You're an early adopter and the reality of this is that often, you get the shaft. I doubt you paid $300 and received a set in stone guarantee that your player would be able to player discs from now until eternity.
Of course, I'm not saying that isn't massively unfair, I'm just saying, thinking about it for a moment, early adopters often get the shaft (without legal ramifications). This doesn't appear to generally discourage companies beyond that of souring your retail choice, which of course means nothing to them (as you are a minority). Cutting it for you isn't their concern. You are a beta tester.
it may be that people just don't care about blu-ray the same way.. yet. I think if blu-ray ever catches on like DVD did, the story would be different.
You're absolutely right. Furthermore (and perhaps crucially), it would take a significant increase in at-home internet bandwidth / quotas for that to be any different. Can't see many of us throwing 30 gig down on one michael bay movie:-)
(Yes, ripping bluray->smaller formats still could be advantageous but I think it would be fair to say, few can be bothered with such tedium).
Nobody has yet brought out a game that takes full power of the PS3.
Not saying you're wrong, necessarily, but what you are claiming is completely within the realms of becoming an urban myth in years to come. There has been very little proof of this statement for years, now.
The Wii must be easy, because quite frankly, there is so much awful, exploitation software for it that it must be quite simple to mock up something that seems to maraud as possibly usable.
I agree with Sony's point of view here. I'm tired of the Wii being touted as great. I disagree. I think it is an ok console with a hand full of decent games, surrounded by a sea of mediocre software created on the cheap and quickly solely to exploit the userbase.
The team said they picked Super Mario Kart for the top spot because it is the best-selling racer on the SNES, the GameCube and the DS. Tetris, a good choice for number two, was selected because it is available on at least 50 different gaming platforms. And Grand Theft Auto holds the record for the most controversial series of games.
So basically they chose three completely different criteria for the top 3.
Just another watered down list with no care for cohesive conclusion.
Now if you could just post the link to the form where I can claim my full refund (for time not wasted incurred) I'll go back to being a loyal "customer".
Well, since you're still existing post head explosion, we can only assume you're in possession of some sort of super apocalyptic disease that will be the end of us all.
Consequently, we're going to have to nuke you from orbit (as this is the only way to be sure).
The people who wrote this paper don't give a shit whether this might induce false furore. All they care about is using pop culture science issue to get you to read their rhetoric.
You guess wrong. Do a little research. You'll find it perfectly possible to be running a 64 bit OS but for it to be a very lonely existence, there, in that OS with no drivers for your gear or 64 bit binaries for most of your software. Hence, the discussion (and the bit where the point goes whoooshing over your head).
Without those cries, nothing will get migrated. It's the way things have to be. Motivation to provide drivers will only come from people power and people power mostly only come en mass when they're forced into dealing with it.
I completely understand why Microsoft don't have the guts to do it, of course. It will cost them PROFIT.
Until the customer base moans to every manufacturer, there will be few 64 bit drivers produced. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a pure 64 bit windows. It means we should, so that we can move ahead.
Because Microsoft wants to keep moving ahead on older machinery too instead of continuing to support incrementally older technology on it. The stats coming out about Windows 7 make it appear to run leaner than Vista in some scenarios. If this is the case then it's worth Microsoft's while to allow it on older machines.
Except of course the fact that Microsoft are leading the way, not the manufacturers. Consequently, the reluctance to spearhead 64 bit migration means that basically we're floundering (and will continue to for many years).
A true shame for people like myself, who desperately need 64 bit migration to be higher in order to deal with the massive amount of ram that would be usable for audio work.
So you probably don't know about driver compatibility.
He knows, he just happens to realise that without a regimented effort, migration to 64 bit will drag out for probably at least another 5 years. Whereas if Microsoft took the initiative and led the way, we'd be there in no time.
>>People have been predicting it for decades, but the actual nuance of such an achievement is much more complex than most are able to comprehend
You haven't heard of Playstation Home? Second Life? Quake?
I used to work for a company that produced goggles for VR work (used mainly in the military as personal HUDs) and we produced some video games using them. It was fun, but in the consumer market people seemed to prefer just using a mouse to turn instead of having to snap one's head around to aim at an enemy sneaking up behind you in Quake. It's a mature technology (no hype needed, it works), but people just prefer the mouse, monitor, and keyboard approach to VR goggles and haptic gloves.
You are a bit south of my point. Your standards are realistic and not at all related to the hype surrounding virtual reality. The sheer fact you mention second life, quake or playstation home as matching the hype betrays the fact you weren't listening when the hype men were talking (not a bad thing).
When I talk about the hype, I mean all the people claiming that you would be experiencing, virtually, what we experience on a day to day basis. A photo-realistic experience close to that of regular life.
With a realistic viewpoint, I'm sure the technology is progressing fine. It isn't quite matching that of the perpetual hype machine surrounding it, though. No surprise there.
We're not in danger of "losing our memories" - we're just more acutely aware of that which does get forgotten, due to the increasing volume of documentation. We've never remembered more.
There were more than 150 websites relating to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that vanished instantly at the end of the games
That's hardly surprising, considering the fascist content restriction that was in action during / after the games. Good luck trying to get a replay of anything if it wasn't provided to you by your local television station the day it occurred. Any sites that were up during the games were nothing more than commentary and thus are largely irrelevant after the fact.
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I heard they all bailed out when they found out bluray doesn't run linux, linux runs bluray. Which, according to some sounds awfully soviet.
You're an early adopter and the reality of this is that often, you get the shaft. I doubt you paid $300 and received a set in stone guarantee that your player would be able to player discs from now until eternity.
Of course, I'm not saying that isn't massively unfair, I'm just saying, thinking about it for a moment, early adopters often get the shaft (without legal ramifications). This doesn't appear to generally discourage companies beyond that of souring your retail choice, which of course means nothing to them (as you are a minority). Cutting it for you isn't their concern. You are a beta tester.
it may be that people just don't care about blu-ray the same way.. yet. I think if blu-ray ever catches on like DVD did, the story would be different.
You're absolutely right. Furthermore (and perhaps crucially), it would take a significant increase in at-home internet bandwidth / quotas for that to be any different. Can't see many of us throwing 30 gig down on one michael bay movie :-)
(Yes, ripping bluray->smaller formats still could be advantageous but I think it would be fair to say, few can be bothered with such tedium).
Nuke the site from orbit. ... obviously.. :-)
You've obviously never been to a Nascar Theoretical Physics Society meeting - they've been dropping the hammer on science for decades.
Surely this research would be most applicable in very small scale scenarios?
Call me when they can run linux on sand.
(Edit: Please note phone is off, due to slashdotting)
About the same time this buddy of mine, Eugene Victor Tooms went missing.
Nobody has yet brought out a game that takes full power of the PS3.
Not saying you're wrong, necessarily, but what you are claiming is completely within the realms of becoming an urban myth in years to come. There has been very little proof of this statement for years, now.
The Wii must be easy, because quite frankly, there is so much awful, exploitation software for it that it must be quite simple to mock up something that seems to maraud as possibly usable.
I agree with Sony's point of view here. I'm tired of the Wii being touted as great. I disagree. I think it is an ok console with a hand full of decent games, surrounded by a sea of mediocre software created on the cheap and quickly solely to exploit the userbase.
The team said they picked Super Mario Kart for the top spot because it is the best-selling racer on the SNES, the GameCube and the DS. Tetris, a good choice for number two, was selected because it is available on at least 50 different gaming platforms. And Grand Theft Auto holds the record for the most controversial series of games.
So basically they chose three completely different criteria for the top 3.
Just another watered down list with no care for cohesive conclusion.
That's because it's CORRECT. There's no such thing as 'absolute time'.
1054AD _was_ the time of birth of the Crab Nebula from _our_ point of view.
Point of view is contentious, after all, our point of view should take into account the knowledge of the time taken for the photons to reach us.
Seems strange to have modded the parent down to troll - considering the validity of the point being made.
Now if you could just post the link to the form where I can claim my full refund (for time not wasted incurred) I'll go back to being a loyal "customer".
Absolutely.
Though, it is common courtesy to inform a hitchhiker of your nefarious plan to sodomise them, prior to entering into an agreement.
This is generally discouraged in the "Little Book of Highway Rape" handbook, though.
Well, since you're still existing post head explosion, we can only assume you're in possession of some sort of super apocalyptic disease that will be the end of us all.
Consequently, we're going to have to nuke you from orbit (as this is the only way to be sure).
What other group of people use the technique of massively affecting innocent people's lives in order to fuel their (mostly unrelated) cause?
Is called "Torrentbox" (On account of terrestrial rain periods).
The people who wrote this paper don't give a shit whether this might induce false furore. All they care about is using pop culture science issue to get you to read their rhetoric.
You guess wrong. Do a little research. You'll find it perfectly possible to be running a 64 bit OS but for it to be a very lonely existence, there, in that OS with no drivers for your gear or 64 bit binaries for most of your software. Hence, the discussion (and the bit where the point goes whoooshing over your head).
Without those cries, nothing will get migrated. It's the way things have to be. Motivation to provide drivers will only come from people power and people power mostly only come en mass when they're forced into dealing with it.
I completely understand why Microsoft don't have the guts to do it, of course. It will cost them PROFIT.
Until the customer base moans to every manufacturer, there will be few 64 bit drivers produced. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a pure 64 bit windows. It means we should, so that we can move ahead.
Why Win7 is not purely 64 bit is beyond me
Because Microsoft wants to keep moving ahead on older machinery too instead of continuing to support incrementally older technology on it. The stats coming out about Windows 7 make it appear to run leaner than Vista in some scenarios. If this is the case then it's worth Microsoft's while to allow it on older machines.
Except of course the fact that Microsoft are leading the way, not the manufacturers. Consequently, the reluctance to spearhead 64 bit migration means that basically we're floundering (and will continue to for many years).
A true shame for people like myself, who desperately need 64 bit migration to be higher in order to deal with the massive amount of ram that would be usable for audio work.
Why Win7 is not purely 64 bit is beyond me
So you probably don't know about driver compatibility.
He knows, he just happens to realise that without a regimented effort, migration to 64 bit will drag out for probably at least another 5 years. Whereas if Microsoft took the initiative and led the way, we'd be there in no time.
>>People have been predicting it for decades, but the actual nuance of such an achievement is much more complex than most are able to comprehend
You haven't heard of Playstation Home? Second Life? Quake?
I used to work for a company that produced goggles for VR work (used mainly in the military as personal HUDs) and we produced some video games using them. It was fun, but in the consumer market people seemed to prefer just using a mouse to turn instead of having to snap one's head around to aim at an enemy sneaking up behind you in Quake. It's a mature technology (no hype needed, it works), but people just prefer the mouse, monitor, and keyboard approach to VR goggles and haptic gloves.
You are a bit south of my point. Your standards are realistic and not at all related to the hype surrounding virtual reality. The sheer fact you mention second life, quake or playstation home as matching the hype betrays the fact you weren't listening when the hype men were talking (not a bad thing).
When I talk about the hype, I mean all the people claiming that you would be experiencing, virtually, what we experience on a day to day basis. A photo-realistic experience close to that of regular life.
With a realistic viewpoint, I'm sure the technology is progressing fine. It isn't quite matching that of the perpetual hype machine surrounding it, though. No surprise there.
There were more than 150 websites relating to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that vanished instantly at the end of the games
That's hardly surprising, considering the fascist content restriction that was in action during / after the games. Good luck trying to get a replay of anything if it wasn't provided to you by your local television station the day it occurred. Any sites that were up during the games were nothing more than commentary and thus are largely irrelevant after the fact.