Yes, but this proves that Viacom needs to upload things on YouTube with ads on them. Because say you get $.01 per each view. That's a whole lot of money Viacom lost because they were being idiots and not using the internet. If that is what Viacom was doing all this is doing is proving that they are indeed dying.
...and all of you who already have a PS3 specifically because you wanted it for FFXII someday, please slap yourself. Especially if you bought your PS3 more than a year ago for a game that would happen "someday".
I know a lot of people who bought a Wii just for Super Smash Bros Brawl, some others bought it just for Wii sports. A lot of people bought a 360 for Halo too. The difference is, Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/Metroid are all going to be 100% only on Nintendo. And Halo seems to be only on the Xbox and Windows. The PS3 has... Metal Gear Solid? And even that is a third-party title. The PS3 has just about 0 first-party titles that are worth getting. The Wii is only surviving on first-party titles and the 360 has Halo which is close to if not a first-party title.
For a time you could on the 360, and on the original Xbox Linux also works. And given that they are hacks, 3-D acceleration might actually work, unlike on the PS3.
Microsoft
Sony wasn't friendly to us either (remember the rootkit?) Plus, if you only buy used games, don't pay for Xbox live, and buy a used system 0% of that $$$ goes to MS.
But that's how it will be interpreted. It doesn't matter anymore on what a court case means, but rather what it says. The USA has had a long history of interpreting various court rulings different ways to prosecute/defend and to push an agenda.
Or it could be that whenever you play the game you load at least part of it into RAM. And if you want a super-fast gaming rig, you use RAM as HD space, loading WoW fully onto there would give you a massive speed boost.
The problem with this, is the game isn't 100% loaded into RAM (as far as I know) meaning that only part of it is. This could have a much larger impact by calling this small piece of the game the game itself, perhaps leading to smaller sample times of songs, etc.
They went to some trouble to make the text still really be there; the images are all loaded by the stylesheet to replace the text. So it's not quite as bad as, say, a typical flash site. But it's still really stupid, and in an unnecessary way. Imagine they had not done this image stuff: the website would be just as good, except also better, with no downside. .
Except you know that the fonts are rendered 100% perfectly.
How is that broken? Loads of sites use that rather then using text. And honestly, anyone who isn't using Lynx can see the images just fine. I fail to see how using images suddenly breaks a website.
Or, it can be used to strip things down to the bare minimum to decrease vulnerabilities. For example, is a server powerful enough to run X? Yes, but using X adds more problems and security holes. Same thing with this.
We still do have competition. UPS, FedEx, etc. The government just supplies a cheap alternative that people elect to use.
I was asked to pay for some postage from the person who sent it to me and this wasn't from the person who sent this to me, but from the post office itself! So, no it isn't just a cheap alternative to UPS/Fed Ex it uses unfair business practices if it wasn't by the government to secure a virtual monopoly.
Like.42 USD postage? I highly doubt if anyone but the government ran our postal system we'd see anything but higher rates.
But we would have competition. And speedy service. And plus, with really expensive postage, people wouldn't make you mail much stuff anymore, and that is a plus.
and why should the major networks bother with it when they can just as easily start their own site.
Because, when I, or just about anyone else wants to watch something online, they don't Google it, they just search for it on YouTube. I'm not going to go to *insert random site here* for all my videos for *insert show here* because it isn't convenient. And most people would agree with me.
There aren't any potential problems with that solution are there?
Except if you want them to arrive on time, have friendly support, sort through them getting lost in the mail and the rest of the joys that our government has imposed on us.
Dunno what games you're playing, but almost every one that I play on a regular basis -requires- the nunchuck.
Actually, none of my games require the nunchuck, aside from Wii Sports. I have Brawl, it can use the nunchuck, but not required. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, that doesn't use the nunchuk, Super Paper Mario which doesn't use the nunchuck. Along with Defend Your Castle and Final Fantasy: My Life As A King for Wii-Ware that doesn't use the nunchuk. Along with all my Virtual Console games that don't use the nunchuck
Yes, there are a lot of games that use the nunchuck, but so far in my library of games (which, granted, I try to avoid games that use motion control) none really need it.
... yeah. Yeah, that guy in IT that even the other guys in IT think is weird who wants to obsessively tune and customize his system, that's the guy who's making the decision on what to deploy.
No, not so much. Not in any company I've ever seen.
I see you have never had a boss who wanted to take out all the "time wasters", leaving you with a minimal system, who wanted all the games, paint, and other things out of a Windows system. Many bosses are like that.
I've done work at a lot of huge corporations. Number of them doing web work and not using specifically Office: Zero.
I know, I know. "But Open Office does all the stuff they care about!" Well, either it doesn't, or they're not buying it yet. Less wishful thinking, por favor.
But this is now and Windows 7 won't be released until 2010 or later (yah, yah, MS probably says it will be out in late 2009 or something, but we all know that isn't going to happen), and with the downward trend of Office (businesses are hesitant to upgrade to Office 2007) combined with the speed of open source development, and the speed of the web, might make OOo be preferred to Office in the near future.
Right now businesses might not be doing everything with open source applications, but Windows 7 isn't out yet, and won't be out for quite some time. Things can change.
It is a legitimate argument, because your grandmother could very well end up buying Game X which needs it but she doesn't have it and the game doesn't run.
And this sort of thing doesn't happen for other consoles? And how is this different then various controllers. For example, to play Gamecube games you need a Gamecube controller, to play some Wii games you need a Nunchuk and to play some Virtual Console games you need a Classic Controller. It really isn't that hard, it really is no more hard then getting a DDR pad to play DDR, or a guitar to play Guitar Hero or even a memory card to save your game.
You will NEED to buy it to keep your Wii usable. It will be much like the RAM add on for the N64.
The N64 add on wasn't needed for most games. Only DK 64 (which included it) and Majora's Mask needed it, and 2 more needed it for some major features, and the others just made it look slightly better.
But I think that this is more like all the many extra controllers available for the Wii, such as the Classic Controller and Nunchuk, nice to have, but not really needed.
The homebrew people, they will need to find another exploit.
And honestly, that would be a small inconvenience. These buffer overflows are probobly found in just about every Wii game, however, at that time just about everyone had Zelda, so it was an ideal game to work with.
And it would be nearly impossible to upgrade Zelda in the way mentioned without making new disks. First off the patch alone would eat up a large portion of the Wii's pathetic 512 MB memory, and I don't even know if the disk can access the OS enough to use the patch.
Have you checked the sensitivity settings for the Wii? That seems to do what you want it to do. But yes, the Wii isn't good for close-to-the-TV gaming.
Same. But you have to admit that there are a lot of other games that don't use the motion controls and are great games. For example Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes to mind.
I'm pretty sure they're willing to let the 0.01% of people who care about this sort of thing, slide.
Yah, too bad that 0.01% of the people are the ones that are making the decision to either deploy Windows or to switch to Linux/Mac. Think about it this way, huge corporation A is looking at buying 1,000 new workstations, they have all the apps they need on any platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) because they are web based but most of the employees are used to Windows. They also don't want to spend much money on these 1,000 computers and want something minimal to just access the web apps. So if they can get a $300 computer that works the same with Linux and Windows 7, because the employees are more familiar with Windows they may choose Windows and get a small price increase because it is as customizable as Linux. Otherwise MS can kiss the 1,000 licenses they may get from it goodbye.
You can customize an install. Obviously, you cannot customize a kernel, that's pretty much what defines an OS. But you can install your own shells if you so please. Oh, they may not be easy to find, but they are out there. And I chose not to install many components the last time I installed windows. Saved some space and annoyance.
Yes, but you can't customize any existing Windows install to the amount I can for Linux. For example, my router runs Linux, it is rather minimal, my desktop runs Linux too, as does my laptop, and so does a supercomputer that takes up an entire room. Windows isn't that versatile. And for customizing the kernel I was referring to an easy way to chose what moduals (or whatever the Windows equivalent are) that get loaded on boot and such.
The difference is, with Apple, Jobs can tell all the fanboys to buy any hardware and they will. With MS it is different. For one, I don't even own a external HD, I back up my key files, but really that only leaves me with ~1 GB of space used up on a 2 Gig flash drive. There is no need to backup my entire HD really, and if I'm using Linux its quite easy to reinstall (I can get an install of Ubuntu up in ~30 minutes and it takes me about an hour to customize it to my liking whereas XP took me about ~3 hours to install and a good weekend to finish installing all the software and customizing).
But MS is moving that way with IE 8. The thing though is, they are like Apple and are only opening up to standards because they are losing marketshare and their name has been tarnished. Once they are back on top again, you will see more EEE, and I don't mean the miniature laptop.
Perhaps we should look at the reason why we switched to Macs or to Linux. Lack of innovation and high prices. If MS can make a secure product, that is innovative, and affordable, I might buy it, or at least not wipe my OEM install of it. The fact though is, I don't think that MS can innovate, which is really sad.
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Yes, but this proves that Viacom needs to upload things on YouTube with ads on them. Because say you get $.01 per each view. That's a whole lot of money Viacom lost because they were being idiots and not using the internet. If that is what Viacom was doing all this is doing is proving that they are indeed dying.
I know a lot of people who bought a Wii just for Super Smash Bros Brawl, some others bought it just for Wii sports. A lot of people bought a 360 for Halo too. The difference is, Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/Metroid are all going to be 100% only on Nintendo. And Halo seems to be only on the Xbox and Windows. The PS3 has... Metal Gear Solid? And even that is a third-party title. The PS3 has just about 0 first-party titles that are worth getting. The Wii is only surviving on first-party titles and the 360 has Halo which is close to if not a first-party title.
You can run linux on it
For a time you could on the 360, and on the original Xbox Linux also works. And given that they are hacks, 3-D acceleration might actually work, unlike on the PS3.
Microsoft
Sony wasn't friendly to us either (remember the rootkit?) Plus, if you only buy used games, don't pay for Xbox live, and buy a used system 0% of that $$$ goes to MS.
But that's how it will be interpreted. It doesn't matter anymore on what a court case means, but rather what it says. The USA has had a long history of interpreting various court rulings different ways to prosecute/defend and to push an agenda.
Or it could be that whenever you play the game you load at least part of it into RAM. And if you want a super-fast gaming rig, you use RAM as HD space, loading WoW fully onto there would give you a massive speed boost.
The problem with this, is the game isn't 100% loaded into RAM (as far as I know) meaning that only part of it is. This could have a much larger impact by calling this small piece of the game the game itself, perhaps leading to smaller sample times of songs, etc.
They went to some trouble to make the text still really be there; the images are all loaded by the stylesheet to replace the text. So it's not quite as bad as, say, a typical flash site. But it's still really stupid, and in an unnecessary way. Imagine they had not done this image stuff: the website would be just as good, except also better, with no downside. .
Except you know that the fonts are rendered 100% perfectly.
How is that broken? Loads of sites use that rather then using text. And honestly, anyone who isn't using Lynx can see the images just fine. I fail to see how using images suddenly breaks a website.
Or, it can be used to strip things down to the bare minimum to decrease vulnerabilities. For example, is a server powerful enough to run X? Yes, but using X adds more problems and security holes. Same thing with this.
We still do have competition. UPS, FedEx, etc. The government just supplies a cheap alternative that people elect to use.
I was asked to pay for some postage from the person who sent it to me and this wasn't from the person who sent this to me, but from the post office itself! So, no it isn't just a cheap alternative to UPS/Fed Ex it uses unfair business practices if it wasn't by the government to secure a virtual monopoly.
Like .42 USD postage? I highly doubt if anyone but the government ran our postal system we'd see anything but higher rates.
But we would have competition. And speedy service. And plus, with really expensive postage, people wouldn't make you mail much stuff anymore, and that is a plus.
and why should the major networks bother with it when they can just as easily start their own site.
Because, when I, or just about anyone else wants to watch something online, they don't Google it, they just search for it on YouTube. I'm not going to go to *insert random site here* for all my videos for *insert show here* because it isn't convenient. And most people would agree with me.
There aren't any potential problems with that solution are there?
Except if you want them to arrive on time, have friendly support, sort through them getting lost in the mail and the rest of the joys that our government has imposed on us.
Dunno what games you're playing, but almost every one that I play on a regular basis -requires- the nunchuck.
Actually, none of my games require the nunchuck, aside from Wii Sports. I have Brawl, it can use the nunchuck, but not required. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, that doesn't use the nunchuk, Super Paper Mario which doesn't use the nunchuck. Along with Defend Your Castle and Final Fantasy: My Life As A King for Wii-Ware that doesn't use the nunchuk. Along with all my Virtual Console games that don't use the nunchuck
Yes, there are a lot of games that use the nunchuck, but so far in my library of games (which, granted, I try to avoid games that use motion control) none really need it.
I see you have never had a boss who wanted to take out all the "time wasters", leaving you with a minimal system, who wanted all the games, paint, and other things out of a Windows system. Many bosses are like that.
I've done work at a lot of huge corporations. Number of them doing web work and not using specifically Office: Zero. I know, I know. "But Open Office does all the stuff they care about!" Well, either it doesn't, or they're not buying it yet. Less wishful thinking, por favor.
But this is now and Windows 7 won't be released until 2010 or later (yah, yah, MS probably says it will be out in late 2009 or something, but we all know that isn't going to happen), and with the downward trend of Office (businesses are hesitant to upgrade to Office 2007) combined with the speed of open source development, and the speed of the web, might make OOo be preferred to Office in the near future.
Right now businesses might not be doing everything with open source applications, but Windows 7 isn't out yet, and won't be out for quite some time. Things can change.
It is a legitimate argument, because your grandmother could very well end up buying Game X which needs it but she doesn't have it and the game doesn't run.
And this sort of thing doesn't happen for other consoles? And how is this different then various controllers. For example, to play Gamecube games you need a Gamecube controller, to play some Wii games you need a Nunchuk and to play some Virtual Console games you need a Classic Controller. It really isn't that hard, it really is no more hard then getting a DDR pad to play DDR, or a guitar to play Guitar Hero or even a memory card to save your game.
You will NEED to buy it to keep your Wii usable. It will be much like the RAM add on for the N64.
The N64 add on wasn't needed for most games. Only DK 64 (which included it) and Majora's Mask needed it, and 2 more needed it for some major features, and the others just made it look slightly better.
But I think that this is more like all the many extra controllers available for the Wii, such as the Classic Controller and Nunchuk, nice to have, but not really needed.
The homebrew people, they will need to find another exploit.
And honestly, that would be a small inconvenience. These buffer overflows are probobly found in just about every Wii game, however, at that time just about everyone had Zelda, so it was an ideal game to work with.
And it would be nearly impossible to upgrade Zelda in the way mentioned without making new disks. First off the patch alone would eat up a large portion of the Wii's pathetic 512 MB memory, and I don't even know if the disk can access the OS enough to use the patch.
Have you checked the sensitivity settings for the Wii? That seems to do what you want it to do. But yes, the Wii isn't good for close-to-the-TV gaming.
Same. But you have to admit that there are a lot of other games that don't use the motion controls and are great games. For example Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes to mind.
I'm pretty sure they're willing to let the 0.01% of people who care about this sort of thing, slide.
Yah, too bad that 0.01% of the people are the ones that are making the decision to either deploy Windows or to switch to Linux/Mac. Think about it this way, huge corporation A is looking at buying 1,000 new workstations, they have all the apps they need on any platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) because they are web based but most of the employees are used to Windows. They also don't want to spend much money on these 1,000 computers and want something minimal to just access the web apps. So if they can get a $300 computer that works the same with Linux and Windows 7, because the employees are more familiar with Windows they may choose Windows and get a small price increase because it is as customizable as Linux. Otherwise MS can kiss the 1,000 licenses they may get from it goodbye.
You can customize an install. Obviously, you cannot customize a kernel, that's pretty much what defines an OS. But you can install your own shells if you so please. Oh, they may not be easy to find, but they are out there. And I chose not to install many components the last time I installed windows. Saved some space and annoyance.
Yes, but you can't customize any existing Windows install to the amount I can for Linux. For example, my router runs Linux, it is rather minimal, my desktop runs Linux too, as does my laptop, and so does a supercomputer that takes up an entire room. Windows isn't that versatile. And for customizing the kernel I was referring to an easy way to chose what moduals (or whatever the Windows equivalent are) that get loaded on boot and such.
The difference is, with Apple, Jobs can tell all the fanboys to buy any hardware and they will. With MS it is different. For one, I don't even own a external HD, I back up my key files, but really that only leaves me with ~1 GB of space used up on a 2 Gig flash drive. There is no need to backup my entire HD really, and if I'm using Linux its quite easy to reinstall (I can get an install of Ubuntu up in ~30 minutes and it takes me about an hour to customize it to my liking whereas XP took me about ~3 hours to install and a good weekend to finish installing all the software and customizing).
But MS is moving that way with IE 8. The thing though is, they are like Apple and are only opening up to standards because they are losing marketshare and their name has been tarnished. Once they are back on top again, you will see more EEE, and I don't mean the miniature laptop.
Perhaps we should look at the reason why we switched to Macs or to Linux. Lack of innovation and high prices. If MS can make a secure product, that is innovative, and affordable, I might buy it, or at least not wipe my OEM install of it. The fact though is, I don't think that MS can innovate, which is really sad.