3.) MS has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat of emulation in getting Xbox games to run. Not only have they emulated Intel to Power PC, but nVidia assembly to ATI. Better yet, the software for that emulation is updated constantly and will be released on their website to burn to CD. Can anyone say "reverse engineering"?
I've got an even better, faster, and cheaper way to get XBox games to run - buy an XBox, which you can now purchase for less than half the price of the core system of the 360! This miraculous solution will even let you play *hundreds* of games that you won't get to on the 360!
Yeah, yeah, emulate an XBox on the PC you've already got, right...
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a subpar soft drink, especially compared to PEPSI-COLA (tm). It was designed as a delivery system of cocaine, unlike PEPSI-COLA (tm). Further, the Coca-Cola company uses incredibly moronic advertising to sell its product with no health benefits whatsover - unlike PEPSI-COLA (tm) commercials (click to watch an award-winning PEPSI-COLA (tm) commercial now!)
Coca-Cola can be found in many resturaunts with health code violations, unlike PEPSI-COLA, which can be found in top-rated resturants KFC (tm), PIZZA HUT (tm), and TACO BELL (tm).
Played poker tonight with Scott and Alias from Security, and Steve from
Research. Steve was the big winner, but I think he was cheating. Scumbag.
May 10, 1998
One of the higher-ups assigned me to take care of a new creature. It looks
like a skinned gorilla. Feeding instructions were to give it live animals.
When I threw in a pig, the creature seemed to play with it...tearing off the
pig's legs and pulling out the guts before it actually started eating.
May 11, 1998
At around 5 A.M., Scott woke me up. Scared the shit out me, too. He was
wearing a protective suit. He handed me another one and told me to put it on.
Said there'd been an accident in the basement lab.
I just knew something like this would happen. Those bastards in Research never
sleep, even on holiday.
May 12, 1998
I've been wearing the damn space suit since yesterday. My skin's getting grimy
and feels itchy all over. The goddamn dogs have been looking at me funny, so I
decided not to feed them today. Screw 'em.
May 13, 1998
Went to the Infirmary because my back is all swollen and feels itchy. They put
a big bandage on it and told me I didn't need to wear the suit anymore. All I
wanna do is sleep.
May 14, 1998
Found another big blister on my foot this morning. I ended up dragging my foot
all the way to the dog's pen. They were quiet all day, which is weird.
Then I realized some of them had escaped. Maybe this is their way of getting
back at me for not feeding them the last three days. If anybody finds out,
I'll have my head handed to me.
May 16, 1998
Rumours going around that a researcher who tried to escape the estate last
night was shot. My entire body feels hot and itchy and I'm sweating all the
time now.
I scratched the swelling on my arm and a piece of rotten flesh just dropped
off. What the hell's happening to me?
May 19, 1998
FEVER GONE BUT ITCHY TODAY HUNGRY AND EAT DOGGIE FOOD
May 21, 1998
ITCHY ITCHY SCOTT CAME UGLY FACE SO KILLED HIM TASTY
4 / / Itchy. Tasty.
Something I've noticed is that the 360 may not have a standard AV cable (I presume, since the 'Core' package has Standard AV cable (Composite?) as a feature.) I don't have a component-capable TV, and I imagine a lot of folks still don't.
Heck, these days I see a large amount of composite->RF adapters out there.
Thus, I imagine that folks are going to have to add $30 (the cheapest cable price I've seen so far) to the premium package's $400 if they own an old TV. Ach, these new consoles and their price gouging. Remember back when a game and two controllers were included in the package?
'Spear phishing'? Oh great, what's next?
Bass phishing - searching for orders made at koss.com
Phly phishing - searching for info in TRL posts
Net phishing - Oh, wait...
I used MacWrite and MacPaint all the time for class projects and such when I was in middle school. They probably would have sufficed for longer if not for the fact that my folks then got a top-of-the-line Power 100 (with 16MB RAM and a gargantuan 800 MB hard drive!)
But the thing that sticks with me is the very first MacPaint document I made - when I was three and a half years old. Leafing through old stuff in my folks' attic, I found the ancient computer (sadly, it no longer works - we lent it to an uncle who promptly broke the floppy drive. Still, anything that lasts 16 years these days...)
On one of the floppy disks was a MacPaint document that had my name, (old) address, and some shapes. (Circle (circle drawing), Triangle (Triangle drawing)...) My dad assured me when I showed it to him that I had indeed made that myself the day that he bought the Mac (summer '84). I think it's Apple's greatest triumph that a little kid that still had trouble with Grover's "The Monster at the End of the Book" could not only use a computer, but do so well!
It's scary just how much credit card companies make these days - and if Sony put out their own credit card (like the one Apple has on everything from the Shuffle to the dual G5) they would likely make a killing on interest alone.
I went and found a Credit Card Interest Calculator and punched in some numbers. If you buy the PS3 on your Visa for a $400 or so outlay (If it ends up being priced lower than that, then tack on at least one game and a memory card, both pretty much required for using the darn thing) at a fairly standard (sadly) 20% interest rate, with 2%/$10 (Make easy $10 payments!) minimum payments:
You'll have paid $264.67 extra for your PS3 and it won't be paid off until 5 years and 7 months after purchase. So how excited is everyone about the PS2 now that it's 5 years and 5 months after it came out? Is it even still functional? Has it been sold, traded, or given away? Was it worth $664.67?
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I've got an even better, faster, and cheaper way to get XBox games to run - buy an XBox, which you can now purchase for less than half the price of the core system of the 360! This miraculous solution will even let you play *hundreds* of games that you won't get to on the 360!
Yeah, yeah, emulate an XBox on the PC you've already got, right...
Coca-Cola can be found in many resturaunts with health code violations, unlike PEPSI-COLA, which can be found in top-rated resturants KFC (tm), PIZZA HUT (tm), and TACO BELL (tm).
See also:
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WILD CHERRY PEPSI
PEPSI EDGE
DIET PEPSI
Played poker tonight with Scott and Alias from Security, and Steve from Research. Steve was the big winner, but I think he was cheating. Scumbag.
May 10, 1998
One of the higher-ups assigned me to take care of a new creature. It looks like a skinned gorilla. Feeding instructions were to give it live animals. When I threw in a pig, the creature seemed to play with it...tearing off the pig's legs and pulling out the guts before it actually started eating.
May 11, 1998
At around 5 A.M., Scott woke me up. Scared the shit out me, too. He was wearing a protective suit. He handed me another one and told me to put it on. Said there'd been an accident in the basement lab.
I just knew something like this would happen. Those bastards in Research never sleep, even on holiday.
May 12, 1998
I've been wearing the damn space suit since yesterday. My skin's getting grimy and feels itchy all over. The goddamn dogs have been looking at me funny, so I decided not to feed them today. Screw 'em.
May 13, 1998
Went to the Infirmary because my back is all swollen and feels itchy. They put a big bandage on it and told me I didn't need to wear the suit anymore. All I wanna do is sleep.
May 14, 1998
Found another big blister on my foot this morning. I ended up dragging my foot all the way to the dog's pen. They were quiet all day, which is weird. Then I realized some of them had escaped. Maybe this is their way of getting back at me for not feeding them the last three days. If anybody finds out, I'll have my head handed to me.
May 16, 1998
Rumours going around that a researcher who tried to escape the estate last night was shot. My entire body feels hot and itchy and I'm sweating all the time now.
I scratched the swelling on my arm and a piece of rotten flesh just dropped off. What the hell's happening to me?
May 19, 1998
FEVER GONE BUT ITCHY TODAY HUNGRY AND EAT DOGGIE FOOD
May 21, 1998
ITCHY ITCHY SCOTT CAME UGLY FACE SO KILLED HIM TASTY 4 / / Itchy. Tasty.
I retract my earlier statement about the AV cables - after doing a little research, the Premium cable is compatible with composite TV's.
Thus, I imagine that folks are going to have to add $30 (the cheapest cable price I've seen so far) to the premium package's $400 if they own an old TV. Ach, these new consoles and their price gouging. Remember back when a game and two controllers were included in the package?
'Spear phishing'? Oh great, what's next? Bass phishing - searching for orders made at koss.com Phly phishing - searching for info in TRL posts Net phishing - Oh, wait...
But the thing that sticks with me is the very first MacPaint document I made - when I was three and a half years old. Leafing through old stuff in my folks' attic, I found the ancient computer (sadly, it no longer works - we lent it to an uncle who promptly broke the floppy drive. Still, anything that lasts 16 years these days...)
On one of the floppy disks was a MacPaint document that had my name, (old) address, and some shapes. (Circle (circle drawing), Triangle (Triangle drawing)...) My dad assured me when I showed it to him that I had indeed made that myself the day that he bought the Mac (summer '84). I think it's Apple's greatest triumph that a little kid that still had trouble with Grover's "The Monster at the End of the Book" could not only use a computer, but do so well!
It's scary just how much credit card companies make these days - and if Sony put out their own credit card (like the one Apple has on everything from the Shuffle to the dual G5) they would likely make a killing on interest alone.
I went and found a Credit Card Interest Calculator and punched in some numbers. If you buy the PS3 on your Visa for a $400 or so outlay (If it ends up being priced lower than that, then tack on at least one game and a memory card, both pretty much required for using the darn thing) at a fairly standard (sadly) 20% interest rate, with 2%/$10 (Make easy $10 payments!) minimum payments:
You'll have paid $264.67 extra for your PS3 and it won't be paid off until 5 years and 7 months after purchase. So how excited is everyone about the PS2 now that it's 5 years and 5 months after it came out? Is it even still functional? Has it been sold, traded, or given away? Was it worth $664.67?