those guys are losing out. are they the same people who say "I'm not seeing a film unless it's got an adult rating!", or are they just ignorant hypocrites?
personally, I didn't think Resident Evil 4 was too childish, but take Super Smash Bros Melee - cartoonish graphics and no blood, but the greatest fighting gameplay ever, especially with more than 2 players.
>I applaud Nintendo for keeping loading times out of games, where everyone else has failed.
Nintendo does a lot of things right, but one of the things important to me is their commitment to keeping consoles small and quiet. the gamecube is tiny and the revolution will be even smaller. I like being able to enjoy the sound of a game without a leafblower sized fan in the background.
is a live subscription a broadband service, or do you need a broadband connection in the first place?
just interested, either way I'm getting the Revolution. I don't buy MS or Sony products, partly because I hate those two companies' practices but mainly because they just don't make products that I'm at all interested in. the Revolution is the only console that offers something genuinely new, plus I like Nintendo games.
plus it's the cheapest and my gamecube games and controllers will still work (for "conventional" games). I don't know how the internet connection will compare but that isn't important to me since I don't think my home connection would be up to standards.
>IMHO a much better concept than just desktop widgets
yes because who wants to just press a button and have all their widgets instantly fade in? we want to have to open a compatible web browser, load the page, look up all the widgets, download the data...
can someone give me an example of a widget that is better in this way because being used to Apple's Dashboard widgets and using them many times every day it's hard for me to imagine why you would want them to be "...on the internet" except for their obviously patentable new nature.
wow, a non-speaking extra in an advert for a charity get paid enough to set them up for the rest of their life? damn, I better get me some of that work.
I guess that's the only plausible explanation, since no one's ever heard of extras having any other job.
yes, but another way to look at it is: Microsoft's OS allowed this DRM rootkit to be installed and function so easily. They also have a very long history of messing up their users' security - worms, virii, trojan horses, IE, Outlook... So why should you buy ANY MS products? And why continue to use them? We know from MS's practices they care far more about mindshare than money, so why let them have what they want?
If you're going to have a principle of not buying or using products from companies that don't care about your security then at least be consistent. If you'd done this in the first place you'd have never needed to worry about Sony's rootkit.
not true. even when flipping there is enough of a field to protect us. plus the magnetic field does nothing to protect us from gamma rays anyway. if a gamma ray burst happens anywhere in our neighbourhood and is aimed at us, then we're fucked field or no field. there are cosmic rays passing through us every second anyway.
I haven't heard of Godaddy before. I suggest any Safari/Opera users or people who care about standards or people who care about Safari/Opera audiences tell them to fuck off and cancel their service.
you only need an infinite number to guarantee you recreate the works of Shakespear. in reality, so long as you're willing to wait longer, you can get away with a finite number of monkeys (a single monkey working for an infinite amount of time works too).
generally, you can recreate Hamlet in about 3 months with a team of 10 monkeys working 8 hours a day.
>The controllers tended to wear out fast, especially with button mashing intensive games like the Mario Parties and Smash Brothers. The b button would get deflated and the yellow joystick would stop working after a while.
mine are still going after over a year. my friend's cheap 3rd-party controllers on the other hand aren't. Nintendo makes quality hardware. MS does not (at least with Xboxes, I liked their mice).
why does everyone assume that the a mac mini as PVR would only be a PVR and not also a fully-featured Mac with OS X? surely this is implied by developing Front Row ON Macs with OS X rather than INSTEAD of Macs with OS X? then the question becomes, do you want a Mac Mini that's also a PVR or not? it's like the new iPod with video - it's not a new iPod, it's an updated iPod with video thrown in for free. is there some reason I've missed why the new Mini won't be a Mini with PVR thrown in for free?
actually, it's MS who decided one of the most important buttons to have on their Media Player was a "change skin colour" button. unfortunately the only colours it supports are vomit-inducing, apart from the silver option.
I'm happy that Apple sticks to the principle of "design it properly in the first place and there's no need for stupid fucking skins".
why doesn't slashdot just refuse to link to article-submitters sites in stories unless they are directly story-related and in the text, then there'd be less useless submiss... oh, I see.
for all the complaining about **AA greed, slashdot is for-profit and exactly the same - knowingly producing substandard work for a quick buck (dupes, appalling editing, slashvertisements).
the point is that some ideas are obvious before you even read them. for example, taking anything that already exists to do with phones or communication and adding the phrase "...on a mobile phone", or even more vaguely "...on a portable communcations device".
I installed it yesterday, but decided to give Software Update a check anyway. for those of you with iPod shuffles, there's a new iPod updater with some bug fixes.
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those guys are losing out. are they the same people who say "I'm not seeing a film unless it's got an adult rating!", or are they just ignorant hypocrites?
personally, I didn't think Resident Evil 4 was too childish, but take Super Smash Bros Melee - cartoonish graphics and no blood, but the greatest fighting gameplay ever, especially with more than 2 players.
>I applaud Nintendo for keeping loading times out of games, where everyone else has failed.
Nintendo does a lot of things right, but one of the things important to me is their commitment to keeping consoles small and quiet. the gamecube is tiny and the revolution will be even smaller. I like being able to enjoy the sound of a game without a leafblower sized fan in the background.
is a live subscription a broadband service, or do you need a broadband connection in the first place?
just interested, either way I'm getting the Revolution. I don't buy MS or Sony products, partly because I hate those two companies' practices but mainly because they just don't make products that I'm at all interested in. the Revolution is the only console that offers something genuinely new, plus I like Nintendo games.
plus it's the cheapest and my gamecube games and controllers will still work (for "conventional" games). I don't know how the internet connection will compare but that isn't important to me since I don't think my home connection would be up to standards.
>IMHO a much better concept than just desktop widgets
yes because who wants to just press a button and have all their widgets instantly fade in? we want to have to open a compatible web browser, load the page, look up all the widgets, download the data...
can someone give me an example of a widget that is better in this way because being used to Apple's Dashboard widgets and using them many times every day it's hard for me to imagine why you would want them to be "...on the internet" except for their obviously patentable new nature.
>They'll probably end up suing the BBC for emotional distress afterwards.
yes, especially because the BBC has NOTHING to do with this programme.
why not just buy the equator itself? it's really long but quite thin so you could probably get it cheap.
wow, a non-speaking extra in an advert for a charity get paid enough to set them up for the rest of their life? damn, I better get me some of that work.
I guess that's the only plausible explanation, since no one's ever heard of extras having any other job.
they don't get 20 million dollars but they do get some money and REAL training for a "vomit comet" zero-gravity flight.
no, it's called the BBC
yes, but another way to look at it is: Microsoft's OS allowed this DRM rootkit to be installed and function so easily. They also have a very long history of messing up their users' security - worms, virii, trojan horses, IE, Outlook... So why should you buy ANY MS products? And why continue to use them? We know from MS's practices they care far more about mindshare than money, so why let them have what they want?
If you're going to have a principle of not buying or using products from companies that don't care about your security then at least be consistent. If you'd done this in the first place you'd have never needed to worry about Sony's rootkit.
he doesn't seem to have any info about the Revolution, and wouldn't say it if he did anyway.
not true. even when flipping there is enough of a field to protect us. plus the magnetic field does nothing to protect us from gamma rays anyway. if a gamma ray burst happens anywhere in our neighbourhood and is aimed at us, then we're fucked field or no field. there are cosmic rays passing through us every second anyway.
I haven't heard of Godaddy before. I suggest any Safari/Opera users or people who care about standards or people who care about Safari/Opera audiences tell them to fuck off and cancel their service.
aiff - now
>...lacks important features...
if you're refering to Microsoft's advice on "how to buy an mp3 player" then I'm pleased to tell you that the new iPod does have a stopwatch.
as for your zealotry and poverty, nothing I can do about that, and they're your problems not the iPod's. the iPod seems to be doing fine without you.
you only need an infinite number to guarantee you recreate the works of Shakespear. in reality, so long as you're willing to wait longer, you can get away with a finite number of monkeys (a single monkey working for an infinite amount of time works too).
generally, you can recreate Hamlet in about 3 months with a team of 10 monkeys working 8 hours a day.
>The controllers tended to wear out fast, especially with button mashing intensive games like the Mario Parties and Smash Brothers. The b button would get deflated and the yellow joystick would stop working after a while.
mine are still going after over a year. my friend's cheap 3rd-party controllers on the other hand aren't. Nintendo makes quality hardware. MS does not (at least with Xboxes, I liked their mice).
>Not that I'd ever waste money on an Xbox360, or a PS3 or a Revolution for that matter.
yeah, you *like* being poor, and *choose* not to buy one.
why does everyone assume that the a mac mini as PVR would only be a PVR and not also a fully-featured Mac with OS X? surely this is implied by developing Front Row ON Macs with OS X rather than INSTEAD of Macs with OS X? then the question becomes, do you want a Mac Mini that's also a PVR or not? it's like the new iPod with video - it's not a new iPod, it's an updated iPod with video thrown in for free. is there some reason I've missed why the new Mini won't be a Mini with PVR thrown in for free?
actually, it's MS who decided one of the most important buttons to have on their Media Player was a "change skin colour" button. unfortunately the only colours it supports are vomit-inducing, apart from the silver option.
I'm happy that Apple sticks to the principle of "design it properly in the first place and there's no need for stupid fucking skins".
well, they do copy Apple at every opportunity...
why doesn't slashdot just refuse to link to article-submitters sites in stories unless they are directly story-related and in the text, then there'd be less useless submiss... oh, I see.
for all the complaining about **AA greed, slashdot is for-profit and exactly the same - knowingly producing substandard work for a quick buck (dupes, appalling editing, slashvertisements).
the point is that some ideas are obvious before you even read them. for example, taking anything that already exists to do with phones or communication and adding the phrase "...on a mobile phone", or even more vaguely "...on a portable communcations device".
I installed it yesterday, but decided to give Software Update a check anyway. for those of you with iPod shuffles, there's a new iPod updater with some bug fixes.
>My job as the Bible mandates is to enforce responsibility in my brothers and sisters in Christ
what the fuck does this mean?