Street Fighter 4 In Game Footage

Armando already tackled The upcoming street fighter 4 game, so if your as excited about it as i am, your gonna wanna check out the recently released in game footage of how the game will play.

Imagine the Street Fighter 2 box art for snes, but in motion. Personaly , i don't care for the art direction. What do you think.

$40k to fill an ipod?

Holy fuck, 40 thousand bucks to fill my ipod (im thinking an 80gig) and i was over here thinking that 99 cents a song from the itunes store was pretty cheap, and boy was i wrong. I read this article about how one third of PC users turn to lime wire because 1 its free, and two, it obviously wouldn't make much sense spending that type of money if your that much into music. This is what the article said. (courtesy of arstechnica.com)

"Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world's computers, according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne? The answer isn't iTunes, nor is it any other DRM-encumbered media program that has been blessed by Big Content. The answer is LimeWire, with a presence on an estimated 36.4 percent of the world's PCs.

Clearly, the so-called "darknet" remains far and away the world's leading provider of online media content, drowning legit download services in a flood of "free." This data also should give the major labels pause in their ongoing attempts to convince Apple that $0.99 per song is way too cheap.

The labels may be tempted to take comfort in the report's other finding that, as prevalent as LimeWire is, its uptake has been virtually flat over the past year. But a recent report on nighttime P2P traffic levels found Bittorrent to be the dominant P2P protocol, suggesting that either BT clients are even more popular than the already ubiquitous LimeWire application, or that BT users download more and/or larger files.

Between LimeWire and Bittorrent, the ongoing and extremely widespread popularity of P2P as a media delivery vehicle suggest that music prices remain stuck at too high a level while the capacity of portable media players continues to balloon. Does anyone remember the iPod launch, when there were jokes about how it would cost a user a few grand to fill up an iPod at the iTunes music store? Now that number is well into the five figures for a current-generation iPod, a fact that forces users to turn to other sources of digital content if they're to come even close to filling their iPods.

And when I say "filling iPods," I do mean the iPod specifically, and not portable media players generically. Unlike non-Apple DRM offerings from movie and music providers, LimeWire happens to be 100 percent compatible with the most popular media player on the planet. This has to be a factor in its ongoing popularity—it's a free alternative to iTunes for users who just want that single or bootleg NOW, or who don't care that it takes 45 minutes to put together a complete album plus artwork at a decent bitrate.

Update: I just want to make a quick update in response to some of the more inane comments in the discussion thread, and note that the idea on which this article is premised, i.e. that a thriving gray or black market in a particular commodity is evidence of overpricing (typically from a monopoly or cartel) in the legit market, is pretty uncontroversial in economics when applied to things like drugs and non-union labor.

So I don't really understand where there's a lot to disagree with here, at least from the standpoint of basic arithmetic. I mean, gray and black markets aren't really about morality--they're about simple supply and demand.

Black markets typically carry with them a certain amount of cost for participants (i.e. the lack of government sanctioning makes contracts hard to enforce, increases risks, exposes participants to legal liability, etc.), so they're by no means "free." (This is why I put "free" in quotes in the article).

People, as rational actors, make a calculation, and they're willing to incur those black market costs when they're priced out of the legit market.

So this isn't about the "morality" of "stealing music" or any other such sentimental silliness. It's about old-fashioned supply and demand."

Classic Rock Favorates

Im bored as fuck here at work,so at break i decided to make a playlist of my favorate classic rock songs. I know im forgetting alot of good songs , but hey, i only have a 15 min break, so im trying the best i can, heres what i got so far. I'll continue adding more tracks as i start to remember some other great ones.

UPDATE!! The stupid scroll bar on the music isn't showing up so just click the last track and hit the next button, it should scroll the rest of the list down.

Resident Evil - Degeneration Trailer

Now in my opinion, all Resident Evil Movies are really really shitty, so the thought of another RE movie does not interest me in no way at all. But the key word CGI (not really a word) grabbed my attention. The Final Fantasy VII CGI Movie was pretty bad ass, maybe this is what the Resident Evil Franchise Needs. The story takes place seven years after the infamous Racoon City incident and features an all new storyline. Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy are on hand as the main characters. See for yourself, coming to a dvd player near you.

RESIDENT EVIL DEGENERATION TRAILER
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Journeys New Front Man

Ok, so i have no idea how long this new's has been public or how long Journey has been looking for a lead man, but this morning on the Adam Corolla Show, they were talking about Neil Schon of Journey looking through You Tube for hours trying to find a lead singer for there band and jackpot he found one.

Basically i guess what happened was there then current front man Jeff Scott Soto was kicked out of the band because they were looking to go in a new direction. This new direction was i guess fucking you tube, but i can't really knock them for looking on the net because what they found blew me the fuck away.

Back in the Philippines there was this pretty popular cover band called "The Zoo". There lead singers name was Arnel Pineda, and wow this guy can sing. The band in all is pretty good, not great, but good, and they take on some pretty hard songs to cover, Songs from the Beatles, to rush, to even Nirvana, but all in all there all really good covers.

Im just gonna tell you right now if you don't believe me , then well fuck you, haha jk , but no seriously you need to check this dude out, he is a carbon copy of Steve Perry if not, dare i say better? You be the judge Here are my two favorite Covers by the Zoo. Sing little Filipino man, sing.


This one nearly got me naked.







To listen to all of there other covers, theres like over 60, go to there you tube page. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ndgomez777

MOVIE REVIEW - The Mist

Let me start off by saying that going into watching this movie i wasn't very excited or anxious about seeing this movie because i didn't know anything about this movie. The only thing i knew about it was from what Mario told me on this last podcast we recorded (Beyond The Grave - Episode 7), and all i had to go off was that it was like Half Life , which is a video game. So because of the fact that i love half life so much, and someone out there was reminded of it while watching this movie, i thought what the hell lets check this out.

The Mist is based off of a Steven King novella, and is about a strange mist that covers a small town one day and traps a group of locals in a super market. One of the things that worried me was that the whole movie was going to take place in this supermarket, and sure enough i was pretty much right. Half way into the movie, it wasn't really a big deal that you were stuck in the market with the people because it causes you to feel how there supposed to, trapped and frustrated. I caught myself really getting into the story once they introduced this local preacher lady that swears the mist is the "End of Days". She slowly gets people to become followers of her preachings, and it began to piss me off alot,any movie that gets me to believe in a character enough to hate em is doing a great job in my book.


So ok , a quick run through, the mist starts consuming anyone and everyone who dares walk into it, at first you just hear there screams, but slowly they start showing you whats inside the mist doing all this damage. Without spoiling the plot to much ill say this much, the "things" in the mist are not monsters, nor animals that you would see on the discover channel, but the are living things that like to kill, if that makes sense. So with that said they didn't have people in suites, but what movies these days go that route anyways, it was of course CGI. You would think that it's 2007 and the CGI in movies would be ridiculously good, but i guess they didn't have the budget to hire the big dogs so i think they had to settle for tv cg people. The first showing of the things in the mist was such a horrible display, it was really really fake looking. That had me worried for the most part cause any thing that looked that lousy can only hurt the film. Fortunately later on in the film the cg got a little better for some reason, maybe they were split up into teams to see who works on what in the movie, but the middle to the end cgi was pretty good for the most part.

The Mist delivered in my opinion, lately ive been going to the movies and seeing nothing but garbage. Im used to being bored and disappointed going into the theaters and this movie was a bit of fresh air for me, the plot was simple yet well executed, and the ending of the movie was very good, some might say just plain wrong. I was satisfied, not wowed , but satisfied , and for that reason im going to recommend all of you to go check it out. Its a good movie to watch in theaters but i think it's a great great rental if you don't mind waiting. Either was in my opinion is a fine way of viewing it.

Grade - B