Incredibly the publisher gets a cut of the new sale because at that point they have part interest in the ownership of the item.
Once the item is sold to a punter the person owns the item, the publisher then has no interest, no share, no comeback.
Which is why I guess the games market is trying to move away from media being the product to a download and licence model with no transference of licences.
I think this guy needs to re-read what ownership actualy means..
(In the UK) Libraries pay royalties on books & music per loan. Rights owners dont miss out there, my mother in law still gets cheques every year for some books she wrote int he 70's
They just cant include it because no drive does 12 speed DVD and therefore doesnt meet the spec for 360 games.
MS can easily supply a BR drive too, but believe that HD DVD is better for the consumer, ultimatly it'll be digital online delivery anyhow and media will become a thing of the past.
Saying that I dont see the Elite offering good value for money unless your desprate for HDMI & love HDCP.
Yes they make money on sales - 360 costs about what it sells for now, xbox1 was always a looser(financialy also..:P) - sales they make money on are games, add ons (controlers etc) and live stuff.
The 360 is [i]already[/i] compromised in its chief money making area, new games, you can play illigal copies with hacked DVD roms, this should have been the primary area of security, but as normal what security is left only hurts the law abiding people (no multie region dvd player, no linux, no arbitary homebrew etc).
"Bug was fixed in version 4552 (released Jan 09, 2007 - not a Patch Tuesday)."
Fixed already for most people , anyone who's connected to xbox live.
I'm not sure why there still protecting the system like they are though, 'backup' games are already rife due to hacked DVD rom firmware (which they seem to be unable to back fix), so why not let it run arbitary code, didnt hurt the xbox 1?
Who says it diverts resource from user requests? It doesnt. Typicaly it'll be loading things you want to do just after startup before you get there,saving you time, I've not even used vista yet I understand that, its not complex...
Wrong... Unless your doing something out of the ordinary it'll already be loading what you want anyhow, in the background, and giving you priority over whatever its doing. Your PC is typicaly plenty powerfull enough to cope with background loading whilst doing normal day to dat PC duties.
Vista remembers what you run, and when. it loads all this into ram before your going to need it.
The sweet spot for memory will be vista requirements(512mb or so) + space for whatever apps you usualy concurrently run, IE/FF, photoshop, iTunes, whatever, it'll dump those into system ram before you even click their icons, reduce real world loading times significantly.
Despite the MS jokes, an OS that leaves ram unused isnt doing its job properly, it can always free memory , quickly, if needed.
the market place is totaly confusing, not to techheads like us, but to the general public.
Thats whats going to kill these formats.
You have HD dvd players (upscaling) that dont play HD-dvd's, Tv's are HD ready, HD compatable, what HD, 720p, 1080i/p? Component, DVi, HDMI, HDCP, region codes or not... Can I play my CD in my HD-DVD, my blu ray in my car..?
Your avererage consumer, ne average sales guy doesnt know the answers, it its new expensive and confusing it wont sell.
Its easy to develop in, XML based with javascript, OO, clean and featured, extensible, can talk to whatever back end data you have (java, soap, php whatever) renders meadia/feature rich great looking client apps into browsers (or stand alone) using either Flash or DHTML.
It is NOT flash or DHTML, its a language with a compilter/renderer, output is flash (and very soon DHTML).
Easiest way to produce clean great looking feature rich web applications I;ve found.
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Incredibly the publisher gets a cut of the new sale because at that point they have part interest in the ownership of the item.
Once the item is sold to a punter the person owns the item, the publisher then has no interest, no share, no comeback.
Which is why I guess the games market is trying to move away from media being the product to a download and licence model with no transference of licences.
I think this guy needs to re-read what ownership actualy means..
kettle = 3000w (UK/240v, 13amps) for 2 min.
Google search 1/100000th of a blade server (or whatever) at ~200w for about 0.01 seconds.
So, simple (green) maths has them almost equal...
It'll take them a while to get to New Zealand mate!
Now I can build my own the planet is DOOMED!
Fox has been advancing since 1985, Franze since 84... at up to 70cm a day...
Can I use your toilet , dude?
Whoooaa....
(In the UK) Libraries pay royalties on books & music per loan. Rights owners dont miss out there, my mother in law still gets cheques every year for some books she wrote int he 70's
To conect the middle of nowhere to a place with absolutely nothing using a very expensive tunnel.
Coming soon, Real Russian permafrost, fresh to your door.
They just cant include it because no drive does 12 speed DVD and therefore doesnt meet the spec for 360 games.
MS can easily supply a BR drive too, but believe that HD DVD is better for the consumer, ultimatly it'll be digital online delivery anyhow and media will become a thing of the past.
Saying that I dont see the Elite offering good value for money unless your desprate for HDMI & love HDCP.
Now when you say you cant get a game out of your mind, you'll be right!
How is that relevant?
Yes they make money on sales - 360 costs about what it sells for now, xbox1 was always a looser(financialy also..:P) - sales they make money on are games, add ons (controlers etc) and live stuff.
The 360 is [i]already[/i] compromised in its chief money making area, new games, you can play illigal copies with hacked DVD roms, this should have been the primary area of security, but as normal what security is left only hurts the law abiding people (no multie region dvd player, no linux, no arbitary homebrew etc).
"Bug was fixed in version 4552 (released Jan 09, 2007 - not a
Patch Tuesday)."
Fixed already for most people , anyone who's connected to xbox live.
I'm not sure why there still protecting the system like they are though, 'backup' games are already rife due to hacked DVD rom firmware (which they seem to be unable to back fix), so why not let it run arbitary code, didnt hurt the xbox 1?
You load applications via the network ?
Who says it diverts resource from user requests? It doesnt. Typicaly it'll be loading things you want to do just after startup before you get there,saving you time, I've not even used vista yet I understand that, its not complex...
Wrong... Unless your doing something out of the ordinary it'll already be loading what you want anyhow, in the background, and giving you priority over whatever its doing. Your PC is typicaly plenty powerfull enough to cope with background loading whilst doing normal day to dat PC duties.
Vista remembers what you run, and when. it loads all this into ram before your going to need it.
The sweet spot for memory will be vista requirements(512mb or so) + space for whatever apps you usualy concurrently run, IE/FF, photoshop, iTunes, whatever, it'll dump those into system ram before you even click their icons, reduce real world loading times significantly.
Despite the MS jokes, an OS that leaves ram unused isnt doing its job properly, it can always free memory , quickly, if needed.
the market place is totaly confusing, not to techheads like us, but to the general public.
Thats whats going to kill these formats.
You have HD dvd players (upscaling) that dont play HD-dvd's, Tv's are HD ready, HD compatable, what HD, 720p, 1080i/p? Component, DVi, HDMI, HDCP, region codes or not... Can I play my CD in my HD-DVD, my blu ray in my car..?
Your avererage consumer, ne average sales guy doesnt know the answers, it its new expensive and confusing it wont sell.
Trademe, the kiwi ebay equivelant has an option to Auto extend an auction for 2 min after the last bid.
Works great for sellers, no sniping, you always have time to rebid, pushes the final sales figure up too.
Soon it wont be how many library of congreses does it hold but how many you use as your encrypt key...
Its easy to develop in, XML based with javascript, OO, clean and featured, extensible, can talk to whatever back end data you have (java, soap, php whatever) renders meadia/feature rich great looking client apps into browsers (or stand alone) using either Flash or DHTML.
It is NOT flash or DHTML, its a language with a compilter/renderer, output is flash (and very soon DHTML).
Easiest way to produce clean great looking feature rich web applications I;ve found.
OpenLaszlo has nothing to do with AJAX per se.
Its an XML based programing language, fully OO, using javascript, which is then rendered to target platforms, currently Flash or DHTML.
So $1000 gets you cards to throw in the bin once Vista comes out , by that time you'll be wanting octo 8800GTX SLI 1GB cards ...
Ofcourse I along with 72% of the country didnt vote for this Labour government.
They see it as a manifesto pledge, it'll be about the only one they actualy keep.
By 2010 I'll have a Kiwi passport and wont care what happens in that stinking hellhole.
Ah but his kids do get to design friendly little animations that help you write letters..
I always wondered hwo thre going to cut the flight time from the UK to Australia.
looks like ther planning on taking the direct route....
...you dont believe everything you read on teh innerweb.
... profit!
You google the prospective Employee before you interview and anything your not sure about you give them chance to answer.
Now for my next job all I have to do is seed the web with missinformation on every other programmer... ???