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@ planblove
I'm really not half a hardcore gamer... but you really think that today, there are that much more good games and that much less fallout products that will be forgotten in less than ten years...?
I have my doubts. A lot has changed in the gaming world, but not the fact that a game can be all the hype before even being on the market and dismissed almost instantly if it doesn't kick ass in some never seen way. In reply to: "CES flashback 1989: Gaming 20 years ago"December 19, 2009
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As a PC *and* Mac user (so I can run the music software I want [as in Logic Pro on my PowerMac G5 - no Intel in there - and Wavelab and Audition on my PC], I'm a little surprised there's no talk at all of installing Windows 7 on an iMac, i.e. - I know this article is about systems with 7 *preinstalled*, but it seems to me iMacs still would deserve to be mentioned, being the great all-in-ones they are..!? Just a thought.
That said, I admit that the more I hear people raving about 7, the more intrigued I become. I'm a hardcore XP SP2 user who never touched Vista as I heard "nightmare" from all sides, but I'm guetting more curious by the second !
If 7 is to Vista what 98SE was to 95, I guess I'll have to look into it ;-) In reply to: "Windows 7: The first wave"October 24, 2009
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I love the totally playful and UN-serious concept of the thing.
And I love that you're obliviously giving us a link to Anand's page in Wikipedia!
Managing to insert a little culture in a six-line piece on a Super Mario chessboard is an achievement in itself ;-)
Keep working on light news with a plus! In reply to: "Super Mario chess: 1-upmanship?"October 22, 2009
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Thanks for adressing the issue... although the *real* question has been formulated in a comment (sorry to its author for forgetting his name):
switching off a big CRT TV set rather than leaving it on standby 24/7 was a no-brainer; switching off our computerized devices that draw significant power just to BOOT is a new issue, makes things much less obvious.
I'm still kind of amazed the article focuses so much on "Do I have to switch off my PS3?"; maybe some will argue with that, but the implicit conclusion is, in my eyes: "I proved scientifically it doesn't save a significant amount of energy to turn off my PS3 when I'm not using it - so, everybody go ahead, leave all your electronics on all the time!"
And I certainly have my doubts about the PS3's carbon footprint applying to any electronic device.
This calls for more testing - and suggests a nice idea: the information on wether a given device is worth switching off to save energy (and not just MONEY) should definitely be available to the customer!
Still, great article, as it gets us all to debate - and I'm certainly no stranger to the laziness factor ;-) In reply to: "PS3's standby and off modes, (virtually) separated at birth"June 13, 2009
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CREEPY, definitely. Like a prop in an old horror movie.
I can't imagine this targeted on adults (I know, I really shouldn't be sure about that...) - so it IS intended for kids, right? For kids, I presume, who have never had a *real* cat. So what on earth is the idea? It's going to be a freak, a funny monster to a kid. The kid might know that a cat meows... but he has never, for instance, experienced that cats purr when you stroke them... I can see myself get lost in this, so I'll stop.
i'm probably just freaking out because I can't get my head around the fact that people in Japan love *any* kind of robot, that it's a cultural thing, and that this doesn't mean they're in any way to be considered weirder than us western folks. Unfortunately, we have pleanty weird in our own caracacteristics... In reply to: "Sega robo-cat will meow, won't catch mice"January 18, 2009
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My first and only MP3 player to this day is an Archos Jukebox Recorder. 15 Gb, high resolution MP3 recording... bought it over 5 years ago. At the time, being able to use an MP3 player in external hard disk mode was unique... It is becoming useless because I dropped it once and the already shaky controls got dammaged.
The Archos really did me a lot of good - and once I discovered the dedicated *free* software made for it by RockBox (www.rockbox.org), I never looked back. Huge improvement over sound control (which is vital to me) and more.
So now I'm looking for a replacement! What is there besides the iPod? The Archos 605 WiFi already mentioned above, the iPod classic, whose 160 GB are now really tempting for the money... and THE ZUNE.
After reading this article and comments above, I'd *love* to give it a try - but it SEEMS like it's STILL not sold in Europe.
And I just WON'T buy something online without having held and used it before.
Thanks to everyone for helping me at least have an idea of the Zune. No wonder I don't hear about it more often when it's not available on my *continent* ;)
Oh, by the way: I'm using Mac (for a music software called Logic Pro) ** AND ** Windows (for about anything else) at home; the iPod (classic/touch) is an entertainment tool (which is perfectly fine), I just need something I can *tweak* a bit and that delivers a certain sound quality.
So please tell Microsoft we want the Zune in Europe ;-) In reply to: "I want to believe: Reflections on my Zune year"December 9, 2008
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The perfect list of the tiny changes that made life more difficult, cheers (I quoted you and added some of my own below) !!! In reply to: "Guinea pigs squeal over Yahoo home page test"
October 25, 2008
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=> what <banarieo> said, EXACTLY, *every single complain I have* is in his post (October 10, 2008 6:08 AM PDT)
Cheers for making the perfect summary of the shortcommings of "New Yahoo" !!!
My two cents added (continuing after point 4. of banarieo's perfect list of what is wrong):
5) Font sizes are now so tiny I have to squint my eyes to read them (worst case example: the commands surrounding my username upper left, along with IMessenger status, namely: Disconnection, account info, Yahoo mail classic - haha).
6) The flags allowing to mark an important mail, a feature I love and use all the time, used to be at the very beginning, just after the sender's ID; now, they're placed AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE, at the end of the line, as tiny as a dead pixel (ok, that's slightly overstated)... and they just don't spring to your eye - basically loosing their reason to be.
7) The huge new ad space on the right, eating up about half of the screen real estate horizontally (which must be the reason for the tiny fonts, obviously): the ad on top of the page was tolerable, this one is a joke (and forces you into paying for "Yahoo Plus" to have an ad-free page, which certainly is its purpose).
The one thing I LOVE in the New Yahoo is TABS; being able to write a new mail without closing the one you're reading etc. is GREAT.
Bottom line: if I could decide about
a) the font sizes,
b) the order in which the columns appear (to put the marking flags back at the beginning of the displaying of a mail, where they make sense),
c) placing the screen real-estate eating new ad at the right back on top of the page where it's tolerable
....well, I'd pretty much adopt New Yahoo. In reply to: "Guinea pigs squeal over Yahoo home page test"October 25, 2008
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Wow, what a great, simple idea !!!! As a musician, I can see very well how this might make things easier for just what it has been desigend for.
I guess those 100 invites were quickly gone, as my webware name was deemed "invalid"...
I hope this is going to be available to the public soon.
Thanks for pointing it ou! In reply to: "SoundCloud is one of the coolest music apps around (invites)"June 28, 2008
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I heard through a friend that Philips is selling 3D displays since the beginning of this year at least (if not already the beginning of 2007), based on their so-called 'WOWvx' technology.
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/3dsolutions/3dtechnology/Index.html
How Alioscopy's OR Samsung's respective products perform in comparison I don't know, of course... In reply to: "3D video without the goofy glasses"June 20, 2008
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