Wiis (I guess that is the plural of Wii...) are highly desirable because they are a console, so that results in inflated prices, I didn't see the same thing happen really with the 360 and PS3.
A smaller studio can easily develop a 4 player game for Xbox's game download service (Don't have an Xbox so don't know the name) or Wiiware (Nintendo's game download service) and have it be successful. They could also make a computer version of the game and make it be online that way.
Exactly. With a console you get around 4-5 years that you know it will be supported, new games will come out and on most you won't need to spend a penny more on your console itself. With a PC not only do you need to juggle 3 OSes (Linux to actually get anything done if your a geek, XP to play older games or games that require speed, and Vista for newer DirectX 10 games) but you need to spend tons more money on RAM, Graphics Cards, HD space. For me my humble 1.5 Ghz 512 MB laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 is good enough for me, it ran XP nicely back when I still had it too, however it struggles on most games, does that justify me spending an extra $500 on a new computer or $200 to lengthen the life of my current rig until games require a better graphics card or CPU (This is a laptop Im talking about here...) I see no need to go to PC gaming except to play a few rounds of Open Arena now and then.
Ok, if you are on a wired connection it probably is easier but if you are like me and must have wireless working out of the box to be able to download anything its not much help if drivers are available online.
For the 360/PS3 yes, not for the Wii. With the Wii you get a system for $250 (that's LESS then the price for the EEE PC) that you don't have to buy graphics/CPU/RAM/HD (well it takes an SD card but most have a few spare lying around) and don't have to worry about OSes (For example you don't have to take a speed downgrade to get Vista for Direct X 10 from XP and then you don't get Linux....) and so far the Wii has been the most successful. Console gaming isn't dead, PC gaming isn't dead, merging the two together is dead.
Isn't it really odd that the most console-like of all current gen consoles is the most wanted/profitable? The Wii is making a profit even with inferior hardware and less games. Where the PS3 is more or less a supercomputer, and the Xbox 360 is a decent-end PC, the Wii is a console, underpowered but still fun. Where the Xbox and PS3 can be found in almost every major retail store the Wii has constant shortages even with Nintendo making around $50 on them and Sony and MS is losing money on the PS3 and Xbox. I call that Consoles are here to stay, the hybrid PC/Console is going away.
Most do, but you still have to download the drivers put them on disk, then install them on XP, reboot a couple hundred times to have a working system as Windows install CDs give you almost no drivers by default comparatively to Linux where most everything is supported out-of-the-box.
So wait, Sony will still be putting crapware on your new computer, but you can send it back and wait another 6-8 weeks and you can have a non-crapified computer? How does that work!?!
Not really, have you ever tried installing Windows from a CD that wasn't OEM? It is an absolute pain, you thought Debian's text installer was bad or Gentoo's install took forever, this is worse. Not only do you have to track down every single last driver but the install itself takes ages. I haven't tried installing Vista and I don't expect it to be much better.
So wait, even if it isn't truly "legal" you think that it is morally wrong for me to make a copy of a disk that I legally bought and put it on my hard drive? Because what then did I buy? If it was the disk itself, it is just data, if it was the movie I have the right to transfer the movie from the disk to my computer.
1. It tells that Blu-Ray is already supported enough to buy a player now
2. It allows you to even if Blu-Ray ends up failing, you can rip your Blu-Ray movies to the new format (and don't expect media storage to be made as long as VHS and DVD did anymore...)
3. It will allow various third-party projects to soon take advantage of this (even if right now it only lets you make backups) and add Blu-Ray support to media players on OSes such as Linux.
Well time for me to go buy a blu-ray player now that I know that if it fails, I can back up my data onto my PC, play them on Linux and actually be able to use blu-ray.
Passports are even getting to be bad.... You now need them for every country you visit and the US government even with all of our hard earned money can't seem to get them out quickly.
Then please, give me facts that can prove that we are 100% responsible for climate change, that it would be negative, that it is not a pattern and that we can do something about it, otherwise, as I said, there is no point going 5 steps backwards to gain a -possible- step forwards.
Why is "tons of bandwidth" the critical resourc for taking down these botnets?
Denial of service attacks or similar. Seeing as they probably won't be able to either be legaly threatened enough or hacked into it disables them for a bit.
Chances are they are taking orders from the *AA. Only enforcing draconian laws like the DMCA and not doing any real work done, as most government agencies do, never stop the real criminals but stop the easy "crime" that everyone does.
Honestly, unless these people have TONS of bandwidth (or tons of Linux install CDs) there's no way they can take down these botnets. All these people are going to do is try to stop "piracy" because that's all they probably can do, it doesn't take a genius to think that other botnet-overlords have already tried to take down rival ones with theirs and obviously failed.
Do we really need more laws/people trying to "protect" us online? It has already been proven with laws like the DMCA that congress has no clue how the internet/modern technology works. And adding law enforcement is just an excuse to add more laws that do nothing but annoy us law abiding citizens. And also, if white hat hackers can't get the real criminals, there is no way that these "cyber cops" are going to be able too unless they say control a botnet. This just is more excuse to block "warez" and "piracy".
Conclusion: the ice is melting.
We knew that already.. we even have a good idea of the rate at which it is melting and how fucked we are going to be as a result. Now that we know this, can we please do something about it? Or are we just not ready for that yet? Another 20 years of study perhaps?
But we don't know really the root cause. Sure we are quick to point the blame at cars and factories but also farting cows are to blame perhaps even more then us. So really, we can prove that the ice is melting, what we can't prove is what is to blame. There is no point in going 5 steps backwards only to find out that it really wasn't anything we did.
So, I have a Gp2x where I can program it, so does that mean that I just have to have an AAC player on it and just download it? Because if so, I might just get iTunes (under Wine of course) and get it.
Seriously, why can't MS include drivers in the Vista install CD? Ubuntu which doesn't have the billions of dollars can usually detect more hardware then Vista and Im sure it will be the same way with Ubuntu 7.10 (which came out in October of 2007) will detect more hardware then Vista SP1 which came out now in March of 08. Now that says something if a community distro which is very restrictive of any proprietary software can detect more hardware then a company that employs way more programmers, has a long deadline in which to come up with an OS (Ubuntu has about 6 months from each "service pack" release) and yet still needs an OEM CD to detect most hardware.
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Wiis (I guess that is the plural of Wii...) are highly desirable because they are a console, so that results in inflated prices, I didn't see the same thing happen really with the 360 and PS3.
A smaller studio can easily develop a 4 player game for Xbox's game download service (Don't have an Xbox so don't know the name) or Wiiware (Nintendo's game download service) and have it be successful. They could also make a computer version of the game and make it be online that way.
Exactly. With a console you get around 4-5 years that you know it will be supported, new games will come out and on most you won't need to spend a penny more on your console itself. With a PC not only do you need to juggle 3 OSes (Linux to actually get anything done if your a geek, XP to play older games or games that require speed, and Vista for newer DirectX 10 games) but you need to spend tons more money on RAM, Graphics Cards, HD space. For me my humble 1.5 Ghz 512 MB laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 is good enough for me, it ran XP nicely back when I still had it too, however it struggles on most games, does that justify me spending an extra $500 on a new computer or $200 to lengthen the life of my current rig until games require a better graphics card or CPU (This is a laptop Im talking about here...) I see no need to go to PC gaming except to play a few rounds of Open Arena now and then.
Ok, if you are on a wired connection it probably is easier but if you are like me and must have wireless working out of the box to be able to download anything its not much help if drivers are available online.
For the 360/PS3 yes, not for the Wii. With the Wii you get a system for $250 (that's LESS then the price for the EEE PC) that you don't have to buy graphics/CPU/RAM/HD (well it takes an SD card but most have a few spare lying around) and don't have to worry about OSes (For example you don't have to take a speed downgrade to get Vista for Direct X 10 from XP and then you don't get Linux....) and so far the Wii has been the most successful. Console gaming isn't dead, PC gaming isn't dead, merging the two together is dead.
Isn't it really odd that the most console-like of all current gen consoles is the most wanted/profitable? The Wii is making a profit even with inferior hardware and less games. Where the PS3 is more or less a supercomputer, and the Xbox 360 is a decent-end PC, the Wii is a console, underpowered but still fun. Where the Xbox and PS3 can be found in almost every major retail store the Wii has constant shortages even with Nintendo making around $50 on them and Sony and MS is losing money on the PS3 and Xbox. I call that Consoles are here to stay, the hybrid PC/Console is going away.
Most do, but you still have to download the drivers put them on disk, then install them on XP, reboot a couple hundred times to have a working system as Windows install CDs give you almost no drivers by default comparatively to Linux where most everything is supported out-of-the-box.
So wait, Sony will still be putting crapware on your new computer, but you can send it back and wait another 6-8 weeks and you can have a non-crapified computer? How does that work!?!
If you have a large volume of identical PCs, it would be easier just to reimage the entire thing. Or create a script to do the same.
Not really, have you ever tried installing Windows from a CD that wasn't OEM? It is an absolute pain, you thought Debian's text installer was bad or Gentoo's install took forever, this is worse. Not only do you have to track down every single last driver but the install itself takes ages. I haven't tried installing Vista and I don't expect it to be much better.
So wait, even if it isn't truly "legal" you think that it is morally wrong for me to make a copy of a disk that I legally bought and put it on my hard drive? Because what then did I buy? If it was the disk itself, it is just data, if it was the movie I have the right to transfer the movie from the disk to my computer.
If they can patch it we can re/unpatch it. Once the VM ends up being cracked we can do whatever we like with it, like install Linux on it.
It however does a few things...
1. It tells that Blu-Ray is already supported enough to buy a player now
2. It allows you to even if Blu-Ray ends up failing, you can rip your Blu-Ray movies to the new format (and don't expect media storage to be made as long as VHS and DVD did anymore...)
3. It will allow various third-party projects to soon take advantage of this (even if right now it only lets you make backups) and add Blu-Ray support to media players on OSes such as Linux.
You must be new here, we on /. never RTFA
Well time for me to go buy a blu-ray player now that I know that if it fails, I can back up my data onto my PC, play them on Linux and actually be able to use blu-ray.
Passports are even getting to be bad.... You now need them for every country you visit and the US government even with all of our hard earned money can't seem to get them out quickly.
No, it should be Emacs/GNU/Linux/X/Xterm/Bash/Zsh/Ksh/Csh
Then please, give me facts that can prove that we are 100% responsible for climate change, that it would be negative, that it is not a pattern and that we can do something about it, otherwise, as I said, there is no point going 5 steps backwards to gain a -possible- step forwards.
Denial of service attacks or similar. Seeing as they probably won't be able to either be legaly threatened enough or hacked into it disables them for a bit.
Chances are they are taking orders from the *AA. Only enforcing draconian laws like the DMCA and not doing any real work done, as most government agencies do, never stop the real criminals but stop the easy "crime" that everyone does.
All the F/OSS projects already took them all.
Honestly, unless these people have TONS of bandwidth (or tons of Linux install CDs) there's no way they can take down these botnets. All these people are going to do is try to stop "piracy" because that's all they probably can do, it doesn't take a genius to think that other botnet-overlords have already tried to take down rival ones with theirs and obviously failed.
Do we really need more laws/people trying to "protect" us online? It has already been proven with laws like the DMCA that congress has no clue how the internet/modern technology works. And adding law enforcement is just an excuse to add more laws that do nothing but annoy us law abiding citizens. And also, if white hat hackers can't get the real criminals, there is no way that these "cyber cops" are going to be able too unless they say control a botnet. This just is more excuse to block "warez" and "piracy".
But we don't know really the root cause. Sure we are quick to point the blame at cars and factories but also farting cows are to blame perhaps even more then us. So really, we can prove that the ice is melting, what we can't prove is what is to blame. There is no point in going 5 steps backwards only to find out that it really wasn't anything we did.
So, I have a Gp2x where I can program it, so does that mean that I just have to have an AAC player on it and just download it? Because if so, I might just get iTunes (under Wine of course) and get it.
Seriously, why can't MS include drivers in the Vista install CD? Ubuntu which doesn't have the billions of dollars can usually detect more hardware then Vista and Im sure it will be the same way with Ubuntu 7.10 (which came out in October of 2007) will detect more hardware then Vista SP1 which came out now in March of 08. Now that says something if a community distro which is very restrictive of any proprietary software can detect more hardware then a company that employs way more programmers, has a long deadline in which to come up with an OS (Ubuntu has about 6 months from each "service pack" release) and yet still needs an OEM CD to detect most hardware.