Well, I agree that you can usually get used to lower volumes.. but this is not true when there is background noise unfortunatly. Without good bg-noise-blocking headphones you'll need to raise the volume to focus on what you want to hear, especially if it has a narrator involved...
Then again, I'm one of those guys who walk around some times with music so loud in my headphones people in the next apartement complain about someone having a party. But thats sometimes. I think the major reason my ears are still okay is moderation... not in volume always, but always in duration... When i get out of noisy environments, I lower it again...
and I figure its low enough if you hear what people around you say. No need to take teh plugs out to check. (although the voices in my head tells me it would be fun to plug the earplugs into random people next to you and watch their reaction as you carefully adjust the volume to your theory of no noise getting out. Start loud, walk down)
No no, it's a subtle way to tell you he's a psycho.
trust me. the voices told me it was so.
ihm.. besides... isnt it difficult judging volume on what other people hear? when he's not around, do you constantly go around asking people "can you hear this?"
uhm.. and what if you ask a deaf guy? crank it up, eh?
Glad that I don't have enough cash to be an "early adopter" of these kinds of tech. Sure, it's cool with teh latest and greatest, but I rather sit back and wait until it's cheap, available, and above all - have a decided standard.
What's stopping me? Doctors orders actually. My brain wasn't built quite like yours, so where you seem to be good at spurting sarcasm and bitter words when people suggest ideas you don't quite comprehend, I'm good at getting ideas and drawing up plans, but not so good at all the social work that needs to be done to put them in action.
In this case such a service would require social contacts with artists, pr people, and of course customers, not to mention web developers and software developers. I could draw up a plan for you, but it seems like a lot of wasted time for someone so bitter. I don't think the pr people woudl enjoy that. Not to mention you misspelled my name, that's just not nice.
As a listener I can say that it is well fucked already.
What, can't you see it? The music industry with a grumpy fresh woken smile and that "bedroom hair" and all? Perhaps it has just not really noticed how properly focked it is.
And why can I so boldly proclaim the downfall of the music industry? Because sooner or later, history tells us, all companies that refuse to adopt to modern techniques and more importantly to the needs and wants of their modern customers, will fall... and fall hard.
Smaller companies pop up, offer better service, and down come the giants.
Thats cool. Unfortunatly it doesnt seem like the dudes granting patents bother that much about the background when large companies throw cash and "inventions" at them. It is probable teh situation woudl be cleared up if a case went to court, but it would still take long enough tiem for Creative to ride their patent and use it to scare and dominate smaller competitors, and annoy the larger. (Especially since courts doesnt seem to worry that much about the background when large companies throw cash and "intellectual properties" at them.)
No wonder they got this result then... All the spam I get link to totally random domains, such as adgsaskf.com or whatever... I am sure their result would have been different if they didn't use random adresses but instead well thought out and composed crossection of todays internet.
Of course, I'm pretty sure the guy who registered c14lis.com has been sending way to many funky emails to have his real info in the whois.
For the donations of stuff that really matters to a child, go the geeks and gamers. None of us ever passed childhood.
No no, on a more serious note... great job. Shows the world that we violent game players can take care of our victims as well. Doh. The victims. of course. not ours. no. we do nothing wrong. never.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property.
Ah yes, but do we have to respect intellectual bullshit? To allow someone to patent "the way files are organised and navigated on a player using a using a hierarchy of menus" is about as logical as allowing someone to patent the way of transportation that involves putting the rearward foot infront of the front foot and then repeating.
Come on, for as long as there has been more than one menu on ANY electronic device they have had the need to put them into a hierarchy, right? Oh, I know, let's patent the use of language on a display! No, there is no prior art, because my patent is only related to this new kind of display... I think it's called LCD.
so there is this one russian guy you trust to save your life but take your cash for it? He must be the doctor.
besides, same numbers are true all over the world. around three in ten will save your life (as long as it's not that difficult, and around eight out of ten would steal your wallet if you "trusted them with it". And the guy who saves your life but steals the cash, is the doc.
It was 1984, those who wheren't scared off by the possibility of orwells book coming true (thank good they couldn't see into the future, they'd never let us live) where still living in an age where graphics like that was (on the lower end of the scale but still) acceptable.
This article seems like a lot of game bashing solely for the reason of bashing old games.
Oh, I thought a corporation was better than a person in the eyes of the law. Silly me. Oh well, at least I wasn't alone in thiking this, seems most corporations agree.
"I want to be very clear that Best Buy does not condone pressuring customers to purchase items they may not want or that may not fit their lifestyle."
Since when does MORE gamestation related junktronics not fit the lifestyle of anyone desperate enough to get a 360 to pay for stuff he didn't want in the first place?
Yeah, sure, try tot trick yourself into believing looks doesn't matter. Sure, another issue that made me even more wary was a proprietary disc format and the lack of games I was interested in, but mostly it was the looks.
I don't know how you arrange your home, but considering mine always looks like the bachelor pad it is theses days Imight as well try to keep some style where possible.
Actually, I remember the days before most people noticed that. Now I feel really old.
Anyways, sure, the search technology has gone forward, but it has also gone backwards. While some things bring more relevant results, they also open the door for more obvious abuse, such as the "miserable failure" search, and similar idiotic stunts.
Not to mention that sometimes when I google these days I only get a thousand links to other search pages with the same search and no results. Now That's annoying...
I remember the time when your ranking in searches was actually based on how well the content on your page matched the words in the search, and not on how well you optimized it.
So now I find the guy with more time on his hands and a superior knowledge about webdesign instead of the guy with the answers to my question?
Another thing I seem to be missing in modern games is co-op modes. Why is everyone concentrating totally on either being alone and bashing the outside forces/aliens/terrorists or bashign each other? I wanna join up with my friend (or friends) to take on the AI.
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Well, I agree that you can usually get used to lower volumes.. but this is not true when there is background noise unfortunatly. Without good bg-noise-blocking headphones you'll need to raise the volume to focus on what you want to hear, especially if it has a narrator involved...
Then again, I'm one of those guys who walk around some times with music so loud in my headphones people in the next apartement complain about someone having a party. But thats sometimes. I think the major reason my ears are still okay is moderation... not in volume always, but always in duration... When i get out of noisy environments, I lower it again...
and I figure its low enough if you hear what people around you say. No need to take teh plugs out to check. (although the voices in my head tells me it would be fun to plug the earplugs into random people next to you and watch their reaction as you carefully adjust the volume to your theory of no noise getting out. Start loud, walk down)
No no, it's a subtle way to tell you he's a psycho.
trust me. the voices told me it was so.
ihm.. besides... isnt it difficult judging volume on what other people hear? when he's not around, do you constantly go around asking people "can you hear this?"
uhm.. and what if you ask a deaf guy? crank it up, eh?
Glad that I don't have enough cash to be an "early adopter" of these kinds of tech. Sure, it's cool with teh latest and greatest, but I rather sit back and wait until it's cheap, available, and above all - have a decided standard.
What's stopping me? Doctors orders actually. My brain wasn't built quite like yours, so where you seem to be good at spurting sarcasm and bitter words when people suggest ideas you don't quite comprehend, I'm good at getting ideas and drawing up plans, but not so good at all the social work that needs to be done to put them in action.
In this case such a service would require social contacts with artists, pr people, and of course customers, not to mention web developers and software developers. I could draw up a plan for you, but it seems like a lot of wasted time for someone so bitter. I don't think the pr people woudl enjoy that. Not to mention you misspelled my name, that's just not nice.
As a listener I can say that it is well fucked already.
What, can't you see it? The music industry with a grumpy fresh woken smile and that "bedroom hair" and all? Perhaps it has just not really noticed how properly focked it is.
And why can I so boldly proclaim the downfall of the music industry? Because sooner or later, history tells us, all companies that refuse to adopt to modern techniques and more importantly to the needs and wants of their modern customers, will fall... and fall hard.
Smaller companies pop up, offer better service, and down come the giants.
Thats cool. Unfortunatly it doesnt seem like the dudes granting patents bother that much about the background when large companies throw cash and "inventions" at them. It is probable teh situation woudl be cleared up if a case went to court, but it would still take long enough tiem for Creative to ride their patent and use it to scare and dominate smaller competitors, and annoy the larger. (Especially since courts doesnt seem to worry that much about the background when large companies throw cash and "intellectual properties" at them.)
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out although some of my friends are not really.. ehrm... that into Star Wars.
The GAO took 300 random domain names
No wonder they got this result then... All the spam I get link to totally random domains, such as adgsaskf.com or whatever... I am sure their result would have been different if they didn't use random adresses but instead well thought out and composed crossection of todays internet.
Of course, I'm pretty sure the guy who registered c14lis.com has been sending way to many funky emails to have his real info in the whois.
For the donations of stuff that really matters to a child, go the geeks and gamers. None of us ever passed childhood.
No no, on a more serious note... great job. Shows the world that we violent game players can take care of our victims as well. Doh. The victims. of course. not ours. no. we do nothing wrong. never.
and "on a portable music device" is about as novel as "on a computer". Walkmans, discmans, minidisc players... any laptop. Any pda. Any cellphone.
Hopefully this will be friendly, but people have to respect intellectual property.
Ah yes, but do we have to respect intellectual bullshit? To allow someone to patent "the way files are organised and navigated on a player using a using a hierarchy of menus" is about as logical as allowing someone to patent the way of transportation that involves putting the rearward foot infront of the front foot and then repeating.
Come on, for as long as there has been more than one menu on ANY electronic device they have had the need to put them into a hierarchy, right? Oh, I know, let's patent the use of language on a display! No, there is no prior art, because my patent is only related to this new kind of display... I think it's called LCD.
No it's not. Never think again. bad poster. I don't have a car, if you changed it to that then I wouldn't get any pink dildo nintendos.
religon. Is cancer religion, or is religion cancer? Because both have representatives bugging me all the time.
no. just except places with a working national health service. important distinction.
so there is this one russian guy you trust to save your life but take your cash for it? He must be the doctor.
besides, same numbers are true all over the world. around three in ten will save your life (as long as it's not that difficult, and around eight out of ten would steal your wallet if you "trusted them with it". And the guy who saves your life but steals the cash, is the doc.
It was 1984, those who wheren't scared off by the possibility of orwells book coming true (thank good they couldn't see into the future, they'd never let us live) where still living in an age where graphics like that was (on the lower end of the scale but still) acceptable.
This article seems like a lot of game bashing solely for the reason of bashing old games.
Oh, I thought a corporation was better than a person in the eyes of the law. Silly me. Oh well, at least I wasn't alone in thiking this, seems most corporations agree.
Good luck. They'll need it.
"I want to be very clear that Best Buy does not condone pressuring customers to purchase items they may not want or that may not fit their lifestyle."
Since when does MORE gamestation related junktronics not fit the lifestyle of anyone desperate enough to get a 360 to pay for stuff he didn't want in the first place?
Yeah, sure, try tot trick yourself into believing looks doesn't matter. Sure, another issue that made me even more wary was a proprietary disc format and the lack of games I was interested in, but mostly it was the looks.
I don't know how you arrange your home, but considering mine always looks like the bachelor pad it is theses days Imight as well try to keep some style where possible.
if it looked like a pink dildo, I would have bought it.
Actually, I remember the days before most people noticed that. Now I feel really old.
Anyways, sure, the search technology has gone forward, but it has also gone backwards. While some things bring more relevant results, they also open the door for more obvious abuse, such as the "miserable failure" search, and similar idiotic stunts.
Not to mention that sometimes when I google these days I only get a thousand links to other search pages with the same search and no results. Now That's annoying...
I remember the time when your ranking in searches was actually based on how well the content on your page matched the words in the search, and not on how well you optimized it.
So now I find the guy with more time on his hands and a superior knowledge about webdesign instead of the guy with the answers to my question?
I thought the one eyes man was a euphemism for... well, okay, so he agrees he's king.
Another thing I seem to be missing in modern games is co-op modes. Why is everyone concentrating totally on either being alone and bashing the outside forces/aliens/terrorists or bashign each other? I wanna join up with my friend (or friends) to take on the AI.