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I just bought a samsung 55 inch LED, it has two USB ports and a media player app built-in. Threw my MKVs and divxes at it, it would play everything.
VLC server, geexbox, XBMC, "plugging a computer into the teevee" and so on... They're obsolete to me now. Even my internet/TV provider's box has usb plugs and can read even the most obscure, piraty formats ever.
I'm kinda dubious towards this "technology". It would have been cool FIVE YEARS AGO!
"People who say in this topic that Tokyo is crowded obviously never been to Time Square or for that matter the Kalverstraat. But your brain can parse those signs and classify them as unimportant. "
You're really trying to compare shibuya crossing with times square?... REALLY? DO WE HAVE TO WHIP OUT THE YOUTUBE LINKS?
Here's THE ONE THING the game needs : Slicing enemies with your lightsaber should cut off limbs insteead of "decreasing their energy bar". Otherwise, it's not even worth pirating!
Both IT crowd and TBBT have their qualities, sheldon and wolowitz (I can never wear a NES controller belt buckle ever again) remind me more of actual nolife geeks i've met than IT crowd's archetypes.
"In remarks made to Japanese website Impress Watch, and translated by consumer website Beyond3D, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Ken Kutaragi has commented in more detail on the concept that the PlayStation 3 is a computer, rather than a game console.
Kutaragi pointedly commented of the next-gen console, which is due to launch this November at dual price points of $499 and $599 in North America: "We don't say it's a game console (*laugh*) - PlayStation 3 is clearly a computer, unlike the PlayStations [released] so far."
He went on to outline a scenario where many parts of the PS3 were upgradable, much more like a PC, noting: "Since PS3 is a computer, there are no "models" but "configurations"", and continuing (though talking in the theoretical): "I think it's okay to release a [extended PS3] configuration every year". It's clear from the comments that Sony is indicating that it will be possible to upgrade hard drives and perhaps even other components easily.
The Sony CEO gave another example in the interview: "As PS3 is a computer... it also wants to evolve. We'll want to upgrade the HDD size very soon - if new standards appear on the PC, we will want to support them. We may want the [Blu-ray] drive to [have a writable version upgrade]." He then tempered his comments: "Well, BD may not develop like that, though." But extensibility is what Sony is stressing that you get for the price of a PS3, nonetheless.
Kutaragi's comments echo a recent Phil Harrison interview in which he commented: "We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play games, watch films, browse the Web, and use other computer functions. The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC." The combined executive comments appear to signify a change in marketing tactics for the company, who may have always had this scenario in mind, but are pushing it much more strongly following a somewhat mixed E3 showing from a PR perspective."
If they could just change the red/green LEDs to red/something-that-isn't-even-close-to-being-mistaken-for-the-same-fucking-color-by-us-daltonians LEDs, I wouldn't need a cure. You know, red/blue would work. That is the ONLY thing I resent in everyday life. Assholes. Instead they wanna prick my eye with a needle, fuck that. I don't care about being a pilot, or a chemist.
The "blacks can't keep it in their pants" story is actually about having a high enough ratio of children who make it to adulthood before disease kills them. In the countries where the death rates from disease significantly decreased, guess what happened? Birth rates significantly slowing down.
But I think both of you guys should set foot in Africa at least once before you talk the whole "it's ethnic cleansings everywhere!!!ONE" garbage.
When my last job began encompassing resonsibility towards even the lowly fax and TELEX machines which were older than me, "IT" became "I- fucking qui-T". You *will* make more money if you work on your own than for a boss. But you *will* need to go through the initiation phases first!
Now, please, could you come and help us change the paper in the printer?:D
plus fucking one. THIS revolution is going to be televised and there's nothing we can do about it.
Only a big company would bother to start mass-buying and installing these, and be able to feed its employees.
And what about the end-of-the-food-chain-customers? In my case (france), you also have to convice the other landowners/condo owners that it "will not make their roof ugly". It's a seven-story building... -_-;
That's in France, by the way. Last time I went to germany, most individual houses had solar roofs. I found them beautiful.
Huh? We haven't been playing the same game. You have to play each category's level in a strict order, or you can buy them to unlock them. But it's always linear.
Disclaimer : I don't mind cheating as long as it isn't against online opponents.
It's not really hard to do better than "oh I can't adapt a thousand-page book in less than three movies OH HERE'S A BUNCH OF UNNECESSARY SCENES, HERE'S LIV TYLER BEING PRETTY FOR THIRTY BORING MINUTES, also, ELEPHANT-TRUNK SURFIIIIING IS HOW WE ELVES ROLL, DAWG"
That's the point of putting an article on slashdot : to start a discussion about it. I'm skeptical like you, but not totally adverse to Prolegomena on a boring day.
I think the soul is a delusion caused by the brain to make you forget you're a cog in the machine/anthill/whatever. "Yeah, yeah, you're a fucking snowflake". Three modes of behavior, Bitch, Lord, or Independant, gender is irrelevant. We can code that, can't we?;)
So Ubuntu gets flash 10 but no one at Nintendo could be arsed to call adobe and ask them WTF is up with their shit? I'm also not updating. I only use the homebrew channel with emulators (gnuboy and fceu whatever one of the seventeen versions on the homebrew browser) and mplayer (external HDD allowed, yea, crashes randomly, beuuh) Nintendo could have made a useful update like, here's what some dude posted on gonintendo:
Channel Updates Mii Channel - Added more types of apparel (i.e. Shirts, shoes, hats and pants, etc) - Added more types of faces, hairstyles, features, etc - Ability to create Custom apparel by using images loaded from an SD card - Ability to collect new items from games that would be automatically added to the Mii channel.
Photo Channel - Ability to delete images from Photo Channel without having to search for them on the Message Board - Choose order in which music tracks are played during slideshow - Ability to arrange order of pictures to be viewed in Slideshow - Customization of image gallery (allow for user-created folders to manage pictures) - Ability to change music tracks during a slideshow - Custom Slideshows - Playlist support - Now allow video shortcuts to be placed on Wii itself, so you can view it with your photos
Internet Channel - Support for Adobe Flash Lite 3 - Save images from web page to the photo channel - Support for Tabbed browsing - Image download to SD Card
News Channel - Support for additional news source feeds
Shop Channel - Popular games enhanced. Now, you can see what is "Popular this week", "Popular this month" and "All-Time Best Sellers". - Download Demos. Try out Wii games before they come out.
Data Management / Storage Solutions - USB Flash Drive support - USB Hard Drive support - Support for SD Cards above 2GB - Ability to load Virtual Console games from an SD card without it residing in the Wii main memory. - Allow people to merge their save data files as what would be extremely useful in the situation where a friend brings over their save file on an SD card or no longer has their Wii.
Communication Enhancements - Ability to communicate via voice while playing Wi-Fi Connection Network compatible games - Options for Enabling or Disabling voice chat communication functionality - Support for most Bluetooth and USB compatible headsets/microphones. - Parental Controls updated with more options for communication functionality - Instant Message your friends in your address book - See when friends in your address book are actually online utilizing the Wii (games, photos, surfing net, bulletin board, etc). - View your friends Game-Specific Achievements - Download new Game-Specific Achievements
General UI updates - Ability to customize the Wii Main Menu (Select wallpaper, music, animations, size and shape of channels). Incorporated SD Card functionality so you can select to stream music tracks off that media. - Cleaned up the Wii menu with a single channel for all Virtual Console games, rather than each game having it's own channel. - Option to group games together. Keep all the N64 games on one channel or all similar games together. - Firmware/Software Update History - Address Book page increase - The ability to message multiple people in address book at once. - The ability to send and receive messages via the Wiimote Home button at any time, even during gameplay. - The option to have the LED stay on constantly while the system is on. - Ability to adjust gamma correction, vertical screen position, etc. in your screen settings. - Ability to set the sensor bar settings incrementally. - Ability to set a boot up password / PIN. - Ability to lock out the configuration options and save data sections via parental control features.
New Channels - Instant Messenger Channel - Chat with friends or family members who are online at the same time. - Media Channel - An update of the Photo Channel
I'm very interested in this kind of product. I've got gigs and gigs of music and got through the pain of downloading the covers and all... And as much as I'd like there to be a painless, script-less way to do it under gnome, the best way to display it is under XP... folder.jpg and all that.
With a touch screen? Hook up the half-gigger and the stereo, takes little room? Very little noise, please? And you get the MP3 library I've always dreamed of.
Your argument wouldn't be flawed if it wasn't for the homebrew scene. Try and backup a small NES game to your SD from the regular menu. Ugh. So slow. Now do it with Waninkoko's Wad Manager. BLAM BLAM, specifications represent, yo! It's not utterly slow an' all!
Hell, let's do it again with the saves. Copy a normal savegame to your SD card. Sloooooooooow. (Then try to copy your mario kart or smash bros save. No you can't, nintendo decided on a whim that SOME games wouldn't have backup-able savefiles.)
Last one now, wii media player can read movies from an SD card, tried it with zohan the other day, the entire movie was flawless. If a mere store-bought SD card can load a movie, loading a NES rom into the wii's RAM should have been there from the start. I mean, I don't think 2006 was such a dark age of technology when we could only read SD cards at the pitiful speed the wii system menu does today. It just reeks of "lazy", and I'm a fanboy of the highest order.
I'm still not buying a 360, anyway. I do hope this moves sony to panic and lower the price on anything able to run anything with "metal gear" slapped on it, though.
Actually, it ain't so. Talent is an empty buzzword nowadays. What happened to the eye of the beholder? I know people who paint pretty ugly pictures by my standards, but whose work finds its way to some collector's home just as easily as mine do. You fall in love with a piece of art, and BAM, nobody can explain it. Rationally, I mean. If Socrates and Hippias couldn't agree on what "beauty" means, what makes you think you can use the word "talent" like that?
Anyway, I am on/.'s side when it comes to being able to download whatever you want. Who cares, really? But this whole article is a thinly-veiled endorsement for selling somebody else's copyrighted material. Without them even knowing you exist. Slap a few roms on a microSD card, sell a DS and an R4, call it an honest living? Why don't we ALL do this?
Now THAT'S a revoltin' development! (last sentence (c)(tm)(r)() Ben Grimm, Smilin' Stan & Marvel until I-don't-know-when)
"We the people defend the rights of some asshole to sell pirated software" ? Okay. I can be lenient on this one. I mean, obviously, we're all working for the greater good! Once we've made gaming, music, painting, hell, anything that can be computed and digitized worth nothing, maybe we should round up and slaughter the now-useless artists.
What's next? "Our unalienable right to download kiddie porn" ? Will you once again use big corporations as scapegoats for your actions?
>My parents, on my first birthday, sang "Happy birthday" to me. Because of the extensions given to copyright, I won't be able to sing that song publicly on my deathbed, because it'll still be protected.
My god... My GOD... Tell me you're trollin'. Although, I thought something was off last day, when the stormtroopers arrested my nephew for singing that song...
>I design control loops in a paper mill. If a bag of cement built with my paper builds a highly successful theme park, I'm not entitled to a lifetime stipend. Why should musicians or writers, who will spend no more time or effort on their craft, be entitled to such a stipend?
You're a fookin' idiot. Can I download your cement & paper? Also... WHAT have you REALLY produced in your lifetime? If you had any merit, maybe you would be allowed to speak about royalties, copyrights and shit. Thing is, YOU DIDN'T! So shut up, worthless peon:)
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I just bought a samsung 55 inch LED, it has two USB ports and a media player app built-in. Threw my MKVs and divxes at it, it would play everything.
VLC server, geexbox, XBMC, "plugging a computer into the teevee" and so on... They're obsolete to me now. Even my internet/TV provider's box has usb plugs and can read even the most obscure, piraty formats ever.
I'm kinda dubious towards this "technology". It would have been cool FIVE YEARS AGO!
If by "suck" you mean "nobody ever forced you to post your pictures of when you're drunk, you idiot", then yeah, I agree with you.
The persecution shtick works when you're actually a jew, not when you use a program hosting 90% of the world's pedophiles.
I mean get a clue, guys, even downloading tor will put you on the "HAS SUMTHIN TUH HIDE, HYUCK" list.
"People who say in this topic that Tokyo is crowded obviously never been to Time Square or for that matter the Kalverstraat. But your brain can parse those signs and classify them as unimportant. "
You're really trying to compare shibuya crossing with times square? ...
REALLY? DO WE HAVE TO WHIP OUT THE YOUTUBE LINKS?
But the google text ads don't slow down my computer, don't hog my ram, and are usually relevant.
Here's THE ONE THING the game needs : Slicing enemies with your lightsaber should cut off limbs insteead of "decreasing their energy bar".
Otherwise, it's not even worth pirating!
Both IT crowd and TBBT have their qualities, sheldon and wolowitz (I can never wear a NES controller belt buckle ever again) remind me more of actual nolife geeks i've met than IT crowd's archetypes.
But it wasn't even advertised as one. To wit :
"In remarks made to Japanese website Impress Watch, and translated by consumer website Beyond3D, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Ken Kutaragi has commented in more detail on the concept that the PlayStation 3 is a computer, rather than a game console.
Kutaragi pointedly commented of the next-gen console, which is due to launch this November at dual price points of $499 and $599 in North America: "We don't say it's a game console (*laugh*) - PlayStation 3 is clearly a computer, unlike the PlayStations [released] so far."
He went on to outline a scenario where many parts of the PS3 were upgradable, much more like a PC, noting: "Since PS3 is a computer, there are no "models" but "configurations"", and continuing (though talking in the theoretical): "I think it's okay to release a [extended PS3] configuration every year". It's clear from the comments that Sony is indicating that it will be possible to upgrade hard drives and perhaps even other components easily.
The Sony CEO gave another example in the interview: "As PS3 is a computer... it also wants to evolve. We'll want to upgrade the HDD size very soon - if new standards appear on the PC, we will want to support them. We may want the [Blu-ray] drive to [have a writable version upgrade]." He then tempered his comments: "Well, BD may not develop like that, though." But extensibility is what Sony is stressing that you get for the price of a PS3, nonetheless.
Kutaragi's comments echo a recent Phil Harrison interview in which he commented: "We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play games, watch films, browse the Web, and use other computer functions. The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC." The combined executive comments appear to signify a change in marketing tactics for the company, who may have always had this scenario in mind, but are pushing it much more strongly following a somewhat mixed E3 showing from a PR perspective."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9642
But really, why drop a feature?
How did one home menu item screw with my enjoying god of war or metal gear?
Was there some system menu bug? They could have at least PRETENDED there was one..
If they could just change the red/green LEDs to red/something-that-isn't-even-close-to-being-mistaken-for-the-same-fucking-color-by-us-daltonians LEDs, I wouldn't need a cure. You know, red/blue would work. That is the ONLY thing I resent in everyday life. Assholes. Instead they wanna prick my eye with a needle, fuck that. I don't care about being a pilot, or a chemist.
You just educated a guy you don't even like because he insulted you.
Wow, you probably won twenty minutes of your life there!
The "blacks can't keep it in their pants" story is actually about having a high enough ratio of children who make it to adulthood before disease kills them. In the countries where the death rates from disease significantly decreased, guess what happened? Birth rates significantly slowing down.
But I think both of you guys should set foot in Africa at least once before you talk the whole "it's ethnic cleansings everywhere!!!ONE" garbage.
When my last job began encompassing resonsibility towards even the lowly fax and TELEX machines which were older than me, "IT" became "I- fucking qui-T".
You *will* make more money if you work on your own than for a boss.
But you *will* need to go through the initiation phases first!
Now, please, could you come and help us change the paper in the printer? :D
plus fucking one. THIS revolution is going to be televised and there's nothing we can do about it.
Only a big company would bother to start mass-buying and installing these, and be able to feed its employees.
And what about the end-of-the-food-chain-customers? In my case (france), you also have to convice the other landowners/condo owners that it "will not make their roof ugly". It's a seven-story building... -_-;
That's in France, by the way. Last time I went to germany, most individual houses had solar roofs. I found them beautiful.
Huh?
We haven't been playing the same game. You have to play each category's level in a strict order, or you can buy them to unlock them. But it's always linear.
Disclaimer : I don't mind cheating as long as it isn't against online opponents.
It's not really hard to do better than "oh I can't adapt a thousand-page book in less than three movies OH HERE'S A BUNCH OF UNNECESSARY SCENES, HERE'S LIV TYLER BEING PRETTY FOR THIRTY BORING MINUTES, also, ELEPHANT-TRUNK SURFIIIIING IS HOW WE ELVES ROLL, DAWG"
That's the point of putting an article on slashdot : to start a discussion about it. I'm skeptical like you, but not totally adverse to Prolegomena on a boring day.
I think the soul is a delusion caused by the brain to make you forget you're a cog in the machine/anthill/whatever. "Yeah, yeah, you're a fucking snowflake". Three modes of behavior, Bitch, Lord, or Independant, gender is irrelevant. We can code that, can't we? ;)
So Ubuntu gets flash 10 but no one at Nintendo could be arsed to call adobe and ask them WTF is up with their shit? :
I'm also not updating. I only use the homebrew channel with emulators (gnuboy and fceu whatever one of the seventeen versions on the homebrew browser) and mplayer (external HDD allowed, yea, crashes randomly, beuuh)
Nintendo could have made a useful update like, here's what some dude posted on gonintendo
Channel Updates
Mii Channel
- Added more types of apparel (i.e. Shirts, shoes, hats and pants, etc)
- Added more types of faces, hairstyles, features, etc
- Ability to create Custom apparel by using images loaded from an SD card
- Ability to collect new items from games that would be automatically added to the Mii channel.
Photo Channel
- Ability to delete images from Photo Channel without having to search for them on the Message Board
- Choose order in which music tracks are played during slideshow
- Ability to arrange order of pictures to be viewed in Slideshow
- Customization of image gallery (allow for user-created folders to manage pictures)
- Ability to change music tracks during a slideshow
- Custom Slideshows
- Playlist support
- Now allow video shortcuts to be placed on Wii itself, so you can view it with your photos
Internet Channel
- Support for Adobe Flash Lite 3
- Save images from web page to the photo channel
- Support for Tabbed browsing
- Image download to SD Card
News Channel
- Support for additional news source feeds
Shop Channel
- Popular games enhanced. Now, you can see what is "Popular this week", "Popular this month" and "All-Time Best Sellers".
- Download Demos. Try out Wii games before they come out.
Data Management / Storage Solutions
- USB Flash Drive support
- USB Hard Drive support
- Support for SD Cards above 2GB
- Ability to load Virtual Console games from an SD card without it residing in the Wii main memory.
- Allow people to merge their save data files as what would be extremely useful in the situation where a friend brings over their save file on an SD card or no longer has their Wii.
Communication Enhancements
- Ability to communicate via voice while playing Wi-Fi Connection Network compatible games
- Options for Enabling or Disabling voice chat communication functionality
- Support for most Bluetooth and USB compatible headsets/microphones.
- Parental Controls updated with more options for communication functionality
- Instant Message your friends in your address book
- See when friends in your address book are actually online utilizing the Wii (games, photos, surfing net, bulletin board, etc).
- View your friends Game-Specific Achievements
- Download new Game-Specific Achievements
General UI updates
- Ability to customize the Wii Main Menu (Select wallpaper, music, animations, size and shape of channels). Incorporated SD Card functionality so you can select to stream music tracks off that media.
- Cleaned up the Wii menu with a single channel for all Virtual Console games, rather than each game having it's own channel.
- Option to group games together. Keep all the N64 games on one channel or all similar games together.
- Firmware/Software Update History
- Address Book page increase
- The ability to message multiple people in address book at once.
- The ability to send and receive messages via the Wiimote Home button at any time, even during gameplay.
- The option to have the LED stay on constantly while the system is on.
- Ability to adjust gamma correction, vertical screen position, etc. in your screen settings.
- Ability to set the sensor bar settings incrementally.
- Ability to set a boot up password / PIN.
- Ability to lock out the configuration options and save data sections via parental control features.
New Channels
- Instant Messenger Channel - Chat with friends or family members who are online at the same time.
- Media Channel - An update of the Photo Channel
or, Free publicity on the muslims' backs?
I'm very interested in this kind of product. I've got gigs and gigs of music and got through the pain of downloading the covers and all... And as much as I'd like there to be a painless, script-less way to do it under gnome, the best way to display it is under XP... folder.jpg and all that.
With a touch screen? Hook up the half-gigger and the stereo, takes little room? Very little noise, please? And you get the MP3 library I've always dreamed of.
Homebrew
HOMEBREW
HHOOOOOMMEEEEBREEEEEEW!
Get the savegame extractor!
Backup your brawl, kart, whatever save. FASTER than in the system menu, IF it allowed you to "save your save".
Your argument wouldn't be flawed if it wasn't for the homebrew scene.
Try and backup a small NES game to your SD from the regular menu. Ugh. So slow.
Now do it with Waninkoko's Wad Manager. BLAM BLAM, specifications represent, yo! It's not utterly slow an' all!
Hell, let's do it again with the saves. Copy a normal savegame to your SD card. Sloooooooooow. (Then try to copy your mario kart or smash bros save. No you can't, nintendo decided on a whim that SOME games wouldn't have backup-able savefiles.)
Last one now, wii media player can read movies from an SD card, tried it with zohan the other day, the entire movie was flawless. If a mere store-bought SD card can load a movie, loading a NES rom into the wii's RAM should have been there from the start. I mean, I don't think 2006 was such a dark age of technology when we could only read SD cards at the pitiful speed the wii system menu does today. It just reeks of "lazy", and I'm a fanboy of the highest order.
It's called super smash bros!
I'm still not buying a 360, anyway. I do hope this moves sony to panic and lower the price on anything able to run anything with "metal gear" slapped on it, though.
Actually, it ain't so.
Talent is an empty buzzword nowadays. What happened to the eye of the beholder? I know people who paint pretty ugly pictures by my standards, but whose work finds its way to some collector's home just as easily as mine do. You fall in love with a piece of art, and BAM, nobody can explain it. Rationally, I mean. If Socrates and Hippias couldn't agree on what "beauty" means, what makes you think you can use the word "talent" like that?
Anyway, I am on /.'s side when it comes to being able to download whatever you want. Who cares, really? But this whole article is a thinly-veiled endorsement for selling somebody else's copyrighted material. Without them even knowing you exist. Slap a few roms on a microSD card, sell a DS and an R4, call it an honest living? Why don't we ALL do this?
Now THAT'S a revoltin' development! (last sentence (c)(tm)(r)() Ben Grimm, Smilin' Stan & Marvel until I-don't-know-when)
"We the people defend the rights of some asshole to sell pirated software" ?
Okay. I can be lenient on this one. I mean, obviously, we're all working for the greater good! Once we've made gaming, music, painting, hell, anything that can be computed and digitized worth nothing, maybe we should round up and slaughter the now-useless artists.
What's next? "Our unalienable right to download kiddie porn" ?
Will you once again use big corporations as scapegoats for your actions?
>My parents, on my first birthday, sang "Happy birthday" to me. Because of the extensions given to copyright, I won't be able to sing that song publicly on my deathbed, because it'll still be protected.
My god... My GOD... Tell me you're trollin'. Although, I thought something was off last day, when the stormtroopers arrested my nephew for singing that song...
>I design control loops in a paper mill. If a bag of cement built with my paper builds a highly successful theme park, I'm not entitled to a lifetime stipend. Why should musicians or writers, who will spend no more time or effort on their craft, be entitled to such a stipend?
You're a fookin' idiot. Can I download your cement & paper? Also... WHAT have you REALLY produced in your lifetime? If you had any merit, maybe you would be allowed to speak about royalties, copyrights and shit. Thing is, YOU DIDN'T! So shut up, worthless peon :)