If this were a case of giving a developer a second monitor, there would be more of a case for concern, perhaps. But this is taking one of the existing two monitors away, just because someone else needs a new monitor, and the company doesn't consider it worth buying one rather than taking it off the dev.
Taking equipment, particularly equipment that is regarded as making your job less unpleasant, away is asking for a whole mess of trouble that has to be more expensive than just ordering a new monitor.
I suspect people will still use PSN. But I also suspect many will be more wary of providing credit card details, and go get points cards from a shop if they want to purchase DLC or downloadable games.
That really pushes a lot of impulse purchases away, and could be fatal for the likes of Cuthbert, if his margins are already tight.
The way it works is that you still save to the hard drive within the game. PSN+ subscribers just have an option in the dash to back that save up to Sony's servers, where it can then be downloaded onto another of your PS3s (because you've got lots of them, haven't you?) and still used. As supposed to doing exactly the same with a USB memory stick, or what have you.
Basically, it's nothing a PC owner with a Dropbox account couldn't achieve.
It's a handheld machine for playing videogames. Pretty much by definition, its capabilities are playing the videogames that are on it.
As such, I rather suspect that consumers are capable of understanding what those capabilities are. And right now, they don't amount to a whole lot, because there's nothing on it I'm desperate to play.
Unless I've misread it, the person's point is that they either can't, or have no wish to, use their tablet at all in the situations where a 3G connection would be used at all, not that they don't want to do offline things.
Firstly because the UK (sorry, I don't know about the rest of Europe) has PAYG offers on data of about £5 for one month's worth, which isn't too bad.
But secondly, and the main reason I'd consider paying the extra for the 3G iPad, is that you don't get the GPS chip in the Wifi only model. Which may be a consideration, depending on what you want to use it for.
Lots more graphical power isn't a major concern. The general trend over to using HDMI for everything that connects to a TV, however, could do with looking at. My A/V receiver is converting component to HDMI for me, but most people don't have a big A/V receiver like me. Or, for that matter, a wish to purchase the 3rd-party component leads - My Wii is the only one I know that isn't running on the out-of-the box composite wire.
Particularly in Europe, where I don't think I've ever seen a TV set have more than one component input, a hardware refresh that adds a HDMI input (even one that just outputs 480p) would give the vast majority of people a huge improvement in image quality and convenience without breaking compatibility with current games. Coupled with some anti-piracy refreshes to persuade people to buy games again, and you're sorted.
They _did_ DDOS the PSN servers, as reported on many sites. However, Anonymous then realised that they were just upsetting customers (some of whom are even members of Anonymous themselves) they switched to the corporate servers instead, stating that their target is purely Sony themselves, not the customer base.
The device hasn't been banned, though. Just a particular advert for it. Tweak the advert, even in a way that doesn't solve the problem the ASA have at all, and it can be published again. The ASA is utterly messed up.
As for your ruined vinyl, wash it with copious amounts of washing up liquid - that usually does it.
Due to the uniquely stupid way the ASA works, they only operate on the basis of complaints about advertising. No competitor has whined to them yet about particular USB turntables, but clearly one has lodged one about the Brennan. Probably because they're sick and tired of the Bose-style saturation bombing of the Sunday supplements going on.
If you get two pairs of the 3D glasses, and switch the right-eye lens from one with the left-eye lens of the other, you can make '2D glasses' that block one version of the image completely. It won't stop the need to wear cheap, uncomfortable glasses or avoid the image being ruined by losing saturation and brightness, but it will at least stop you feeling ill.
Oh, sure, you guys are great at selling videogames, in the same way that so many of our films are distributed by Hollywood. It's just the making part that's at issue.
We personally don't have to. We just need some guys from the UK to make something as good as LEGO Star Wars III, or some Germans to make a game like Crysis 2, apparently.
If either Crysis 2 or LEGO Star Wars III were developed in the US you might even have a point there. Sorry, it's the US who suck at making videogames; all the best ones seem to come from Canada, Europe or Japan.
Well thank you, Taco, for calling everybody who doesn't approve of homosexuality a bigot. Have you, or any of the other homosexuality-supporters, ever considered that there are more than two sides to this? You don't have to fully 100% approve or disaprove of homosexuality, and as a Catholic I take offense when being labled as one of them.
Take all the offence you like, doesn't make you any less bigoted.
I'd agree with most of those rules. Although I also have a rule 8: If I need to crack the case open, you're giving me a glass of red wine first. Because I like red wine, but also you've almost certainly got some cheap nasty thing that means I'm bound to end up getting my hand sliced up on a sharp bit somewhere, and it takes the edge off the pain.
Mind you, there are plenty of situations where you'd rather a missile hit your jamming tower than the intended target. Maybe that's not such a dead loss.
On the bright side, nobody is going to have any trouble defending notability of Ben Schumin any more. Even if the only evidence on the entire Internet about him is that he's notable for acting like a cunt.
No, the GP makes it rather clear that what they are is someone from the UK. Where we don't have a 4G network yet, so iPad not supporting it isn't something most people can care less about. Over here, the Xoom is _insanely_ expensive, too, and so the "it's too expensive" doesn't go far because nobody has demonstrated they can make a comparable piece of kit for substantially less without an apple on the back. It may not be worth you buying one. It may not be worth me buying one. But until I can get something as good as it for less money, I won't agree that it's overpriced.
Now there's a correct Grandparent. The PS3 can do lots of other nice things. But it's not as good at playing Blu-ray films as having a dedicated Blu-ray player that's quieter, smaller, uses less power and can be modded multi-region.
True that they can refuse to let people on PSN if they mod, and I'm fine with that. Better than fine - when on PSN (just as when on Live) I'd rather not go up against cheaters, and cheating is pretty easy if you've pwned hardware on a platform where the games have assumed that's impossible.
It's just the whole 'raiding houses and dragging people through the courts' thing that I don't like.
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If this were a case of giving a developer a second monitor, there would be more of a case for concern, perhaps. But this is taking one of the existing two monitors away, just because someone else needs a new monitor, and the company doesn't consider it worth buying one rather than taking it off the dev.
Taking equipment, particularly equipment that is regarded as making your job less unpleasant, away is asking for a whole mess of trouble that has to be more expensive than just ordering a new monitor.
I suspect people will still use PSN. But I also suspect many will be more wary of providing credit card details, and go get points cards from a shop if they want to purchase DLC or downloadable games.
That really pushes a lot of impulse purchases away, and could be fatal for the likes of Cuthbert, if his margins are already tight.
The way it works is that you still save to the hard drive within the game. PSN+ subscribers just have an option in the dash to back that save up to Sony's servers, where it can then be downloaded onto another of your PS3s (because you've got lots of them, haven't you?) and still used. As supposed to doing exactly the same with a USB memory stick, or what have you.
Basically, it's nothing a PC owner with a Dropbox account couldn't achieve.
It's a handheld machine for playing videogames. Pretty much by definition, its capabilities are playing the videogames that are on it.
As such, I rather suspect that consumers are capable of understanding what those capabilities are. And right now, they don't amount to a whole lot, because there's nothing on it I'm desperate to play.
But that's just the US being rubbish, though. Over here in the UK, a perfectly acceptable £5/month PAYG tariff is available on the iPad.
Unless I've misread it, the person's point is that they either can't, or have no wish to, use their tablet at all in the situations where a 3G connection would be used at all, not that they don't want to do offline things.
Firstly because the UK (sorry, I don't know about the rest of Europe) has PAYG offers on data of about £5 for one month's worth, which isn't too bad.
But secondly, and the main reason I'd consider paying the extra for the 3G iPad, is that you don't get the GPS chip in the Wifi only model. Which may be a consideration, depending on what you want to use it for.
Lots more graphical power isn't a major concern. The general trend over to using HDMI for everything that connects to a TV, however, could do with looking at. My A/V receiver is converting component to HDMI for me, but most people don't have a big A/V receiver like me. Or, for that matter, a wish to purchase the 3rd-party component leads - My Wii is the only one I know that isn't running on the out-of-the box composite wire.
Particularly in Europe, where I don't think I've ever seen a TV set have more than one component input, a hardware refresh that adds a HDMI input (even one that just outputs 480p) would give the vast majority of people a huge improvement in image quality and convenience without breaking compatibility with current games. Coupled with some anti-piracy refreshes to persuade people to buy games again, and you're sorted.
They _did_ DDOS the PSN servers, as reported on many sites. However, Anonymous then realised that they were just upsetting customers (some of whom are even members of Anonymous themselves) they switched to the corporate servers instead, stating that their target is purely Sony themselves, not the customer base.
Arrgh. Can't help there, then, sorry.
The device hasn't been banned, though. Just a particular advert for it. Tweak the advert, even in a way that doesn't solve the problem the ASA have at all, and it can be published again. The ASA is utterly messed up.
As for your ruined vinyl, wash it with copious amounts of washing up liquid - that usually does it.
Due to the uniquely stupid way the ASA works, they only operate on the basis of complaints about advertising. No competitor has whined to them yet about particular USB turntables, but clearly one has lodged one about the Brennan. Probably because they're sick and tired of the Bose-style saturation bombing of the Sunday supplements going on.
A week? For the duration of the case would be fair, I feel.
If you get two pairs of the 3D glasses, and switch the right-eye lens from one with the left-eye lens of the other, you can make '2D glasses' that block one version of the image completely. It won't stop the need to wear cheap, uncomfortable glasses or avoid the image being ruined by losing saturation and brightness, but it will at least stop you feeling ill.
Oh, sure, you guys are great at selling videogames, in the same way that so many of our films are distributed by Hollywood. It's just the making part that's at issue.
We personally don't have to. We just need some guys from the UK to make something as good as LEGO Star Wars III, or some Germans to make a game like Crysis 2, apparently.
Oh.
If either Crysis 2 or LEGO Star Wars III were developed in the US you might even have a point there. Sorry, it's the US who suck at making videogames; all the best ones seem to come from Canada, Europe or Japan.
Take all the offence you like, doesn't make you any less bigoted.
I'd agree with most of those rules. Although I also have a rule 8: If I need to crack the case open, you're giving me a glass of red wine first. Because I like red wine, but also you've almost certainly got some cheap nasty thing that means I'm bound to end up getting my hand sliced up on a sharp bit somewhere, and it takes the edge off the pain.
Mind you, there are plenty of situations where you'd rather a missile hit your jamming tower than the intended target. Maybe that's not such a dead loss.
On the bright side, nobody is going to have any trouble defending notability of Ben Schumin any more. Even if the only evidence on the entire Internet about him is that he's notable for acting like a cunt.
No, the GP makes it rather clear that what they are is someone from the UK. Where we don't have a 4G network yet, so iPad not supporting it isn't something most people can care less about. Over here, the Xoom is _insanely_ expensive, too, and so the "it's too expensive" doesn't go far because nobody has demonstrated they can make a comparable piece of kit for substantially less without an apple on the back. It may not be worth you buying one. It may not be worth me buying one. But until I can get something as good as it for less money, I won't agree that it's overpriced.
Now there's a correct Grandparent. The PS3 can do lots of other nice things. But it's not as good at playing Blu-ray films as having a dedicated Blu-ray player that's quieter, smaller, uses less power and can be modded multi-region.
True that they can refuse to let people on PSN if they mod, and I'm fine with that. Better than fine - when on PSN (just as when on Live) I'd rather not go up against cheaters, and cheating is pretty easy if you've pwned hardware on a platform where the games have assumed that's impossible.
It's just the whole 'raiding houses and dragging people through the courts' thing that I don't like.
Maybe the free internet access is for you to set one up? The whole story makes my mind boggle.