Then let our culture be this! Why must people feel that not listening to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album is devoiding them of culture?!
F*CK THE CHILI PEPPERS. F*CK all those major label idiots who just wanted to "make it" and play a show at the "Boston Fleet Center."
Enjoy the music of the world and your own neighborhoods, and ignore the the crap the RIAA pushes down your throat through terrestrial radio and traditional advertising!
That is our CULTURE: refined, political and vigilant... with more music in our catalog than that silly, un-hip, uncultured, old, poppy RIAA-backed shit.
According to IGN and many other credible sites, they give credit to the Nintendo 64 as the first console to have analog control sticks on the controllers. Argue all you want, but there's a lot of sources feeding me my information.
And please don't give me the "computers had _____ first" story because computers ALWAYS have it first, in one way or another. We're talking about consoles here. I posted a similar comment up the board and someone replied with something along those lines. It's not even worth discussing. Computers will always be ahead of consoles, as consoles are simply stripped down computers.
Have you ever played Katamari Damacy? There are a full thirteen buttons on the PS2 controller which Katamari Damacy ignores. The entire game is played with two joysticks. The simplicity is enough to make even the Revolution controller look complicated, and yet it entirely achieves the sense of natural interface that the Revolution controller aspires to.
I've been playing it, yes, and it's fantastic. I'll remind, however, that Nintendo invented the analog stick with the Nintendo 64! I wonder if this guy would have dribbled the same tripe when the N64 hit the shelves... and how those comments would bite him in the ass a few years later when his legacy lives on with a game that makes use of nothing but a pair of Nintendo-invented analog sticks.
I disagree. Without Nintendo's continued development on the human interface aspect of video games we would not have ANALOG control sticks - amusing how these little plastic pieces are the only controller features this man's Katamari game makes use of. Without such an invention I can't see how Katamari Damacy would even be any fun, nevermind possible.
Better interface does a good game make -- and at the most basic of levels, at that.
EVDO cards are supposed to be on the market this month or next... and what's wrong with USB? What the hell do you need a modem for? Mac laptops have not had CF card readers ever.
"As far as I can tell, the MacBook lacks any kind of feature that sets it apart, other than running MacOS X." What? Isn't that unique enough?
Am I the only one noticing here that iTunes was updated faster than a major Windows flaw without me even noticing or installing anything new??
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Whatever. Aside from other's comments, this also enables music SELLERS to see how much they're selling and where. What is wrong with the person who wrote this? This article is trash. Every retail store on the planet does this to some degree.
The old Xbox didn't hold up so well either, I remember it freezing every twenty minutes playing Morrowind, a near launch game. As someone who's currently sub-contracting for Microsoft and has seen first-hand, I must say they don't have their project management act together at all.
As far as everyone's comments already regarding this, I think it's rubbish to say that this should be expected from a rushed launch event or that it was all conspired to make money... There's no excuse for a product failing it's own core functionality, be it a toaster or a complicated computer, and given the company's history we can't expect much in the way of a fix. Microsoft will brush this off like they always do, drop their stock by 3 points, and go back to pretending to work on security for Windows.
It will never work as well as a Sony or Nintendo contrived contraption. But despite the fuss, I'm still going to buy mine when my local EB is able to fill my preorder. Good developers will be able to code around the issues of terrible compression and hardware flaws, and it will all get swept under the rug within the year.
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Then let our culture be this! Why must people feel that not listening to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album is devoiding them of culture?!
F*CK THE CHILI PEPPERS. F*CK all those major label idiots who just wanted to "make it" and play a show at the "Boston Fleet Center."
Enjoy the music of the world and your own neighborhoods, and ignore the the crap the RIAA pushes down your throat through terrestrial radio and traditional advertising!
That is our CULTURE: refined, political and vigilant... with more music in our catalog than that silly, un-hip, uncultured, old, poppy RIAA-backed shit.
White House lawn, huh? You think someone in there gives a rat's ass?
According to IGN and many other credible sites, they give credit to the Nintendo 64 as the first console to have analog control sticks on the controllers. Argue all you want, but there's a lot of sources feeding me my information.
And please don't give me the "computers had _____ first" story because computers ALWAYS have it first, in one way or another. We're talking about consoles here. I posted a similar comment up the board and someone replied with something along those lines. It's not even worth discussing. Computers will always be ahead of consoles, as consoles are simply stripped down computers.
I disagree. Without Nintendo's continued development on the human interface aspect of video games we would not have ANALOG control sticks - amusing how these little plastic pieces are the only controller features this man's Katamari game makes use of. Without such an invention I can't see how Katamari Damacy would even be any fun, nevermind possible. Better interface does a good game make -- and at the most basic of levels, at that.
EVDO cards are supposed to be on the market this month or next... and what's wrong with USB? What the hell do you need a modem for? Mac laptops have not had CF card readers ever.
"As far as I can tell, the MacBook lacks any kind of feature that sets it apart, other than running MacOS X."
What? Isn't that unique enough?
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An OPERATING SYSTEM? All the more reason to fix then, no?
Am I the only one noticing here that iTunes was updated faster than a major Windows flaw without me even noticing or installing anything new??
Whatever. Aside from other's comments, this also enables music SELLERS to see how much they're selling and where. What is wrong with the person who wrote this? This article is trash. Every retail store on the planet does this to some degree.
The old Xbox didn't hold up so well either, I remember it freezing every twenty minutes playing Morrowind, a near launch game. As someone who's currently sub-contracting for Microsoft and has seen first-hand, I must say they don't have their project management act together at all.
As far as everyone's comments already regarding this, I think it's rubbish to say that this should be expected from a rushed launch event or that it was all conspired to make money... There's no excuse for a product failing it's own core functionality, be it a toaster or a complicated computer, and given the company's history we can't expect much in the way of a fix. Microsoft will brush this off like they always do, drop their stock by 3 points, and go back to pretending to work on security for Windows.
It will never work as well as a Sony or Nintendo contrived contraption. But despite the fuss, I'm still going to buy mine when my local EB is able to fill my preorder. Good developers will be able to code around the issues of terrible compression and hardware flaws, and it will all get swept under the rug within the year.