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@pika2000
//Being mature is being able to see this game is simply a career simulation game. If you have dirty thoughts on imaginary cartoon girls, obviously you're not mature enough.//

Problem with this statement is that in the first game it allows you to do things to the idols that would violate your typical sexual harassment policy. Sure you can play the game like a mature adult, but you don't have to. Let us not have any non-sense that this is a 'career simulation game', it's a galge, pure and simple. And in America, games that have this type of gameplay (such as the Harvest Moon and the Persona series) need to be extremely subtle with it lest it be accused in the mainstream media of corrupting our youth, far more subtle than Idolm@ster can be.

@lakersin2025

All plasmas black levels will decrease over time. A better question to ask is whether or not their new plasma's black levels would get 3 times worse in under 1500 hours of use.

@darex

Err, why are you telling him he is wrong in his claim that the Logitech Squeezebox is better than the Grace Radio radio, when you are effectively agreeing with him?

//How about testing one by PURE or REVO for a change, instead of the drecky brands?//

Because neither the Pure nor the Revo radios are available in America, can't test what you don't have folks

wow, 240,000 people paid 22 dollars a ticket to watch internet streamed opera...

@Preza
//You can't play multiplayer FPS at such a long ping either. If he can play an FPS at all at 2000 miles, it probably works great at shorter distances.//

Unlikely, the reviewer just updated his review to note that he was getting 80ms ping to the onlive servers, it's doubtful that he would have gotten all that much better results than what he got, even if he was closer.

@vicsvenge

He's not an actual beta tester (he got the account from someone else), so he's not really bound by a NDA, the most that OnLive can do is go after the person that gave him the account.

@Guspaz

//The point is not the speed (he had enough of it), but the latency.//

Actually that was taligent's point, he claimed that the reviewer had a poor connection, and I corrected him on that, he had a good connection, but as you guys are ever so quick to point out, he wasn't reviewing in a good location.

@taligent
//I mean come on. OnLive is designed for those who have decent internet connections. Everyone should know that already.//

I did some ferreting around and I found that his internet connection has 33.42Mb/s down 1.40Mb/s Up, a decent internet connection if I do say so myself.

Anyway I didn't think that OnLive had this many fanboys at this point, maybe they might be able to survive afterall.

@MrAsmus

//Chumby can connect to the SqueezeCenter server software//

Not particularly well mind you (For one thing you need to have a completely separate device to control what the squeezecenter is sending to the chumby.

//It also has built-in speakers (or /a/ built in speaker, in the case of the chumby One) that don't sound half bad.//

That is like saying that the speakers built into your laptop is a perfectly adequate sound system (which is pretty much what you are getting with the chumbies, relatively cheap laptop speakers that are pointed away from you). Hell the speaker in the Squeezebox radio is probably bigger than the chumby one itself.

Anyway both devices have their specific strong points. Chumby is better at displaying visual information through the variety of widgets that it has, like videos, weather forecasts, clocks, and so forth. The Squeezeboxes are better at audio, having far more variety of internet radio stations, can handle subscription based radio stations, and have better speakers and better wi-fi antennas (no matter how good the reception, streaming radio stations on my chumby generally cuts out after 15 minutes or so, while my squeezebox remains rock solid for as long as I like).

@xclntgig

//So close! If this included photo frame, alarm clock,//

The Squeezebox Touch has flickr and facebook support, plus it has an sd card slot so you can view photos that way as well. The Squeezeboxes also tend to have 7 day alarm clocks as well. It doesn't do weather though....yet.