Gotta love it.. absofreakinglutely nothing happens until election time. Whatever happened to the Florida terrorist group that made headlines last time the prezs numbers were hitting the floor?
uhm.. Adwords, Adsense, Support for Google Appliance and many other products i have used 10s of thousands of dollars on and don't meat the "par" customer they expect.
Shutting down of sites for no reason, cross closing non linked accounts, the list goes on and on.
ofcourse this payment system is new, but you would have to be an idiot to not recognize how brutally inept google's support system is.
They just can't handle it if you ask me. Glad to see i got modded down, you can take off those rose glasses whenever you come crying back to slashdot that Google support sucks when your credit cards and transactions are frozen.
The customer support SUCKS unless you are spending well over 60k a month or generating revenues in excsess of 10-15k a month.
I'm not sure how google can swing such a project when they refuse to answer questions, they freeze more accounts tha paypal ever has done and they don't provide a good user/consumer experience.
Google is all about satisfying few and reaping the rewards. Until they change their supremacy know it all attitude.. i won't "buy" it.
It is an extremely abstract device and thus i'm focused on the game instead of the controller The standard controller is abstract enough there isn't a steep learning curve to mastering. Aka mouse & keyboard for some. I can customize to my liking without impacting game play for the most part and i question if they're designing Wii games to specific game play because of the controlle.
Who thinks this will wear off really quick? I like game immersion in a seemless fashion where i can think, plan and strategize and the standard controller fits that perfectly.. The action of waving my arms around or shaking hands or even swaying back and forth just appears to be as another style of button mashing to me.
I think its a got a "neat-o" factor but hardly something I see myself adopting for anything longer then a party game system when i just want to BS around and not actually get immsersed into what i'm trying to accomplish.
From skype to skype is it still encrypted or did "govunment" get access as requested? I know skypeout eventually hits the public network but i'd have skype to skype with those calls that matter if its fully encrypted.
The security alerts are only prominent when you are using stuff that is:
1) Trying to install a Service 2) Modifying settings in controlpanel 3) Modifying the registry
and even then, most 1,2s and 3s are caused by non WDDM drivers, older software (unwise which isn't vista aware) and trying to make changes to the system that are "permanent" that you should be reminded of.
Oh, and you can disable all of the alerts if you bother to look for the way to do so.
at least it isn't security through obscurity and believe me there is plenty of help, wizards and assistance in trying to find out what it is warning you about and why.
If the 80 million in commissions Firefox/mozilla foundation made from google is only 15-25% of the total billed (google keeps this figure secret..)then google has made a TON of money from being the default on firefox.
Google is just being a little baby, they have the money to make there own OS/browser wifi networks and tons of other things.
Neutrality of the network keeps your right to QoS. Basically the telcos want to ban/limit/block what you can route on your connection at there perogative. Net neutrality means that they can't do that.
Telcos don't want you doing VoIP since that competes against there products. They don't want you doing IPtv since they think they own the network that can do such.
When i buy internet i don't buy "comcast" i buy comcasts network access to the internet. Net neutrality agreement was meant to enforce that "open access" in the most simplest form. Because the law failed comcast can now deny/filter/block data as they see fit or throttle sites to my connection as well as from my connections (because i'm hosting data)..
net neutrality has nothing to do with how you utilize the bandwidth/service YOU buy, its how the parent you are buying it from will CONTROL the service you buy by limiting what you can do with it.
No one forces you to buy a 360, no one forces you to buy Oblivion, no one forces you to buy Horse armor, no one forces you to buy Xbox live.
You buy it because you choose to do so. You buy it because it works, because you enjoy it and because you don't mind paying for someones hard work.
Sure horse armor for 2.50 is a joke. I don't dispute that. However the 360, xbox live and the game are all worth every penny i paid and then some. I'll choose not to buy the horse armor because..
you may guess it
i don't freaking HAVE to.
Thanks for blowing this way out of proportion and making yourselves look like idiots. Move along.
I have a HD set and all the necessary goodies to make the 360 go to the limit (but not at 1080i). Will I buy it? No way. I have a full time job and a social life with real live human beings that don't have controllers glued to their hands.
Not having a personal life is a personal issue. Has nothing to do with owning a Nintendo vs Sony vs Microsoft Console. Thats a pretty weak statement.
I want a gaming experience that doesn't require a novel length instruction manual and memorizing 50 button sequences to make it to even the opening level. The uptick in quality isn't worth it if I can't learn and enjoy the game within the limits of my available time. The current crop of 360 games look like rehashed splatter button mashers.
You just contradict yourself again. You don't want to learn the game and then you accuse them of being button mashers, come on, choose your pill buddy.
I have 4 360 games and none of them are button mashers. FNR3 requires some skill, kameo requires thought process in solving how to get in and out of situations, project gotham requires memorization and patience and a thoughtfull understanding of cars/racing and physics and ghost recond requires a bit of intelligence, planning, patience and style.
None of them are button mashers, all are enhanced through HD and Dolby Digital and great gameplay online and offline.
Not every gamer is 13 with huge amounts of free time. The price of entry to play is too high for the amount of time I have available. The Revolution should fit the bill nicely particularly at the $199.00 price point combined with the huge amount of games available on line. I think Nintendo has created a new market segment with their usual creative thinking. Will they outsell Sony or Microsoft? Probably not but I think a lot of hard core gamers will have it as a second unit.
I'm pushing 30, have kids and don't have time to game. that is the beauty of the console market in general. I am however an HD nut, movie fan and home theater builder and i appreciate how Microsoft has taken that market and delivered a product that meets and exceeds my expectations on a daily basis.
If you don't think the 360 is creative, your not thinking.
I'm not sure if you noticed but the 360 already has tons of online games (Xbox live arcade) tons of offline games (80 by summer) and demos of games hitting the stores to boot in order to "try before you buy"
Not only do they have these games but they're enhanced for the online experience, from shared scores to leader boards to downloads, online competitions and more.
mind you what nintendo is doing is brive, but don't be blind to what gamers want. Your not a "real" gamer just because your a fanboy. Your a real gamer when you can appreciate and value the time and experiences you get from gaming and the 360 has delivered that hands down top notch experience i haven't felt since the genesis days.
The 360 is designed for the whole experience. Dolby Digital Sound, High Definition Picture and online integration and capabilities that are second to none.
You define nintendo by not behing HD, we define the 360 by being HD. You can't tell me that the experience the xbox 360 generates isn't a "gaming revolution"
I'm sorry, but i invested in great High def video for my pc, my movies and yes now my console and i won't ever look back since the overall experience is mindblowing when you go back and think of how quickly we got to where we are today.
I'm not sure about the life you live but i sure as hell don't get to drive tanks, fight funny creatures and morph into different characters and go on epic journeys in lush forrests and such.
lemme guess... you think you pay too much taxes, you want to keep all your money, you think poor people are freeloaders no good dirty rotten people who can't do anything for themselves, you can't stand the fact you have to wait to buy guns and your dreaming of the day when you don't have to pay social security and drooling for when the gates of heaven open up especially for you. You still blame Clinton for the war, you think we should drill in alaska, women should stay home and you think your hot snot. Oh yeah, lets not forget you probably masturbate to iraq war videos, you have posters of ronald reagan in your bathroom, you root for your favorite football team and preach about your favorite os but yet have zero sense of the world around you or what it means to be human and have a decent sense of humanity because your too worried about how everything should revolve around you to even notice or care.
grow up dude. i can smell your stench from miles away..
And your comments are ohh so insightfull. In your case you voted for a loosing war, you voted for soldiers dying, you voted for a huge disaster iraq is because the other side didn't have magic pill.
Dumbass it's about getting ideas and people together. People like you are PART of the problem.
You have to recognize failure before you can fix it. Bush doesn't even do that. At least the dems did.
Give credit where credit is due. Ignorance isn't a solution buddy. Get with the program.
The only limitation is locally installed codecs which is fairly easily to get around using live transcoding from your MCE server.
Infact the functionality of the 360 is only limited as it is because previes extenders were horribly under powered and thus developers artificially limited functionality.
360 is great as a MCEX. I regularly play HDTV over mine and its pretty flawless and smooth. I typically do 6-8mpbs hd s treams or 3-4 mbps dvd rips WMV no problem.
And i won't read anything you have to say because your as closed minded as they come. "It runs linux, so it will solve the worlds problems"
FU and your blind mind. YOU are part of the problem. I've been there. My father works out there a good portion of the year. Believe me a wind up computer is the last these these kids and poor folks need. They need an end to civil unrest, they need an end to blight and famine. They need electricity, they need medecine, they need to get rid of the things that the "Western societies" have overcome. Believe me if you couldn't eat, were crapping out worms and 75% of your family is going to die from aids by the time they're 25 years old you may think differently.,
THis isn't a pissing match between bill gates and someone who wants to create a laptop for the poor, it's about what REALLY needs to happen to solve the problems of the poor and 3rd world countries the world over.
You don't debunk anything. Infact you prove how short sighted you are in using your hate towards microsoft as a reason to invalidate Gates own words.
Do you speak of how these will enable communities? how they will do more than pen and paper? how they will accomplish what you think they will?
We would do better getting electricity and putting lights in schools so they can read/write on pen and paper before we try having them crank away on a "pc". No to mention making sure every kid is healthy enough to attend school and has the nourishment and security to make living a reality.
these people dont care or even know about bill gates or windows or linux or any of this pathetic stuff people fight about. They know the life they live and we could do a lot more to make it better and while i admire what these devices are trying to accomplish i think it is a horrible misjudgement and lack of understanding as to what these people really need.
Dumbed down? These machines are a work of networking genius. And they run fucking Linux, which frees them up completely.
Show me how they're "genius" just because they run a DUMBED down version of linux as well? And can you prove your point without showing how immmature you in swearing your point across?
Anything you've seen calling this an attempt to "solve the problem of 3rd world technology and computing" was market speak. This is no different to anything else - a step forward.
A step forward for american capitalism, hardly solves the needs or requirements of 3rd world countries. These people aren't going to be doing wordprocessing, learning spreadsheets or typing up novels on these things. They're going to be selling them on the black market to US kids who want one to take apart because it runs linux. I don't think people who are this piss poor and abandoned by there nation give a hoot if the darned thing runs linux or not. Have you ever BEEN to these 3rd world places? Democracy isn't going to flourish because of these, kids won't learn because of these and those that get them won't be any more connected or enriched because of these.
Get them books, get them power, teach them the power of societies and civilazations that have stable and supportive forms of government. Teach them economics, teach them to communicate, help build infrastructure but for gods sake don't just give them something like this and expect it to solve the problems that go much deeper then you care to think of.
Infrastructure? These laptops are infrastructure. And I can't think of anything more "from the ground up" than KIDS.
These people don't have food, yet alone a computer. They don't have security. They don't have places to keep this stuff. This computer isn't going to network them, open up channels of communication, enable or embrace freedom or teach them anything we don't already teach them. Schools may have this for students to do whatever but unless we open up the channels of communication these tools are as useless as what they're limited to do when they get them.
Wireless broadband infrastructure? And what do you propose they connect to this wireless broadband? Sounds like your fantasy world is a step ahead of the rest of us.
Well DUH , if we didn't waste millions on these useless wind up toys they could have wireless devices and infrastructure in place. Perhaps even running Power, installing cell towers and solar power distribution and wind farms. If people can't cook, eat, get news and connect then what good is typing up stuff on a cheap laptop?
I'm sick to death of smug Slashdotters pissing on this project as if they know better than MIT and the UN.
I'm sick of people who think they know nothing and suggest that the UN and MIT or anyone for that matter simply knows better. You have a brain. Use it. And by your point why don't you trust Gates opinion considering he's done more for these people than the UN and MIT combined in many cases?
I'm a firm believer in teaching man to do something and giving them the tool to do so; but i don't think the tool we need to be spending money on right now is a linux computer or a windows computer or any computer for that matter. Hell getting all of these people blackberries would be cheaper and more effecient.
The power of computing and the utility of the OS has absolutely nothing to do with the ram it consumes on bootup.
Launch a word processor, web browser, email client, desktop chat, shared drives to a server and then let me know how much memory is used. (real world scenerios)
Also let me know which one is more responsive, easier to use and integrated the best.
You don't solve the problem of 3rd world technology and computing by dumbing it down and providing a tool that does a few things. You go in and build infrastructure, support the communities and develop them from the ground up.
The future of computing isn't wind up "puters" that can send email, it's rich clients, broadband and infrastructure. For the cost of R&D, support, delivery and maintenance on these you could easily give these countries wireless broadband infrastructure, jobs and start building up economies and getting "real" services in instead of giving them a bone and hoping they're happy with it.
i could go to toys r us and buy toys more powerful and less costly than these wind up devices.
good idea.. i guess so for what they're trying to do but it seems like a horrible waste of talent to dumb things down because we don't want to help these countries get where they need to be but find some way to make money off them and hope they enjoy a dumbed down device.
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Gotta love it.. absofreakinglutely nothing happens until election time. Whatever happened to the Florida terrorist group that made headlines last time the prezs numbers were hitting the floor?
uhm.. Adwords, Adsense, Support for Google Appliance and many other products i have used 10s of thousands of dollars on and don't meat the "par" customer they expect.
Shutting down of sites for no reason, cross closing non linked accounts, the list goes on and on.
ofcourse this payment system is new, but you would have to be an idiot to not recognize how brutally inept google's support system is.
They just can't handle it if you ask me. Glad to see i got modded down, you can take off those rose glasses whenever you come crying back to slashdot that Google support sucks when your credit cards and transactions are frozen.
The customer support SUCKS unless you are spending well over 60k a month or generating revenues in excsess of 10-15k a month.
I'm not sure how google can swing such a project when they refuse to answer questions, they freeze more accounts tha paypal ever has done and they don't provide a good user/consumer experience.
Google is all about satisfying few and reaping the rewards. Until they change their supremacy know it all attitude.. i won't "buy" it.
Isn't good enough for you? The prize for abolishing disease, starvation, education and humanity isn't worthy?
come on
It is an extremely abstract device and thus i'm focused on the game instead of the controller The standard controller is abstract enough there isn't a steep learning curve to mastering. Aka mouse & keyboard for some. I can customize to my liking without impacting game play for the most part and i question if they're designing Wii games to specific game play because of the controlle.
Who thinks this will wear off really quick? I like game immersion in a seemless fashion where i can think, plan and strategize and the standard controller fits that perfectly.. The action of waving my arms around or shaking hands or even swaying back and forth just appears to be as another style of button mashing to me.
I think its a got a "neat-o" factor but hardly something I see myself adopting for anything longer then a party game system when i just want to BS around and not actually get immsersed into what i'm trying to accomplish.
i love it when people try something they have no clue about and call it a piece of crap. Way to blow it!
From skype to skype is it still encrypted or did "govunment" get access as requested? I know skypeout eventually hits the public network but i'd have skype to skype with those calls that matter if its fully encrypted.
The security alerts are only prominent when you are using stuff that is:
1) Trying to install a Service
2) Modifying settings in controlpanel
3) Modifying the registry
and even then, most 1,2s and 3s are caused by non WDDM drivers, older software (unwise which isn't vista aware) and trying to make changes to the system that are "permanent" that you should be reminded of.
Oh, and you can disable all of the alerts if you bother to look for the way to do so.
at least it isn't security through obscurity and believe me there is plenty of help, wizards and assistance in trying to find out what it is warning you about and why.
If the 80 million in commissions Firefox/mozilla foundation made from google is only 15-25% of the total billed (google keeps this figure secret..)then google has made a TON of money from being the default on firefox.
Google is just being a little baby, they have the money to make there own OS/browser wifi networks and tons of other things.
Neutrality of the network keeps your right to QoS. Basically the telcos want to ban/limit/block what you can route on your connection at there perogative. Net neutrality means that they can't do that.
Telcos don't want you doing VoIP since that competes against there products. They don't want you doing IPtv since they think they own the network that can do such.
When i buy internet i don't buy "comcast" i buy comcasts network access to the internet. Net neutrality agreement was meant to enforce that "open access" in the most simplest form. Because the law failed comcast can now deny/filter/block data as they see fit or throttle sites to my connection as well as from my connections (because i'm hosting data)..
net neutrality has nothing to do with how you utilize the bandwidth/service YOU buy, its how the parent you are buying it from will CONTROL the service you buy by limiting what you can do with it.
That is so yesterday. Not just yesterday as in a few days, yesterday as in 1997, 1998.
No one forces you to buy a 360, no one forces you to buy Oblivion, no one forces you to buy Horse armor, no one forces you to buy Xbox live.
You buy it because you choose to do so. You buy it because it works, because you enjoy it and because you don't mind paying for someones hard work.
Sure horse armor for 2.50 is a joke. I don't dispute that. However the 360, xbox live and the game are all worth every penny i paid and then some. I'll choose not to buy the horse armor because..
you may guess it
i don't freaking HAVE to.
Thanks for blowing this way out of proportion and making yourselves look like idiots. Move along.
The 360 is designed for the whole experience. Dolby Digital Sound, High Definition Picture and online integration and capabilities that are second to none.
You define nintendo by not behing HD, we define the 360 by being HD. You can't tell me that the experience the xbox 360 generates isn't a "gaming revolution"
I'm sorry, but i invested in great High def video for my pc, my movies and yes now my console and i won't ever look back since the overall experience is mindblowing when you go back and think of how quickly we got to where we are today.
Push the limits
Ghost Recon? Oblivion? Kameo?
I'm not sure about the life you live but i sure as hell don't get to drive tanks, fight funny creatures and morph into different characters and go on epic journeys in lush forrests and such.
lemme guess... you think you pay too much taxes, you want to keep all your money, you think poor people are freeloaders no good dirty rotten people who can't do anything for themselves, you can't stand the fact you have to wait to buy guns and your dreaming of the day when you don't have to pay social security and drooling for when the gates of heaven open up especially for you. You still blame Clinton for the war, you think we should drill in alaska, women should stay home and you think your hot snot. Oh yeah, lets not forget you probably masturbate to iraq war videos, you have posters of ronald reagan in your bathroom, you root for your favorite football team and preach about your favorite os but yet have zero sense of the world around you or what it means to be human and have a decent sense of humanity because your too worried about how everything should revolve around you to even notice or care.
grow up dude. i can smell your stench from miles away..
And your comments are ohh so insightfull. In your case you voted for a loosing war, you voted for soldiers dying, you voted for a huge disaster iraq is because the other side didn't have magic pill.
Dumbass it's about getting ideas and people together. People like you are PART of the problem.
You have to recognize failure before you can fix it. Bush doesn't even do that. At least the dems did.
Give credit where credit is due. Ignorance isn't a solution buddy. Get with the program.
The only limitation is locally installed codecs which is fairly easily to get around using live transcoding from your MCE server.
Infact the functionality of the 360 is only limited as it is because previes extenders were horribly under powered and thus developers artificially limited functionality.
360 is great as a MCEX. I regularly play HDTV over mine and its pretty flawless and smooth. I typically do 6-8mpbs hd s treams or 3-4 mbps dvd rips WMV no problem.
Isn't enough?
Personally i wouldn't know if playboy mirrored. The last thing i would be looking for there is linux.
And i won't read anything you have to say because your as closed minded as they come. "It runs linux, so it will solve the worlds problems"
FU and your blind mind. YOU are part of the problem. I've been there. My father works out there a good portion of the year. Believe me a wind up computer is the last these these kids and poor folks need. They need an end to civil unrest, they need an end to blight and famine. They need electricity, they need medecine, they need to get rid of the things that the "Western societies" have overcome. Believe me if you couldn't eat, were crapping out worms and 75% of your family is going to die from aids by the time they're 25 years old you may think differently.,
THis isn't a pissing match between bill gates and someone who wants to create a laptop for the poor, it's about what REALLY needs to happen to solve the problems of the poor and 3rd world countries the world over.
Get over yourself dude
You don't debunk anything. Infact you prove how short sighted you are in using your hate towards microsoft as a reason to invalidate Gates own words.
Do you speak of how these will enable communities? how they will do more than pen and paper? how they will accomplish what you think they will?
We would do better getting electricity and putting lights in schools so they can read/write on pen and paper before we try having them crank away on a "pc". No to mention making sure every kid is healthy enough to attend school and has the nourishment and security to make living a reality.
these people dont care or even know about bill gates or windows or linux or any of this pathetic stuff people fight about. They know the life they live and we could do a lot more to make it better and while i admire what these devices are trying to accomplish i think it is a horrible misjudgement and lack of understanding as to what these people really need.
Show me how they're "genius" just because they run a DUMBED down version of linux as well? And can you prove your point without showing how immmature you in swearing your point across?
A step forward for american capitalism, hardly solves the needs or requirements of 3rd world countries. These people aren't going to be doing wordprocessing, learning spreadsheets or typing up novels on these things. They're going to be selling them on the black market to US kids who want one to take apart because it runs linux. I don't think people who are this piss poor and abandoned by there nation give a hoot if the darned thing runs linux or not. Have you ever BEEN to these 3rd world places? Democracy isn't going to flourish because of these, kids won't learn because of these and those that get them won't be any more connected or enriched because of these.
Get them books, get them power, teach them the power of societies and civilazations that have stable and supportive forms of government. Teach them economics, teach them to communicate, help build infrastructure but for gods sake don't just give them something like this and expect it to solve the problems that go much deeper then you care to think of.
These people don't have food, yet alone a computer. They don't have security. They don't have places to keep this stuff. This computer isn't going to network them, open up channels of communication, enable or embrace freedom or teach them anything we don't already teach them. Schools may have this for students to do whatever but unless we open up the channels of communication these tools are as useless as what they're limited to do when they get them.
Well DUH , if we didn't waste millions on these useless wind up toys they could have wireless devices and infrastructure in place. Perhaps even running Power, installing cell towers and solar power distribution and wind farms. If people can't cook, eat, get news and connect then what good is typing up stuff on a cheap laptop?
I'm sick of people who think they know nothing and suggest that the UN and MIT or anyone for that matter simply knows better. You have a brain. Use it. And by your point why don't you trust Gates opinion considering he's done more for these people than the UN and MIT combined in many cases?
I'm a firm believer in teaching man to do something and giving them the tool to do so; but i don't think the tool we need to be spending money on right now is a linux computer or a windows computer or any computer for that matter. Hell getting all of these people blackberries would be cheaper and more effecient.
The power of computing and the utility of the OS has absolutely nothing to do with the ram it consumes on bootup.
Launch a word processor, web browser, email client, desktop chat, shared drives to a server and then let me know how much memory is used. (real world scenerios)
Also let me know which one is more responsive, easier to use and integrated the best.
You don't solve the problem of 3rd world technology and computing by dumbing it down and providing a tool that does a few things. You go in and build infrastructure, support the communities and develop them from the ground up.
The future of computing isn't wind up "puters" that can send email, it's rich clients, broadband and infrastructure. For the cost of R&D, support, delivery and maintenance on these you could easily give these countries wireless broadband infrastructure, jobs and start building up economies and getting "real" services in instead of giving them a bone and hoping they're happy with it.
i could go to toys r us and buy toys more powerful and less costly than these wind up devices.
good idea.. i guess so for what they're trying to do but it seems like a horrible waste of talent to dumb things down because we don't want to help these countries get where they need to be but find some way to make money off them and hope they enjoy a dumbed down device.