I want my Hot Chicks Room! And my Bucket of Truth.
Obviously the mods aren't familiar enough with UCB... then again, the parent didn't exactly provide quotes with the rapier wit of a Master/. Dialectition on Super Cool.
correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure someone will) but doesn't "Games for Windows Live" only work with Vista? If so that would be a very strong reason why Valve didn't sign up for it...
another one is that you would need to pay the $50 annual contract for a Live Gold subscription to play with your friend while most PC gamers are used to playing online for free. Also you would need to connect to MS servers for patches updates etc. while Valve has their own Steam system... EA had the same problem with the Live system back in the Xbox 1 days because they wanted to use their own servers instead of the XBL servers... eventually a compromise was reached and special provisions were made for EA but something like that may need to be worked out with Valve before you see any of their games on the Live network.
Finally, considering that Games for Windows Live is a "new" platform and Half Life 2 predates its buy a fair margin, they would likely have to re-build a substantial portion of the multiplayer code to be in compliance with the Live system... and that's something most developers wont bother to do.
In all likelihood the decision to NOT support Games for Windows Live came from the fact that they would have had many many more rabbit fanboys complaining about having to use Vista and Live than they got complaints of not being able to play between PC and 360 users.
Yup, if you ever wondered why all the Chotchkie's and Flinger's of the world sing their own obnoxious and flamboyant versions of the birthday song... now you know.
POP4 was "Sands of Time" which actually won game of the year when it came out
POP5 was "Warrior Within" which was IMO a mediocre title
POP6 was "The Two Thrones" which I never bothered to play as it looked too much like POP5
Then of course there are spin offs such as: "Battles of Prince of Persia" for the DS, "Rival Swords" for the Wii, and the "Prince of Persia Classic" which is a remake of the original with updated graphics for Xbox Live Arcade.
so technically the next game would be #7 in the series
I agree with you that California in many ways a nation on to itself... IMO it represents what most states should be. we are after all the "United States" not the "Federal Government of America".
Interesting that you should bring up California's Emissions standards.. the Draconian CARB laws are what has made me decide to never move to that state... I'm an auto enthusiast and while I respect the environment and usually do opt for lower emissions vehicles the California laws basically restrict any kind of modification what-so ever...
my current state of NH allows you to register and use "custom built cars" so long as they fit within the state emissions and safety standards. As much as there are things I like about CA it's not enough to make me give up one of my favorite hobbies or live in fear that my modified vehicle is going to get impounded if I ever get pulled over.
Car tunning is popular over there but that's only because of it's location in relation to Japan, I read new horror stories every day about the criminalization of car tuners over there.
I read a proposal at one point that said all laws would have a natural time limit based on the % of of the vote. That would not only require past laws to be re-evaluated but also give congress something useful to do instead of passing new law after new law just to keep themselves busy.
It was something along the lines of 51% of the vote=2 years before re-eval, 65% of the vote =4 years before re-eval, 80% of the vote = 8 years before re-eval, unanimous=permanent unless some new law overturns it.
Well, it's quite plainly more than 'just a phone'.
I believe when the GP said "phone" really it was meant more specifically as "cell phone". What does the iPhone do that most other modern cell phones can't? As far as I'm concerned I agree with the others that it IS just a phone. We're not alone in that sentiment either.
While we're on the subject the iPod wasn't revolutionary either. like the iPhone it's a generic platform in a shiny case backed by an amazing marketing department.
Well, sometimes free (as in speech) software can be better than free (as in beer) pirated commercial software.
I could very easily hop on over to thepiratebay.org and download MS Office, but I like OpenOffice better.
That all depends how you define "better". In most cases I find that end users define "better" as "more convenient" which essentially boils down to:
Takes little to no effort or expertiese to install/comes preinstalled
doesn't require them to learn anything new: meaning it's the same as what they learned at work/school
can open/modify/create files that are the same type as the files they get from their friends/co-workers/relatives.
The problem with an application like open-office is that it doesn't come pre-loaded on your dell, if installed after the fact it takes a little more expertise than an MS office install, it doesn't have a familiar interface (read: identical) to the apps used at work/school, and it can't open/create the same files used by their MS koolaide drinking peers.
Another good example is firefox. After getting tired of cleaning spy/malware/viruses off my relatives computers every time I visit I offered to install firefox, telling them that it would aide greatly in reducing that kind of crap from their machine. They all agreed and I set it up with some of the add-ons that I thought they would find most useful. After 6 months all but 1 of them had switched back to IE because there was 1 or 2 sites that they liked to visit that had compatibility problems with Firefox, or there was some site that required a plugin that I neglected to install and while IE does it automagically firefox required 5 minutes on the add-on page to find and install it.
I love open source software, I use it every opportunity I can, and I encourage others to use it. But I've found that 99% of the time users want the most convenient option available; and MS bloat-ware usually fits that bill better than OSS. While maybe not "better" in the eyes of the average/. member it usually is to the average PC user in my experience.
Funny how some in Congress are so outraged about the violence in video games, but when it comes to 'Shock & Awe' and bombing countries back to the stone age, they have absolutely no compunction about it.
I actually have that game for Dreamcast along with the Dreamcast keyboard. It's surprisingly fun and just as good in any party situation as Guitar Hero or Wii Sports.
At for games as teachers... of course they're good teachers, they're interactive. Unlike the classroom where you're expected to sit an absorb information to either be regurgitated verbatim on an exam or never actually applied games give you little nuggets of info that you need to apply immediacy.
Edutainment isn't difficult but the way it's implemented in most cases is mostly useless as most educational games I've seen are lame platformers or side shooters with education haphazardly slapped in there in a way that doesn't really utilize the game mechanics to reinforce the lesson.
Typing of the dead is a fantastic example of edutainment done right, the game mechanics directly relate to the lesson. Similarly BrainAge/BigBrain Academy have the game mechanics directly related to the lessons.
There's no reason a history lesson couldn't be thoughtfully added to an RTS game, or math and sciences used in challenges presented in an adventure/puzzle game, etc. Though it seems that those interested in making educational games are not good at making games in general, and those that are good at making games have little to no interest in making them educational.
Well, it does change from artist to artist but you make a good point and I can see the senario described fitting perfectly with a number of artists I listen to regularly.
A bit off-topic but what you describe is only part of the problem. While they're being contractually forced to produce new "art" on a regimented timeline they also usually have all-day every-day to spend improving their technique and producing that new art as opposed to 1 or 2 jobs with music on the side.
I think a bigger problem is that when they're down in the ditches they have a good pulse on the people that they play their music for, once the reach stardom they're spending more time with corporate big wigs and marketing types than they are with their fan base and as a result they lose touch. Obviously everyone reacts differently to different situations but I've found that the best musicians are those that either spend a lot of time with their fans, keeping a good grip on that pulse, or those that spend a lot of time with other musicians sharing new ideas and exploring new territories.
I bought a Zune... earlier this month actually, but that's only because buy.com was offering the brown 30GB model for $100... I could care less how it stacks up to other models, at the right price people (myself included) will buy anything.
I've never commented on a moderators judgment before, on the rare occasion that I get modded down I take my lumps, but I'm seriously at a loss for how any of what I said here could be construed as "flamebait".
There are problems with the 360's system... don't get me wrong I own a 360 and I think it's an amazing console. Their method of content management is certainly better than the Wii's (I have no experience with the PS3 in that regard so I can't comment) but it's not perfect.
if your hardware goes belly up, you're absolutely right that the content is registered to your account and you can redownload it to new hardware free of charge... however since the content is locked to the original hardware on which it was purchased AND your Xbox Live account, when the original hardware is not available you need to be logged into Xbox Live to use the content and validate that you are in-fact that owner.
Let me propose a few scenarios of what might happen AFTER you replace the hardware: 1. Your ISP is having problems/your modem dies/whatever and you've got no internet connectivity.. sorry you can't use any of that content you purchased because the console can't validate that you own it by connecting to the Live servers... sorry.
2. You have a child/spouse/sibling/roommate with a separate account and rather than registering your credit card to their account to make online purchases you manage their spending by simply requiring that they ask you to make purchases through your account for them. Once you change the hardware the purchasing account needs to be signed in to use it. Meaning that the whole point of them not having free reign access to your credit card is lost, not to mention all of your profile stats could get trashed while it records you playing games that you really aren't, people think you're online when you're not, etc.
Then of course you still have the problem of not being able to sell the content or transfer ownership to a different account.
MS needs to implement 2 features IMO if they want to make their content management the best out there
1. Console content reset: basically a feature that with the purchasing console logged in to Xbox Live the user can choose to wipe all hardware based content ownership flags and alert the Xbox Live servers that the next time the content is downloaded it needs to lock to the new hardware. This would allow end users to easily re-download their content on new hardware, say if they were upgrading to an Elite or selling their old hardware, without the aforementioned problems. When MS receives a console requiring repair they can do the reset themselves ensuring that the content can easily be attached to the replacement hardware
2. A Trade System: basically you can trade MS points and Marketplace content with other XBL users. I imagine that both users setup a trade and put the content that they plan on giving into a virtual container on XBL once both users are happy and accept what the other user is offering the trade goes through. This would allow you to gift points or content to other accounts, or trade games for games, or trade games for points... MS probably will never do this since they want the money from game purchases, but if they did institute such a system it would go a long way to making their "points" feel like real money...
$24 annual seems pretty low, if you want quality go buy EDGE which is the only gaming magazine that I would buy, they don't give it to you for $2 each though... From my own experience with printing 4 color newspapars, it's impossible to good quality and sell for that little.
EDGE is a fantastic publication, unfortunately it's not offered in the USA. Even the UK version of OXM (which is completely different from the US version) is a much better magazine. Last time I looked into importing a subscription it was well over $150/year which is just too much for a magazine IMO.
You make a good point about the cost of printing and personally I would have been more than willing to pay twice as much for the OXM subscription had they offered a higher quality product... nice plastic snap cases for the DVDs larger footprint and more pages with less ads would be well worth a $50/year subscription to me. But even at $24 the quality was so ridiculously low it wasn't worth even that.
It seems to me that some bean counter decided that people weren't subscribing/droping subscriptions because of the cost and then continually added more ads/less content/lower quality to drive their costs lower... it's a damn shame.
oddly enough nearly every car I've ever pulled the Engine Control unit out of (for modification purposes) had a Faraday cage already on it. The only one I can think of that didn't was a Saturn, but that car also had the ECM tie into the mirror and the stereo for OnStar purposes so it'd be screwed anyway.
The location of the ECU tents to be by the front passenger's feet either under the floorboard or along the side in front of the door... even without a Faraday cage wouldn't the steel body/frame pieces do a good job protecting it from these kinds of waves considering they're all tied to the battery common.
IIRC, Psychonauts was not initially XBOX 360 compatible, first appearing on the December 12, 2006 list.
That's true, it wasn't, though I think that's mainly because they went by sales figures to determine "popularity" and neglected the fact that while games like Psychonauts didn't have the enormous sales figures of some other games they had a large cult following that wanted to see BC available. It took them a while to realize it but I think MS has now understood that the popular games for BC aren't always the ones that sold well the first time around but the ones that held their fanbase years after the fact... like Psychonauts.
By offering them for download they can tweak and recompile the games to run natively on the 360's architecture so it definitely opens the potential to offer games that don't run from the disc. However considering they went for the most popular titles first when deciding what to add for Backward Compatibility it will likely be the same set of games they offer for download.
In all likelihood the Xbox 1 games you download will run much better than those played from a disc. It will also be interesting to see if they add new features such as achievements and leaderboards.
I can tell you that the Ads are what caused me to cancel my Subscription to Official Xbox Magazine (OXM). I bought it strictly for the disk because there would inevitably be 1 or 2 discs a year with something I wanted and at $24 for an annual subscription and $10 a mag in the stores it was worth just subscribing.
In the span of a year the magazine went from 80-100 pages down to about 40-50, the disc cases went from nice plastic DVD thin packs down to printed cardboard sleeves and then down to generic white paper sleeves. The disc content went from at least 1 exclusive demo/bit of content a month to nothing more than a 1 month lag of regurgitation of Xbox Live...
Despite the frustration with all of that there were still some decent articles in the actual magazine mostly industry insights and developer interviews. I canceled my subscription last month however, when they decided to SELL THE COVER as advertisement space. Yes thats right the FRONT COVER of the magazine was an advertisement for the crap-tacular Clive Barker's Jericho. I'm not talking some stick on piece of cardboard that replaced the real cover, the actual cover was an ad. The first page of the magazine displayed what would normally be the cover image and it was your regular flimsy paper magazine page material.
You might think "well maybe they didn't have a worth while cover article that month" Unfortunately this was also the issue of OXM with their multi-page review/expose of Halo 3... I mean really... People would have bought that issue for memorabilia's sake alone, but I doubt anyone even noticed consider the cover was an add and the issues on the newsstand are sealed because of the disc. GOOD JOB.
Another thing that bothered me was that the newsstand editions of the magazine were lower quality than the subscription editions. Whatever happened to treating your LOYAL customers well? I seem to remember subscribing to many other magazines before and always getting a higher quality version of the product as a thank you for subscribing.
The speed in which the information is received was not the issue for me, it had everything to do with the fact that I was essentially buying a poorly crafted product with an overwhelming emphesis on advertisements over anything else.
yeah most ISPs these days want to install all kind of crap on your PC and they REQUIRE that their guys do it... gotta justify the $120 installation fee somehow. Thats why the last 3 times I've moved/had cable service installed I basically told them that the only "computer" on the internet was my Xbox. which basically means the tech drops off the rental modem and plugs in the coax. THEN I can install the rest of the network myself.
It's always great when they comment on the fact that they walked by no less than 6 PCs on their way to the Xbox and double check that they're ONLY installing the Xbox... yep.
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- correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure someone will) but doesn't "Games for Windows Live" only work with Vista? If so that would be a very strong reason why Valve didn't sign up for it...
- another one is that you would need to pay the $50 annual contract for a Live Gold subscription to play with your friend while most PC gamers are used to playing online for free. Also you would need to connect to MS servers for patches updates etc. while Valve has their own Steam system... EA had the same problem with the Live system back in the Xbox 1 days because they wanted to use their own servers instead of the XBL servers... eventually a compromise was reached and special provisions were made for EA but something like that may need to be worked out with Valve before you see any of their games on the Live network.
- Finally, considering that Games for Windows Live is a "new" platform and Half Life 2 predates its buy a fair margin, they would likely have to re-build a substantial portion of the multiplayer code to be in compliance with the Live system... and that's something most developers wont bother to do.
In all likelihood the decision to NOT support Games for Windows Live came from the fact that they would have had many many more rabbit fanboys complaining about having to use Vista and Live than they got complaints of not being able to play between PC and 360 users.Yup, if you ever wondered why all the Chotchkie's and Flinger's of the world sing their own obnoxious and flamboyant versions of the birthday song... now you know.
I'm a bit confused over your comment.
POP4 was "Sands of Time" which actually won game of the year when it came out
POP5 was "Warrior Within" which was IMO a mediocre title
POP6 was "The Two Thrones" which I never bothered to play as it looked too much like POP5
Then of course there are spin offs such as: "Battles of Prince of Persia" for the DS, "Rival Swords" for the Wii, and the "Prince of Persia Classic" which is a remake of the original with updated graphics for Xbox Live Arcade.
so technically the next game would be #7 in the series
I agree with you that California in many ways a nation on to itself... IMO it represents what most states should be. we are after all the "United States" not the "Federal Government of America".
Interesting that you should bring up California's Emissions standards.. the Draconian CARB laws are what has made me decide to never move to that state... I'm an auto enthusiast and while I respect the environment and usually do opt for lower emissions vehicles the California laws basically restrict any kind of modification what-so ever...
my current state of NH allows you to register and use "custom built cars" so long as they fit within the state emissions and safety standards. As much as there are things I like about CA it's not enough to make me give up one of my favorite hobbies or live in fear that my modified vehicle is going to get impounded if I ever get pulled over.
Car tunning is popular over there but that's only because of it's location in relation to Japan, I read new horror stories every day about the criminalization of car tuners over there.
I read a proposal at one point that said all laws would have a natural time limit based on the % of of the vote. That would not only require past laws to be re-evaluated but also give congress something useful to do instead of passing new law after new law just to keep themselves busy.
It was something along the lines of 51% of the vote=2 years before re-eval, 65% of the vote =4 years before re-eval, 80% of the vote = 8 years before re-eval, unanimous=permanent unless some new law overturns it.
While we're on the subject the iPod wasn't revolutionary either. like the iPhone it's a generic platform in a shiny case backed by an amazing marketing department.
- Takes little to no effort or expertiese to install/comes preinstalled
- doesn't require them to learn anything new: meaning it's the same as what they learned at work/school
- can open/modify/create files that are the same type as the files they get from their friends/co-workers/relatives.
The problem with an application like open-office is that it doesn't come pre-loaded on your dell, if installed after the fact it takes a little more expertise than an MS office install, it doesn't have a familiar interface (read: identical) to the apps used at work/school, and it can't open/create the same files used by their MS koolaide drinking peers.Another good example is firefox. After getting tired of cleaning spy/malware/viruses off my relatives computers every time I visit I offered to install firefox, telling them that it would aide greatly in reducing that kind of crap from their machine. They all agreed and I set it up with some of the add-ons that I thought they would find most useful. After 6 months all but 1 of them had switched back to IE because there was 1 or 2 sites that they liked to visit that had compatibility problems with Firefox, or there was some site that required a plugin that I neglected to install and while IE does it automagically firefox required 5 minutes on the add-on page to find and install it.
I love open source software, I use it every opportunity I can, and I encourage others to use it. But I've found that 99% of the time users want the most convenient option available; and MS bloat-ware usually fits that bill better than OSS. While maybe not "better" in the eyes of the average
I actually have that game for Dreamcast along with the Dreamcast keyboard. It's surprisingly fun and just as good in any party situation as Guitar Hero or Wii Sports.
At for games as teachers... of course they're good teachers, they're interactive. Unlike the classroom where you're expected to sit an absorb information to either be regurgitated verbatim on an exam or never actually applied games give you little nuggets of info that you need to apply immediacy.
Edutainment isn't difficult but the way it's implemented in most cases is mostly useless as most educational games I've seen are lame platformers or side shooters with education haphazardly slapped in there in a way that doesn't really utilize the game mechanics to reinforce the lesson.
Typing of the dead is a fantastic example of edutainment done right, the game mechanics directly relate to the lesson. Similarly BrainAge/BigBrain Academy have the game mechanics directly related to the lessons.
There's no reason a history lesson couldn't be thoughtfully added to an RTS game, or math and sciences used in challenges presented in an adventure/puzzle game, etc. Though it seems that those interested in making educational games are not good at making games in general, and those that are good at making games have little to no interest in making them educational.
Well, it does change from artist to artist but you make a good point and I can see the senario described fitting perfectly with a number of artists I listen to regularly.
A bit off-topic but what you describe is only part of the problem. While they're being contractually forced to produce new "art" on a regimented timeline they also usually have all-day every-day to spend improving their technique and producing that new art as opposed to 1 or 2 jobs with music on the side.
I think a bigger problem is that when they're down in the ditches they have a good pulse on the people that they play their music for, once the reach stardom they're spending more time with corporate big wigs and marketing types than they are with their fan base and as a result they lose touch. Obviously everyone reacts differently to different situations but I've found that the best musicians are those that either spend a lot of time with their fans, keeping a good grip on that pulse, or those that spend a lot of time with other musicians sharing new ideas and exploring new territories.
I bought a Zune... earlier this month actually, but that's only because buy.com was offering the brown 30GB model for $100... I could care less how it stacks up to other models, at the right price people (myself included) will buy anything.
I've never commented on a moderators judgment before, on the rare occasion that I get modded down I take my lumps, but I'm seriously at a loss for how any of what I said here could be construed as "flamebait".
Actually, it is a pun. Technically that phrase is a spoonerism, which when said intentionally rather than by mistake, is considered a pun.
There are problems with the 360's system... don't get me wrong I own a 360 and I think it's an amazing console. Their method of content management is certainly better than the Wii's (I have no experience with the PS3 in that regard so I can't comment) but it's not perfect.
if your hardware goes belly up, you're absolutely right that the content is registered to your account and you can redownload it to new hardware free of charge... however since the content is locked to the original hardware on which it was purchased AND your Xbox Live account, when the original hardware is not available you need to be logged into Xbox Live to use the content and validate that you are in-fact that owner.
Let me propose a few scenarios of what might happen AFTER you replace the hardware:
1. Your ISP is having problems/your modem dies/whatever and you've got no internet connectivity.. sorry you can't use any of that content you purchased because the console can't validate that you own it by connecting to the Live servers... sorry.
2. You have a child/spouse/sibling/roommate with a separate account and rather than registering your credit card to their account to make online purchases you manage their spending by simply requiring that they ask you to make purchases through your account for them. Once you change the hardware the purchasing account needs to be signed in to use it. Meaning that the whole point of them not having free reign access to your credit card is lost, not to mention all of your profile stats could get trashed while it records you playing games that you really aren't, people think you're online when you're not, etc.
Then of course you still have the problem of not being able to sell the content or transfer ownership to a different account.
MS needs to implement 2 features IMO if they want to make their content management the best out there
1. Console content reset: basically a feature that with the purchasing console logged in to Xbox Live the user can choose to wipe all hardware based content ownership flags and alert the Xbox Live servers that the next time the content is downloaded it needs to lock to the new hardware. This would allow end users to easily re-download their content on new hardware, say if they were upgrading to an Elite or selling their old hardware, without the aforementioned problems. When MS receives a console requiring repair they can do the reset themselves ensuring that the content can easily be attached to the replacement hardware
2. A Trade System: basically you can trade MS points and Marketplace content with other XBL users. I imagine that both users setup a trade and put the content that they plan on giving into a virtual container on XBL once both users are happy and accept what the other user is offering the trade goes through. This would allow you to gift points or content to other accounts, or trade games for games, or trade games for points... MS probably will never do this since they want the money from game purchases, but if they did institute such a system it would go a long way to making their "points" feel like real money...
You make a good point about the cost of printing and personally I would have been more than willing to pay twice as much for the OXM subscription had they offered a higher quality product... nice plastic snap cases for the DVDs larger footprint and more pages with less ads would be well worth a $50/year subscription to me. But even at $24 the quality was so ridiculously low it wasn't worth even that.
It seems to me that some bean counter decided that people weren't subscribing/droping subscriptions because of the cost and then continually added more ads/less content/lower quality to drive their costs lower... it's a damn shame.
oddly enough nearly every car I've ever pulled the Engine Control unit out of (for modification purposes) had a Faraday cage already on it. The only one I can think of that didn't was a Saturn, but that car also had the ECM tie into the mirror and the stereo for OnStar purposes so it'd be screwed anyway.
The location of the ECU tents to be by the front passenger's feet either under the floorboard or along the side in front of the door... even without a Faraday cage wouldn't the steel body/frame pieces do a good job protecting it from these kinds of waves considering they're all tied to the battery common.
It potentially could but it probably wont.
By offering them for download they can tweak and recompile the games to run natively on the 360's architecture so it definitely opens the potential to offer games that don't run from the disc. However considering they went for the most popular titles first when deciding what to add for Backward Compatibility it will likely be the same set of games they offer for download.
In all likelihood the Xbox 1 games you download will run much better than those played from a disc. It will also be interesting to see if they add new features such as achievements and leaderboards.
I can tell you that the Ads are what caused me to cancel my Subscription to Official Xbox Magazine (OXM). I bought it strictly for the disk because there would inevitably be 1 or 2 discs a year with something I wanted and at $24 for an annual subscription and $10 a mag in the stores it was worth just subscribing.
In the span of a year the magazine went from 80-100 pages down to about 40-50, the disc cases went from nice plastic DVD thin packs down to printed cardboard sleeves and then down to generic white paper sleeves. The disc content went from at least 1 exclusive demo/bit of content a month to nothing more than a 1 month lag of regurgitation of Xbox Live...
Despite the frustration with all of that there were still some decent articles in the actual magazine mostly industry insights and developer interviews. I canceled my subscription last month however, when they decided to SELL THE COVER as advertisement space. Yes thats right the FRONT COVER of the magazine was an advertisement for the crap-tacular Clive Barker's Jericho. I'm not talking some stick on piece of cardboard that replaced the real cover, the actual cover was an ad. The first page of the magazine displayed what would normally be the cover image and it was your regular flimsy paper magazine page material.
You might think "well maybe they didn't have a worth while cover article that month" Unfortunately this was also the issue of OXM with their multi-page review/expose of Halo 3... I mean really... People would have bought that issue for memorabilia's sake alone, but I doubt anyone even noticed consider the cover was an add and the issues on the newsstand are sealed because of the disc. GOOD JOB.
Another thing that bothered me was that the newsstand editions of the magazine were lower quality than the subscription editions. Whatever happened to treating your LOYAL customers well? I seem to remember subscribing to many other magazines before and always getting a higher quality version of the product as a thank you for subscribing.
The speed in which the information is received was not the issue for me, it had everything to do with the fact that I was essentially buying a poorly crafted product with an overwhelming emphesis on advertisements over anything else.
MS bought LionHead last year... no Wii port for you (or for anyone at that)
yeah most ISPs these days want to install all kind of crap on your PC and they REQUIRE that their guys do it... gotta justify the $120 installation fee somehow. Thats why the last 3 times I've moved/had cable service installed I basically told them that the only "computer" on the internet was my Xbox. which basically means the tech drops off the rental modem and plugs in the coax. THEN I can install the rest of the network myself.
It's always great when they comment on the fact that they walked by no less than 6 PCs on their way to the Xbox and double check that they're ONLY installing the Xbox... yep.