I'm not trying to complain here or anything, but how is this special? It's just an overpriced external HD, right (and it is DEFINATELY overpriced, if that's all it is).
Why not just buy an external IDE enclosure? Do it yourself, that way you can change the HD and upgrade it later (if you need extra space).
Would those not be held on several memory disks (one for each CD that the game required)? Well, since you are putting them on a memory stick, the only issue is HOW you are supposed to get them from CD -> Memory stick. Surely you'll have to use some program...
Although, it would make a lot of sense for Sony to put the program out for free. This is a GREAT way to increase the sell of memory sticks (especially big ones!). I believe that Sony makes the memory sticks that the PSP uses...
Oh, I understand (but thanks for explaining... my wording was a little bad).
My problem is, I don't want to only be able to download part of a game at a time on a console. On a PC, it isn't such an issue... but if I want to take my PS3 next door to download a game, I don't want to have to beat part of it to have all of it. As I don't have broadband, this is an issue for me.
They were the sponsers of a "Free Visitor's Pass" the last time I got it, too... and they were on Slashdot then, also. Although, it definately wasn't good news for them...
Also, will they be able to offer it at a more reasonable price than was stated in earlier articles (assuming that the other figures were for if it was released earlier)?
What I want to know is what format this video stream will be in. For the other Olympic videos on NBC's site, you MUST have a PC with Windows Media Player to be able to watch them. I know that there is an OSX version of WMP, but it apperently can't play the videos on NBC's site.
I think that is ridiculous. They should at least have an alternate format for the rest of us.
You make a very good point. I'd like to see his reaction to this idea.
On a related note, I'd like to know what President Bush would say if we told him that we were going to let the Senate minority leader tape all of his phone conversations.
My sister has an account, and I created one named "Tom Therapist" (Tom The rapist) to see if she would accept his friend invite. She is 14 and my "character", Tom, was 29. He had no information listed, other than his name and age. She accepted, and she has waaaay too much personal info on her myspace.
Is it really? Is iChat available for Windows, though? I'm not saying that I love Google for inventing it, though, I'm saying that I love them for making this thing available to me. Thanks for the suggestion, though =)
Not to sound like a Google fanboy, but I absolutely LOVE GTalk for its nice clean interface and lack of smilies.
Can't wait to see what this turns out to be like. Here at school, I can't install Gtalk, so my girlfriend (off at college) communicate through email. This will make this a lot easier.
On a side note, I wonder if Adblock will really screw this up, or if they're just trying to get people to stop blocking their ads.
Everquest II wins two of the catagories, but I NEVER hear about this game anymore (I hear about City of Villians/Heroes and WoW all the time), but Eve Online won NOTHING? It didn't even get mentioned...
I'm kinda mixed on this... I mean, I think the fact that he lied and said that the book was factual was wrong.
On the other hand, it's a damn good book, and wouldn't have been as good if I thought it was fake. My girlfriend's English professor went to college with him, and said that the guy was definately a tortured soul. When he spent that 2 nights in jail (which he claimed was 5 years in his book), it really tore him up; for him, it was 5 years.
Regardless, this didn't hurt his book sales too badly! It's still on the top 5 sellers list!
As far as publishers fact-checking: Do we really expect these guys to do this? That could take some digging for them, and we all know how publishers can be.
You're absolutely right. My father works for a furniture store, and they have gigantic "sales" all the time. All they do is write the MSRP up higher, and the price you pay stays the same.
Do you happen to be from tiny Decatur, Tn? Your experience is very similiar to mine.
Another thing that I hate is the fact that other kids are forbidden to read books that are ABOVE their level. I can understand not letting them read ones that are below, but ABOVE?
And even after we reached our required 5 books, we STILL weren't allowed to read non-AR books. I feel your pain, brother.
I think that typing programs are ok, and I love anything that encourages creativity. The problems I have with AR are:
1. The fact that the computer really isn't neccessary for reading.
2. The way my school was using it (and spending TONS of money on it).
Although, I do have to say that typing programs are not as effective as instant messengers and things like that (as long as the kids aren't saying stuff like "LoL" constantly).
We had points also, but they didn't matter. They made us read a certain amount of books (ended up being 5 books every 6 weeks). While this was certainly no strain on me (and I ended the year with 400+ points more than the 2nd highest person in my school), I still hated the way it was done.
Also, ONLY our first 5 books mattered. If I wanted to read more, then they didn't count for my grade. I tried talking the teacher into a variety of things (including having the new test grades replace the old or only counting our highest 5 test grades), but she wouldn't. I certainly didn't care about my grade (it was high enough already... I had a 100% average the six weeks that I mentioned this to her), but I hated the fact that AR was almost DISCOURAGING kids to read after the first 5 books.
When I was in middle school, my county had just bought some software called "accelerated reader". This had tests for basically every book you could find (...but you had to pay up the ass for each 10-question test). The school pressured the reading teachers into totally relying on this, and grading completely on our AR tests.
AR had you take a test at the beginning of the year to determine your "reading level", and it had a "reading level" for practically every book out there. Kids were intentionally doing poorly on the test so that they could read 2nd-grade level books. Because the kids were only graded on what they could take an AR test on, these kids were given high grades for reading books that did them absolutely no good (whereas only one other student and I were actually reading above the 7th grade level).
Sometimes, educational software (and software in the schools) can be useful, but the biggest problem is that it seems like we use computers for the sake of using computers, and not for the sake of learning. Despite the fact that AR was KILLING our reading classes, the administration demanded that we continue to use it simply so they could brag about their computer software.
The problem is, 98% (or more) of the people in Tennessee don't even know what Open Source Software is. Hell, most don't know that they have the option of working on something other than Windows.
I'm not trolling. I live here, and I'm being honest.
The reason this is happening is that the state legislature doesn't even understand software. Hell, everyone has a position in the state legislature because they're related to someone (several times over).
While there are obvious disadvantages to this (such as crappier, cheesier scripts), couldn't this be a good thing? I mean, wouldn't you guys like it if commercials were cut down signifigantly? I know that I would.
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www.zonelabs.com, kids.
Why not just buy an external IDE enclosure? Do it yourself, that way you can change the HD and upgrade it later (if you need extra space).
Although, it would make a lot of sense for Sony to put the program out for free. This is a GREAT way to increase the sell of memory sticks (especially big ones!). I believe that Sony makes the memory sticks that the PSP uses...
That's really cool, but how are you going to do that? Do you put the games on some sort of memory stick or something?
My problem is, I don't want to only be able to download part of a game at a time on a console. On a PC, it isn't such an issue... but if I want to take my PS3 next door to download a game, I don't want to have to beat part of it to have all of it. As I don't have broadband, this is an issue for me.
Also, is there any word on how much the games would cost? They certainly aren't worth much any more.
They were the sponsers of a "Free Visitor's Pass" the last time I got it, too... and they were on Slashdot then, also. Although, it definately wasn't good news for them...
Also, will they be able to offer it at a more reasonable price than was stated in earlier articles (assuming that the other figures were for if it was released earlier)?
And, most importantly, will it run Linux?
I think that is ridiculous. They should at least have an alternate format for the rest of us.
On a related note, I'd like to know what President Bush would say if we told him that we were going to let the Senate minority leader tape all of his phone conversations.
My sister has an account, and I created one named "Tom Therapist" (Tom The rapist) to see if she would accept his friend invite. She is 14 and my "character", Tom, was 29. He had no information listed, other than his name and age. She accepted, and she has waaaay too much personal info on her myspace.
Is it really? Is iChat available for Windows, though? I'm not saying that I love Google for inventing it, though, I'm saying that I love them for making this thing available to me. Thanks for the suggestion, though =)
You have to enable logging (at least right now). It's an opt-in service. By default, your stuff doesn't get logged (at least, as of last night).
Can't wait to see what this turns out to be like. Here at school, I can't install Gtalk, so my girlfriend (off at college) communicate through email. This will make this a lot easier.
On a side note, I wonder if Adblock will really screw this up, or if they're just trying to get people to stop blocking their ads.
Everquest II wins two of the catagories, but I NEVER hear about this game anymore (I hear about City of Villians/Heroes and WoW all the time), but Eve Online won NOTHING? It didn't even get mentioned...
...epecially if they are KNOWN employees of Google (they'd be kinda easy to pay off, no?).
On the other hand, it's a damn good book, and wouldn't have been as good if I thought it was fake. My girlfriend's English professor went to college with him, and said that the guy was definately a tortured soul. When he spent that 2 nights in jail (which he claimed was 5 years in his book), it really tore him up; for him, it was 5 years.
Regardless, this didn't hurt his book sales too badly! It's still on the top 5 sellers list!
As far as publishers fact-checking: Do we really expect these guys to do this? That could take some digging for them, and we all know how publishers can be.
This has always disgusted me.
Another thing that I hate is the fact that other kids are forbidden to read books that are ABOVE their level. I can understand not letting them read ones that are below, but ABOVE?
And even after we reached our required 5 books, we STILL weren't allowed to read non-AR books. I feel your pain, brother.
Fortunately, I still love to read.
1. The fact that the computer really isn't neccessary for reading.
2. The way my school was using it (and spending TONS of money on it).
Although, I do have to say that typing programs are not as effective as instant messengers and things like that (as long as the kids aren't saying stuff like "LoL" constantly).
Also, ONLY our first 5 books mattered. If I wanted to read more, then they didn't count for my grade. I tried talking the teacher into a variety of things (including having the new test grades replace the old or only counting our highest 5 test grades), but she wouldn't. I certainly didn't care about my grade (it was high enough already... I had a 100% average the six weeks that I mentioned this to her), but I hated the fact that AR was almost DISCOURAGING kids to read after the first 5 books.
AR had you take a test at the beginning of the year to determine your "reading level", and it had a "reading level" for practically every book out there. Kids were intentionally doing poorly on the test so that they could read 2nd-grade level books. Because the kids were only graded on what they could take an AR test on, these kids were given high grades for reading books that did them absolutely no good (whereas only one other student and I were actually reading above the 7th grade level).
Sometimes, educational software (and software in the schools) can be useful, but the biggest problem is that it seems like we use computers for the sake of using computers, and not for the sake of learning. Despite the fact that AR was KILLING our reading classes, the administration demanded that we continue to use it simply so they could brag about their computer software.
I'm not trolling. I live here, and I'm being honest.
The reason this is happening is that the state legislature doesn't even understand software. Hell, everyone has a position in the state legislature because they're related to someone (several times over).
All that, and no link to the product?
While there are obvious disadvantages to this (such as crappier, cheesier scripts), couldn't this be a good thing? I mean, wouldn't you guys like it if commercials were cut down signifigantly? I know that I would.