"Let alone the fact that a whole line of Zune products will take to the air at some point or another."
What makes you say that? There is a whole big community of accessories around the iPod because millions of people have them and want to buy accessories. Sure Microsoft might make a few, but third-party manufacturers aren't going to get behind it without some sort of indication there is a market.
Yes Sony do make 1st-party PSP titles. This year's F1 game (from Sony Liverpool, the guys who also did wipEout purE for launch) is in my bag as I type.
Sony actually sold more 1st-party games (admittedly mainly for PS2) than Microsoft or Nintendo last year, apparently.
Or buying a Core and a memory card. No-one, but no-one buys the Core and puts a hard drive on it unless:
1) they did so around a year ago, when that soon after launch some people would buy any 360 they could find, because it beat being taken to the cleaners by someone on eBay
2) they're loaded and really, really like the look of the plain grey drive tray, rather than the nasty looking chrome effect on the Premium
3) thought they could get by with a memory card, then changed their mind months down the line.
I went for the Premium, because the Core is astonishingly bad value for money by comparison. But on the other hand, I'm perfectly happy with my Silver account, because it gives me everything I want of online (downloading demos, comparing Robotron scores with my friends elsewhere in the world) without the stuff I tired of quickly on the original XBox (being sworn at by American teenagers).
No, that is simply Talk.Origins' description of what their site is. Not everyone knows who the site is, even though they are pretty much the default place to link when telling Intelligent Design proponents why it's pseudoscience.
Other than feeling personally insulted by being told that your religious beliefs are religious beliefs, and not science, what's your problem?
Open Source knows the source is going to be open. So the security model starts from knowing that will be the case.
Closed Source security thinks that no-one else knows what is in there. THINKS being the operative word. Maybe they've worked on that assumption, and just obscured the holes rather than fixed them. Maybe they've left some deliberate backdoors, on the grounds that no-one else knows they are there. Possibly not, but you don't know that.
The MS people are correct to say that it is easier to construct an exploit for one category of security hole if you've got the source. But that means that those sorts of holes don't get built in the first place.
Both the iPod (assuming it's not an ancient one, and even then it will just charge off firewire instead) and the DS will charge off USB, certainly. As for the digital cameras, it depends on the model, sadly.
Steam would benefit from being spun off, because companies like 3D Realms, that want a download solution, but don't want Valve execs having that data, would pay Steam money to use it.
Valve being paid money because they own a share of Steam is one concern, but it's the data he really sounds worried about.
The National Institute For Saying Modern Society Is EVIL!!! EVIL I TELL YOU, BURRRN THEM ALLLLL!!!!! (erm, sorry) says that videogames are as evil, bad and wrong as they said last year.
Shockingly, the rest of the world still continues about its business, igoring the weirdos on the street corner.
"The *AAs have the right to refuse to deal with them, or any vendor they like."
Under Russian law, they don't, because music is under a compulsory license. We don't need to Godwin the thread to solve this one, as it's merely a correction.
Personally, I happen to believe they should have the right, but not being Putin my opinion doesn't count for much.
But if someone could invent a torrent for a Ferrari F355, I'd certainly download one.
I don't download movies, but I sometimes really wish I could skip all that crap. I just put the disc in and let it play through before turning the TV on. So the recent ones insist on a few button clicks to get past. Bastards.
But bringing this back to advertising, which is the subject of the article, us geeks paying through the nose for a HD experience are quite clearly prepared to spend lots of money on expensive trinkets.
You'd think that was a worthwhile demographic, no? Most of the people I know (I know, biased anecdotes...) don't watch SD any more once they've got enough HD stuff to keep them amused, and so paying to advertise there is the only way you'll reach them.
I think I speak for all England fans when I say "Hmmph".
Somehow we've completely forgotten how to bowl, irrespective of the number of pixels involved.
Mind you, step 1 would probably be to put our best bowler in the damn side in the first place, rather than leaving him on drinks duty...
Back on the topic, we've got HD cricket here too, but coverage is midnight to 8 am, on pay TV, so I've not seen any of it; the image quality is even better on radio.
Fair enough, if that's your experience of LCDs. In practice, it's all down to the quality of the scaler in the machine. Which is why I stumped up the extra for this year's Sony; the Bravia Engine is one of the best out there, wheras cheaper TVs usually have fairly poor ones that do just exactly that. They need a fair bit of setup, too; in order to make them look bright and attractive on the shop floor, the 'vivid' colour config is just horrid.
Unless the numbers on the web are rounded, of course. Which would explain why the otherwise joint-first holders aren't in alphabetical, or any other obvious order.
That sharpness is not a nice, crisp, clear image, but artificial edge enhancement. The fact that it looks hideous with the sharpness up is not a fault of your plasma; it's the case with LCD and even CRT as well.
If anything, I've got too much softness by default on my LCD; I've been using the upscaler in the XBox 360 for DVDs instead, to avoid it.
In short, because the darkest colour a projector can do is to shine no additional light onto your white screen.
So they're fine in a dark room, but a bit rubbish if your wife refuses to watch films at home with the lights off. Otherwise I'd have bought a projector, yes.
Mind you, my 32" Sony Bravia LCD is a bit gorgeous, and no more expensive than the fairly low-end projector I would have bought, anyway.
Finally, the problem with projectors is that they need to be at the opposite end of the room from the screen, and running the cables would have been a nightmare.
Ah, I see. I'm against piracy, and some of the music I like really doesn't work live, I'd disagree. Sure, rock is best live, but it's just not possible to see orchestras in concert particularly frequently, because the number of musicians makes the cost prohibitive. If artists aren't going to make any money off the record, you remove the incentive to make the production as good as it can be, and my ears don't want to live by garage punk alone.
On the other hand, I'm not in favour of this copyright extension, either. Anderson made those Tull albums under a law that said mechanical copyright would expire 50 years later, and I see no reason why he should get to change that contract with the state now, just because no-one wants to buy his new stuff. If he _does_ want copyright ot last his lifetime plus 70 years, then he needs to write his own tunes, rather than simply record someone else's.
Besides, recording a song isn't the most complicated thing to do in the world. Research and manufacture the cure for a cancer, and you'll only get a patent that will last you a mere 20 years. Anderson really is complaining that the UK Government only regards his record as two and a half times the value.
Except that the pdf is clearly incorrect when it comes to LCD power levels in the hands of anyone who knows how to set up a TV correctly. My Sony Bravia has the backlight turned most of the way down, because you get much better dark shades that way. At that, it's genuinely using around a third of the power of my friend's Plasma.
I rather like Aimee Mann (which is to say I've bought most of her albums; I've no idea about what she says in interviews or anything like that) - when did she say that, then?
No, patenting a method is what you do when you've invested billions of drug company money in developing something, not just figured that you strike an recognizeable pose if you play on one leg. That's why the law rewards patent holders with the incredibly long term of, oh, 20 years.
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"Let alone the fact that a whole line of Zune products will take to the air at some point or another."
What makes you say that? There is a whole big community of accessories around the iPod because millions of people have them and want to buy accessories. Sure Microsoft might make a few, but third-party manufacturers aren't going to get behind it without some sort of indication there is a market.
If Microsoft were using the original I Love Bees site to sell bees, using a fictional woman to advocate their products, I'd see your point.
But I think just about everyone knew that this was something Bungie were up to, because they found it in the first place on the trailer.
Which is just a tad different from someone going "Yay, PSPs are brilliant, and I'm not being paid to say so!" when they are.
Sega haven't bought rights to the Predator or AvP itself, so we're in luck there.
Yes Sony do make 1st-party PSP titles. This year's F1 game (from Sony Liverpool, the guys who also did wipEout purE for launch) is in my bag as I type.
Sony actually sold more 1st-party games (admittedly mainly for PS2) than Microsoft or Nintendo last year, apparently.
Or buying a Core and a memory card. No-one, but no-one buys the Core and puts a hard drive on it unless:
1) they did so around a year ago, when that soon after launch some people would buy any 360 they could find, because it beat being taken to the cleaners by someone on eBay
2) they're loaded and really, really like the look of the plain grey drive tray, rather than the nasty looking chrome effect on the Premium
3) thought they could get by with a memory card, then changed their mind months down the line.
I went for the Premium, because the Core is astonishingly bad value for money by comparison. But on the other hand, I'm perfectly happy with my Silver account, because it gives me everything I want of online (downloading demos, comparing Robotron scores with my friends elsewhere in the world) without the stuff I tired of quickly on the original XBox (being sworn at by American teenagers).
No, that is simply Talk.Origins' description of what their site is. Not everyone knows who the site is, even though they are pretty much the default place to link when telling Intelligent Design proponents why it's pseudoscience.
Other than feeling personally insulted by being told that your religious beliefs are religious beliefs, and not science, what's your problem?
Open Source knows the source is going to be open. So the security model starts from knowing that will be the case.
Closed Source security thinks that no-one else knows what is in there. THINKS being the operative word. Maybe they've worked on that assumption, and just obscured the holes rather than fixed them. Maybe they've left some deliberate backdoors, on the grounds that no-one else knows they are there. Possibly not, but you don't know that.
The MS people are correct to say that it is easier to construct an exploit for one category of security hole if you've got the source. But that means that those sorts of holes don't get built in the first place.
Both the iPod (assuming it's not an ancient one, and even then it will just charge off firewire instead) and the DS will charge off USB, certainly. As for the digital cameras, it depends on the model, sadly.
Steam would benefit from being spun off, because companies like 3D Realms, that want a download solution, but don't want Valve execs having that data, would pay Steam money to use it.
Valve being paid money because they own a share of Steam is one concern, but it's the data he really sounds worried about.
The National Institute For Saying Modern Society Is EVIL!!! EVIL I TELL YOU, BURRRN THEM ALLLLL!!!!! (erm, sorry) says that videogames are as evil, bad and wrong as they said last year.
Shockingly, the rest of the world still continues about its business, igoring the weirdos on the street corner.
No it doesn't go to the artists, unless they were prescient enough to have a percentage of hardware licensing written into their contract.
Which none of them did.
"The *AAs have the right to refuse to deal with them, or any vendor they like."
Under Russian law, they don't, because music is under a compulsory license. We don't need to Godwin the thread to solve this one, as it's merely a correction.
Personally, I happen to believe they should have the right, but not being Putin my opinion doesn't count for much.
No, I wouldn't steal a car.
But if someone could invent a torrent for a Ferrari F355, I'd certainly download one.
I don't download movies, but I sometimes really wish I could skip all that crap. I just put the disc in and let it play through before turning the TV on. So the recent ones insist on a few button clicks to get past. Bastards.
Possibly.
But bringing this back to advertising, which is the subject of the article, us geeks paying through the nose for a HD experience are quite clearly prepared to spend lots of money on expensive trinkets.
You'd think that was a worthwhile demographic, no? Most of the people I know (I know, biased anecdotes...) don't watch SD any more once they've got enough HD stuff to keep them amused, and so paying to advertise there is the only way you'll reach them.
I think I speak for all England fans when I say "Hmmph".
Somehow we've completely forgotten how to bowl, irrespective of the number of pixels involved.
Mind you, step 1 would probably be to put our best bowler in the damn side in the first place, rather than leaving him on drinks duty...
Back on the topic, we've got HD cricket here too, but coverage is midnight to 8 am, on pay TV, so I've not seen any of it; the image quality is even better on radio.
Fair enough, if that's your experience of LCDs. In practice, it's all down to the quality of the scaler in the machine. Which is why I stumped up the extra for this year's Sony; the Bravia Engine is one of the best out there, wheras cheaper TVs usually have fairly poor ones that do just exactly that. They need a fair bit of setup, too; in order to make them look bright and attractive on the shop floor, the 'vivid' colour config is just horrid.
Unless the numbers on the web are rounded, of course. Which would explain why the otherwise joint-first holders aren't in alphabetical, or any other obvious order.
That sharpness is not a nice, crisp, clear image, but artificial edge enhancement. The fact that it looks hideous with the sharpness up is not a fault of your plasma; it's the case with LCD and even CRT as well.
If anything, I've got too much softness by default on my LCD; I've been using the upscaler in the XBox 360 for DVDs instead, to avoid it.
Hmmmph. I'll let you know how my lovely new LCD works with cricket, just as soon as Sky lose the rights again.
I'm convinced one of the problems is that they can't be bothered to play well if no-one is watching them live...
In short, because the darkest colour a projector can do is to shine no additional light onto your white screen.
So they're fine in a dark room, but a bit rubbish if your wife refuses to watch films at home with the lights off. Otherwise I'd have bought a projector, yes.
Mind you, my 32" Sony Bravia LCD is a bit gorgeous, and no more expensive than the fairly low-end projector I would have bought, anyway.
Finally, the problem with projectors is that they need to be at the opposite end of the room from the screen, and running the cables would have been a nightmare.
Ah, I see. I'm against piracy, and some of the music I like really doesn't work live, I'd disagree. Sure, rock is best live, but it's just not possible to see orchestras in concert particularly frequently, because the number of musicians makes the cost prohibitive. If artists aren't going to make any money off the record, you remove the incentive to make the production as good as it can be, and my ears don't want to live by garage punk alone.
On the other hand, I'm not in favour of this copyright extension, either. Anderson made those Tull albums under a law that said mechanical copyright would expire 50 years later, and I see no reason why he should get to change that contract with the state now, just because no-one wants to buy his new stuff. If he _does_ want copyright ot last his lifetime plus 70 years, then he needs to write his own tunes, rather than simply record someone else's.
Besides, recording a song isn't the most complicated thing to do in the world. Research and manufacture the cure for a cancer, and you'll only get a patent that will last you a mere 20 years. Anderson really is complaining that the UK Government only regards his record as two and a half times the value.
Except that the pdf is clearly incorrect when it comes to LCD power levels in the hands of anyone who knows how to set up a TV correctly. My Sony Bravia has the backlight turned most of the way down, because you get much better dark shades that way. At that, it's genuinely using around a third of the power of my friend's Plasma.
Also, single-chip DLP gives me an almighty headache, and I can't be the only one.
I rather like Aimee Mann (which is to say I've bought most of her albums; I've no idea about what she says in interviews or anything like that) - when did she say that, then?
No, patenting a method is what you do when you've invested billions of drug company money in developing something, not just figured that you strike an recognizeable pose if you play on one leg. That's why the law rewards patent holders with the incredibly long term of, oh, 20 years.
Ah.