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Engadget & Joystiq live from Microsoft's E3 2008 keynote {Joystiq}
Jul 14th 2008 2:32PM Where are the ads in the new 360 dashboard? Looks like they may be cleaning this thing up?
The Bill Day giveaway (part 1) - Toshiba Gigabeat T400 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 12:52PM Microsoft's XBOX 360
Fix your XBLA DRM mess! Microsoft DRM tool now available {Joystiq}
Jun 26th 2008 4:00PM OK, my only two "problems" are:
Download again. Is it downloading only the license, or does it repeat the entire download.
2) Download history is a mess, which I think is only sorted by date? No search feature. I've downloaded hundreds of items, I'm sure some people have downloaded much more than that. Now, to have to go into this messy list, find each item and hit download again.
Bad implementation in my opinion. The tool should say, would you like to transfer all old licenses? Y/N. That's it, if you say No, maybe give a list of all items with old licenses and have check boxes, so you can grab whichever ones you are most interested in at the time.
Also, I guess, without looking at all of the pictures (I can't get too much, since I'm on travel and on a cruddy PC), does xbox.com even list the items you need to download again, or does it just have that one image with the quantity of items which need to be updated and it's up to you to figure out which ones to get?
Sigh, keep working MS.
How old is old enough to play games? {Joystiq}
Jan 29th 2008 3:50PM My kids are 14 months and 2 1/2 years old. Both pick up the controller and play. I keep them to "easy" games like geometry wars (I wish they had an "invinceble code" or mode) or Super Rub-a-Dub, the girl likes that. She tries Ms. Pacman...
Her favorite, since most kid-friendly is Boom Boom Rocket....since it has the freestyle mode, any button can set off a firework and you can't die. More games need to be like that for kids. Just anything for interaction and see something "pretty" onscreen.
He holds the controller and just moves the sticks and presses buttons but can't really do anything. Which is how she was, but now she has a general idea. He'll get there.
For some reason I made him a silver account/gamertag, but not her...I'll have to set them both up with gamertags and PSN accounts.
Joyswag: Win this $5K dollar gaming rig from Falcon Northwest {Joystiq}
Nov 22nd 2007 1:17AM Old P4, 1GB ram, 128MB older GeForce video card. Can't play any new games on it with any decent graphic settings.
What's the deal with 24p? {Engadget HD}
Oct 1st 2007 3:18PM For a person that cares about HD, I wouldn't think you'd write such a flippant comment on 24p. Also, many TVs are starting to accept that source and show at 72 or 120 hz. And I know some people don't see the judder, unless you point it out to them, and I hate that especially on the credits, and scrolling tickers sometimes that it is impossible to not notice. And sometimes nearly illegible.
Maybe I'm a purist, but I'd think most people seeing one way versus the other would deifintely prefer to choose the 24p when projected right.
I won't even get into the "artistic" aspects that some will discuss, because those are less pronounced to me and a high-speed scene on film can suffer from "motion-blur" so to speak, which is annoying and I'd prefer everything shot on digital and post-processed to use 48p, if you want a film like transfer, but with more frames for those fast scenes...
/rant
How would you change the iPod touch? {Engadget}
Sep 28th 2007 6:17PM I'd agree with a hard volume rocker, external speakers, and say 32 GB, that'd cover my current music collection and such. More codec support also.
Microsoft's files Zune patent for "automatic delivery of personal content" {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2007 2:31PM That was going to be my comment. People have to try and stop patenting some of these things. Now, if it's truly novel, heck yeah, patent it, your ideas need to get reimbursed, but something like this is just ridiculous. Hopefully it gets thrown out.
Apple 4G iMac: first unboxing, impressions {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2007 4:28PM Not reading, but I'm sure someone mentioned, why not keyboard and mouse standard be wireless????? Want to be slick and clean.
Win a super rare signed 300-Edition Xbox 360 Elite and 300 HD DVD! {Engadget}
Aug 3rd 2007 3:28PM My favorite chapter/scene is "Today No Spartan Dies"
