The only foreseeable way that an e wallet could replace its traditional counterpart would be if it were bio-metric for security and 100% un-forge-able.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't do, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach gym.
Those who can't teach gym are executives at Yahoo.
Yahoo is dying and has been for a while, this is the kind of thing dying companies do to try and stay a float nothing more nothing less.
As long as digital media is view-able then it will be copy-able. That is the whole problem there has to be a way to access the media and once there is a way to access it there is a way to copy it... Like someone said earlier Fraps is capable of recording an entire screen (or a small section) but there are far better programs that do the same thing in higher quality. Like a computer DVR.
I think this all comes down to a price point. Everyone that owns a console game system wants it to be powerful. Power = money so the price of the system is high because they need the high end components to make a console powerful. Then everyone whines and complains that the console is expensive so they use lower end components and put out micro sized versions of the previous system with some of the features cut out. All I can say is if you cannot afford something that is expensive DO NOT BUY IT. It is as simple as that, video games are unessential they are a luxury that not everyone can afford and it has been that way ever since the Atari age. If they make systems modular then they will have to have the same hardware as before plus all the parts that will be used to expand them. That means they will be a computer motherboard with expansion cards which will be far more expensive in the long run. I play games constantly on my Xbox and PS3 but if every game that came out needed a expansion card for its own specific requirements, every game would cost as much as the damn console. So needless to say if you cannot afford a console when it first comes out then save your money and buy it later when the price is reduced instead of whining and complaining about something you do not need to live.
That is simply stupid, all high end consoles have a high end price tag. If they release a console and it sells for $200 with nothing but the base hardware on a modular design where it can be upgraded that is one thing but if you want all the power, memory, and GPU power that these systems have at launch you have to pay the premium price tag. You also forget that the PS3 was also one of the first Blu-ray players and it was the only one on the market at it's launch that was under the $600 price point. I would rather have a feature filled console than a shell that gets upgrades eventually because some people cannot afford the price tag. If you think it isn't worth the money then wait for the price to drop as they take out features. If the features were not there then it would simply be worthless and people would buy a PC instead.
Either that or they need to have a community end for emulation of their legacy games. I have seen some amazing emulation and ports done over the past 10 years. I know Sony is afraid of community in general because they do not want people to be able to pirate their games. However if the community has the tools to make plugins that Sony can review that can be used to play older games they can take measures to prevent the backwards compatibility data from affection future games or the system in general.
If I had been taught the nonsensical “science” that is creationism in college I would have had the teacher removed and the program changed It is just that damn simple. It is one thing to teach evolution and then teach creationism as a secondary that student chose to believe or disbelieve but if they were to only teach creationism and then say that no organism on the planet ever evolves or changes given their environment it would be simply retarded. Please see this chart http://youtu.be/7R6aFsxalM8 and then watch this http://youtu.be/Tngy3nI4Gac I think those two videos explain my point quite well
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The only foreseeable way that an e wallet could replace its traditional counterpart would be if it were bio-metric for security and 100% un-forge-able.
Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. Those who can't teach gym are executives at Yahoo. Yahoo is dying and has been for a while, this is the kind of thing dying companies do to try and stay a float nothing more nothing less.
As long as digital media is view-able then it will be copy-able. That is the whole problem there has to be a way to access the media and once there is a way to access it there is a way to copy it... Like someone said earlier Fraps is capable of recording an entire screen (or a small section) but there are far better programs that do the same thing in higher quality. Like a computer DVR.
I think this all comes down to a price point. Everyone that owns a console game system wants it to be powerful. Power = money so the price of the system is high because they need the high end components to make a console powerful. Then everyone whines and complains that the console is expensive so they use lower end components and put out micro sized versions of the previous system with some of the features cut out. All I can say is if you cannot afford something that is expensive DO NOT BUY IT. It is as simple as that, video games are unessential they are a luxury that not everyone can afford and it has been that way ever since the Atari age. If they make systems modular then they will have to have the same hardware as before plus all the parts that will be used to expand them. That means they will be a computer motherboard with expansion cards which will be far more expensive in the long run. I play games constantly on my Xbox and PS3 but if every game that came out needed a expansion card for its own specific requirements, every game would cost as much as the damn console. So needless to say if you cannot afford a console when it first comes out then save your money and buy it later when the price is reduced instead of whining and complaining about something you do not need to live.
That is simply stupid, all high end consoles have a high end price tag. If they release a console and it sells for $200 with nothing but the base hardware on a modular design where it can be upgraded that is one thing but if you want all the power, memory, and GPU power that these systems have at launch you have to pay the premium price tag. You also forget that the PS3 was also one of the first Blu-ray players and it was the only one on the market at it's launch that was under the $600 price point. I would rather have a feature filled console than a shell that gets upgrades eventually because some people cannot afford the price tag. If you think it isn't worth the money then wait for the price to drop as they take out features. If the features were not there then it would simply be worthless and people would buy a PC instead.
Either that or they need to have a community end for emulation of their legacy games. I have seen some amazing emulation and ports done over the past 10 years. I know Sony is afraid of community in general because they do not want people to be able to pirate their games. However if the community has the tools to make plugins that Sony can review that can be used to play older games they can take measures to prevent the backwards compatibility data from affection future games or the system in general.
If I had been taught the nonsensical “science” that is creationism in college I would have had the teacher removed and the program changed It is just that damn simple. It is one thing to teach evolution and then teach creationism as a secondary that student chose to believe or disbelieve but if they were to only teach creationism and then say that no organism on the planet ever evolves or changes given their environment it would be simply retarded. Please see this chart http://youtu.be/7R6aFsxalM8 and then watch this http://youtu.be/Tngy3nI4Gac I think those two videos explain my point quite well