I wish I had a tablet with a keyboard, or just a notebook with a touchscreen screen. I much prefer typing out notes, but obviously in some classes where you have to copy down diagrams or write on slides you simply have to use paper and pen.
On the other hand I've always thought it stupid that teachers expect you to understand what they're saying while you're taking notes. It's just not possible. It's hard enough to understand while just listening, but to do it while performing something as mind-intensive as note-taking is just not going to happen.
I'd be willing to put my money where my mouth is if I could figure out how to invest in their company. I think this is going to be *huge* and will transform the gaming market, and if it's successful here there's nothing preventing them from expanding into other territories.
Dude, are you seriously...? Your description of lag is utterly idiotic. You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about.
With onlive you're basically streaming *video* and uploading your controller or keyboard inputs. Have you never watched a video before? Have you ever netflixed before? As for sending inputs it's the same as playing any game online.
You don't have the slightest amount of technical knowledge about this service. I mean what the devil does this even mean? "Remember that you don't just have to take ping time in to account with data transfer, but the time it takes to transfer all the data." They've specified the bandwidth required to run their service at each resolution. Everything you said is just asinine.
There was a great video where the creator of the service presented in front of a university class discussing the technology and overcoming the issues of lag and distance. You should find that and watch it before spouting off.
I also don't know what "videos" you're referring to. I don't see how a non-sanctioned cam video of a game running on a laggy, unauthorized connection could possibly be telling. It sounds to me like you've decided beforehand that the service would fail, and are twisting facts to fit your viewpoint.
I think this is going to be enormously successful. The internet infrastructure in the US has lagged behind unfortunately, but I still think this is good enough to work. The sheer novelty of playing Crysis on a Wi-Fi enabled phone or a netbook alone should be great PR.
Hopefully they offer a discount to the games. I feel like that's the best way to attract customers. The real sweet spot would be a $10 discount, so anyone comparing the retail version and the OnLive version would constantly be confronted with the choice of paying more or less for a game.
Right... and you think the majority of people in the US upgrade their computers every 2 or 3 years to play the latest games? Do you understand the appeal of being able to play Crysis on a netbook, or even on your Wi-Fi enabled smartphone? Or on... god forbid Linux?!
$15/month is steep, but it depends on the cost of games. If people get a discount for buying them through OnLive, that right there is a huge incentive.
That review site was PC Perspective, and the man who wrote it hijacked a friend's account and was 2000 miles (twice the recommended limit of 1000 miles) from the nearest game server.
In fact the server constantly warned him about his lag, and sometimes refused to let him even connect. The preview was hardly professional and mostly a disservice. But then, you either already knew that or simply weren't interested in the facts, and wanted to smear the service in your mind because anything new scares you.
You're very jaded, aren't you? If you understood anything about the issues with resale in the retail channel, you'd understand that game publishers are disincentivized from discounting because they are constantly undercut by used game resellers. If you've ever used Steam you'd see how often publishers use massive discounts to spur sales of older games. Recently I remember a campaign for a $5 Bioshock when Bioshock 2 was being hyped.
Ars is citing the PC perspective article. That was the stupidest article to be citing, because the guy who wrote it wasn't authorized to use the beta, and was 2000 miles (twice the allowed 1000 mile maximum distance) from a game server. The service constantly warned him about huge lag issues and sometimes wouldn't even let him log on.
The author of the ars article, Ben Kuchera, purposely never mentioned this and made some hand-waving comments about how he'd round up some beta users who had negative comments about the service. Seriously, he never did. The entire ars article was totally unprofessional, and the PC Per article was repeatedly debunked as being worthless.
The fact that you're still spreading this FUD speaks to how you've already pre-judged the service and aren't interested in doing actual research or waiting for an unbiased and accurate review to find out what it might be like.
I don't think you understand that publishers have a much greater incentive to discount their titles just like they do on Valve's steam. You don't seem to realize that in retail the tail end of a game title's sales curve is completely leeched by used game companies like gamestop, who undercut retail prices by 50% and reap all the profits for essentially doing nothing.
As people have seen with Steam, when the companies don't have to contend with Gamestop they can lower their prices to very low levels to stimulate sales, knowing that they won't simply be undercut by used game stores.
What reviews of service? Stop spreading your garbage FUD. There were no reviews allowed due to the NDA for beta users.
The only review I ever read was done by a guy who wasn't authorized to use the service, using a friend's account, and played from twice the recommended distance to one of the game servers.
Half the time the servers refused to let him on because his lag was too high. And yet despite being 2000 miles away and being constantly warned of poor performance and lag by the servers, he *still* had a positive experience with several of the games.
The fact that Apple constructed their device so that you needed to mod it and void your warranty in order to run unlicensed apps is a demonstration of them using the law against consumers who purchase their devices.
You're being an idiot vijay. Apple should not be allowed to use one platform (their hardware) to exert anti-competitive controls over another platform (their software). That is actually illegal. They can't prevent people from running non "App-store apps" on OSX, so why the frack don't the same rules apply to their iPhone OS? It's a portable computer that's faster than my old 500 Mhz P3.
Cisco announced shortly after Google's 1 gbit fiber initiative that they had an announcement to make of their own that would "influence everyone", including "governments". Since then some people have waited with baited breath. Predictably Cisco let everyone down.
While we'll see Japanese levels of connectivity from cable companies, we won't see Japanese prices.
In large part because the current FCC is headed by a weakling with no political support from the centrist Obama-led Democrats. His national broadband plan and its leaked info from various sources has turned out so far to be a complete cop-out to the incumbents and an utter waste of time. You *know* a Republican president won't commission a new plan, so we'll have to wait until the *next* Democratic president for a proper national broadband initiative.
Our copper lines were paid off for decades ago. Heck, even cable's coax lines were completely paid off by the '90s. This has everything to do with a proper lack of government regulatory oversight and initiative.
Just like our other infrastructure and social programs, we're simply falling behind the rest of the developed world. The sheer massiveness of our nation's GDP is currently keeping us afloat, but it won't last forever.
On the other hand, when the man of the house has been spending like a drunken gambling addict in Las Vegas, the woman has to step up and put a stop to the madness to keep the family boat from completely sinking. Of course nowadays in America she'd just file for divorce, take the kids and pretend she'd made her and her kids' life better by cutting off all ties to her past, but that's another point entirely.
No one needs to respond to a quote as stupid as that. Republicans are opposed to Democrats on almost every possible area. They're deadlocked in everything, if for no other reason than that the Republicans simply don't want to compromise with a man who is disappointingly centrist.
Obama is no radical liberal. He's so corporatist it's been shocking to his own voter base. The fact that he hired Timothy Geithner, Bush's old top financial adviser, to write the bill to reform banks, speaks of how centrist he is.
On the other hand saying that the two parties are the same is just stupid. Yes Democrats also get donations from corporations, but there are so many documented instances where a Democrat receives money from a large corporation from then turns around and votes supporting a legislation against that same corporation.
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I wish I had a tablet with a keyboard, or just a notebook with a touchscreen screen. I much prefer typing out notes, but obviously in some classes where you have to copy down diagrams or write on slides you simply have to use paper and pen.
On the other hand I've always thought it stupid that teachers expect you to understand what they're saying while you're taking notes. It's just not possible. It's hard enough to understand while just listening, but to do it while performing something as mind-intensive as note-taking is just not going to happen.
I'd be willing to put my money where my mouth is if I could figure out how to invest in their company. I think this is going to be *huge* and will transform the gaming market, and if it's successful here there's nothing preventing them from expanding into other territories.
Dude, are you seriously...? Your description of lag is utterly idiotic. You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about. With onlive you're basically streaming *video* and uploading your controller or keyboard inputs. Have you never watched a video before? Have you ever netflixed before? As for sending inputs it's the same as playing any game online.
You don't have the slightest amount of technical knowledge about this service. I mean what the devil does this even mean? "Remember that you don't just have to take ping time in to account with data transfer, but the time it takes to transfer all the data." They've specified the bandwidth required to run their service at each resolution. Everything you said is just asinine.
There was a great video where the creator of the service presented in front of a university class discussing the technology and overcoming the issues of lag and distance. You should find that and watch it before spouting off.
I also don't know what "videos" you're referring to. I don't see how a non-sanctioned cam video of a game running on a laggy, unauthorized connection could possibly be telling. It sounds to me like you've decided beforehand that the service would fail, and are twisting facts to fit your viewpoint.
Yeah, kinda like an MMO. No way that service model could ever work.
Oh wait...
I think this is going to be enormously successful. The internet infrastructure in the US has lagged behind unfortunately, but I still think this is good enough to work. The sheer novelty of playing Crysis on a Wi-Fi enabled phone or a netbook alone should be great PR.
Hopefully they offer a discount to the games. I feel like that's the best way to attract customers. The real sweet spot would be a $10 discount, so anyone comparing the retail version and the OnLive version would constantly be confronted with the choice of paying more or less for a game.
Right... and you think the majority of people in the US upgrade their computers every 2 or 3 years to play the latest games? Do you understand the appeal of being able to play Crysis on a netbook, or even on your Wi-Fi enabled smartphone? Or on... god forbid Linux?!
$15/month is steep, but it depends on the cost of games. If people get a discount for buying them through OnLive, that right there is a huge incentive.
That review site was PC Perspective, and the man who wrote it hijacked a friend's account and was 2000 miles (twice the recommended limit of 1000 miles) from the nearest game server.
In fact the server constantly warned him about his lag, and sometimes refused to let him even connect. The preview was hardly professional and mostly a disservice. But then, you either already knew that or simply weren't interested in the facts, and wanted to smear the service in your mind because anything new scares you.
You're very jaded, aren't you? If you understood anything about the issues with resale in the retail channel, you'd understand that game publishers are disincentivized from discounting because they are constantly undercut by used game resellers. If you've ever used Steam you'd see how often publishers use massive discounts to spur sales of older games. Recently I remember a campaign for a $5 Bioshock when Bioshock 2 was being hyped.
Ars is citing the PC perspective article. That was the stupidest article to be citing, because the guy who wrote it wasn't authorized to use the beta, and was 2000 miles (twice the allowed 1000 mile maximum distance) from a game server. The service constantly warned him about huge lag issues and sometimes wouldn't even let him log on.
The author of the ars article, Ben Kuchera, purposely never mentioned this and made some hand-waving comments about how he'd round up some beta users who had negative comments about the service. Seriously, he never did. The entire ars article was totally unprofessional, and the PC Per article was repeatedly debunked as being worthless.
The fact that you're still spreading this FUD speaks to how you've already pre-judged the service and aren't interested in doing actual research or waiting for an unbiased and accurate review to find out what it might be like.
I don't think you understand that publishers have a much greater incentive to discount their titles just like they do on Valve's steam. You don't seem to realize that in retail the tail end of a game title's sales curve is completely leeched by used game companies like gamestop, who undercut retail prices by 50% and reap all the profits for essentially doing nothing.
As people have seen with Steam, when the companies don't have to contend with Gamestop they can lower their prices to very low levels to stimulate sales, knowing that they won't simply be undercut by used game stores.
What reviews of service? Stop spreading your garbage FUD. There were no reviews allowed due to the NDA for beta users.
The only review I ever read was done by a guy who wasn't authorized to use the service, using a friend's account, and played from twice the recommended distance to one of the game servers.
Half the time the servers refused to let him on because his lag was too high. And yet despite being 2000 miles away and being constantly warned of poor performance and lag by the servers, he *still* had a positive experience with several of the games.
It's funny that you cherry picked the only 3 major examples there are of this sort of anti-competitive, vertical integration of hardware and software.
The fact that Apple constructed their device so that you needed to mod it and void your warranty in order to run unlicensed apps is a demonstration of them using the law against consumers who purchase their devices.
You're being an idiot vijay. Apple should not be allowed to use one platform (their hardware) to exert anti-competitive controls over another platform (their software). That is actually illegal. They can't prevent people from running non "App-store apps" on OSX, so why the frack don't the same rules apply to their iPhone OS? It's a portable computer that's faster than my old 500 Mhz P3.
Cisco announced shortly after Google's 1 gbit fiber initiative that they had an announcement to make of their own that would "influence everyone", including "governments". Since then some people have waited with baited breath. Predictably Cisco let everyone down.
While we'll see Japanese levels of connectivity from cable companies, we won't see Japanese prices. In large part because the current FCC is headed by a weakling with no political support from the centrist Obama-led Democrats. His national broadband plan and its leaked info from various sources has turned out so far to be a complete cop-out to the incumbents and an utter waste of time. You *know* a Republican president won't commission a new plan, so we'll have to wait until the *next* Democratic president for a proper national broadband initiative.
Our copper lines were paid off for decades ago. Heck, even cable's coax lines were completely paid off by the '90s. This has everything to do with a proper lack of government regulatory oversight and initiative.
Just like our other infrastructure and social programs, we're simply falling behind the rest of the developed world. The sheer massiveness of our nation's GDP is currently keeping us afloat, but it won't last forever.
What competitors?
He moved up from janitor to... designated ink reloader? I was expecting a bit more "riches" in this rags to riches story.
You two scare me.
On the other hand, when the man of the house has been spending like a drunken gambling addict in Las Vegas, the woman has to step up and put a stop to the madness to keep the family boat from completely sinking. Of course nowadays in America she'd just file for divorce, take the kids and pretend she'd made her and her kids' life better by cutting off all ties to her past, but that's another point entirely.
No one needs to respond to a quote as stupid as that. Republicans are opposed to Democrats on almost every possible area. They're deadlocked in everything, if for no other reason than that the Republicans simply don't want to compromise with a man who is disappointingly centrist.
Obama is no radical liberal. He's so corporatist it's been shocking to his own voter base. The fact that he hired Timothy Geithner, Bush's old top financial adviser, to write the bill to reform banks, speaks of how centrist he is.
On the other hand saying that the two parties are the same is just stupid. Yes Democrats also get donations from corporations, but there are so many documented instances where a Democrat receives money from a large corporation from then turns around and votes supporting a legislation against that same corporation.