Don't confuse the car parked in your driveway with a vehicle used for work. Some company's fleet vehicles are ready for retirement after 2-3 years if the mileage is high enough. That's not always simply because "it was in the lease agreement". The truck I drove at one job had a spectacular transmission failure at 2 years. But it was passed the 250k km mark in their "fix it or auction it" program. It still looked good on the outside.
So I think if his father was looking for a >80,000 km/yr car (ie a work vehicle) to last more than 15 years guaranteed, it is an apt analogy.
The 80GB PS3 is backward compatible with PS2. Plus you get double the disk space.
PS2 Games actually look good on the PS3 as well. If you want the machine for the games but still watch DVD movies, they look good as well since the PS3 is also one of the best upscalling DVD players out there.
IMHO the 40GB version is just there to get people to buy. Anyone who does some research into the models and wants access to the massive PS2 catalog would upgrade to the 80GB.
How are they supposed to find out? Ejecting a member of the press is one thing. For that they only need someone to randomly check approved news sites. To find out if any/ all of the spectators are blogging, podcasting or just giving a play by play to their friend they would need ECHELON! Failing that, they would still need a large intelligence division to scour the internet for the duration of the game.
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I think he is more talking about stand-alone devices that can work together. Instead of having 2 or 3 2GB memory cards lying around when you have a fancy schmancy 30 GB. Music player in your pocket with 20+ GB of free space. You should be able to use the player as a storage area without having a computer as a middleman. You should further be able to hook that device to a cell phone or wireless device and dump your photos to the nets.
If every device saved to a standard format (jpeg, mp3, etc), used a standardised cable and could "sense" which end of the cable it had plugged in, all you need then is a standard tranfer protocol. It's a pipe dream but it really is the way things should be built. Hell, the standard format is only even needed where you care if the devices can read each other's files. If all you need is storage or transferablility format wouldn't even matter.
Why anyone wants a filmsy phone that has a crappy camera and 512 MB of song storage is beyond me. Or why do you want to watch movies on your phone.
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Don't confuse the car parked in your driveway with a vehicle used for work. Some company's fleet vehicles are ready for retirement after 2-3 years if the mileage is high enough. That's not always simply because "it was in the lease agreement". The truck I drove at one job had a spectacular transmission failure at 2 years. But it was passed the 250k km mark in their "fix it or auction it" program. It still looked good on the outside. So I think if his father was looking for a >80,000 km/yr car (ie a work vehicle) to last more than 15 years guaranteed, it is an apt analogy.
Just the commentary.
kudos on not translating your measurements and readings from metric.
And did they cause any heart attacks in the elders? That could cause some real wrath of god/ evil other flying tribe type stories.
I saw the movie... everyone gets bikes and V8's.
The 80GB PS3 is backward compatible with PS2. Plus you get double the disk space. PS2 Games actually look good on the PS3 as well. If you want the machine for the games but still watch DVD movies, they look good as well since the PS3 is also one of the best upscalling DVD players out there. IMHO the 40GB version is just there to get people to buy. Anyone who does some research into the models and wants access to the massive PS2 catalog would upgrade to the 80GB.
How are they supposed to find out? Ejecting a member of the press is one thing. For that they only need someone to randomly check approved news sites. To find out if any/ all of the spectators are blogging, podcasting or just giving a play by play to their friend they would need ECHELON! Failing that, they would still need a large intelligence division to scour the internet for the duration of the game.
No he didn't!
Is it just me, or is this like having a 6 bladed razor. Next they will be telling us they are adding an aloe strip on the spacebar!
7 cores in the front and 1 in the back for really precise computing!
also +10 Ool Man Smell!
I didn't know there were Jedi in the Mummy!!
I think he is more talking about stand-alone devices that can work together. Instead of having 2 or 3 2GB memory cards lying around when you have a fancy schmancy 30 GB. Music player in your pocket with 20+ GB of free space. You should be able to use the player as a storage area without having a computer as a middleman. You should further be able to hook that device to a cell phone or wireless device and dump your photos to the nets. If every device saved to a standard format (jpeg, mp3, etc), used a standardised cable and could "sense" which end of the cable it had plugged in, all you need then is a standard tranfer protocol. It's a pipe dream but it really is the way things should be built. Hell, the standard format is only even needed where you care if the devices can read each other's files. If all you need is storage or transferablility format wouldn't even matter. Why anyone wants a filmsy phone that has a crappy camera and 512 MB of song storage is beyond me. Or why do you want to watch movies on your phone.