I got me a player, it's as big as a whale and we're headed on down to run a HDMI hack.
I got me a Toshiba, it weighs about twenty, so hurry up and bring your hard earned money!...
Sign says, Fooo! Stay away fools, 'cause DRM rules at the HD DVD shack,
Well it set me back near the middle of a thousand,
Just a funky old Betamax and I gotta take it back.
Which came first, the media or the hardware? I know they're wanting to get in on the bandwagon and let customers know that there'll be media for the hardware that should be out near or before the same period. Why can't they announce that they'll have some 16X DVD+/-R media sometime soon for the drive that I bought two months ago?
I really think this is a harbinger of how the Revolution is going to do in the next gen console "war".
I've been thinking the same thing here as of late and certainly hope it's true. The younger gaming crowd seems to be more interested in the technical specs behind a console because it's the latest and greatest and they're all about "keeping up with the Jones'" and impressing friends. Those who've been around since the initial inception and launch of the NES know that Nintendo seems to divert more of their attention towards fun and excitement versus eye candy being the sole saving grace for a title. Sure, there's some fun titles to be had on the newer consoles, but they just don't seem to have the same staying power when it comes to the multiplayer world. I've spent untold amounts of time playing Mario Kart with friends until the wee hours of the morning. I can't recall a single title on the Xbox where we weren't so bored with it after 4 hours of play that we'd turn it off and fire up some Bomberman or Mario Kart. You just can't beat the classics.
I just have to wonder, if this does pan out to be true, will WalMart insist on some type of "Net Nanny" be installed? We are talking about the same retail chain that sells toned down (i.e. no more explicative lyrics, nude scenes, etc.) versions of CDs and Movies. It would only make sense that they'd want to filter out the smut side of the Internet too.
I didn't think the human race was indigenous to the planet Earth. I thought men originated from Mars and women from Venus? Maybe Asia has a larger gravitational attraction and as such crafts from both our races managed to crash land there.
'At the end of the day, we don't play games for social interaction... We play games to escape.'
Apparently this is somebody who's never logged in to or heard of the tales that come from the roleplaying realm of servers where cybersex is common (http://www.discordguild.org/forums/viewforum.php? f=4/ - click on "Roleplaying Realms Rule" is common thread). I guess you could debate which catergory cybersex actually falls under - to me it's a combination of both social interaction and escapism. With massive populations like those found in WoW, it's about impossible to not have some moments of interaction with other players.
"A flaw is a flaw, of course, of course,
And no one can exploit the flaw, of course,
Unless, of course, the flaw, of course,
Is from the folks at Microsoft!"
The Garden of Ahhah (hahahahahahahaha)
"It was a pretty big year for crashin'
A lousy year for Cisco and vole
The people gave their paychecks to crimes of phishin'
It was a dark, dark night for the collection bowl."
Considering the amount of spam I deal with in a days time, I'm amazed I've never seen one mentioning the Trumpmeister. These days my top two seem to be cheap discounts on v1agra/drugs and Rolex watches. Guess I'm in the minority, gone are my days of penis patch adverts. I guess there's always tomorrow and another unscrupulous a-hole who will add me to one of his lists to ensure that I gain 1 to 3 inches.
And at the rate they're moving we'll call them hair follicles soon enough. Rogain would have an entirely new marketing campaign. "New hair that not only feels and looks natural, it can do your taxes and store hours of MP3s".
... why don't they just hook up a wireless brain scanner at the door? That why by the time I've made my way to the counter or nearest agent, they've already charged and bagged the product I had planned to come in and buy. They could also hand me a map and directions to the next store I had on my agenda.
Microsoft is pro HD-DVD due to the DRM located within Blu-Ray. This is one isntance where we should take sides with the monopoly. HD-DVD's are the better solution for the customer.
How is HD-DVD a better solution for the customer? In case you haven't read up on the specs they include a little thing called AACS (Advanced Access Content System). Essentially they hand out keys and content certificates to the media folks and device keys to the hardware folks. Without both you're not watching anything. This means that they can indiscriminately deny any manufacturer a key if the device provides things they (Music and Movie industry, Microsoft, etc.) do not like (i.e. DivX, XviD, or MP3 playback, etc.) irreguardless of consumer demand. Even though HD-DVD supposedly does away with Region Encoding, they can in essense still implement a similar system. All they simply need do is assign a particular set of codes to different areas of the world and have only those codes work with certain hardware keys from the same said region. Yeah, all this is so much better for the consumer.
1 step forward, 2 steps back...
Somehow I don't think the excuse of "Guess I must have fat fingered it!" will fly on this one. No stocking stuffer or Christmas bonus for that guy. One work... sepuku.
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I got me a player, it's as big as a whale and we're headed on down to run a HDMI hack. I got me a Toshiba, it weighs about twenty, so hurry up and bring your hard earned money! ...
Sign says, Fooo! Stay away fools, 'cause DRM rules at the HD DVD shack,
Well it set me back near the middle of a thousand,
Just a funky old Betamax and I gotta take it back.
Which came first, the media or the hardware? I know they're wanting to get in on the bandwagon and let customers know that there'll be media for the hardware that should be out near or before the same period. Why can't they announce that they'll have some 16X DVD+/-R media sometime soon for the drive that I bought two months ago?
I really think this is a harbinger of how the Revolution is going to do in the next gen console "war".
I've been thinking the same thing here as of late and certainly hope it's true. The younger gaming crowd seems to be more interested in the technical specs behind a console because it's the latest and greatest and they're all about "keeping up with the Jones'" and impressing friends. Those who've been around since the initial inception and launch of the NES know that Nintendo seems to divert more of their attention towards fun and excitement versus eye candy being the sole saving grace for a title. Sure, there's some fun titles to be had on the newer consoles, but they just don't seem to have the same staying power when it comes to the multiplayer world. I've spent untold amounts of time playing Mario Kart with friends until the wee hours of the morning. I can't recall a single title on the Xbox where we weren't so bored with it after 4 hours of play that we'd turn it off and fire up some Bomberman or Mario Kart. You just can't beat the classics.
Shouldn't that be: dupe dupe dupe dupe of URL dupe dupe duple of URL
I just have to wonder, if this does pan out to be true, will WalMart insist on some type of "Net Nanny" be installed? We are talking about the same retail chain that sells toned down (i.e. no more explicative lyrics, nude scenes, etc.) versions of CDs and Movies. It would only make sense that they'd want to filter out the smut side of the Internet too.
I didn't think the human race was indigenous to the planet Earth. I thought men originated from Mars and women from Venus? Maybe Asia has a larger gravitational attraction and as such crafts from both our races managed to crash land there.
'At the end of the day, we don't play games for social interaction ... We play games to escape.'
? f=4/ - click on "Roleplaying Realms Rule" is common thread). I guess you could debate which catergory cybersex actually falls under - to me it's a combination of both social interaction and escapism. With massive populations like those found in WoW, it's about impossible to not have some moments of interaction with other players.
Apparently this is somebody who's never logged in to or heard of the tales that come from the roleplaying realm of servers where cybersex is common (http://www.discordguild.org/forums/viewforum.php
So when do we get to meet the Maker(s)?
"A flaw is a flaw, of course, of course, And no one can exploit the flaw, of course, Unless, of course, the flaw, of course, Is from the folks at Microsoft!"
I just hope they ban Ishtar from ever being played as the in-flight movie.
The Garden of Ahhah (hahahahahahahaha) "It was a pretty big year for crashin' A lousy year for Cisco and vole The people gave their paychecks to crimes of phishin' It was a dark, dark night for the collection bowl."
Considering the amount of spam I deal with in a days time, I'm amazed I've never seen one mentioning the Trumpmeister. These days my top two seem to be cheap discounts on v1agra /drugs and Rolex watches. Guess I'm in the minority, gone are my days of penis patch adverts. I guess there's always tomorrow and another unscrupulous a-hole who will add me to one of his lists to ensure that I gain 1 to 3 inches.
And at the rate they're moving we'll call them hair follicles soon enough. Rogain would have an entirely new marketing campaign. "New hair that not only feels and looks natural, it can do your taxes and store hours of MP3s".
Better brush up on the 'ol binary.
... nano in my wafer. You got your wafer in my nano.
Intels goal over the next decade is to build chips that hold more than one trillion switches.
Floating point errors performed at the speed of light!
and it was that there were "Two girls for every boy".
... why don't they just hook up a wireless brain scanner at the door? That why by the time I've made my way to the counter or nearest agent, they've already charged and bagged the product I had planned to come in and buy. They could also hand me a map and directions to the next store I had on my agenda.
I didn't get my patent through in time! Oh well, Bezos likely has something similar sitting somehwere on his shelf.
Microsoft is pro HD-DVD due to the DRM located within Blu-Ray. This is one isntance where we should take sides with the monopoly. HD-DVD's are the better solution for the customer. ...
How is HD-DVD a better solution for the customer? In case you haven't read up on the specs they include a little thing called AACS (Advanced Access Content System). Essentially they hand out keys and content certificates to the media folks and device keys to the hardware folks. Without both you're not watching anything. This means that they can indiscriminately deny any manufacturer a key if the device provides things they (Music and Movie industry, Microsoft, etc.) do not like (i.e. DivX, XviD, or MP3 playback, etc.) irreguardless of consumer demand. Even though HD-DVD supposedly does away with Region Encoding, they can in essense still implement a similar system. All they simply need do is assign a particular set of codes to different areas of the world and have only those codes work with certain hardware keys from the same said region. Yeah, all this is so much better for the consumer. 1 step forward, 2 steps back
Somehow I don't think the excuse of "Guess I must have fat fingered it!" will fly on this one. No stocking stuffer or Christmas bonus for that guy. One work ... sepuku.
Podcasting: It's snob for "streaming audio."