That means 10 years ago you would've picked the Saturn or the N64 over the PlayStation...
That means 20 years ago you would've picked 5 1/4" floppies over 3 1/2 floppies.
BluRay isn't a Sony format either, unlike BetaMax or MiniDisc. Neither are the problems. This isn't a matter of Sony themselves screwing up discs by other manufacturers, these discs are from Warner Home Movies, not Sony.
The only one with enough recognition to sell games would be the first war in Iraq, and that'd lose too many sales due to the tastelessness factor brought on by making a game like that while we're over there fighting again.
So you're going to stop using floppy disks, casette tapes, and FireWire?
Boycotting anything sony had to do with is going to get ridiculous. They've been involved in MANY technical decisions. many of which you have used/will use.
Anyway... BluRay does have spec for six layer discs at 33 gigs per layer, so... Nearly 200 gigs per disc. might get expensive but... There's your 100 gig optical disk.
Err, I mean, I'd like to throw in my 2 cents in on this, and he's right for the most part, most cablemodems don't time out unresponsive clients. Which is fun when routers decide to crash out and go completely unresponsive.
But, this might be a problem not at the modem end and probably something with the DOCSIS standard. Seeing as how I failed Electrical Engineering 101, I don't even want to look at the document that states what is and is not DOCSIS 2.0 compliant.
What Kaz Hirai said was that we're not going to see $100 ps3 games. Consumers have a hard time paying $59 for special edition games in the States. He's probably shitting his pants over the price of the ps3 as it is...
Not literally DeCSS mind you, but since every retard can decrypt, break and burn DVDs thanks to easy to use tools, studios have been eager to get push new un-piratable specs. They can't use DVD, since there's already a DVD spec and breaking that spec and starting over means new hardware anyway... So why not just make new specs for modern hardware? That way they can also justify lockdown on digital output. The HD-DVD crowd seems to awnt to jump on the idea to barely make a product that's barely better than the current incarnation of hardware, but BluRay seems to want to push this shit to the limit. 200 gig disks? Indestructable polymer layer?
Yeah, it's got DRM. But so do DVDs. CSS is a form of DRM. Not saying we should put up with it, but when it comes out en masse, I say we break it and whatever updates to the DRM system the BluRay group puts up. Sure, DRM is pretty evil, but it's pushing the new format war(my DRM is better than your DRM!).
PS3 does matter. It's standing on the shoulders of PS2 and that's why people are complaining loudly about how Sony "lied" and used them when it came to the original PS3 announcements. While it is a bit over blown to say that Sony lied(Seriously, who can even -use- 2 HDMI ports? Not even talking about -need-, but who can take advantage of that?), it is a bit more understandable to be disappointed by the price and release pushbacks. But that doesn't automatically make him, or the PS3, irrelevant in the market. Whether or not it will help establish BluRay as the dominant force in the market place is yet to be seen(the fact that more studios are behind BluRay probably will, though) also. BluRay isn't the UMD disc, betamax, or Minidisc. It's not Sony's proprietary format. The first drives are coming from Pioneer and Samsung for crying out loud.
No, they said Linux is bigger than Torvalds is and that his project has matured into something really spectacular and now irrelevant to today's tech world.
While it seems that Business2.0 has finally acknolwedged Ballmer's ability to eat bananas and hit things with bones.
There's a difference though in the way cars and software are both made. However, I feel the original analogy is correct. If I want to know how mozilla works, I can look at the source and try to figure it out. Since I'm a coder, I have an idea of what does what and it makes sense to me. The same way a mechanic can look inside a car's hood and find out how a car works.
yes, the US Gov't has lots of IPv4 addresses, but the number available to everyone else is shrinking rapidly. By switching to IPv6, every man, woman, child, dog, piece of field ammunition, toast, individually wrapped piece of butter, and toy car will have an IP address. Sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, the Government works for the people.:P
I was also FOURTEEN. Even then I knew that being a console bigot one way or the other was pretty pointless. Loadtimes in Street Fighter Alpha 2 for the SuperNES were worse than SFA2 on PS. I stayed away from the Saturn because all the cool cames came out in Japan and I was stupid and didn't know that you could mod it to play Japanese games.
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I can shake the bluray media and not have to worry about the read/write heads breaking.
I haven't bothered to read the article because the misleading headline pissed me off too much.
Redhat lets me play MP3s out of the box, Ubuntu needs a funky update. I spent 3 hours and 2 reboots on a Live disc to figure that out.
That means 10 years ago you would've picked the Saturn or the N64 over the PlayStation...
That means 20 years ago you would've picked 5 1/4" floppies over 3 1/2 floppies.
BluRay isn't a Sony format either, unlike BetaMax or MiniDisc. Neither are the problems. This isn't a matter of Sony themselves screwing up discs by other manufacturers, these discs are from Warner Home Movies, not Sony.
if you have a top loading NES, You can grab a honeybee adapter and a Famicom Disk System. :)
Otherwise, I'd recommend finding a bootleg cart. At which point you might as welle mulate...
So i guess this the cure for 17 stab wounds in the back...
The only one with enough recognition to sell games would be the first war in Iraq, and that'd lose too many sales due to the tastelessness factor brought on by making a game like that while we're over there fighting again.
But the sequel virtually writes itself!
It would be like if I punched you in the face on the street.
If you don't complain, then it's legal.
Yeah.
Call Sony and they'll give you the code to unlock it. Imagine that, reading the goddamn article.
Not until you make a cheap jab at Steve Ballmer.
So you're going to stop using floppy disks, casette tapes, and FireWire?
Boycotting anything sony had to do with is going to get ridiculous. They've been involved in MANY technical decisions. many of which you have used/will use.
Anyway... BluRay does have spec for six layer discs at 33 gigs per layer, so... Nearly 200 gigs per disc. might get expensive but... There's your 100 gig optical disk.
AOL!
Err, I mean, I'd like to throw in my 2 cents in on this, and he's right for the most part, most cablemodems don't time out unresponsive clients. Which is fun when routers decide to crash out and go completely unresponsive.
But, this might be a problem not at the modem end and probably something with the DOCSIS standard. Seeing as how I failed Electrical Engineering 101, I don't even want to look at the document that states what is and is not DOCSIS 2.0 compliant.
No.
Down grade.
Other than the lack of homebrew, Sony does introduce things into the firmware that make the thing more useful.
What Kaz Hirai said was that we're not going to see $100 ps3 games. Consumers have a hard time paying $59 for special edition games in the States. He's probably shitting his pants over the price of the ps3 as it is...
On the contrary, it's far from it.
Four Letters kids.
D E C S S
Not literally DeCSS mind you, but since every retard can decrypt, break and burn DVDs thanks to easy to use tools, studios have been eager to get push new un-piratable specs. They can't use DVD, since there's already a DVD spec and breaking that spec and starting over means new hardware anyway... So why not just make new specs for modern hardware? That way they can also justify lockdown on digital output. The HD-DVD crowd seems to awnt to jump on the idea to barely make a product that's barely better than the current incarnation of hardware, but BluRay seems to want to push this shit to the limit. 200 gig disks? Indestructable polymer layer?
Yeah, it's got DRM. But so do DVDs. CSS is a form of DRM. Not saying we should put up with it, but when it comes out en masse, I say we break it and whatever updates to the DRM system the BluRay group puts up. Sure, DRM is pretty evil, but it's pushing the new format war(my DRM is better than your DRM!).
Imagine the APIs and the underlying classes etc are all parts.
Looking under the hood, we can see where all the parts hook up.
Looking at source code, we can see what APIs were used and how.
Why can't there be a Heinlein award for insect repellant?
PS3 does matter. It's standing on the shoulders of PS2 and that's why people are complaining loudly about how Sony "lied" and used them when it came to the original PS3 announcements. While it is a bit over blown to say that Sony lied(Seriously, who can even -use- 2 HDMI ports? Not even talking about -need-, but who can take advantage of that?), it is a bit more understandable to be disappointed by the price and release pushbacks. But that doesn't automatically make him, or the PS3, irrelevant in the market. Whether or not it will help establish BluRay as the dominant force in the market place is yet to be seen(the fact that more studios are behind BluRay probably will, though) also. BluRay isn't the UMD disc, betamax, or Minidisc. It's not Sony's proprietary format. The first drives are coming from Pioneer and Samsung for crying out loud.
No, they said Linux is bigger than Torvalds is and that his project has matured into something really spectacular and now irrelevant to today's tech world.
While it seems that Business2.0 has finally acknolwedged Ballmer's ability to eat bananas and hit things with bones.
There's a difference though in the way cars and software are both made. However, I feel the original analogy is correct. If I want to know how mozilla works, I can look at the source and try to figure it out. Since I'm a coder, I have an idea of what does what and it makes sense to me. The same way a mechanic can look inside a car's hood and find out how a car works.
Private networkspace will only go so far, and NAT solutions are great for running clients behind firewalls but not ISPs.
yes, the US Gov't has lots of IPv4 addresses, but the number available to everyone else is shrinking rapidly. By switching to IPv6, every man, woman, child, dog, piece of field ammunition, toast, individually wrapped piece of butter, and toy car will have an IP address. Sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, the Government works for the people. :P
the Fourthb of July is a few weeks away for us American /.ers!
I was also FOURTEEN. Even then I knew that being a console bigot one way or the other was pretty pointless. Loadtimes in Street Fighter Alpha 2 for the SuperNES were worse than SFA2 on PS. I stayed away from the Saturn because all the cool cames came out in Japan and I was stupid and didn't know that you could mod it to play Japanese games.
did you enjoy your N64? While you were, I was busy playing Guilty Gear and Final Fantasy VII.
Most games these days have very short, if not unnoticeable loadtimes.
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