Illegal immigration is unfair to folks from other countries like China and India and other regions like South America, Africa, and SE Asia. These other folks can't just jump a fence or hike a few miles. They should have the same opportunities to immigrate to America as folks from Mexico if they want.
The law needs to be changed to make illegal immigration difficult and legal immigration a lot easier. Border enforcement is necessary for that.
The question should be is it consistent with America's values? Or is it moral?
Isn't that a question to be decided by a majority of Americans in an election? I would think Americans should get to choose what they value, rather than have those decisions imposed on them.
The fate of these particular HD standards will be decided in the next 5 years, not in 50 years.
Yes, they'll either succeed or replaced by another high-def standard. They won't lose out because "DVDs are good enough".
The original poster claimed that better picture quality wasn't enough of a factor to cause people to upgrade. That's not reasonable in the long term. It may not be enough to cause people to upgrade "immediately", but they will eventually upgrade.
The "DVDs are good enough" people aren't thinking ahead.
They got sued for patent infringement because of rumble. They're probably going to lose that suit. I think that might be the major factor that caused them to remove it.
Because they did it in a rushed managerial fit to chase Nintendo, after publicly lambasting the N for the Revolution [wii] control system.
I don't understand how lambasting your competition while trying to copy their most distinctive feature is bad business. It's not great for intellectual honesty, but what's the cash value of intellectual honesty?
... it... won't... be... actually useful...
This seems to be the real argument you're making. It won't work. If you're right, then it's clearly a bad decision. If not, then not. I guess we'll see.
I think that putting it in at the start will eventually allow for it to be a good feature. You might have to buy a super-deluxe controller in another year that has much better motion-sensing and makes motion-sensing games much easier to play. The fact that they included it means games can use it. The controller will eventually be good enough. The lifespan of the console is going to be 5-10 years. There's plenty of time to make a great motion-sensing controller now that the feature is there.
I'm really scared for the PS3. I remember reading a recent comment on/. earlier about Sony's last-minute motion-senseing controller reeking of upper management mandating that said feature go into the product. I have a feeling that this same upper management is going to severely harm what was once a pretty sweet console.
I guess I don't get it. Are you saying adding motion-sensing was a bad idea? In what way? It's a feature. Worse case is it sucks and no one uses it and the controller is the same controller the PS2 had. How is this a problem? Best case is it's really cool and gives the PS3 a huge advantage over the XBOX360. Seems like a low risk, possibly high reward decision to me.
Adding features to stay competitive is one thing that upper management tends to do. What else would you expect?
Slashdot also famously predicted that the iPod would fail.
And later followed it up later by asking "Why would anyone buy an iPod Mini with 4 GB storage when they could spend an extra $50 and get a full-sized iPod with 20 GB?"
Question for you:
When HD DVD and Blu-ray fail, what will people buy instead? Do you honestly think HD movie buyers will be happy to go back to non-HD DVDs?
It would make sense to think that HD DVD and Blu-ray would lose to a third HD format, but they're not going to lose to nothing. Not in the long term. In 50 years, they won't be saying "It turned out no one really wanted to watch movies in High Definition, so that's why we still use good-old DVDs."
One of the reasons for this confusion might be the original design of MS Word. I heard somewhere long ago that the MS Word document format isn't a "format". It's just the order that the bits end up in when the write-to-a-file code is executed. No docs, no spec, nothing like that. That's why they had all the compatibility issues between versions.
So the document format IS the application.
Disclaimer: This is just something I heard. It's unlikely to still be the case, and it's possible it never was.
Tool or not, I'm going to be able to buy what I want based on its value to me.
Meanwhile, you won't because you're saddled with fear of ICT, or hate of Sony, or belief in some kooky conspiracy theories, or some other irrational emotional handicap. Good luck with that.
Sony's smarmy, arrogant "you'll buy it just because it's a Sony" attitude
That's not what they said. They said they'd sell the first 5 million that way. They didn't say YOU would buy it. Exact quote:
We have built up a certain brand equity over time since the launch of PlayStation in 1995 and PS2 in 2000 that the first five million are going to buy it, whatever it is, even it didn't have games.
Are you seriously saying this is incorrect? The online consensus seems to be that this is an accurate statement.
It might be your original console, but the Fairchild Channel F came out before the 2600 and was the first cartridge based home video game console.
All the rest copied it!!!!! The Fairchild Channel F is THE ORIGINAL console. Why can't every other company come out with an original product instead of just stealing Fairchild's ideas?
I have to go now, my candle is almost burned out. No 'lectric lights for me. Fire is THE ORIGINAL artificial light.
It depends on if you mean real ones or imaginary ones.
Imaginary reasons not to buy a PS3:
- Sony may keep games from being resold! (pointless speculation, and quite ridiculous.) - Image Constraint Token will keep me from watching HD movies in HD (no evidence this will happen) - Sony installed a rootkit on my PC (wrong Sony, you're thinking of Sony-BMG) - I hate Sony (congrats on your group-think skills) - They copied the Wii (I still use my Atari 2600, the ORIGINAL console) - They overhype stuff (So buy the product, not the hype.) - Blu-ray has DRM (And that's somehow worse than nothing?) - They said something that made me angry (grow up) - My wookie was nerfed in SWG (seriously, grow up)
Buy it if it does what you want. Don't if it doesn't. If you don't know yet, wait and see. We will welcome you into the ranks of rational consumers.
So you're saying I can steal top secret information without a buyer, then I take bids and sell it to the highest bidder. The buyer of the information is 100% free to do anything he wants with it, even though he knows it's top secret?
No. That's not how the law is written. It doesn't change if the buyer is a member of the press.
Environmentalists hate what their leaders tell them to hate. If they're not against fusion yet, it's because none of the movement leaders have figured out a way to profit from that position yet.
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You obviously are confused, its essentially a money back gaurantee...
Let's calculate:
money back for purchase price: $0
court costs: $5000
attorney's fees: $500000
punitive damages: $7 million (because it made me spill my coffee)
Total result: Software industry ends. Lawyers buy yachts.
"Redneck" is a slur against a group of people based on their skin color.
Slashdot (and everyone else) ought to be against that kind of thing.
Illegal immigration is unfair to folks from other countries like China and India and other regions like South America, Africa, and SE Asia. These other folks can't just jump a fence or hike a few miles. They should have the same opportunities to immigrate to America as folks from Mexico if they want.
The law needs to be changed to make illegal immigration difficult and legal immigration a lot easier. Border enforcement is necessary for that.
What?
in the United States, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD,) gives an estimate of the "full-employment unemployment rate" of 4 to 6.4%.
US unemployment rate is at 4.7%.
What about the future of 5,000 human workers?
They'll go get new jobs. We have a great economy and we're at more-or-less full employment.
The question should be is it consistent with America's values? Or is it moral?
Isn't that a question to be decided by a majority of Americans in an election? I would think Americans should get to choose what they value, rather than have those decisions imposed on them.
Data mining is unreasonable search.
Data mining isn't a search (in the terms of "unreasonable search and seizure") at all. You aren't being searched.
The fate of these particular HD standards will be decided in the next 5 years, not in 50 years.
Yes, they'll either succeed or replaced by another high-def standard. They won't lose out because "DVDs are good enough".
The original poster claimed that better picture quality wasn't enough of a factor to cause people to upgrade. That's not reasonable in the long term. It may not be enough to cause people to upgrade "immediately", but they will eventually upgrade.
The "DVDs are good enough" people aren't thinking ahead.
It's just like all those stereo buyers that upgraded to Quadraphonic audio systems in the early 1970s. That's why Quad was such a big success.
So you ARE saying that in 50 years people will still be watching movies on DVDs and there won't be a high-def movie standard that's in widespread use.
I disagree.
Because they removed ... rumble ... to do it.
... it ... won't ... be ... actually useful ...
They got sued for patent infringement because of rumble. They're probably going to lose that suit. I think that might be the major factor that caused them to remove it.
Because they did it in a rushed managerial fit to chase Nintendo, after publicly lambasting the N for the Revolution [wii] control system.
I don't understand how lambasting your competition while trying to copy their most distinctive feature is bad business. It's not great for intellectual honesty, but what's the cash value of intellectual honesty?
This seems to be the real argument you're making. It won't work. If you're right, then it's clearly a bad decision. If not, then not. I guess we'll see.
I think that putting it in at the start will eventually allow for it to be a good feature. You might have to buy a super-deluxe controller in another year that has much better motion-sensing and makes motion-sensing games much easier to play. The fact that they included it means games can use it. The controller will eventually be good enough. The lifespan of the console is going to be 5-10 years. There's plenty of time to make a great motion-sensing controller now that the feature is there.
If Sony maintains the $600 price tag, Sony will lose the gaming console market to Microsoft.
Check out this poll:
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1341&aid=-1
It doesn't really seem like Microsoft is going to win. I seems like MS will come in 3rd.
If people in my position aren't going to buy it, who will?
Me. I want an HD movie player, and I want to occasionally play console games. Both the $499 and $599 PS3 systems are the cheapest way to do that.
Also, the Japanese will buy it. They'll also buy the Wii.
I'm really scared for the PS3. I remember reading a recent comment on /. earlier about Sony's last-minute motion-senseing controller reeking of upper management mandating that said feature go into the product. I have a feeling that this same upper management is going to severely harm what was once a pretty sweet console.
I guess I don't get it. Are you saying adding motion-sensing was a bad idea? In what way? It's a feature. Worse case is it sucks and no one uses it and the controller is the same controller the PS2 had. How is this a problem? Best case is it's really cool and gives the PS3 a huge advantage over the XBOX360. Seems like a low risk, possibly high reward decision to me.
Adding features to stay competitive is one thing that upper management tends to do. What else would you expect?
Slashdot also famously predicted that the iPod would fail.
And later followed it up later by asking "Why would anyone buy an iPod Mini with 4 GB storage when they could spend an extra $50 and get a full-sized iPod with 20 GB?"
Question for you:
When HD DVD and Blu-ray fail, what will people buy instead? Do you honestly think HD movie buyers will be happy to go back to non-HD DVDs?
It would make sense to think that HD DVD and Blu-ray would lose to a third HD format, but they're not going to lose to nothing. Not in the long term. In 50 years, they won't be saying "It turned out no one really wanted to watch movies in High Definition, so that's why we still use good-old DVDs."
One of the reasons for this confusion might be the original design of MS Word. I heard somewhere long ago that the MS Word document format isn't a "format". It's just the order that the bits end up in when the write-to-a-file code is executed. No docs, no spec, nothing like that. That's why they had all the compatibility issues between versions.
So the document format IS the application.
Disclaimer: This is just something I heard. It's unlikely to still be the case, and it's possible it never was.
You pathetic tool.
Tool or not, I'm going to be able to buy what I want based on its value to me.
Meanwhile, you won't because you're saddled with fear of ICT, or hate of Sony, or belief in some kooky conspiracy theories, or some other irrational emotional handicap. Good luck with that.
I'd rather be in the rational group.
That's not what they said. They said they'd sell the first 5 million that way. They didn't say YOU would buy it. Exact quote:
Are you seriously saying this is incorrect? The online consensus seems to be that this is an accurate statement.
Welcome to the news business. It's all about the story.
It might be your original console, but the Fairchild Channel F came out before the 2600 and was the first cartridge based home video game console.
All the rest copied it!!!!! The Fairchild Channel F is THE ORIGINAL console. Why can't every other company come out with an original product instead of just stealing Fairchild's ideas?
I have to go now, my candle is almost burned out. No 'lectric lights for me. Fire is THE ORIGINAL artificial light.
It depends on if you mean real ones or imaginary ones.
Imaginary reasons not to buy a PS3:
- Sony may keep games from being resold! (pointless speculation, and quite ridiculous.)
- Image Constraint Token will keep me from watching HD movies in HD (no evidence this will happen)
- Sony installed a rootkit on my PC (wrong Sony, you're thinking of Sony-BMG)
- I hate Sony (congrats on your group-think skills)
- They copied the Wii (I still use my Atari 2600, the ORIGINAL console)
- They overhype stuff (So buy the product, not the hype.)
- Blu-ray has DRM (And that's somehow worse than nothing?)
- They said something that made me angry (grow up)
- My wookie was nerfed in SWG (seriously, grow up)
Buy it if it does what you want. Don't if it doesn't. If you don't know yet, wait and see. We will welcome you into the ranks of rational consumers.
The amount hasn't been decided on yet. (I read the agreement.)
This story should probably have waited until the attorney's fees were decided, since that's what these lawsuits are about.
So you're saying I can steal top secret information without a buyer, then I take bids and sell it to the highest bidder. The buyer of the information is 100% free to do anything he wants with it, even though he knows it's top secret?
No. That's not how the law is written. It doesn't change if the buyer is a member of the press.
Environmentalists generally don't mind fusion
Environmentalists hate what their leaders tell them to hate. If they're not against fusion yet, it's because none of the movement leaders have figured out a way to profit from that position yet.
1) Terrorism is an inconsiquential threat.
2) Every law passed since 9/11 is part of a grab for power.
3) Profit.
Democrats: Please run on this platform in 2006 and 2008.
I need another tax cut. Plus we need a strong leader to deal with Iran.
No one is suggesting the press should have a "get out of free card"
Actually, they are.