The Gamecube wasn't originally sold with a memory card, either. It was added as a bundle later on. You're making it sound as if Microsoft is doing something worse than every other console maker...
Nintendo 64 required that you buy a memory card.
Playstation did too.
Dreamcast did.
Playstation 2 did.
GameCube did.
It's an industry standard. If anything, Microsoft bucked the trend by including the HD standard in the original Xbox. (Although memory cards are still available for it, they aren't required.)
Can you buy a 20 GB portable USB2 or Firewire HD for $100? Because that's basically what Microsoft's selling, and I'm pretty sure you can't get that product anywhere else or, if you can, it costs more than $100.
You're an idiot, and every moderator who marked this "insightful" is an idiot as well. The suggested retail price of the Xbox 360 is $400 for the HD version. You can't build a PC with the same gaming specs as the Xbox 360 for $400.
The price listed in this flamebait article is the price of the console, a bunch of extra controllers, and *THE ENTIRE GAMES LINEUP* at launch. That's why it costs $1200... $660 of that is games, $400 is the Xbox, and the rest is the extra controllers and other accessories. (Oh, and BTW, you can't build a PC with the gaming specs of the Xbox 360 *and* 11 brand-new games for $1200, either.)
Speaking of a fool, you *do* realize that the suggested retail price of the Xbox 360 is $300 for the "lite" version and $400 for the "full" version, right? Because you just posted as if you think that Microsoft somehow sets the pricing of the Xbox 360 bundles instead of the retailers...
Their comparison is invalid, as well. It's a 2.5" laptop drive in a USB2 enclosure... can you find a 2.5" laptop drive with a USB2 port for $50? Not even close. Can you find one for $100? Yeah, probably-- and that's exactly what Microsoft's charging!
(Of course the one you find will probably be at least 40 or 60 GB and not 20 GB, but the point is that that these articles are going WAAAY out of their way to try and "prove" the Xbox 360 is more expensive than it should be.)
So if it was proved machine crackable in 2003, WHY THE HELL ARE SITES STILL USING IT? Those goddamned tests are the most annoying thing on the Internet now, by far.
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WOW SUCH A NEW AND INVENTIVE ORIGINAL JOKE! I've never heard that one before! Certainly not about 30,000 times a goddamned year between 1995 and 2005. And yet Slashdot moderators, obviously on crack, moderate it up regardless... maybe Slashdot does something to people to just suck their sense of humor out and replace it with hatred of RFID tags.
Wait a second... there are two possibilities here:
1) Microsoft bought EB Games somehow while avoiding any press coverage whatsoever, and now controls everything EB Games does, or:
2) You're an idiot.
Seriously, though, how the hell does Microsoft have any say in the matter? Microsoft priced the consoles at $300 for the "lite" one and $400 for the standard one. Anything beyond that is out of their hands, and out of their control, and your little rant here is completely misdirected.
The problem is that with our copyright law, Abandonware is not legal. Whether or not those companies are still in business or not, the copyright does actually belong to somebody or some entity, and until they release it into the public domain, downloading those games is piracy.
I'm thinking about starting a project to rectify this, getting a list of all my C-64 games and just going through them one-by-one and trying to find the ownership.
Well, again, what's stopping EA from packing up all their games onto a DVD and releasing it for modern consoles? Even a subset of games is better than none. I want to play C-64 games, but I don't want to pirate them... right now that's impossible, since my C-64 disks are all demagnetized.
And yet the Atari has a classic game collection disk for consoles, and even their own console with ROM-stored classic games in it. The Intellivision has a classic games collection for Xbox and probably other platforms. Midway has two.
Where the hell is the Commodore 64 in all this? I want to play retro C-64 games legally, damnit. I've done the Atari, I've done the Intellivision, give me my C-64!
Grandpa, get off the internet and back to your shuffleboard game.
Holy crap, man, listen to yourself. How old are you? You sound like the old man on the sidewalk talking about how hamburgers were only a nickel in his day, and men were men and women were women, etc.
Remove your nostalgia-tinted goggles and view the world as it really is. Games are better than they have ever been, and they've been getting better every year. Even the most mass marketted and commercial game out there, Madden, is a hell of a lot more fun to play than any football game for the Atari was.
I know, that's one of my favorite movies. I have the really good Kino Video version on DVD. However, both Matrix and Dark City have the "reality isn't real" angle that Metropolis lacks... that's why I didn't mention Metropolis.
I re-watched Dark City the other day and I realized that the plot and style of Dark City is a *lot* like The Matrix... only about 10 times better in every way.
If you enjoyed the Matrix, you owe it to yourself to go see Dark City as soon as you can. It's from the director of The Crow.
Of course, people then went around being deliberately evil, ran up the bounty, then logged in their good character, and had the good one kill the bad one for the reward.
And now you know why GOOD MUDs don't allow multiplaying.
Does anybody know of a MS Project look-alike and/or work-alike for MacOS X? I got spoiled with it at the office, and I'd like to use it at home, but I can't find anything similar for Macintosh... thanks in advance for any tips.
Or gotten a dymo labeller and start handing out numbers early on as people began to gather. That makes a whole lot more sense then cancelling it altogether.
Ebgames.com doesn't have a pre-order for the Xbox 360 available. I still say you're full of crap, but maybe you're just getting scammed by a EB employee who is selling you a product (the pre-order) they don't offer yet.
Either way, you're wrong anyway; The Xbox 360 still has every feature that's been promised for it.
Not your fault, sorry for the rant. I don't even mind that it didn't work in OS X... the part that pissed me off is that the author of the extension *KNOWS* it doesn't work in OS X and yet the mozilla.org description, which he could easily edit, says it does. Lying scumbag.
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Link me to a $10 enclosure for a 2.5" drive. I don't believe you without some evidence here.
The Gamecube wasn't originally sold with a memory card, either. It was added as a bundle later on. You're making it sound as if Microsoft is doing something worse than every other console maker...
Nintendo 64 required that you buy a memory card.
Playstation did too.
Dreamcast did.
Playstation 2 did.
GameCube did.
It's an industry standard. If anything, Microsoft bucked the trend by including the HD standard in the original Xbox. (Although memory cards are still available for it, they aren't required.)
Can you buy a 20 GB portable USB2 or Firewire HD for $100? Because that's basically what Microsoft's selling, and I'm pretty sure you can't get that product anywhere else or, if you can, it costs more than $100.
You're an idiot, and every moderator who marked this "insightful" is an idiot as well. The suggested retail price of the Xbox 360 is $400 for the HD version. You can't build a PC with the same gaming specs as the Xbox 360 for $400.
The price listed in this flamebait article is the price of the console, a bunch of extra controllers, and *THE ENTIRE GAMES LINEUP* at launch. That's why it costs $1200... $660 of that is games, $400 is the Xbox, and the rest is the extra controllers and other accessories. (Oh, and BTW, you can't build a PC with the gaming specs of the Xbox 360 *and* 11 brand-new games for $1200, either.)
Your post isn't insightful, it's plain wrong.
Speaking of a fool, you *do* realize that the suggested retail price of the Xbox 360 is $300 for the "lite" version and $400 for the "full" version, right? Because you just posted as if you think that Microsoft somehow sets the pricing of the Xbox 360 bundles instead of the retailers...
Their comparison is invalid, as well. It's a 2.5" laptop drive in a USB2 enclosure... can you find a 2.5" laptop drive with a USB2 port for $50? Not even close. Can you find one for $100? Yeah, probably-- and that's exactly what Microsoft's charging!
(Of course the one you find will probably be at least 40 or 60 GB and not 20 GB, but the point is that that these articles are going WAAAY out of their way to try and "prove" the Xbox 360 is more expensive than it should be.)
So if it was proved machine crackable in 2003, WHY THE HELL ARE SITES STILL USING IT? Those goddamned tests are the most annoying thing on the Internet now, by far.
WOW SUCH A NEW AND INVENTIVE ORIGINAL JOKE! I've never heard that one before! Certainly not about 30,000 times a goddamned year between 1995 and 2005. And yet Slashdot moderators, obviously on crack, moderate it up regardless... maybe Slashdot does something to people to just suck their sense of humor out and replace it with hatred of RFID tags.
Wait a second... there are two possibilities here:
1) Microsoft bought EB Games somehow while avoiding any press coverage whatsoever, and now controls everything EB Games does, or:
2) You're an idiot.
Seriously, though, how the hell does Microsoft have any say in the matter? Microsoft priced the consoles at $300 for the "lite" one and $400 for the standard one. Anything beyond that is out of their hands, and out of their control, and your little rant here is completely misdirected.
The problem is that with our copyright law, Abandonware is not legal. Whether or not those companies are still in business or not, the copyright does actually belong to somebody or some entity, and until they release it into the public domain, downloading those games is piracy.
I'm thinking about starting a project to rectify this, getting a list of all my C-64 games and just going through them one-by-one and trying to find the ownership.
Well, again, what's stopping EA from packing up all their games onto a DVD and releasing it for modern consoles? Even a subset of games is better than none. I want to play C-64 games, but I don't want to pirate them... right now that's impossible, since my C-64 disks are all demagnetized.
How the hell is that on topic at all? What was the point of posting that? Who gives a shit?
And yet the Atari has a classic game collection disk for consoles, and even their own console with ROM-stored classic games in it. The Intellivision has a classic games collection for Xbox and probably other platforms. Midway has two.
Where the hell is the Commodore 64 in all this? I want to play retro C-64 games legally, damnit. I've done the Atari, I've done the Intellivision, give me my C-64!
Grandpa, get off the internet and back to your shuffleboard game.
Holy crap, man, listen to yourself. How old are you? You sound like the old man on the sidewalk talking about how hamburgers were only a nickel in his day, and men were men and women were women, etc.
Remove your nostalgia-tinted goggles and view the world as it really is. Games are better than they have ever been, and they've been getting better every year. Even the most mass marketted and commercial game out there, Madden, is a hell of a lot more fun to play than any football game for the Atari was.
Too bad Trillian's so goddamned ugly. (And yes, I know it can be themed... unfortunately, all the themes are as ugly as the default. Go figure.)
Never. It's never been slated to have a Windows release. (Or Mac, for that matter.)
Put them on a memory card, dingus. What are you, a retard? Or are you just going WAAAAY the hell out of your way to bash Microsoft?
I know, that's one of my favorite movies. I have the really good Kino Video version on DVD. However, both Matrix and Dark City have the "reality isn't real" angle that Metropolis lacks... that's why I didn't mention Metropolis.
I re-watched Dark City the other day and I realized that the plot and style of Dark City is a *lot* like The Matrix... only about 10 times better in every way.
If you enjoyed the Matrix, you owe it to yourself to go see Dark City as soon as you can. It's from the director of The Crow.
Of course, people then went around being deliberately evil, ran up the bounty, then logged in their good character, and had the good one kill the bad one for the reward.
And now you know why GOOD MUDs don't allow multiplaying.
Does anybody know of a MS Project look-alike and/or work-alike for MacOS X? I got spoiled with it at the office, and I'd like to use it at home, but I can't find anything similar for Macintosh... thanks in advance for any tips.
Or gotten a dymo labeller and start handing out numbers early on as people began to gather. That makes a whole lot more sense then cancelling it altogether.
Ebgames.com doesn't have a pre-order for the Xbox 360 available. I still say you're full of crap, but maybe you're just getting scammed by a EB employee who is selling you a product (the pre-order) they don't offer yet.
Either way, you're wrong anyway; The Xbox 360 still has every feature that's been promised for it.
Not your fault, sorry for the rant. I don't even mind that it didn't work in OS X... the part that pissed me off is that the author of the extension *KNOWS* it doesn't work in OS X and yet the mozilla.org description, which he could easily edit, says it does. Lying scumbag.