I remember the 90s being full of consoles:
3DO, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS1, Atari Jaguar, N64, Philips CD-i, in addition to existing ones like Genesis/SegaCD/32x and SNES which were in the prime of their lives in the early 90s.
Now the 360 has been out for five years and the PS3 has been out for four. Neither company seems interested in making new hardware anymore, which is understandable since they lost so much money working out the bugs. But it seems that nobody wants to one-up the other anymore.
Rather than pursue hardware that is clearly superior to their competitor (as many attempted in the 90s), they just blow money purchasing exclusives.
And I thought they were the essence of evil.
There, got my on-topic statement in. Now to be slightly off-topic for people who want to get some ideas to get their adventure game fix before this thing gets released.
Cycle dates don't fall on the same day every month for most banks. They cycle on business days only, so each cycle varies from ~28-34 days (an entire week), and your due date is always a certain number of days after the cycle date.
Very few credit card companies give you a fixed due date; it's not like a home loan. They CAN, however, tell you what the earliest/latest days are so you can choose a date that is always safe to pay without getting fees or interest.
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
Which exposes an uncomfortable truth about "the music of the people:"
There is never very much of it.
I think that might be saying more about the methods of publication, distribution, and communication of 100+ years ago than it does about whether or not people will make music for the love of music.
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
Politics would be a lot more tolerable if politicians called each other out in meaningful ways more often. This is the best display of nose-to-the-grindstone politics since Honduras last year.
Maybe they should just show their films and TV shows in a secure underground bunker to viewers who are patted down and forced to watch the movie wearing handcuffs, blindfolds, and ear plugs. After "watching" the film, they must submit to a mind wipe on the off chance that they detected some copyrighted detail.
There, now your copyright is safe!
Wait, scrap that. Let's just cut out the middleman and send thugs to beat money out of people directly if they are suspected of thinking of watching a movie.
Sure, let's keep putting our tax dollars to work saving the salaries of movie executives. It's not like we're backsliding in education, science programs, and health services right?
Single mothers, poor college students, and elderly gentlemen are not proper targets. People ACTUALLY making money off piracy are the right targets, and they have no moral leg to stand on.
It's only game over for people who want a more expensive device that does more. Although you may not see the point of inexpensive, single-purpose devices, there are millions of people who do. Nobody "won"; there are simply two different markets that buy two different items. And as cheap as ebook readers are getting, a lot of people will have both sitting on their night stand.
I certainly hope so! I've been reading that you can root it too and run some android apps. One of the big things I look for in just about any device is hackability.
Just ordered a wifi one...hope they come in stock soon so I can have it by the end of the week.
A price drop was all I had been waiting for to jump on the ereader bandwagon. Android is pretty nice too!
Governments are only going to get so much mileage out of crying wolf by invoking "Because...well...BECAUSE...CHILD PORNOGRAPHY".
If they keep this up, it's going to dilute honest, real efforts to fight child pornography because people will be conditioned to equate "child pornography" with "government power grab".
MOD PARENT UP.
I've been thinking the same thing. All the "Big Content" publishers think we can't live without them, which is of course a big load of crap.
No matter what the onlive reps say, they are not going to be able to get your input lag to a playable 50ms.
1. INPUT LAG.
You have to add their input lag to your television's. If you were near unbearable on input lag before, Onlive will put you over the hump. All of a sudden, it will feel like everyone else is wallhacking, or maybe that you've just suddenly become a bad shot. This will not be enjoyable in any way.
And can any computer, even your own, screen cap in fraps, compress video, and even send it over the lan in a manner timely enough to play twitchy shooters or other games requiring quick reactions?
2. PEAK USAGE
They're going to have to either waste tons of money having a bunch of idle computers waiting for the four heaviest gaming hours of the day, or they're going to have to wait in queues for a half hour or more. The only people willing to wait for long queues are already playing WoW, so there's nobody left who is willing to use Onlive.
3. IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...
...It probably is. It's a lot more likely that we're looking a pump-and-dump scheme in the face than a legitimate service. Unless they've discovered some quantum computer that we don't yet know about and overcome that pesky speed of light thing, they are not going to release a product that will work for anything other than turn-based games.
Why are people allowed to patent obvious stuff? People were doing social networking in 1997 via the internet. Geocities? AOL Instant Messenger? ICQ? BBS? Tripod? Classmates.com?
Any of these ring a bell?
I think I'll pass. I have an iPhone which I bought from another person, and have spent the last six months without a data plan. I have no need for a data plan, especially not at such exorbitant rates.
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But you have to harvest it from a giant fusion reactor with the biggest gravity well in the solar system
I remember the 90s being full of consoles:
3DO, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS1, Atari Jaguar, N64, Philips CD-i, in addition to existing ones like Genesis/SegaCD/32x and SNES which were in the prime of their lives in the early 90s.
Now the 360 has been out for five years and the PS3 has been out for four. Neither company seems interested in making new hardware anymore, which is understandable since they lost so much money working out the bugs. But it seems that nobody wants to one-up the other anymore.
Rather than pursue hardware that is clearly superior to their competitor (as many attempted in the 90s), they just blow money purchasing exclusives.
Any slashdotters in the upper echelons of our more secretive government agencies care to fill us in?
And I thought they were the essence of evil. There, got my on-topic statement in. Now to be slightly off-topic for people who want to get some ideas to get their adventure game fix before this thing gets released.
Cycle dates don't fall on the same day every month for most banks. They cycle on business days only, so each cycle varies from ~28-34 days (an entire week), and your due date is always a certain number of days after the cycle date.
Very few credit card companies give you a fixed due date; it's not like a home loan. They CAN, however, tell you what the earliest/latest days are so you can choose a date that is always safe to pay without getting fees or interest.
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression? If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
Which exposes an uncomfortable truth about "the music of the people:"
There is never very much of it.
I think that might be saying more about the methods of publication, distribution, and communication of 100+ years ago than it does about whether or not people will make music for the love of music.
That is an awesome quote.
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
I was just saying that the iPad is more expensive than an ebook reader if you want to read ebooks.
Politics would be a lot more tolerable if politicians called each other out in meaningful ways more often. This is the best display of nose-to-the-grindstone politics since Honduras last year.
Maybe they should just show their films and TV shows in a secure underground bunker to viewers who are patted down and forced to watch the movie wearing handcuffs, blindfolds, and ear plugs. After "watching" the film, they must submit to a mind wipe on the off chance that they detected some copyrighted detail.
There, now your copyright is safe!
Wait, scrap that. Let's just cut out the middleman and send thugs to beat money out of people directly if they are suspected of thinking of watching a movie.
"Because unauthorized channels or firmware may impair game play or the Wii console"
My unauthorized channels don't impair shit. They actually make my Wii more useful (emulators, homebrew apps, etc)
Sure, let's keep putting our tax dollars to work saving the salaries of movie executives. It's not like we're backsliding in education, science programs, and health services right?
Single mothers, poor college students, and elderly gentlemen are not proper targets. People ACTUALLY making money off piracy are the right targets, and they have no moral leg to stand on.
It's only game over for people who want a more expensive device that does more. Although you may not see the point of inexpensive, single-purpose devices, there are millions of people who do. Nobody "won"; there are simply two different markets that buy two different items. And as cheap as ebook readers are getting, a lot of people will have both sitting on their night stand.
I certainly hope so! I've been reading that you can root it too and run some android apps. One of the big things I look for in just about any device is hackability.
Just ordered a wifi one...hope they come in stock soon so I can have it by the end of the week. A price drop was all I had been waiting for to jump on the ereader bandwagon. Android is pretty nice too!
Didn't they say unlimited data wouldn't be feasible when 4G rolls out? If so, why try to sell a product which they plan on neutering?
Governments are only going to get so much mileage out of crying wolf by invoking "Because...well...BECAUSE...CHILD PORNOGRAPHY".
If they keep this up, it's going to dilute honest, real efforts to fight child pornography because people will be conditioned to equate "child pornography" with "government power grab".
We'll freaking do it. Don't think we won't, Thailand!
MOD PARENT UP. I've been thinking the same thing. All the "Big Content" publishers think we can't live without them, which is of course a big load of crap.
No matter what the onlive reps say, they are not going to be able to get your input lag to a playable 50ms.
...It probably is. It's a lot more likely that we're looking a pump-and-dump scheme in the face than a legitimate service. Unless they've discovered some quantum computer that we don't yet know about and overcome that pesky speed of light thing, they are not going to release a product that will work for anything other than turn-based games.
1. INPUT LAG. You have to add their input lag to your television's. If you were near unbearable on input lag before, Onlive will put you over the hump. All of a sudden, it will feel like everyone else is wallhacking, or maybe that you've just suddenly become a bad shot. This will not be enjoyable in any way. And can any computer, even your own, screen cap in fraps, compress video, and even send it over the lan in a manner timely enough to play twitchy shooters or other games requiring quick reactions?
2. PEAK USAGE
They're going to have to either waste tons of money having a bunch of idle computers waiting for the four heaviest gaming hours of the day, or they're going to have to wait in queues for a half hour or more. The only people willing to wait for long queues are already playing WoW, so there's nobody left who is willing to use Onlive.
3. IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...
Why are people allowed to patent obvious stuff? People were doing social networking in 1997 via the internet. Geocities? AOL Instant Messenger? ICQ? BBS? Tripod? Classmates.com? Any of these ring a bell?
I think I'll pass. I have an iPhone which I bought from another person, and have spent the last six months without a data plan. I have no need for a data plan, especially not at such exorbitant rates.
Even after the school discount bringing it down to just $900, that's a 200%+ markup over what a comparable PC would cost.