4th August 2006, 12:21 PM
Yeah, as I said at first. The game did use almost the whole CD from what I recall though, so it as of itself would take up a chunk of space without compression. With today's lossless compression formats (which are nice but they of course don't compress as much as the lossy formats), I'm sure a chunk of space could be saved.
At any rate, the idea of storing a large number of games on that small amount of space we are given access to on the 360 drive is eventually going to require buying more hard disks. 20GB is not what MS actually lets you use to store data :D.
By the way, even though the 360 can rip songs off CDs and store them, I have no reason to do that, ever. The system has the abililty to both read MP3s off devices plugged into USB (like a memory card or an iPod, though you do have to download the iPod plugin onto the system it is a free download that takes about a second) AND to connect to any computer you have properly set up (using a special media setup application from MS to apply the right security permissions for a 360, specifically YOUR 360 and no others) and browse every single folder to use whatever music you may have stuck in there. As such, I just rip all my music to my own computer and play it all from my 360. Further, yes the OS which allows you to replace the universal music track of the games (MS apparently forced a standard for which audio channel music is played on so that they can all be shut off this way) with your own lets you use music from devices connected these two ways in the same way. I have no reason to store any music on the 360 itself due to this. (Note that this doesn't work for original XBox games, though I believe those specially programmed can still access song playlists stored on the 360 itself, I have no games that actually support that.)
And, now they are going to allow you to chat over a web cam on the 360. I think I'll not be doing that, and I think I'll be disabling the ability to see other people. I'm pretty sure I don't want any part of that.
At any rate, the idea of storing a large number of games on that small amount of space we are given access to on the 360 drive is eventually going to require buying more hard disks. 20GB is not what MS actually lets you use to store data :D.
By the way, even though the 360 can rip songs off CDs and store them, I have no reason to do that, ever. The system has the abililty to both read MP3s off devices plugged into USB (like a memory card or an iPod, though you do have to download the iPod plugin onto the system it is a free download that takes about a second) AND to connect to any computer you have properly set up (using a special media setup application from MS to apply the right security permissions for a 360, specifically YOUR 360 and no others) and browse every single folder to use whatever music you may have stuck in there. As such, I just rip all my music to my own computer and play it all from my 360. Further, yes the OS which allows you to replace the universal music track of the games (MS apparently forced a standard for which audio channel music is played on so that they can all be shut off this way) with your own lets you use music from devices connected these two ways in the same way. I have no reason to store any music on the 360 itself due to this. (Note that this doesn't work for original XBox games, though I believe those specially programmed can still access song playlists stored on the 360 itself, I have no games that actually support that.)
And, now they are going to allow you to chat over a web cam on the 360. I think I'll not be doing that, and I think I'll be disabling the ability to see other people. I'm pretty sure I don't want any part of that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)