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DLC limitations mean no Hendrix for Guitar Hero: World Tour {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Nov 17th 2008 9:03PM Nintendo Wii Fanboy...indeed.
First of all..some clarity:
The *PRIMARY* issue here is the "rights holder agreements" in place; they want more money per sale.
The way the Wii works, dear friends, is the result of people caving into the insane restrictions of DRM. Nintendo's implementation requires a digital sig on each piece of media xferred...to protect it, essentially, from paying customers :)
Likely, to preserve some sort of sanity on the gtunes store, they didn't code a mechanism to bundle and unpack these things or come up with a way to make them compliant with both the rights holder's (primary cause) and Nintendo's "needs" so it could not be done.
It has little to do with not having a hard drive and more to do with how to protect themselves from you, the, again, paying customer, because as well all know, Nintendo's copy protections have worked swimmingly well so far :)
All that said, this does suck a little and has probably killed the franchise on wii in the minds of many people.
NPD reports iPhone was top US handset in Q3 {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 10th 2008 11:38AM Wow...if this shows up on engadget or digg, it should spark of a 100+ comment run full of name-calling and general mayhem and dismay.
Happy Monday :)
Mac 101: Multi-touch Tips {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 6th 2008 2:22PM the pinch works in safari too...it makes the text bigger or smaller.
Activision brings out the celebs for World Tour advertising {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Nov 4th 2008 12:56PM Yeah, obviously the demographic for this commercial (and, really, the Wii I'm starting to believe) is NOT NWiifanboy bloggers.
Every *old* person I showed this to (this being defined as in High School durning the 1980's...as opposed to born then) cracked up laughing :)
Sonic Unleashed trailer is half the game we want {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Nov 3rd 2008 9:10PM Sigh.
The (proper) term is "couldn't care less" guy. If you could care less, this says, well, you still care, and need to work on not caring a bit more, does it not?
If you are going to try to be clever and Engadet-like with the writing, please try to do so correctly next time :)
Wii Fanboy poll: The Beatles Rock Band game {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Nov 1st 2008 12:30AM I'm curious to find out what it is you like, because believe it or not, pretty much anything made after 1965 would likely not have come to fruition had it not been to a ton of innovation made by the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and the Beach Boys, across all popular genres.
For folks under say, 30, a lot of this is lost, because by the time you got into music, the stage had already been set.
There are some very real reasons why albums such as Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and Sgt. Pepper by the Beatles are constantly on the "OMG!" lists...because *before* records like those, pretty much all popular music was derived from, well, church music :)
If you can find it, check out the song 'Cherchez La Femme' by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band; it was from a concept album made on the premise of what 'modern' (for the time...it is a disco song...sorry ;)) american music would have sounded like without the influence of the sound of the British Invasion...
Fun fact: find a record before Sgt. Pepper; you'll notice that the bass is almost not there...because before that, bass guitar was recorded in studio via a live mic in front of a bass amp.
For some reason, McCartney and Martin had the brilliant idea to direct connect the bass to the soundboard for a more prominent, full sound.
There are tons of little things like that. Learn up :)
Opera: Apple won't let us in the App Store {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 31st 2008 8:04PM That's dirty pool right there, Nick.
HOW DARE YOU impugn the stability of MobileSafari!!! It is rock solid!!!
You just watch...there will be a bunch of knee-jerk post from lia- erm, people that will swear on a stack of Leopard Install DVDs that MobileSafari has *never, ever crashed...and I've had an iPhone since Day One and use it on the web for hours and hours* and that you are at fault (somehow) for this, or "stupid web sites"...or tachyons from space...or Microsoft.
Then you'll see...you'll all see...muhahahahaha...because...because...those who love Apple and their things without question are Real Mac Users (even tho most people with iPhones don't...actually...use...Macs...) and you and your lot are "destroying Apple."
Why do you Hate Apple, Nick? :)
Opera: Apple won't let us in the App Store {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 31st 2008 2:49PM ROTFLMAO
What is the matter with you people?
My God.
You know, sometimes I wonder, and I am NOT making this up, if Steve Jobs was caught with an underage girl bound and gagged with an amyl jammed up his butt dancing in a pool of blood in Nazi regalia, burning the cure for cancer, how many of you would be like "yeah that's totally cool".
While the above imagery is extreme and unlikely* it really goes to the point that *not everything Apple does is a good idea* people.
Seriously...why not have Mac OS X, Version 11 set up so that you could only buy apps that Apple approves, signed by Apple?
Like the poor cow up there guy said...forget about how this "helps" Apple(?!)...how does this *help you* exactly?
I have been a Mac user for a long (long) time...and I thought we as a community had somewhat gotten over the extreme crazy.
I mean, it is one thing to not want to have apps on the platform that make *the platform look bad*...but banning apps that outshine Apples own?
Please explain to me how this is right...how this is good for Apple, or you...or *anyone*.
City of Heroes coming to Mac under Transgaming's Cider {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 30th 2008 10:44PM ...or they could have more customers like me that bought the hardware to do the job.
For YEARS, devs, native and otherwise...BEGGGGGEEEDDDD apple to do more than throw up a token website to aide them.
Needing a $2000 computer to remotely get performance is insane for the game market...let alone the fact that before Apple's Big Consumer Push, Like I said, they just didn't give a damn.
I just recently bought a *decent* Mac for gaming and I'm *telling you*...it ain't Cider/Wine that is the problem :)
Ya need the right tool for the job.
-K
City of Heroes coming to Mac under Transgaming's Cider {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 30th 2008 10:38PM What Macbook Pro...he wondered aloud :)
-K
