Then why has Nintendo never had that problem. their consoles are NEVER sold at a loss. They are not stupid that way.
Just because sony is stupid and does this does not make it the norm for the entire industry. Also I cant believe that an Xbox360 is a loss leader now.. Plus they suck $70.00 a year out of people to enable online play.
The DVD argument is only in the United states and countries that bent over for the United states to force their laws on them. DVD playback is easily done in a Linux box, hell I'm ripping Blurays on my Linux laptop. It is a unjust and corrupt law that makes it illegal, it is not a technical problem and never has been one.
As for gaming on linux. Gaming on linux is fine, the problem is companies releasing linux games. There are NO technical limitations keeping gaming down in linux. In fact there are a ton of really good games made by indie artists for linux, but many gamers refuse to try anything that is not from EA or their favorite sweatshop.
I'll skip it until it's cracked and I can stuff all kinds of games on the MemoryStick. My PSP is rarely used except for a couple of the Homebrew games that can only be played via a cracked PSP. all the UMD disks I have sit unplayed.
48hour pong is actually quite a bit of fun when you are playing against random people online.
So Dragon Age, Fallout, and Mass Effect are complete failures and sold no copies?
Those two are "Graphic Adventure" in every sense of the word with added goodies like combat. It seems that the author refuses to look at what the graphic adventure has turned into.
You dont need an xbox to be on xbox live. go to the website make yourself an account. BOOM you are on xbox live. Pay to play? no. pay to play OTHERS, but a silver account is free, you have to pay $70.00 a year for gold so you can play others in games and use things like netflix,facebook,etc... It's a way to extort money out of xbox owners, most dont pay it.
I love this one.... "I don't know, it sounds like he cheated. " yeah a screen cap of a supposed tweet from a microsoft employee with ZERO details. I hope you never get on a jury as you seem to be easily manipulated.
Yup, that's why I never joined. Every single person at the Mensa meeting I went to were weird as hell. and being a Mensa member does not do anything at all for your career so why should I pay dues to a club that has zero value?
From my experience of being sucked into it by a friend for 1 year, Mensa has zero value for members other than nerd bragging rights. And a weak one at that.
It's that most magazines and ":news outlets" hire people that know absolutely nothing about what they speak of, yet are given print space and an air of authority so they sound like they know something.
In reality they don't. This is some dolt that has a Journalism degree and knows absolutely nothing at all about "techie stuff". Most 13 year olds would eat the man alive in a technology discussion.
Out-Educate... I agree. Our education system from grade 1 to 9th year College graduate is a utter joke compared to other countries. It needs to be overhauled hard and increase the quality AND accessibility. China kicks our ass hard because ANYONE can get a masters degree. In the USA you have to be rich or have good credit to get one.
Why any child graduates high school and not have the ability to do algebra, geometry, has basic computer skills and can speak and write in 2 languages is a disgrace. There is ZERO reason to have a summer break, our kids dont need to work the farm all summer to prepare for winter. YEAR long school is long overdue.
Yeah that reminded me why I dont pay attention to anything published by ZD or "tech republic" anymore. 0% content and 20% opinion that is designed to get ad clicks.
I personally know about 30 people that have automatic scripts on their MythTV boxes that automatically upload TV shows the second they are done recording and the commercials have been flagged and removed. So there has to be 40X more than who I know unless I am highly connected at the center of internet piracy.... Yarrrr!
Hey feds! Give me $1,000,000 USD tax free and I'll give up all the goods you need on these horrible evil people that are destroying humanity as we know it!
So then what do you do when you pass the heilopause and you no longer have a solar "wind"?
Honestly a redesign using ion engines of today would make a different craft. Plus it would allow the craft to not just speed on by in a ballistic trajectory, but even start breaking and enter a orbit that would allow the craft to stay and radio back info.
It can be electrically powered by Nuclear reactors, and as each one get's past it's 20 year lifespan you jettison it making the craft lighter. Ion engines already are producing impressive thrust for the age of the technology. An unmanned interstellar probe moving at 12% the speed of light, assuming it does not plow into something out there is a very feasible project and could gather scientific data the entire way. Although the Doppler effect on communications would be interesting. But research into really measuring time dilation could be done as well.
Sadly, we are far more interested in killing each other. It's more important to fund the war machine than the thinking machine.
the 4 cyl engine already in these vans can gain a LOT of efficiency by simply adding in a transmission that is properly designed. a 7 speed transmission that adapts to the driving conditions, would boost fuel economy numbers drastically.
have a "city mode" that runs through the first 4 gears skipping 1st to take advantage of gearing at lower speeds, 1st is only used when the vehicle is loaded down with your 7 family members that all weigh over 250-350 pounds. the top 3 gears are used for highway cruise. Or let's use a CVT transmission to even further boost economy? (Note I know how notorious Dodge transmissions are for failing)
Couple that with a smart torque converter with lockup to eliminate losses after it is up to speed as well as decent aerodynamics and you can easily make a Dodge caravan get 40mpg on the highway and 20+ in the city. Will it accelerate to 60mph in 1.2 seconds and do the 1/4 mile in 9.2? nope, IF you need that buy something else. 95% of all minivans are used to carry the 3.275 kids and all their crap around town or drag the family across the state on a weekend trip to grandma's. They can boost the fuel economy numbers drastically with current technology. They just find that it get's more press and attention from the tree huggers if they can slap the word "hybrid" on the thing.
Why is detroit stuck on trying to entice car buyers into being beta testers?
The PSP fails because most of the games SUCK. I own a PSP it sits idle. I know others that also own PSP's they sit idle as well.
The DS on the other hand get's played, heck my wife plays it a lot. yet the PSP1000 and the psp3000 I got for a deal both sit there unused because we cant find any games that I want to buy. THAT is why the PSP is dead, Sony releases only crap games.
AS for the PS3, they started the war, but the ps3 still was a distant 3rd in the consoles. I know more people that own a Xbox360 and a Wii than I know own a ps3. Why? the PS3 simply does not have the games to entice people to play it. PS3 motion controls suck compared to Microsoft version and this is from most gaming reviewers, I personally think it's nothing but a Mee-Too catchup to the Wii..
You think people will buy a PS3 when it get;s known that you will never be able to loan your games or sell them used? HALF of gamestop's business is used games.
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and almost NO PSP games.
Simply look at Gamestop, a wall for DS, a tiny 2 foot wide section for PSP.
PSP is a failure because there are no games for it, and what was released sucked bad.
I see you know nothing about which you speak.
DS is popular as hell with adults. unless you think "stop smoking coach", my cooking instructor, and the exercize and brain apps are all for kids...
Johny has been chain smoking cince he was 5, time to get him of Camel non filters.
Adults make up a huge chunk of the DS market.
Smart-phones will catch up in 6 months after it is released. Some of the things coming down the line from HTC will make it look like a outdated toy.
Really?
Then why has Nintendo never had that problem. their consoles are NEVER sold at a loss. They are not stupid that way.
Just because sony is stupid and does this does not make it the norm for the entire industry. Also I cant believe that an Xbox360 is a loss leader now.. Plus they suck $70.00 a year out of people to enable online play.
The DVD argument is only in the United states and countries that bent over for the United states to force their laws on them. DVD playback is easily done in a Linux box, hell I'm ripping Blurays on my Linux laptop. It is a unjust and corrupt law that makes it illegal, it is not a technical problem and never has been one.
As for gaming on linux. Gaming on linux is fine, the problem is companies releasing linux games. There are NO technical limitations keeping gaming down in linux. In fact there are a ton of really good games made by indie artists for linux, but many gamers refuse to try anything that is not from EA or their favorite sweatshop.
you did not understand what I was asking for.
I dont want ponys I want pony's. catch my drift?
http://garyfromoshkosh.blogspot.com/2006/02/huber-law-reflection.html
really, what part of it did you violate?
Free pony's and foot rubs would be a good start.
I'll skip it until it's cracked and I can stuff all kinds of games on the MemoryStick.
My PSP is rarely used except for a couple of the Homebrew games that can only be played via a cracked PSP. all the UMD disks I have sit unplayed.
48hour pong is actually quite a bit of fun when you are playing against random people online.
Godaddy.com
ALL of their hosting has telnet and open FTP you have to specially request SSH and SFTP.
So Dragon Age, Fallout, and Mass Effect are complete failures and sold no copies?
Those two are "Graphic Adventure" in every sense of the word with added goodies like combat. It seems that the author refuses to look at what the graphic adventure has turned into.
You dont need an xbox to be on xbox live. go to the website make yourself an account. BOOM you are on xbox live.
Pay to play? no. pay to play OTHERS, but a silver account is free, you have to pay $70.00 a year for gold so you can play others in games and use things like netflix,facebook,etc... It's a way to extort money out of xbox owners, most dont pay it.
I love this one.... "I don't know, it sounds like he cheated. " yeah a screen cap of a supposed tweet from a microsoft employee with ZERO details.
I hope you never get on a jury as you seem to be easily manipulated.
"antisocial Mensa member"
Yup, that's why I never joined. Every single person at the Mensa meeting I went to were weird as hell. and being a Mensa member does not do anything at all for your career so why should I pay dues to a club that has zero value?
From my experience of being sucked into it by a friend for 1 year, Mensa has zero value for members other than nerd bragging rights. And a weak one at that.
Yes there is.
It's that most magazines and ":news outlets" hire people that know absolutely nothing about what they speak of, yet are given print space and an air of authority so they sound like they know something.
In reality they don't. This is some dolt that has a Journalism degree and knows absolutely nothing at all about "techie stuff". Most 13 year olds would eat the man alive in a technology discussion.
More importantly where is the Crème fraiche!!!
Out-Educate... I agree. Our education system from grade 1 to 9th year College graduate is a utter joke compared to other countries. It needs to be overhauled hard and increase the quality AND accessibility. China kicks our ass hard because ANYONE can get a masters degree. In the USA you have to be rich or have good credit to get one.
Why any child graduates high school and not have the ability to do algebra, geometry, has basic computer skills and can speak and write in 2 languages is a disgrace. There is ZERO reason to have a summer break, our kids dont need to work the farm all summer to prepare for winter. YEAR long school is long overdue.
Yeah that reminded me why I dont pay attention to anything published by ZD or "tech republic" anymore. 0% content and 20% opinion that is designed to get ad clicks.
I personally know about 30 people that have automatic scripts on their MythTV boxes that automatically upload TV shows the second they are done recording and the commercials have been flagged and removed. So there has to be 40X more than who I know unless I am highly connected at the center of internet piracy.... Yarrrr!
Hey feds! Give me $1,000,000 USD tax free and I'll give up all the goods you need on these horrible evil people that are destroying humanity as we know it!
Yes I have a price. Everyone does.
Kudos to the person that "hacked" it. what a better way to highlight the security problems with facebook than to target the head cheese.
So then what do you do when you pass the heilopause and you no longer have a solar "wind"?
Honestly a redesign using ion engines of today would make a different craft. Plus it would allow the craft to not just speed on by in a ballistic trajectory, but even start breaking and enter a orbit that would allow the craft to stay and radio back info.
It can be electrically powered by Nuclear reactors, and as each one get's past it's 20 year lifespan you jettison it making the craft lighter. Ion engines already are producing impressive thrust for the age of the technology. An unmanned interstellar probe moving at 12% the speed of light, assuming it does not plow into something out there is a very feasible project and could gather scientific data the entire way. Although the Doppler effect on communications would be interesting. But research into really measuring time dilation could be done as well.
Sadly, we are far more interested in killing each other. It's more important to fund the war machine than the thinking machine.
Just ask people in europe how stable a 3 wheeled car (1 wheel in front setup) is...
the reliant robin is insanely stable and can take high speed turns easily.... F1 levels of stability!
http://www.flixxy.com/top-gear-car-review-reliant-robin.htm
Honestly? why try grand experiments like this?
the 4 cyl engine already in these vans can gain a LOT of efficiency by simply adding in a transmission that is properly designed. a 7 speed transmission that adapts to the driving conditions, would boost fuel economy numbers drastically.
have a "city mode" that runs through the first 4 gears skipping 1st to take advantage of gearing at lower speeds, 1st is only used when the vehicle is loaded down with your 7 family members that all weigh over 250-350 pounds. the top 3 gears are used for highway cruise. Or let's use a CVT transmission to even further boost economy? (Note I know how notorious Dodge transmissions are for failing)
Couple that with a smart torque converter with lockup to eliminate losses after it is up to speed as well as decent aerodynamics and you can easily make a Dodge caravan get 40mpg on the highway and 20+ in the city. Will it accelerate to 60mph in 1.2 seconds and do the 1/4 mile in 9.2? nope, IF you need that buy something else. 95% of all minivans are used to carry the 3.275 kids and all their crap around town or drag the family across the state on a weekend trip to grandma's. They can boost the fuel economy numbers drastically with current technology. They just find that it get's more press and attention from the tree huggers if they can slap the word "hybrid" on the thing.
Why is detroit stuck on trying to entice car buyers into being beta testers?
I game.
The PSP fails because most of the games SUCK. I own a PSP it sits idle. I know others that also own PSP's they sit idle as well.
The DS on the other hand get's played, heck my wife plays it a lot. yet the PSP1000 and the psp3000 I got for a deal both sit there unused because we cant find any games that I want to buy. THAT is why the PSP is dead, Sony releases only crap games.
AS for the PS3, they started the war, but the ps3 still was a distant 3rd in the consoles. I know more people that own a Xbox360 and a Wii than I know own a ps3. Why? the PS3 simply does not have the games to entice people to play it. PS3 motion controls suck compared to Microsoft version and this is from most gaming reviewers, I personally think it's nothing but a Mee-Too catchup to the Wii..
You think people will buy a PS3 when it get;s known that you will never be able to loan your games or sell them used? HALF of gamestop's business is used games.
That is the most accurate term for these people.... Idiots.
They are proof that higher education does not make you smart.
The ps3 platforms dies completely in 3.......2........1
This move will utterly kill the platform.
That is a very typical move of sony... Kill things they design with really stupid decisions from management.