times.
ESRB already puts that information on the boxes as well. Their full list of descriptors is at their site.
The T, M, etc are more of a suggestion for the appropriate age group to play the game.
But my "Slashdot User's Handbook" says I'm not supposed to!
Anyway, I was wondering if there was any papers or anything to follow up that post. Something that would move it from speculation to truth.
There's some papers in the comments linking to notes about obfuscating against reverse engineering. The last sentence just said the Austrians claim they can easily listen into the conversations.
I'd add Bethesda to that list as well.
I was pretty salty when I found SecuROM on my system after I installed Fallout 3.
Especially after this announcement.
A year? This is the second time in 2 months this exact situation has come up:
Moderator: "Vicious bans about for badmouthing (EA Game of choice)!"
Public: *outcry*
Moderator: "I mean.. uh.. never mind!"
EA: "He doesn't actually work for us, he's a community volunteer." (Link)
It happened when Spore was released and the DRM was a hot topic on the forums.
if he is elected, the 4 year presidential term will be the longest job he's ever held
He was an Illinois state senator for 8 years before becoming a federal senator. The misguided claim that he has no experience only looks at his national record. Not to mention I don't understand McCain's ranting about experience given his Veep choice....
say what you like about Dubya, but those bad guys are scared pissly of him because he's a cowboy that'll bomb the crap out them without blinking
I think they're scared of him for the same reason alot of people don't like him in the US. He's a very irrational person. He will stick to his guns no matter what, including if the facts state he is right, wrong, or otherwise. Being committed to something is a good quality. Doing so with blind conviction and disregarding the consquencs is dangerous. Not to mention his practice of getting his way by labeling everything as "terr'ism."
Now, that being said, I'm not voting for Obama nor McCain.
Looking at the ballot (http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/GetDocument.aspx?id=288), it looks like everyone but Baldwin is available by write-in or on the ballot.
It seems that every election, I have trouble finding a candidate that aligns with me politically as well. Then again, I live in close proximity of the Chicago Political Machine, so I'm finding more and more it doesn't matter who I vote for anyway...
Then again, most people I talk to are amazed when I tell them there's more than 2 candidates. Followed by skepticism since they've never heard of the other in the news.
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I think DVD drive defects and failures are going to be the new RRoD for the 360. Everyone I know has had to replace their systems at least once due to RRoD issues (I'm on my third). However, now I hear alot of problems with the DVD drive (clicking, scratching, unable to read discs, complete failure).
Unfortunately, Microsoft will explicitly tell you that it's not covered under your warranty, and you have to pay for the repairs. The most irritating thing is my current refurb had a defective DVD drive right out of the box. Several games bomb out with disc read errors (with alot of clicking involved). It seems like any game that's disc intensive is unplayable. The 4th disc of Lost Odyssey wouldn't even load up in my system.
Luckily for me, I can rip the discs using the NXE feature and the game works fine. For now.
Well, if you're a new homeowner, they sort of are. And just like the bailouts, this isn't free money. It has to be paid back in full, either over the course of 15 years or upon sale of your house.
You have a First/Third Person Shooter.
I seem to recall pretty much all "Survival Horror" are third person shooters. And Dead Space follows the formula of survival horror. Not to mention there's a new Silent Hill, Blood Siren, and the upcoming RE 5. I even believe there's an upcoming Fatal Frame coming for the Wii as well. So claiming survival horror is dead is not very well researched.
However, I completely agree that Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead are not survival horror.
I think you mean 12/21/2012.
Here's AT&T's packages.
I do enjoy not having to pay a list of regulatory and gov't fees, also.
"Do you have any involvement with Blagojevich's 'pay for play' scandal?"
compared to
"Have you talked about the open senate seat with Blagojevich?"
The questions have very different implications on the intent of that answer.
I believe the confiscation is the only part about this that we shouldn't be up in arms about. Running unauthorized programs on school computers was spelled out very clearly in the student handbook when I was back in school, and that was nearly a decade ago.
However, if she confiscated the disks that were just on him and being run on a computer, then yes, the teacher was very much in the wrong.
DHL is now about an order of magnitude worse than the post office for domestic delivery. Even for places they say they can do next-day delivery to, actual delivery can take more than a week.
I'll second that. Last year, their next-day delivery took 3 weeks.
(No, that's not sarcasm, it actually took three weeks.)
They should've added it as an optional feature instead of making it a requirement to use. My first experience with it was in Fallout 3. At first it was nifty, but after coming across all of the problems mentioned above, I'm not so sure it's worth the hassle.
All the so called evidence is circustantial
I often find my case is helped when cross examination is delivered from the trapeze. Though I find the judge is not amused when I use the clown car to approach the bench.
Shady lawyers are there when you "need" them also. Summarized in this anecdote:
I had a friend who was in a pretty bad car accident with his best friend, who was driving at the time. They both went to the hospital and had bills to pay, etc. My friend (the non-driver) hired a lawyer to assist with the insurance companies. The first thing the lawyer did without consent was to sue the driver. As soon as the non-driver friend found out, he told the lawyer that he never had any intention of suing the driver. The lawyer said "Ok, but you have to pay for services already rendered on the matter." Which, once you saw the bill, basically was his way of saying "You're either going to sue him so I get my cut, or I'm just going to charge you my cut I would have gotten." Given the large amount of demanded money by the lawyer that he could not afford, he ended up suing his friend.
Luckily, there were no long term injuries from the accident, and the driver was understanding when the story was explained to him.
Mimic the GRAW 2 cover system
So.. remove it from multiplayer?
I have yet to turn on my 360, put in a game, and have it tell me I've only got two activations left before I need to call the developer and beg to have one more.
Try this little experiment:
1. Buy something from the XBLA
2. When finished downloading, turn off your 360 and unplug the network cable.
3. Turn it back on and try to play your newly paid for game
4. Swear about DRM becase you cannot play the new game.
Not every game has this issue, but a large portion does. I initially noticed this when I moved and had no Internet connection for a week. I wasn't too happy that I couldn't play the games on my hard drive that I paid for.
So yea, no activation limit on the DRM, but if you're not signed into Live, odds are you can't play your purchased arcade games either.
Ah, a fellow Verizon customer! You can tell who we are because we tend to repeat the same thing three or four time three or four time three or four times.
few categories: Violence, Sex, Language, etc
ESRB already puts that information on the boxes as well. Their full list of descriptors is at their site.
The T, M, etc are more of a suggestion for the appropriate age group to play the game.
Who do you think the Enclave in Fallout 3 are?
Stranger things have happened....
At least the elected official was alive this time.
next time try to read more than just the title
But my "Slashdot User's Handbook" says I'm not supposed to!
Anyway, I was wondering if there was any papers or anything to follow up that post. Something that would move it from speculation to truth. There's some papers in the comments linking to notes about obfuscating against reverse engineering. The last sentence just said the Austrians claim they can easily listen into the conversations.
"More Skype Back Door Speculation ."
Not saying Skype is secure or anything, but do you have any hard evidence, or facts?
I'd add Bethesda to that list as well.
I was pretty salty when I found SecuROM on my system after I installed Fallout 3.
Especially after this announcement.
A year? This is the second time in 2 months this exact situation has come up:
Moderator: "Vicious bans about for badmouthing (EA Game of choice)!"
Public: *outcry*
Moderator: "I mean.. uh.. never mind!"
EA: "He doesn't actually work for us, he's a community volunteer." (Link)
It happened when Spore was released and the DRM was a hot topic on the forums.
if he is elected, the 4 year presidential term will be the longest job he's ever held
He was an Illinois state senator for 8 years before becoming a federal senator. The misguided claim that he has no experience only looks at his national record. Not to mention I don't understand McCain's ranting about experience given his Veep choice....
say what you like about Dubya, but those bad guys are scared pissly of him because he's a cowboy that'll bomb the crap out them without blinking
I think they're scared of him for the same reason alot of people don't like him in the US. He's a very irrational person. He will stick to his guns no matter what, including if the facts state he is right, wrong, or otherwise. Being committed to something is a good quality. Doing so with blind conviction and disregarding the consquencs is dangerous. Not to mention his practice of getting his way by labeling everything as "terr'ism."
Now, that being said, I'm not voting for Obama nor McCain.
Looking at the ballot (http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/GetDocument.aspx?id=288), it looks like everyone but Baldwin is available by write-in or on the ballot.
It seems that every election, I have trouble finding a candidate that aligns with me politically as well. Then again, I live in close proximity of the Chicago Political Machine, so I'm finding more and more it doesn't matter who I vote for anyway...
Wow. That's pretty crappy. There's always write-ins?
Then again, most people I talk to are amazed when I tell them there's more than 2 candidates. Followed by skepticism since they've never heard of the other in the news.
So the only safe bet is to vote for the Green Party's Cynthia McKinney?