I personally have my desktop connected to my living room TV, but even still I don't tend to play games on the television much. Most PC games are designed to be played from a close distance, and so even though my monitor is smaller and of worse resolution, they still tend to be better than on the TV.
In addition to this controllers still seem better than mouse/keyboard for TV gaming. Yes, controllers can be used with the PC but that's an additional cost, and not all games allow their use.
PCs would have to be vastly simplified to work for the average console consumer in my opinion, which kind of eliminates the entire point of playing on a PC.
This is my biggest grate with PC gaming. I'm a PC gamer myself who built my own desktop specifically for gaming, so I do love PC gaming. However, if I want to play a game with my wife it's much cheaper to buy it on ps3 (if available), than to buy two copies for the PC.
Also, while consoles are sadly getting away from local multiplayer and becoming more like PCs, there is still a larger amount of games with local multiplayer than on the PC. There's just something to be said for playing a game together on a single screen, rather than two separate screens.
And for groups of friends, there's no argument that a Wii with brawl or mario kart is by far the best way to go.
But what if every game is controllable using the gamepad? It's not like you don't have to buy controllers for consoles, and you already own a cell phone so it at least cuts out the price of the console itself.
Completely agree with this. I imagine a world (maybe in 10 years or so?) where when we come we simply place our cell phones on a little pad that connects them to all our other crap. They interact with our tv and wireless controllers for games, and our monitors, wireless keyboards, and wireless mice for computers.
The only problem is I don't see stuff like this really getting any attention outside the "geek/nerd" communities. Even the Apple patent cases, which are the most widely publicized from what I can tell, aren't really well known to people who don't care about their cell phone brand.
Right, because it's just as easy for a parent to drive to the nearest tennis court (which may be fairly far away if you aren't rich) and stay at the tennis court for an hour and then drive back, every day, as it is to buy wii sports.
Sorry but this is a misunderstanding of political systems. "eternaldoctorwho" is correct that voting for a third party is throwing your vote away in a two-party first past the post system.
If we are to create better outcomes in the US it would require a better system (such as one of the many proportional representation systems). Our system has been shown to create two-party dominance and shut out any further parties.
As for what we can really do, absolutely nothing. Those in power won't change the system because the system benefits them. America will just have to run it's course until something huge happens to destroy or drastically alter it; just like every other society throughout history.
Is it strange for that to sound like a lot of money for me? I'm currently a college student and my wife and I make about 20k a year combined. We currently rent a two bedroom house with plenty of room, I have a nice gaming computer I built myself, we have a 42 inch flatscreen TV, two cars, go out to eat fairly often, donate 40 dollars a month to sponsor a child from Kenya, ect. We live a good life and seem to have more "nice things" than most people I know.
Sure, I could use more money sometimes, especially when something unexpected comes up like having to get my brakes fixed, but we get by just fine. This is all on 10k per person. I would practically be swimming in money at 30k/year per person. What do people possibly spend all of their money on?
I definitely use my PS3 to stream Netflix more than I play games on it. Although, that is only the case because I built my own gaming PC last year. If I didn't have my gaming PC I'd definitely be playing my PS3 a lot more.
I love Netflix. It's my only source of Television now. If Verizon buys Netflix I will be totally screwed.
Not to mention I bet if they buy Netflix the mobile app will be pulled from the market and merged with their "Verizon TV" crap, so anyone not on Verizon will not be able to watch Netflix on their phone anymore.
I bought a Nexus S for the sole intention that I didn't want to bother with rooting my phone and whatnot, but I still wanted to get the Android updates right away.
I'm somewhat disappointed that CM9 will beat Google to updating my phone. I wouldn't mind rooting my phone to put ICS on it, but I'd rather not have to re-install everything. It seems you have to be rooted to make a full backup, and I need to make a backup before I root, so I'm pretty much stuck on stock.
If CM has the update before the Nexus phones do, then what is the point of buying a nexus phone? I might as well get whatever phone has the nicest hardware and just put CM on it if I can't rely on the updates being quicker from Google than CM.
Every single story I've read so far about malware on Android was people either installing apps off the internet or through a third-party app store. How is Google not doing a good job removing harmful apps from the market?
Whether or not freedom of speech covers the internet is up to the courts to decide, not congress. And since they've already determined that writing is a form of speech I don't see how writing "on the internet" would be any different.
I have a piece of graphite in my knee still from where I got stabbed with a pencil!
In all seriousness though, I remember a student that got kicked from my High School and had to go to the "bad kids" school. Apparently (not sure if this is true or not) he had to do his work in crayon because he tried to stab one of the teachers with a pen/pencil.
Well Android 2.4 actually has a battery meter that tells you exactly what is using up the battery. Most of the time I'm just reading various articles offline, but that doesn't really matter because (unless I'm mistaken) the battery monitor on Android seperates out the battery usage by Wifi, cell radios, ect.
The 60-70% I'm talking about is specifically from the "display" section in the battery monitor, which I assume only includes battery directly used by the screen.
My second biggest battery offender is usually voice calls, as talking even 30 minutes on the phone seems to suck up quite a bit of juice.
Typically I don't make calls that often, so my battery breakdown at the end of the day is usually something like: Display - 60% Pandora - 8% Cell Standby - 5% Android OS - 4% Wifi - 4% Android System - 3% Random apps/games - remaining 16%
It's possible that Android's battery monitor isn't really all that accurate, but that's what I get based on the data from it.
I have my phone screen on for about 2-3 hours per day due to bus rides. According to my the Android battery tracking thing my display uses up around 60-70% of my battery for the day, and this is on a Nexus S with the AMOLED screen that is supposed to use less battery than an LCD screen due to not having to light up the black pixels.
The screen really is huge when it comes to battery consumption.
Considering the vast majority of people are perfectly happy with 1920x1080 on a 50" screen, I doubt people will really care much if their 10" screen is any higher than that.
The BIGGEST complaint/problem with smartphones today is the lower battery life. If I could choose between doubling the resolution on my phone and doubling the battery life, I would choose the battery life in a heartbeat.
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I personally have my desktop connected to my living room TV, but even still I don't tend to play games on the television much. Most PC games are designed to be played from a close distance, and so even though my monitor is smaller and of worse resolution, they still tend to be better than on the TV.
In addition to this controllers still seem better than mouse/keyboard for TV gaming. Yes, controllers can be used with the PC but that's an additional cost, and not all games allow their use.
PCs would have to be vastly simplified to work for the average console consumer in my opinion, which kind of eliminates the entire point of playing on a PC.
This is my biggest grate with PC gaming. I'm a PC gamer myself who built my own desktop specifically for gaming, so I do love PC gaming. However, if I want to play a game with my wife it's much cheaper to buy it on ps3 (if available), than to buy two copies for the PC.
Also, while consoles are sadly getting away from local multiplayer and becoming more like PCs, there is still a larger amount of games with local multiplayer than on the PC. There's just something to be said for playing a game together on a single screen, rather than two separate screens.
And for groups of friends, there's no argument that a Wii with brawl or mario kart is by far the best way to go.
But what if every game is controllable using the gamepad? It's not like you don't have to buy controllers for consoles, and you already own a cell phone so it at least cuts out the price of the console itself.
Completely agree with this. I imagine a world (maybe in 10 years or so?) where when we come we simply place our cell phones on a little pad that connects them to all our other crap. They interact with our tv and wireless controllers for games, and our monitors, wireless keyboards, and wireless mice for computers.
The only problem is I don't see stuff like this really getting any attention outside the "geek/nerd" communities. Even the Apple patent cases, which are the most widely publicized from what I can tell, aren't really well known to people who don't care about their cell phone brand.
If you could shoot people for talking crap there would sure be a lot less assholes running around...
Right, because it's just as easy for a parent to drive to the nearest tennis court (which may be fairly far away if you aren't rich) and stay at the tennis court for an hour and then drive back, every day, as it is to buy wii sports.
Yes, it does.
Sorry but this is a misunderstanding of political systems. "eternaldoctorwho" is correct that voting for a third party is throwing your vote away in a two-party first past the post system.
If we are to create better outcomes in the US it would require a better system (such as one of the many proportional representation systems). Our system has been shown to create two-party dominance and shut out any further parties.
As for what we can really do, absolutely nothing. Those in power won't change the system because the system benefits them. America will just have to run it's course until something huge happens to destroy or drastically alter it; just like every other society throughout history.
Is it strange for that to sound like a lot of money for me? I'm currently a college student and my wife and I make about 20k a year combined. We currently rent a two bedroom house with plenty of room, I have a nice gaming computer I built myself, we have a 42 inch flatscreen TV, two cars, go out to eat fairly often, donate 40 dollars a month to sponsor a child from Kenya, ect. We live a good life and seem to have more "nice things" than most people I know.
Sure, I could use more money sometimes, especially when something unexpected comes up like having to get my brakes fixed, but we get by just fine. This is all on 10k per person. I would practically be swimming in money at 30k/year per person. What do people possibly spend all of their money on?
This. Exactly what he said. I hate having to put in my contacts that I very rarely wear anymore just to watch a movie. Screw that.
I don't think you really are allowed to sign away rights. There's a reason we don't see indentured servitude anymore.
I definitely use my PS3 to stream Netflix more than I play games on it. Although, that is only the case because I built my own gaming PC last year. If I didn't have my gaming PC I'd definitely be playing my PS3 a lot more.
I love Netflix. It's my only source of Television now. If Verizon buys Netflix I will be totally screwed.
Not to mention I bet if they buy Netflix the mobile app will be pulled from the market and merged with their "Verizon TV" crap, so anyone not on Verizon will not be able to watch Netflix on their phone anymore.
My browser tells me which looks are 'good' links and which are 'bad.'
http://www.mywot.com/
For those complaining that this is just a way to get cheap advertisement... Who cares?
Would you rather a company get their advertisement by helping kids go to college or by paying some huge advertisement firm?
Does their motives really matter in this case? I'd much rather the get their advertisement by helping people than paying for ads.
I bought a Nexus S for the sole intention that I didn't want to bother with rooting my phone and whatnot, but I still wanted to get the Android updates right away.
I'm somewhat disappointed that CM9 will beat Google to updating my phone. I wouldn't mind rooting my phone to put ICS on it, but I'd rather not have to re-install everything. It seems you have to be rooted to make a full backup, and I need to make a backup before I root, so I'm pretty much stuck on stock.
If CM has the update before the Nexus phones do, then what is the point of buying a nexus phone? I might as well get whatever phone has the nicest hardware and just put CM on it if I can't rely on the updates being quicker from Google than CM.
Every single story I've read so far about malware on Android was people either installing apps off the internet or through a third-party app store. How is Google not doing a good job removing harmful apps from the market?
Whether or not freedom of speech covers the internet is up to the courts to decide, not congress. And since they've already determined that writing is a form of speech I don't see how writing "on the internet" would be any different.
You're missing the point, the flash drive is the gift. The pre-loaded software is just a bonus.
I have a piece of graphite in my knee still from where I got stabbed with a pencil!
In all seriousness though, I remember a student that got kicked from my High School and had to go to the "bad kids" school. Apparently (not sure if this is true or not) he had to do his work in crayon because he tried to stab one of the teachers with a pen/pencil.
Oops. Android 2.3.7 to be correct, not android 2.4.
Well Android 2.4 actually has a battery meter that tells you exactly what is using up the battery. Most of the time
I'm just reading various articles offline, but that doesn't really matter because (unless I'm mistaken) the battery monitor on Android seperates out the battery usage by Wifi, cell radios, ect.
The 60-70% I'm talking about is specifically from the "display" section in the battery monitor, which I assume only includes battery directly used by the screen.
My second biggest battery offender is usually voice calls, as talking even 30 minutes on the phone seems to suck up quite a bit of juice.
Typically I don't make calls that often, so my battery breakdown at the end of the day is usually something like:
Display - 60%
Pandora - 8%
Cell Standby - 5%
Android OS - 4%
Wifi - 4%
Android System - 3%
Random apps/games - remaining 16%
It's possible that Android's battery monitor isn't really all that accurate, but that's what I get based on the data from it.
I have my phone screen on for about 2-3 hours per day due to bus rides. According to my the Android battery tracking thing my display uses up around 60-70% of my battery for the day, and this is on a Nexus S with the AMOLED screen that is supposed to use less battery than an LCD screen due to not having to light up the black pixels.
The screen really is huge when it comes to battery consumption.
Considering the vast majority of people are perfectly happy with 1920x1080 on a 50" screen, I doubt people will really care much if their 10" screen is any higher than that.
The BIGGEST complaint/problem with smartphones today is the lower battery life. If I could choose between doubling the resolution on my phone and doubling the battery life, I would choose the battery life in a heartbeat.