You could also look at it this way.
Person who doesn't give a crap about wifi, online access, or an HD movie drive get the 360 for $400 compared to the mandatory $600 for the PS3, hell, there are even XBOX 360 bundles now with a free game (Like Call of Duty 2 or Moto GP).
Anyway, you can start with a base system and build it up.
I'm using a spare Linksys Wireless G adapter that cost me $40, I really could care less about investing in proprietary non-standard video formats that might not even be around in a couple years, and the online service does things that the Playstation Network just sucks at, like permabanning cheaters and enforcing a code of conduct, that make it worth the few dollars a month.
Parents need to quit blaming the industry and ruining entertainment for everyone because they find something offensive.
The best solutions.
Don't buy it...review the content before allowing children to see it...or just remember that the TV lets you change channels and turn it off.
It reminds me of Jon Stewart playing a clip of a politician detailing watching his son play a violent video game.
Stewart: "And as I stood there, watching my son play that violent video game, unable to do anything about it..."
Yeah, my point exactly, parents want the government to step in, and I think they should just quit passing the buck and BE THE DAMN PARENT.
So, the guys at Mackerelvision respond...
DRM "increases" value for the consumer. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Up is down. Black is white.
Anyway, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, I'd laugh if I thought there was no way people would believe them, but I cry because I know people tend to be stupid enough to believe something that absurd.
How exactly, does a technology that by design, interferes with my fair usage rights, and interferes with my ability to play back the content I purchased usage rights for at a time of my choosing on the platform of my choice add any value for me?
No, every time you buy a DVD with Mackerelvision crippling, you're signing these assholes paychecks, so they can keep designing worse and worse systems by which to restrict you.
And there is a good reason why distros like Ubuntu default to GNOME and not KDE, in my experience it's a lot easier to break something in KDE, and it's harder for an end user to figure out how to get it to do things like, I don't know, not opening file downloads in a text editor.
The other problem is that KDE is slow, REAL slow, I know that GNOME isn't exactly a speed demon, but KDE is suffering from code bloat and so many features being tacked on, and in the end performance takes a hit.
I understand that Torvalds is frustrated with GNOME, and he can use KDE all he wants, but why does he have to criticize GNOME so much?
The whole reason there are multiple window managers is because none of them do everything right, and so you put many of them out there and let people CHOOSE, he could have jsut as easily criticized KDE for bloat, and Fluxbox for missing features.
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So this excuses Saddam's regime from gassing the Kurds?
Actually, there is no such thing as "Palestine", and Israel merely took back SOME ofthe land that was theirs to begin with.
want to believe that if we don't pass out condoms, then kids won't have sex. I hate these religious idiots.
Actually, the regimes we threw out were genocidal religious maniacs, if you want to call them "stable", I'd hate to see how we made things any worse.
Get this.....into SPACE. Pay no attention to that man behind the mirror.
to compromise a Chinese government computer, they like to use Red Flag Linux, which is set up to log you in as Root with no password by default.
But doesn't it resist real time weapon change?
But then you couldn't stuff 47 hours of mind-numbingly boring CGI onto one disc!
You could also look at it this way. Person who doesn't give a crap about wifi, online access, or an HD movie drive get the 360 for $400 compared to the mandatory $600 for the PS3, hell, there are even XBOX 360 bundles now with a free game (Like Call of Duty 2 or Moto GP). Anyway, you can start with a base system and build it up. I'm using a spare Linksys Wireless G adapter that cost me $40, I really could care less about investing in proprietary non-standard video formats that might not even be around in a couple years, and the online service does things that the Playstation Network just sucks at, like permabanning cheaters and enforcing a code of conduct, that make it worth the few dollars a month.
Parents need to quit blaming the industry and ruining entertainment for everyone because they find something offensive. The best solutions. Don't buy it...review the content before allowing children to see it...or just remember that the TV lets you change channels and turn it off. It reminds me of Jon Stewart playing a clip of a politician detailing watching his son play a violent video game. Stewart: "And as I stood there, watching my son play that violent video game, unable to do anything about it..." Yeah, my point exactly, parents want the government to step in, and I think they should just quit passing the buck and BE THE DAMN PARENT.
Yeah, but what about the cracker ass crackers?
So, the guys at Mackerelvision respond... DRM "increases" value for the consumer. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Up is down. Black is white. Anyway, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, I'd laugh if I thought there was no way people would believe them, but I cry because I know people tend to be stupid enough to believe something that absurd. How exactly, does a technology that by design, interferes with my fair usage rights, and interferes with my ability to play back the content I purchased usage rights for at a time of my choosing on the platform of my choice add any value for me? No, every time you buy a DVD with Mackerelvision crippling, you're signing these assholes paychecks, so they can keep designing worse and worse systems by which to restrict you.
And there is a good reason why distros like Ubuntu default to GNOME and not KDE, in my experience it's a lot easier to break something in KDE, and it's harder for an end user to figure out how to get it to do things like, I don't know, not opening file downloads in a text editor. The other problem is that KDE is slow, REAL slow, I know that GNOME isn't exactly a speed demon, but KDE is suffering from code bloat and so many features being tacked on, and in the end performance takes a hit. I understand that Torvalds is frustrated with GNOME, and he can use KDE all he wants, but why does he have to criticize GNOME so much? The whole reason there are multiple window managers is because none of them do everything right, and so you put many of them out there and let people CHOOSE, he could have jsut as easily criticized KDE for bloat, and Fluxbox for missing features.
space probe malfunctioned millions of dollars wasted beam me up scotty