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As stated in other comments, Xbox has a long way to go before reaching the level the PS2 has managed to reach. Technical Problems aside, the hardware problems has tarnished the image of the X360 release. 2% or not, many seemed to know someone who knew someone who's brother's dad had problems with it. True or not hearsay is powerful.
Next-Gen is still unknown to the masses. Technology right now is diluting itself. Retailers are pushing Hi-def, but there is little content for it, and non-techies can't tell the diffrence less they see it side by side. HD/Blu-Ray are pushing for new Media, but DVD is out there, and VHS still has a significant role as well, evident by the availablilty of new movies on DVD and VHS Format. Game is no diffrent. It looks like a game. It plays like a game, wow this must be another game!
It's highly unlikely the PS3 will Fail due to blu-ray, and every article and speculation (since there is NOTHING ELSE but speculation) I've read indicates Blu-Ray costs will most likely get eaten by Sony, akin to DVD drives in the PS2 Release. Sony can build most of the parts for their consoles in house via their own manufacturing plants further reducing the costs.
Anything is possible, but its pretty unlikely the PS3 will fail. Many thought the market would not support 3 Mainstream consoles when Xbox Came out, but its proven it can, and looks to continue that trend.
The PS3 is Confirmed to be backwards compatible. So the PS2 Library is going to roll over to the PS3. Maybe with some enhancements like better AA to make games look even better on the new engine.
However the opposite is true with Xbox2. And the the game would more then likely be part of the release lineup for Xbox2, which would be limited to early adopters.
It would seem to me, that Nintendo should be fighting for it as well. Their new system is also backwards compatible. The only reason I can see The GC not being viable, is the fact that the PS2 is in more homes then a GC.
Actualy Many trucks have laptops in them, or at least a form of a computer terminal to keep track of a number of diffrent things, like time slept, driving, etc. that reports back to their dispatchers. IIRC if they don't get 8 Hrs break in ever 24 hrs, they can get in big trouble.
I don't think most Truck drivers are very Tech savy though. That demographic is part of who AOL and MSN are targeting.
Its really nice to see Sony's Consumer Electronics area creating devices like this. Even knowing that the Sony Media group is pulling their hair out over these devices and the Piracy they supposedly cause.
ITs interesting, since I Just purchased a sony CD/MP3 Player for my car. in the Manual it indicates that the player conforms to the CD-Standard, and cannot read disks with copyright protections that do not conform to the CD-Standard.
"This Product is designed to play back dissk that conform to the Compact Disk (CD) Standard. Recently Various music disks encoded with copyright protection are marketed by some record companies. Please be aware that among those disks there are some that do not conform to the CD Standard and may not be playable by this device."
Not sure exactly when, but I cut my teeth on RH 4.0 back in HS. and hated it, and then found Slackware 3.2 I think off of Cheapbytes.com and installed it. It was great. I actualy didn't have any trouble getting X to work with it. I specificly rember how much of a pain in the ass Getting E to work was. Downloading all the packages, trying to get one to work with the other.
It was a true pain. but Just seeing Enlightenment load up was a true work of art. Nowadays with KDE and Gnome PRepackaged, many people don't get to have the fun so many of us did getting those Beta Window Mangers to run.:)
I agree training costs money but MANY goverment agencies are using very old usualy custom software, many times running on *nix Backends to do their work.
The OS is just a mouse for them to double click icons. It would not be very hard to create a new interface to run in linux, and slap an icon on their desktop to run that interface, which looks very familiar to Windows, and still allows them to work comfertably in the custom software they have been using for some time.
It really all depends on what apps they have been using to determine if they need to retrain MANY things or not.
They May have control over Supply and Demand, but having an econmy become stable in any game is tedious, and difficult to obtain. You have limited Resources in the game for just that reason limited.
Gold is Valueable in DAoC, and when you hit 35+ you start accumulating Lots of it, and not having much to spend it on as at 35+ you start getting the better items in the game from Mobs.
Disrupting the Economy is a bad thing, as it any Real economy, increasting the amount in circulation, will raise the cost of the items. I don't see how this would solve the problem.
Anyways They are against the EULA clearly stated, now we just have to see how their Claims hold up in court.
I wish this Fact about Player Crafted Equipment was true, but as of right now, it is not..
It will be soon tho. I have an Active account in DAoC on Palomidies, Bedever, and Iseult, 2/3 of which Craft. The High lvl People in the Game use Droped equipment, as it has better Stats then Crafted armor. It can have Status Boosts (+ to Strength and Hitpoints for instance), where this is not possible on Player Crafted Equipment.
This is in the works however with a TradeSkill Called Spellcrafting, but as of right now. Drops are Better then Crafted..
I agree, I myself am not sure about having it so the masses don't see the security flaw to begin with.
If someone manages to find and exploit a flaw in Bind, they will keep that info to themself because few know about it. That makes it more likely for them to use it again and again when they discover it.
By making a private list, to me, it is closing the doors to everyone else that uses bind leaving them open to possible explotation. It would suck if a large hole is ever discovered and the only people that know about it are on that mailing list.
I thought the purpose of opensource security is that it is just that... if everyone is aware, then someone can quickly patch the software themself until a official patch is released.
Anyone Search the toolbar for 'slashdot' and then click on the first link it shows?
The page Rank is only like 4/5ths of the way green.
Just Found that a Touch interesting....
$233 eh? I ordered my Creative A-Pro DDR for $246 Before Christmas, and it's still not here and won't be till Jan 24th. I bet you'll be able to geta MAXX REAL soon after it's released....Just because the Tests of it vrs the DDR version are very noticeable for the same price, and it will prob not be on Backorder for very long if it even gets to that state.
I'm a Gamer, I demand Proformance from my hardware.:)
Me Thinks Time for a new Job. I had no Problems with the rollover except for my employer taking their Website down over the Y2K issues (I THINK THAT WAS STUPID) so I couldn't do any CBT Learning over my holliday. Ya Ra.
THat allmost sounds like you are complaining about them..... Are they not Job security for you? You can take any perspective on these activities, but you can not have Good without Evil and this can be applied to anything, weither it be big Business, or Religion. More on the topic, the media gives us our view neutral...not good nor Evil, we are supposed to judge for ourselves what the act means to us. CNN gives the impression that etoy.com is to blame, which gives etoy.com an 'evil' appearance to the public.
Since when Has Indexing any web Page (which is on public Display Illegal? I can understand if you are Stealing copyright information, but how can you tresspass by indexing a web page? I would think it would be more of Plagerism then Tresspassing...
It's nice to See servers with this type of deveopment going on. With the prospect of SMP support in linux soon, maybe everyone will jump on this bandwagon to get Multiple processor Servers into the Mainstream of Testing/deveopment and allow linux to storm all of the Comm Rooms across the world..:)
now that we have superfast connections, and superfast pcs wonder if Telecommunications will finaly get better using IP...... I'd hope that video confrencing would be very economical (assuming phone co's or US Post office doesn't try to get a cut by taxing us some more) becasue it's nice to teleconfrence, but it's not a good 'telephone' conversation. With any luck, we'll be able to do that with massive bandwidth sooner.... think we can encode a Real time voice at 64k/sec into a streaming mp3?:) that would be pretty sweet....:)
Well, for your average gamer that is more then true, but in gfx, where rendering takes massive amounts of time, small gain in processors can have a big diffrence in work output. for him, OCing is a hobby, and with it comes faster rendering, so he wins both ways. he gets to tinker in his hobby, and see an increase in work output.
the thing about overclocking is the fact that tommarow you can allways overclock the next proccssor... sure he can get Alphas, but he can apply his cooling system to the next generation of CPUs as well, and continue to Overclock them higher and higher. if he can allmost double his current clockspeed, imagine what he can do when 800mhz comes out running at current cpu temps, and he can achieve 1.4ghz by applying his cooling system to it....
I'm not sure why you would need this. Why would your remote control need to be on the net? if you wanted to do something like this, wouldn't it be sensible to set up a proxy of some sort, and reserve all your household stuff for a Private Network? Last I checked you could easily use 192.168.1.0 for your network..... Having your individual appliances on the internet would also prove for exploits..... Can't you just see someone hacking someone's fridge, and putting it on 10 degrees Below freezing just to tick them off? Or Have someone change the channel in your house from somewhere else in the world because they exploited your remote control? We don't need to have our remote control on the internet taking up an IP adress... Private networks are out there for a reason.....
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If I had mod points, this post would get em. :thumbs up:
For once I wish I had mod points to Mod up some of the comments below this Post.
As stated in other comments, Xbox has a long way to go before reaching the level the PS2 has managed to reach. Technical Problems aside, the hardware problems has tarnished the image of the X360 release. 2% or not, many seemed to know someone who knew someone who's brother's dad had problems with it. True or not hearsay is powerful.
Next-Gen is still unknown to the masses. Technology right now is diluting itself. Retailers are pushing Hi-def, but there is little content for it, and non-techies can't tell the diffrence less they see it side by side. HD/Blu-Ray are pushing for new Media, but DVD is out there, and VHS still has a significant role as well, evident by the availablilty of new movies on DVD and VHS Format. Game is no diffrent. It looks like a game. It plays like a game, wow this must be another game!
It's highly unlikely the PS3 will Fail due to blu-ray, and every article and speculation (since there is NOTHING ELSE but speculation) I've read indicates Blu-Ray costs will most likely get eaten by Sony, akin to DVD drives in the PS2 Release. Sony can build most of the parts for their consoles in house via their own manufacturing plants further reducing the costs.
Anything is possible, but its pretty unlikely the PS3 will fail. Many thought the market would not support 3 Mainstream consoles when Xbox Came out, but its proven it can, and looks to continue that trend.
The PS3 is Confirmed to be backwards compatible. So the PS2 Library is going to roll over to the PS3. Maybe with some enhancements like better AA to make games look even better on the new engine.
However the opposite is true with Xbox2. And the the game would more then likely be part of the release lineup for Xbox2, which would be limited to early adopters.
It would seem to me, that Nintendo should be fighting for it as well. Their new system is also backwards compatible.
The only reason I can see The GC not being viable, is the fact that the PS2 is in more homes then a GC.
Actualy Many trucks have laptops in them, or at least a form of a computer terminal to keep track of a number of diffrent things, like time slept, driving, etc. that reports back to their dispatchers. IIRC if they don't get 8 Hrs break in ever 24 hrs, they can get in big trouble.
I don't think most Truck drivers are very Tech savy though. That demographic is part of who AOL and MSN are targeting.
Its really nice to see Sony's Consumer Electronics area creating devices like this. Even knowing that the Sony Media group is pulling their hair out over these devices and the Piracy they supposedly cause.
ITs interesting, since I Just purchased a sony CD/MP3 Player for my car. in the Manual it indicates that the player conforms to the CD-Standard, and cannot read disks with copyright protections that do not conform to the CD-Standard.
"This Product is designed to play back dissk that conform to the Compact Disk (CD) Standard. Recently Various music disks encoded with copyright protection are marketed by some record companies. Please be aware that among those disks there are some that do not conform to the CD Standard and may not be playable by this device."
Sent to our local IT Spammer, sure nuff 10 mins later the reply to everyone in the IT dept:
"Ok we all need a little humor right now funny thing is this is for real."
Not sure exactly when, but I cut my teeth on RH 4.0 back in HS. and hated it, and then found Slackware 3.2 I think off of Cheapbytes.com and installed it. It was great. I actualy didn't have any trouble getting X to work with it. I specificly rember how much of a pain in the ass Getting E to work was. Downloading all the packages, trying to get one to work with the other.
:)
It was a true pain. but Just seeing Enlightenment load up was a true work of art. Nowadays with KDE and Gnome PRepackaged, many people don't get to have the fun so many of us did getting those Beta Window Mangers to run.
I agree training costs money but MANY goverment agencies are using very old usualy custom software, many times running on *nix Backends to do their work.
The OS is just a mouse for them to double click icons. It would not be very hard to create a new interface to run in linux, and slap an icon on their desktop to run that interface, which looks very familiar to Windows, and still allows them to work comfertably in the custom software they have been using for some time.
It really all depends on what apps they have been using to determine if they need to retrain MANY things or not.
They May have control over Supply and Demand, but having an econmy become stable in any game is tedious, and difficult to obtain. You have limited Resources in the game for just that reason limited.
Gold is Valueable in DAoC, and when you hit 35+ you start accumulating Lots of it, and not having much to spend it on as at 35+ you start getting the better items in the game from Mobs.
Disrupting the Economy is a bad thing, as it any Real economy, increasting the amount in circulation, will raise the cost of the items. I don't see how this would solve the problem.
Anyways They are against the EULA clearly stated, now we just have to see how their Claims hold up in court.
I wish this Fact about Player Crafted Equipment was true, but as of right now, it is not..
It will be soon tho. I have an Active account in DAoC on Palomidies, Bedever, and Iseult, 2/3 of which Craft. The High lvl People in the Game use Droped equipment, as it has better Stats then Crafted armor. It can have Status Boosts (+ to Strength and Hitpoints for instance), where this is not possible on Player Crafted Equipment.
This is in the works however with a TradeSkill Called Spellcrafting, but as of right now. Drops are Better then Crafted..
I agree, I myself am not sure about having it so the masses don't see the security flaw to begin with.
If someone manages to find and exploit a flaw in Bind, they will keep that info to themself because few know about it. That makes it more likely for them to use it again and again when they discover it.
By making a private list, to me, it is closing the doors to everyone else that uses bind leaving them open to possible explotation. It would suck if a large hole is ever discovered and the only people that know about it are on that mailing list.
I thought the purpose of opensource security is that it is just that... if everyone is aware, then someone can quickly patch the software themself until a official patch is released.
Anyone Search the toolbar for 'slashdot' and then click on the first link it shows? The page Rank is only like 4/5ths of the way green. Just Found that a Touch interesting....
$233 eh? I ordered my Creative A-Pro DDR for $246 Before Christmas, and it's still not here and won't be till Jan 24th. I bet you'll be able to geta MAXX REAL soon after it's released....Just because the Tests of it vrs the DDR version are very noticeable for the same price, and it will prob not be on Backorder for very long if it even gets to that state.
:)
I'm a Gamer, I demand Proformance from my hardware.
Me Thinks Time for a new Job. I had no Problems with the rollover except for my employer taking their Website down over the Y2K issues (I THINK THAT WAS STUPID) so I couldn't do any CBT Learning over my holliday. Ya Ra.
THat allmost sounds like you are complaining about them..... Are they not Job security for you?
You can take any perspective on these activities, but you can not have Good without Evil and this can be applied to anything, weither it be big Business, or Religion.
More on the topic, the media gives us our view neutral...not good nor Evil, we are supposed to judge for ourselves what the act means to us. CNN gives the impression that etoy.com is to blame, which gives etoy.com an 'evil' appearance to the public.
Since when Has Indexing any web Page (which is on public Display Illegal? I can understand if you are Stealing copyright information, but how can you tresspass by indexing a web page? I would think it would be more of Plagerism then Tresspassing...
It's nice to See servers with this type of deveopment going on. With the prospect of SMP support in linux soon, maybe everyone will jump on this bandwagon to get Multiple processor Servers into the Mainstream of Testing/deveopment and allow linux to storm all of the Comm Rooms across the world.. :)
now that we have superfast connections, and superfast pcs wonder if Telecommunications will finaly get better using IP...... I'd hope that video confrencing would be very economical (assuming phone co's or US Post office doesn't try to get a cut by taxing us some more) becasue it's nice to teleconfrence, but it's not a good 'telephone' conversation. With any luck, we'll be able to do that with massive bandwidth sooner.... think we can encode a Real time voice at 64k/sec into a streaming mp3? :) that would be pretty sweet.... :)
Well, for your average gamer that is more then true, but in gfx, where rendering takes massive amounts of time, small gain in processors can have a big diffrence in work output. for him, OCing is a hobby, and with it comes faster rendering, so he wins both ways. he gets to tinker in his hobby, and see an increase in work output.
the thing about overclocking is the fact that tommarow you can allways overclock the next proccssor... sure he can get Alphas, but he can apply his cooling system to the next generation of CPUs as well, and continue to Overclock them higher and higher. if he can allmost double his current clockspeed, imagine what he can do when 800mhz comes out running at current cpu temps, and he can achieve 1.4ghz by applying his cooling system to it....
I have the same problem at work. can't see the images because of the firewall...I was unaware that the pics came in on port 81... interesting....
YUP!!!! hehe... nothing like hearing Darth's Breathing to settle your soul.....
I'm not sure why you would need this. Why would your remote control need to be on the net? if you wanted to do something like this, wouldn't it be sensible to set up a proxy of some sort, and reserve all your household stuff for a Private Network? Last I checked you could easily use 192.168.1.0 for your network..... Having your individual appliances on the internet would also prove for exploits..... Can't you just see someone hacking someone's fridge, and putting it on 10 degrees Below freezing just to tick them off? Or Have someone change the channel in your house from somewhere else in the world because they exploited your remote control? We don't need to have our remote control on the internet taking up an IP adress... Private networks are out there for a reason.....
Now only if Creative and EMU would get that message too...