It may be just me, but I find the net these days to be nothing more an an amorphous mass of bad links and legal bullsh1t.
Does anyone else remember a time when the net was for people who knew what they were doing, and not full of the average idiot who can barely figure out how to turn a PC on?
Why should this even be an issue in the first place? Hyperlinking is the very essence of the web -- companies putting up web sites should be aware of this. If they're not, and they're so without a clue that they'd sue over it, their sites should be taken down and their domain names relinquished; they have no business here.
I'm on the opinion that Microsoft should leave the console market to those companies who know what they're doing: Nintendo, Sony, and Sega. These three players have designed equipment specifically for console gaming, instead of adapting PC technology to it. Also, the X-Box's specs may LOOK pretty spiffy at first, but keep in mind what the Playstation 1 does with the hardware it has. Two megs of system RAM, single speed CD-ROM drive, processor power equivalent to that of a Palm device? In the console market, hardware specifications are not the most important thing. What counts is quality and optimization of game code. Given the amount of bloat and bugs involved in coding games for the PC, I can't see the X-Box being much better since it's based on the same technology.
Actually that cartridge idea is an excellent one indeed. It's not just that consumers can't handle VHS tapes well, have you seen a rental DVD disc lately? I've rented several, and they all look like someone cleaned them with a brillo pad or something.
Oh the technology and similar units have been around for a long time, how do you think they're stamping the ones you rent and buy? The idea here is that this is targetted at the consumer, hence the lower price than industrial units.
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Does anyone else remember a time when the net was for people who knew what they were doing, and not full of the average idiot who can barely figure out how to turn a PC on?
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Actually that cartridge idea is an excellent one indeed. It's not just that consumers can't handle VHS tapes well, have you seen a rental DVD disc lately? I've rented several, and they all look like someone cleaned them with a brillo pad or something.
Oh the technology and similar units have been around for a long time, how do you think they're stamping the ones you rent and buy? The idea here is that this is targetted at the consumer, hence the lower price than industrial units.
Wasn't Pioneer one of the original group of companies involved in creating the DVD standard in the first place?
At any rate, I'm hoping as well that Pioneer would adhere to some sort of standard for its recorder.
Are you talking about a rewritable DVD-ROM? Because this story is about a recordable DVD unit, for a home theater system.