Sony didn't do the zip drive and while the mini disc never caught on for selling pre-recorded media it definitely worked as a recording medium. It sure as hell was infinitely better than portable CD players but everyone invested in CDs and did not want to re-buy their music. Minidisc has been around for ages. It was only in the end of 2011 they'll stop selling mini disc walkmans so that's nearly 20 years for the media's walkman by one company for a format that had no pre-recorded media.
I'm not stupid enough to limit my options. Sony by in large has done good things. Just because they've made a few fuck ups doesn't mean I'm going to purposely pay more for a TV. My Sony CD player still works as new over 20 years later. This new particular format is interesting. Their mini disc format was exceptional too. It didn't really catch on but that doesn't mean it wasn't exceptional and again, my Sony MD players are still like new and I even pulled out my walkman last year to see if it works and it does.
Life as an angry butt-hurt nerd must suck when you have so many things you can't buy.
So you thought not to mention you meant the floppy format that died first and not the one that the vast majority have been using for decades? That makes sense.
Same reason their customer support is shit and your only point of contact really is a dumb messaging board service. Google, imo, isn't that bothered about looking after people.
They seem to have the idea they own your data and will do whatever they want with it. It's not worth my time storing my data in a country that aspires to be Nazi Germany.
Also Australia is about as far as you can get away from the US who is stupid enough to think they would want to pile on a load of latency on their transfer as well as risking the US government taking their data?
Between having the most extreme pay-wall on consoles, bullying Android manufacturers into coughing up cash and other things, I'd say they still deserve. Going from eating ten babies a day to one doesn't exactly make you a good person.
That's a load of shit. Anytime something negative happens that involves Apple, no matter how small their involvement is then their name is in the headlines.
When was the last time anyone complained about the xbox 360 being made in the evil Foxconn factory? Or actually parts for most every computing device on this planet? Compare how the 4S signal issue was handled to Nokia's all out busted Windows phones. It's so bad Nokia is giving away the phone for free.
Apple and Google are indeed big corporations too but the idea that MS is getting bullied or treated unfairly is a load of rubbish. I would argue no one really talks about them because their name, unlike Apple's, does not get the hits coming in to websites.
I think ChromeOS is probably DOA but I much rather companies try new things with their money rather than just do the safe non-innovative thing and all the money just goes to management bonuses.
I also find most people who throw around the phrase NIH probably can't program their way out of a wet paper bag.
I doubt that's true. From what I read on the register the problems are around chemical holdings and LCD screens and basically anything that's not the PS3 or has DRM. The PS3 is doing well and despite the year lead the 360 had it's caught right up to it. So the supposed war against their customers must be going well.
Of course they do but I suspect it's much smaller seeing how they're having someone else actually make the phone for them. That and even if the Nexus gave them a huge profit that one Android phone out of hundreds and I don't believe it's ever been the most popular one.
Even if it did, keep in mind Apple has an advertising method (iAd) for iphone apps too.
Apple is much more involved in the whole process of creating an iphone. They do the OS, the hardware, etc. So naturally they should make more than a company that creates the OS with the help of others and then lets manufacturers take all the risk.
Online services aren't going away completely and in fact I'd say some companies want them to comeback. Microsoft is one of them. A child can easily grow up these days with the xbox being his interface to the net and unfortunately he'll only get a very filtered view of the world.
You picked a bad example. That will probably be a good remake and given that it's aim appears to be to follow the book closer then arguably it's not a straight remake either.
You must not be a console gamer. They didn't cook it up and it's already sort of in place right now on the xbox and ps3. Some publishers basically put a CD key in with the game and if you try to register it with a second account (or don't have it) then you'll be asked to pony up some cash from the publisher.
Why do you think everyone is moving to digital distribution. It's so they can take more freedoms away from you in exchange for the one benefit of being able to have it as fast as your broadband will allow you.
Many people may not but there are people that speak that way. It's certainly better than people who sound mentally retarded and do things like pronounce something as somefink.
Fantasy titles are usually set in medieval times so a British accent at least makes more sense than an American one which wouldn't even make sense.
If you really want American accents for everything then play video games and experience the world as it would be if there were zero variety. US gamers appear to be the most intolerant towards other cultures. Not surprising given how much hate gets spewed over XBL.
It's JS and html. How can it be dependant on a specific version of Firefox unless it's coded exceptionally poorly? Why doesn't chrome's fast versioning cause problems? This submissions is shit.
Gawker sites weren't worth anything before. I'm sure Nick is right and his site's have comments without intelligence but if the website has no intelligence then how would you expect to find intelligence in the comments?
As is any code, like JavaScript, that your run. There is a proof of concept going around which shows you can eat up all of someone's local storage without them knowing it.
And given that everyone else implements WebGL, have there been any big security issues regarding it? Given that you can target roughly half the internet given IE's shrinking share then surely it's an acceptable path for exploitation now and why do you think that a direct-x implementation would be safer?
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Sony didn't do the zip drive and while the mini disc never caught on for selling pre-recorded media it definitely worked as a recording medium. It sure as hell was infinitely better than portable CD players but everyone invested in CDs and did not want to re-buy their music. Minidisc has been around for ages. It was only in the end of 2011 they'll stop selling mini disc walkmans so that's nearly 20 years for the media's walkman by one company for a format that had no pre-recorded media.
I'd say that's pretty successful imo.
I'm not stupid enough to limit my options. Sony by in large has done good things. Just because they've made a few fuck ups doesn't mean I'm going to purposely pay more for a TV. My Sony CD player still works as new over 20 years later. This new particular format is interesting. Their mini disc format was exceptional too. It didn't really catch on but that doesn't mean it wasn't exceptional and again, my Sony MD players are still like new and I even pulled out my walkman last year to see if it works and it does.
Life as an angry butt-hurt nerd must suck when you have so many things you can't buy.
So you thought not to mention you meant the floppy format that died first and not the one that the vast majority have been using for decades? That makes sense.
Your life must suck being so angry at stupid shit.
Sorry but that's a stupid idea. You don't have to hunt through files anyway if you have a decent IDE.
Same reason their customer support is shit and your only point of contact really is a dumb messaging board service. Google, imo, isn't that bothered about looking after people.
Yeah and I can't understand why people get all upset over Hitler. After all Stalin killed people too!
They seem to have the idea they own your data and will do whatever they want with it. It's not worth my time storing my data in a country that aspires to be Nazi Germany.
Also Australia is about as far as you can get away from the US who is stupid enough to think they would want to pile on a load of latency on their transfer as well as risking the US government taking their data?
Between having the most extreme pay-wall on consoles, bullying Android manufacturers into coughing up cash and other things, I'd say they still deserve. Going from eating ten babies a day to one doesn't exactly make you a good person.
That's a load of shit. Anytime something negative happens that involves Apple, no matter how small their involvement is then their name is in the headlines.
When was the last time anyone complained about the xbox 360 being made in the evil Foxconn factory? Or actually parts for most every computing device on this planet? Compare how the 4S signal issue was handled to Nokia's all out busted Windows phones. It's so bad Nokia is giving away the phone for free.
Apple and Google are indeed big corporations too but the idea that MS is getting bullied or treated unfairly is a load of rubbish. I would argue no one really talks about them because their name, unlike Apple's, does not get the hits coming in to websites.
I think ChromeOS is probably DOA but I much rather companies try new things with their money rather than just do the safe non-innovative thing and all the money just goes to management bonuses.
I also find most people who throw around the phrase NIH probably can't program their way out of a wet paper bag.
I doubt that's true. From what I read on the register the problems are around chemical holdings and LCD screens and basically anything that's not the PS3 or has DRM. The PS3 is doing well and despite the year lead the 360 had it's caught right up to it. So the supposed war against their customers must be going well.
Of course they do but I suspect it's much smaller seeing how they're having someone else actually make the phone for them. That and even if the Nexus gave them a huge profit that one Android phone out of hundreds and I don't believe it's ever been the most popular one.
Even if it did, keep in mind Apple has an advertising method (iAd) for iphone apps too.
Apple is much more involved in the whole process of creating an iphone. They do the OS, the hardware, etc. So naturally they should make more than a company that creates the OS with the help of others and then lets manufacturers take all the risk.
Don't wait, it won't be that long until this method of funding is abused, people quit helping and it's ruined for everyone.
Online services aren't going away completely and in fact I'd say some companies want them to comeback. Microsoft is one of them. A child can easily grow up these days with the xbox being his interface to the net and unfortunately he'll only get a very filtered view of the world.
You picked a bad example. That will probably be a good remake and given that it's aim appears to be to follow the book closer then arguably it's not a straight remake either.
You must not be a console gamer. They didn't cook it up and it's already sort of in place right now on the xbox and ps3. Some publishers basically put a CD key in with the game and if you try to register it with a second account (or don't have it) then you'll be asked to pony up some cash from the publisher.
Why do you think everyone is moving to digital distribution. It's so they can take more freedoms away from you in exchange for the one benefit of being able to have it as fast as your broadband will allow you.
That depends entirely on the accent. There are many with accents that make you want to stab them in the face.
Many people may not but there are people that speak that way. It's certainly better than people who sound mentally retarded and do things like pronounce something as somefink.
Fantasy titles are usually set in medieval times so a British accent at least makes more sense than an American one which wouldn't even make sense.
If you really want American accents for everything then play video games and experience the world as it would be if there were zero variety. US gamers appear to be the most intolerant towards other cultures. Not surprising given how much hate gets spewed over XBL.
It's JS and html. How can it be dependant on a specific version of Firefox unless it's coded exceptionally poorly? Why doesn't chrome's fast versioning cause problems? This submissions is shit.
Gawker sites weren't worth anything before. I'm sure Nick is right and his site's have comments without intelligence but if the website has no intelligence then how would you expect to find intelligence in the comments?
As is any code, like JavaScript, that your run. There is a proof of concept going around which shows you can eat up all of someone's local storage without them knowing it.
And given that everyone else implements WebGL, have there been any big security issues regarding it? Given that you can target roughly half the internet given IE's shrinking share then surely it's an acceptable path for exploitation now and why do you think that a direct-x implementation would be safer?