Oh my, you're not doing awfully well as a Microsoft apologist/shill now, do you? I mean, you explicitly state you don't know what you are talking about (PS3 online service, unified friends list, and so on), but then you get all aggressive as soon as someone (that would be me) pulls your leg with a little aside, regardless.
Just my two cents here: PSN doesn't even try to be Live, it follows a different concept, so what about getting over it and stopping to do futile comparisons, like "Hey, PSN doesn't look as shiny and web-like as Live, so it fails!"? I, for one, will welcome our new Home overlord as soon as it hits the earth, but I will not do any cheapskate comparisons à la "Live is what?! 2D only? That sucks!", because, you know, apples to oranges don't compare that well. If this helps: PSN is more like a back-end system, where Live is more front-end heavy. Let's hope both concepts get the job done, but accept that many don't find it acceptable for a paid service to be simply 'forgotten' to be beefed up for the peak sales season of the year.
You may balk at the paltry Live fee, but you get what you pay for.
Yes, you do. No, wait....
Re:The keyword in that diatribe was 'hyped'...
on
Cloverfield Discussion
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Are you by any chance referring to a screener version, filmed with a camcorder from within a movie theater? I don't know, but if they took a good one to the show, one that has a really good image stabilizer, who knows, maybe that would be the very first screener that's more watchable than the original movie. There's a scent of irony in that.
Usually on a farm you don't have to worry about people shooting at you
You have never been to the US, or watched any movies, I reckon? [insert random quote here, e.g. "I said, step away from my LAWN, you assclown incarnation of a Dr. Octopus, yes you!", "I'm not gonna say this twice, Sonny, I'm gonna ask you to leave. NOW! And take your motherf*nkin exoskeleton with you, now will ya?"]
It already does, but actually it is the Bin Laden Youth nowadays, and they are giving out free copies of MS Flight Simulator. Much harder to spot than actual gliders, if you ask me.
It's not incestuous at all, it's called a win/win situation. Although everyone (except IBM) also keeps losing a little bit at the same time. BTW, the summary is incorrect in that it completely forgets about/ignores the Cell chip also powering IBM's Blade servers. Not a small factor if you want to determine the chip's relative failure or success.
I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture
books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is
improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the
technical. As for those that say "you will be working at mcdonalds" ,
I'm going on to so a PhD in socialolgy where I'll be line for tenure
where I have a much more rewarding job then beeing a science freak or
an engineer.
Oh, the irony! My advice: read even more books, or use Firefox while posting. It comes with a spell checker.
I think this is good news. I couldn't care less about Skype on the PSP (although better to have the option than not have it), but this means that Sony are on good terms with the team behind Skype and VoIP will eventually be available on the PS3 as well, which is what I have been waiting for since I got the Playstation Eye. It just seems natural, and finally, our video calls to Japan might get through with better quality than now.
This post might have nothing to do with the parent post, but I'm with him concerning Itoh Misaki (I have to say, Ryoko Shinohara rules big time, though).
Well, you can also argue that not delaying the 360 indeed did make 360 a loser. The whole hardware design is flawed, as stated by top MS execs, six months more could have made a whole lot of a difference in terms of QA and improving cooling, overall stability and power efficiency. Instead, they hushed it out the door to gain an advantage which is now little by little melted away by a catastrophic failure rate of nearly 100% over the expected lifetime of a console (i.e., 4 to 5 years).
Consumer adhesion is still amazingly high, though: Would you still buy another car by Ford Motors if their current models all suffered sudden breakdowns on the highway at a rate of more than 10%? The whole Xbox disaster should dismantle Microsoft's trustworthiness as a hardware vendor for a long time coming, but marvelously, this doesn't seem to have happened yet.
That obviously accounts for only _some_ of the Slashbots on slashdot (as loud as they might have been). I never thought so, actually. HD-DVD might sound like a natural progression, but many non-geeks already gave up after CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW or double layer, or consider the whole Core2Duo, AMD-64-X2, Quad-whatever mumbo-jumbo. The CPU naming attempts being lame and even more confusing, I think that Blu-ray just got it right. "DVD or Blu-ray?" is an easy choice for John Doe; "DVD or HD-DVD?", not so much.
What the **** are you talking about? It has a blue ray, right? Right?;)
With that out of the way, let me repost what i wrote in another comment yesterday (I dislike linking to my own posts, as nobody clicks on those kinds of links anyway):
Don't underestimate the power of names here [..]. You might be a geek like me [..], so we'd know what we were talking about while shopping for HD-DVD, so as not to confuse them with the vanilla DVD format discs. But your mother in law might get confused a that point if you send her getting you some Blade Runner on HD-DVD.
In the not so distant future it will be much easier: Madam, do you need that movie on DVD or on Blu-ray? Actually, I find that completely unrelated name an ingenious move by that format's consortium.
Epilogue: Don't call the yet to come next gen disc format X-Blu-ray (or, mind you, S-HD-DVD for that matter); Green-beam or similar is much better in terms of user friendliness (ugly as it may be).
Unlike you, I've got better things to do, sorry. I'm not trying to sell anything to you, mate, it's you who just won't stop ranting. Not deluded? Read your journal entry once more, read it out loud to someone who cares for you, maybe they will explain it to you then. The flaws have already been pointed out for you, so I won't spare the time to elaborate it all again. Your awarding most points to HD-DVD is, at best, completely arbitrary and biased. Maybe good for you, but here nothing but spam that does nothing for the sake of this discussion.
Don't underestimate the power of names here, my friend. You might be a geek like me (though, not 100% sure on this, having a look at your user name), so we'd know what we were talking about while shopping for HD-DVD, so as not to confuse them with the vanilla DVD format discs. But your mother in law might get confused a that point if you send her getting you some Blade Runner on HD-DVD.
In the not so distant future it will be much easier: Madam, do you need that movie on DVD or on Blu-ray? Actually, I find that completely unrelated name an ingenious move by that format's consortium.
Epilogue: Don't call the yet to come next gen disc format X-Blu-ray (or, mind you, S-HD-DVD for that matter); Green-beam or similar is much better in terms of user friendliness (ugly as it may be).
You sound more hysteric and deluded with every post you make on this issue. Have a nice day pretending Blu-ray doesn't even exist. I'll even withstand my usual habit of trying to give my replies to something I consider idiotic a funny twist, because your cause just isn't worth it. Just makes me shake my head in disbelief.
But then you know, the funny thing is, I don't even think you're paid to make up crap like that, or if you were, and I were MS/Toshiba, I'd want my money back.
Well, who said to buy it ONLY to put Ubuntu on it? As for me, I put the stock Yellowdog linux on there but haven't used that since. It's nice anyway to have a replacement system readily installed if my main desktop PC should ever break down (which might be any day now, seeing that it won't boot at first trial some days). Ubuntu on a PS3 is good enough to get my translation work and my studies done.
I'm still curious as to why Xbox Live would normally have you sold, especially considering that PSN gets better with every update (as opposed to, well, XBL, as it seems). You can of course sit and wait how this plays out, maybe the introduction of Home (only, when?) tips you over, or Little Big Planet or whatever.
And there is one thing you forgot: You can install Ubuntu on a PS3, legally. Come on, it's time for another chance, don't you think?;)
Or what about: Stop trolling, get a PS3, Uncharted, Singstar and Warhawk, for starters, and sh*t the f*ck up? If you are unsure concerning my first few recommendations, you can always start with the last one.
What's troubling is that the mean time between failure seems to be decreasing sharply, and Microsoft seems to be unable to prevent them from happening at all. And fixing is taking longer and longer.
Doesn't this sound just awfully familiar? Maybe the Live core group has been replaced by the Windows quality assurance gurus, or maybe they just 'upgraded' the Live service to the same servers they use for Hotmail?
WTF, are people supporting shill/trolls on here now?
As long as they are posting insightful or interesting stuff, yes we do. In fact, if I had mod points available right now, I would tend to mod you at least flamebait, like I prefer to handle the majority of posts calling people with a different opinion shills.
Just because it's been copied and pasted before doesn't mean it must be wrong.
There'll be no format war. The first retail product exclusively using this disc format will be Duke Nukem Forever, which will settle any wars, and at the same time, time will have run out for good.
Is that BH as in Benson&Hedges, or rather as in Büstenhalter (read: bra)? Well, at least I've made up my mind as to which of those should preferably slow down the universe.
What's a "Lnadslide"?
What's a Lnad, for that matter?
Believe me when I tell you, you don't want to know that. I may tell you this much: Lnads are what you will inevitably run into when you overuse the Large Hardon Collider.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh my, you're not doing awfully well as a Microsoft apologist/shill now, do you? I mean, you explicitly state you don't know what you are talking about (PS3 online service, unified friends list, and so on), but then you get all aggressive as soon as someone (that would be me) pulls your leg with a little aside, regardless.
Just my two cents here: PSN doesn't even try to be Live, it follows a different concept, so what about getting over it and stopping to do futile comparisons, like "Hey, PSN doesn't look as shiny and web-like as Live, so it fails!"? I, for one, will welcome our new Home overlord as soon as it hits the earth, but I will not do any cheapskate comparisons à la "Live is what?! 2D only? That sucks!", because, you know, apples to oranges don't compare that well. If this helps: PSN is more like a back-end system, where Live is more front-end heavy. Let's hope both concepts get the job done, but accept that many don't find it acceptable for a paid service to be simply 'forgotten' to be beefed up for the peak sales season of the year.
Are you by any chance referring to a screener version, filmed with a camcorder from within a movie theater? I don't know, but if they took a good one to the show, one that has a really good image stabilizer, who knows, maybe that would be the very first screener that's more watchable than the original movie. There's a scent of irony in that.
It already does, but actually it is the Bin Laden Youth nowadays, and they are giving out free copies of MS Flight Simulator. Much harder to spot than actual gliders, if you ask me.
It's not incestuous at all, it's called a win/win situation. Although everyone (except IBM) also keeps losing a little bit at the same time. BTW, the summary is incorrect in that it completely forgets about/ignores the Cell chip also powering IBM's Blade servers. Not a small factor if you want to determine the chip's relative failure or success.
I think this is good news. I couldn't care less about Skype on the PSP (although better to have the option than not have it), but this means that Sony are on good terms with the team behind Skype and VoIP will eventually be available on the PS3 as well, which is what I have been waiting for since I got the Playstation Eye. It just seems natural, and finally, our video calls to Japan might get through with better quality than now.
This post might have nothing to do with the parent post, but I'm with him concerning Itoh Misaki (I have to say, Ryoko Shinohara rules big time, though).
Well, you can also argue that not delaying the 360 indeed did make 360 a loser. The whole hardware design is flawed, as stated by top MS execs, six months more could have made a whole lot of a difference in terms of QA and improving cooling, overall stability and power efficiency. Instead, they hushed it out the door to gain an advantage which is now little by little melted away by a catastrophic failure rate of nearly 100% over the expected lifetime of a console (i.e., 4 to 5 years).
Consumer adhesion is still amazingly high, though: Would you still buy another car by Ford Motors if their current models all suffered sudden breakdowns on the highway at a rate of more than 10%? The whole Xbox disaster should dismantle Microsoft's trustworthiness as a hardware vendor for a long time coming, but marvelously, this doesn't seem to have happened yet.
This is one of the best comments you can possibly make on the issue at stake.
That obviously accounts for only _some_ of the Slashbots on slashdot (as loud as they might have been). I never thought so, actually. HD-DVD might sound like a natural progression, but many non-geeks already gave up after CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW or double layer, or consider the whole Core2Duo, AMD-64-X2, Quad-whatever mumbo-jumbo. The CPU naming attempts being lame and even more confusing, I think that Blu-ray just got it right. "DVD or Blu-ray?" is an easy choice for John Doe; "DVD or HD-DVD?", not so much.
With that out of the way, let me repost what i wrote in another comment yesterday (I dislike linking to my own posts, as nobody clicks on those kinds of links anyway):
Unlike you, I've got better things to do, sorry. I'm not trying to sell anything to you, mate, it's you who just won't stop ranting. Not deluded? Read your journal entry once more, read it out loud to someone who cares for you, maybe they will explain it to you then. The flaws have already been pointed out for you, so I won't spare the time to elaborate it all again. Your awarding most points to HD-DVD is, at best, completely arbitrary and biased. Maybe good for you, but here nothing but spam that does nothing for the sake of this discussion.
Don't underestimate the power of names here, my friend. You might be a geek like me (though, not 100% sure on this, having a look at your user name), so we'd know what we were talking about while shopping for HD-DVD, so as not to confuse them with the vanilla DVD format discs. But your mother in law might get confused a that point if you send her getting you some Blade Runner on HD-DVD.
In the not so distant future it will be much easier: Madam, do you need that movie on DVD or on Blu-ray? Actually, I find that completely unrelated name an ingenious move by that format's consortium.
Epilogue: Don't call the yet to come next gen disc format X-Blu-ray (or, mind you, S-HD-DVD for that matter); Green-beam or similar is much better in terms of user friendliness (ugly as it may be).
You sound more hysteric and deluded with every post you make on this issue. Have a nice day pretending Blu-ray doesn't even exist. I'll even withstand my usual habit of trying to give my replies to something I consider idiotic a funny twist, because your cause just isn't worth it. Just makes me shake my head in disbelief.
But then you know, the funny thing is, I don't even think you're paid to make up crap like that, or if you were, and I were MS/Toshiba, I'd want my money back.
Well, who said to buy it ONLY to put Ubuntu on it? As for me, I put the stock Yellowdog linux on there but haven't used that since. It's nice anyway to have a replacement system readily installed if my main desktop PC should ever break down (which might be any day now, seeing that it won't boot at first trial some days). Ubuntu on a PS3 is good enough to get my translation work and my studies done.
I'm still curious as to why Xbox Live would normally have you sold, especially considering that PSN gets better with every update (as opposed to, well, XBL, as it seems). You can of course sit and wait how this plays out, maybe the introduction of Home (only, when?) tips you over, or Little Big Planet or whatever.
;)
And there is one thing you forgot: You can install Ubuntu on a PS3, legally. Come on, it's time for another chance, don't you think?
Or what about: Stop trolling, get a PS3, Uncharted, Singstar and Warhawk, for starters, and sh*t the f*ck up? If you are unsure concerning my first few recommendations, you can always start with the last one.
Good advice? You're welcome. Happy 2008!
There'll be no format war. The first retail product exclusively using this disc format will be Duke Nukem Forever, which will settle any wars, and at the same time, time will have run out for good.
That's more along the lines of, like, your ASCII art suX0rs.
Anyway, who else has a hard time imagining an army without right clicks?
Is that BH as in Benson&Hedges, or rather as in Büstenhalter (read: bra)? Well, at least I've made up my mind as to which of those should preferably slow down the universe.