lokithelion

http://www.the1stfive.com/news/mtv-bringing-back-120-with-matt-pinfield This makes sense. We'll show it once a month. That'll bring in the viewers.

When will GDP be ready to ship?

I like any weird toys, but the kid robot stuff is aways fun. When they have clearance sales I'm giddy.

I was just thinking "I wish there was a band that sounded like Mae but without vocals."

I agree that 1st Five is lacking in news, but it's staff of 5 on a site that made 15 dollars to cover our bills last year vs a staff of 10+ that has funding from a major blogging network. However I appreciate the read and promise we'll be getting better on the news posting front as the year goes along. And say what you will about Jason or his fanbase AP has done a really good job of still presenting every kind of music to the people who read his site. The kids who read his site aren't just getting swoopy hair emo and screamo stuff, they also cover bands like Touche Amore, Animals as Leaders, My Heart to Joy, etc etc. They get props from me for that.

He's wanting to mod his Xbox so he can run emulators. He has no interest in playing SNES cartridges on his Xbox. (i.e. not the same thing) If this was about playing SNES cartridges, he'd go buy an SNES. Which are slightly more expensive, and require you to actually pay for games... (Edit - So re-reading that, it came off a bit negative. I personally don't care what people do with their old Xbox. But if you're gonna make an arcade with a bunch of pirated games out of it, don't beat around the bush about it.) I have an SNES, NES, Genesis, N64, PS1 and somewhere at my parents house a NEO Geo. This is about not wanting to have 6 systems on top of a ps3 and xbox360 cluttering my house and making my wife's life easier when she wants to game since she's retarded with anything made after 1998.

it's not really piracy, sure maybe it can be boiled down to that, but the point is clearly to play games he already owns by modifying something else, it's like modifying a laserdisk player to play CDs, sure it's not the original usage it was designed for, but the intention is to multi-purpose something to use something else he already owns, not create bootlegs Basically. I mowed a shit ton of lawns to play these games. These have been earned.

Thanks sir!

It's an OG xbox and it's a cost thing. I can get a xbox 1 for 30-40 bucks and a wii still runs me a hundred plus rebuying all those games for 5-10 bucks a pop. Screw that I bought them already.

So I'm getting an xbox to mod so my wife can play SNES, NES, etc emulators on the big screen without having to set up a bunch of old school systems. I know Kirby has done this in the past but probably some of you guys have also. Could you point me towards a easy to understand tutorial for either hard or soft moding? I don't have a mod chip but I've got a computer with ATA harddrive which someone once told me at a bar could help. I've googled but I've gotten a lot of different answers and I'd like to go with one I know works. Help?

Thanks Kirby!

lokithelion

http://www.the1stfive.com/news/mikey-erg-stream-and-interview Stream the new Mikey Erg 12" Valentines Day single and read a new interview with him where he talks about keeping his music out of Henry Rollins hands and how many times he's been dumped. I'm stoked.

When you charge a premium for everything you sell and loudly shout that it's the best product available it is a dick move to make people paying for the "best" to pay even more for very very very basic things. The fact that the Macbook Pro comes with what amounts to a glorified text editor as it's out of box writing solution is bullshit but why stock a PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER with something so basic when you can nickel and dime your fan boys and make them spend even more money after already dropping over a grand for the most basic model. Or why make it so you can easily transfer the most basic kind of data storage to your iPad when you can nickel and dime your fans by making them buy yet another bullshit adapter. Those are dick moves.

Totally agree with you there. I'd do it if I had the money.

Blogs are useful for the people who know to look for them. The point of the article is that the channel used to provide a service for the kids who weren't born with their finger on the pulse of the world like Bradley. It also addresses that while most of what they played was mainstream pap they also made time for bands from the underground w/ things like Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes and those shows opened a lot of doors musically for those people. The internet is fantastic, but it's also bottomless.

It's still a little hit or miss but I blame that on Comcasts shitty monopoly more than the wifi.

It's one of the latest models. 4gigs and a i5 intel chip. Runs like a dream, just hit or miss internet. It's weird.

Ended up having to change some security settings and I'm back in bizness. Thanks for the advice all.

sure thing...you still thinking about moving to chicago? Yep. Just trying to figure out the money with the wife. Moving from Tennessee is expensive.

Thanks a bunch.

Far enough. I think it's just the idea of spending more money after dropping 1300 on a computer that's supposed to be a god out of the box makes me itch. What do you use? Or at least do you have one you'd recommend?

Yeah this is my first one. If I have to buy one specifically for mac that would suck. My router does fine with every other computer it works on. Hrm.

Yep. Only help I've found so far on the net is that tons of people find macbooks have slow as shit wireless out the box.

I bought one of the new macbooks for work. Only problem is Airport gives me the awful wireless speed. Like 2mb from a 25mb network. Does anyone know a solution for this? I've looked online and found nothing useful.