The bad part about digital TV is the method of transmission they used is inferior in some ways to analog TV. It requires a very strong signal to get any video at all, and it's very suspectible to multipath interference. Analog TV would degrade gracefully, so that if you didn't get a strong signal you could at least hear it, and see black and white video. Digital TV is all-or-none. Also, portable TV antennas no longer work (at least, not while you're moving), so you can't stick one in your car or your Sony Watchman. Digital broadcast TV is a pain at this point...
Yea, if what you want is a crippled subset of what personal computing truly means -- then of course something substandard will be sufficient.
Me, me, me, me. The personal computing experience is defined by "ClintJCL." He knows exactly what people want in a computer. That's why people pay big bucks for the ClintJCL PC-1000 with built in FM transmitter and Ambilight! Because everyone wants to run a pirate radio station...and hook that radio station up to their TV so they can spasmodically bounce to the visual rhythms of the Ambilight! (It also comes with 2 tabs of ecstasy). Sadly, the people founded Apple Computer are now bitter, friendless morons posting on Slashdot.
Your argument has now been reduced to "people are stupid and don't do much with their computers, so Macs are fine".
I never said anything about people being stupid. I guess my scope wasn't big enough. Not only are you the sole arbiter of what is good or not in the computing world, apparently you are able to judge intelligence purely by people's computer needs. How do you do it?
Like many people on Slashdot, you arrogantly mistake your technology desires with the needs of the masses. The masses need a simple OS that can connect to the Internet, play music, and do word processing. The best OS for this is Mac OS X, because of the UI and lack of malware/viruses, and compatibility with Microsoft Office.
And as for your challenge, why the hell would I want to get your stuff working on my Mac? Newsflash: 99.99999% of people don't want what you want. Ambilight is a stupid gimmick. An FM transmitter? That's some real "cutting-edge" technology...or at least it would be, 50 years ago. There are dozens of BT clients for every OS under the sun, so that argument's dick is broken as well. Try again.
At my old job I supported several OSX machines and they were as much trouble as anything else. I loved sitting there watching the spinning rainbow do its thing for no reason and trying to navigate to the command line to run top while it was running so slow. There really should be a hotkey to top or a GUI-based task manager equivalent.
You're "supporting" Mac machines and you don't know what Activity Monitor is? Sounds like you're the minimum wage idiot who built his own computer and tells people to avoid Macs because "they're not compatible."
The interesting thing I found about the old gamecube is that I spent just about $50 on the thing, which is good- but the used games were still damn close to $60 each.
Shop around, you can even get AAA titles like Resident Evil 4 for $25 now.
But then, this is one where women would understand more than men, and parents more than people who are childfree.
Why do mothers need to have pictures of their children breastfeeding? That's the stupid part. And yes, mothers have every right to pressure Facebook on this. There's no accounting for taste. Some mothers have taste, and they know that breastfeeding and pictures of little Johnny on his training toilet aren't for general consumption. Sad that Facebook has to have a policy to tell people that.
You're very unlikely to have a set of requirements that they can't meet with a tweaked version of one of their existing designs, and if you really need them to work from scratch then you probably can't afford the final product.
You're so right. We simply couldn't afford a mobile version of the G5. It wasn't because IBM was more interested in video game markets.
I remember reading a bunch of PC magazine reviews in the mid- to late- 90's and Micron PCs always seemed to be near the top of the editor's picks. Which led me to wonder: what the hell is a Micron PC? I knew HP, Dell, Gateway 2000, and Compaq back then, but I never saw a Micron PC in person. I guess I never will...I'm getting all choked up.
Sony angered me with their whole DRM-trojan-on-music-cd's fiasco. I have not forgotten. If I am ever going to buy a sony product again, there must be a seriously compelling reason.
I don't think the Playstation department had anything to do with that.
The PS3 includes an expensive blue-ray player. It is worthless to me. I expect it is equally worthless to most people who are considering buying a PS3. If they want to lower their hardware costs, they should just get rid of that.
I'd say the Bluray support is important to most people buying the PS3. I doubt many of them are hooked up to non-HDTVs.
Instead, they lowered hardware costs by removing the hardware emulation for the ps2. As I understand, that means that the latest ps3's won't play the old games. That is no good, as I like some of the old games and want to play them.
Ah! Finally, a good point. You won't be able to get rid of your old PS2 if you want a PS3. And there are many different PS3 models, all with different capabilities. Muddying up the product line was a stupid idea.
The xbox 360, aside from being cheaper, and from supporting all the games I want to play (especially including the big releases), is fully backwards compatible. It provides better value all around.
The 360 is a great buy if you don't mind losing all your data and having to wait a week for turnaround after it fails (which happens about once a year). It would help if you enjoy paying $20 to replace discs the defective tray mechanism scratches up, as well. Also, the backwards compatibility is more like 60%, and it skews towards older games. Better check the list of your favorite games. And you'd better hope that the next generation of Xbox holds up better, and offers better backwards compatibility, because otherwise those $60 discs and all your DLC will be useless.
And Jeremy Bentham, but who the hell remembers him? And now, here's how to rock:
Electric Eye by Judas Priest
Up here in space Im looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do
You think youve private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape Im watching all the time
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy Im protected electric eye
Always in focus You cant feel my stare I zoom into you You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy Im protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there Theres nothing you can do about it Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows
Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean
They think games are all about "unlockables" and watching cut scenes. Maybe they don't understand that the pleasure in playing the game should come from...the gameplay!
That absurdly high failure rate is the number one reason why I don't currently own a 360, and I can't be the only one.
I used to be a big time gamer, but this generation leaves me cold. The 360 routinely fails and takes weeks worth of hassle to replace, the PS3 doesn't have many good games (yet) and the Wii is fun, but outside of Wii Sports doesn't have much to offer. Maybe it's just me, but the PS2 seems so much better than any of the current consoles.
What's with the incoherent summary? Nowhere in the summary did this even mention what "Interclue" was supposed to do, and why we should care about attempts to "monetize" it (lame corporate speak when applied outside the finance world).
Editors must be sleepwalking through the end of '08.
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The bad part about digital TV is the method of transmission they used is inferior in some ways to analog TV. It requires a very strong signal to get any video at all, and it's very suspectible to multipath interference. Analog TV would degrade gracefully, so that if you didn't get a strong signal you could at least hear it, and see black and white video. Digital TV is all-or-none. Also, portable TV antennas no longer work (at least, not while you're moving), so you can't stick one in your car or your Sony Watchman. Digital broadcast TV is a pain at this point...
Yea, if what you want is a crippled subset of what personal computing truly means -- then of course something substandard will be sufficient.
Me, me, me, me. The personal computing experience is defined by "ClintJCL." He knows exactly what people want in a computer. That's why people pay big bucks for the ClintJCL PC-1000 with built in FM transmitter and Ambilight! Because everyone wants to run a pirate radio station...and hook that radio station up to their TV so they can spasmodically bounce to the visual rhythms of the Ambilight! (It also comes with 2 tabs of ecstasy). Sadly, the people founded Apple Computer are now bitter, friendless morons posting on Slashdot.
Your argument has now been reduced to "people are stupid and don't do much with their computers, so Macs are fine".
I never said anything about people being stupid. I guess my scope wasn't big enough. Not only are you the sole arbiter of what is good or not in the computing world, apparently you are able to judge intelligence purely by people's computer needs. How do you do it?
I think it's funny how technology seems to be moving towards WORSE performance instead of better.
Sad but true. Convenience trumps quality and compatibility. As long as it works IMMEDIATELY, who cares about the future?
Like many people on Slashdot, you arrogantly mistake your technology desires with the needs of the masses. The masses need a simple OS that can connect to the Internet, play music, and do word processing. The best OS for this is Mac OS X, because of the UI and lack of malware/viruses, and compatibility with Microsoft Office.
And as for your challenge, why the hell would I want to get your stuff working on my Mac? Newsflash: 99.99999% of people don't want what you want. Ambilight is a stupid gimmick. An FM transmitter? That's some real "cutting-edge" technology...or at least it would be, 50 years ago. There are dozens of BT clients for every OS under the sun, so that argument's dick is broken as well. Try again.
At my old job I supported several OSX machines and they were as much trouble as anything else. I loved sitting there watching the spinning rainbow do its thing for no reason and trying to navigate to the command line to run top while it was running so slow. There really should be a hotkey to top or a GUI-based task manager equivalent.
You're "supporting" Mac machines and you don't know what Activity Monitor is? Sounds like you're the minimum wage idiot who built his own computer and tells people to avoid Macs because "they're not compatible."
Serves you right for using Adobe programs.
Queue up the Don Henley, Twitter's lost his innocence! But it can never lose its reason to exist, because it never had one in the first place!
Uh..hello, Little Big Planet, Valkyria, Rock Band, and Mirror's Edge!
It's still overpriced but not as much as you think!
The interesting thing I found about the old gamecube is that I spent just about $50 on the thing, which is good- but the used games were still damn close to $60 each.
Shop around, you can even get AAA titles like Resident Evil 4 for $25 now.
But then, this is one where women would understand more than men, and parents more than people who are childfree.
Why do mothers need to have pictures of their children breastfeeding? That's the stupid part. And yes, mothers have every right to pressure Facebook on this. There's no accounting for taste. Some mothers have taste, and they know that breastfeeding and pictures of little Johnny on his training toilet aren't for general consumption. Sad that Facebook has to have a policy to tell people that.
You're very unlikely to have a set of requirements that they can't meet with a tweaked version of one of their existing designs, and if you really need them to work from scratch then you probably can't afford the final product.
You're so right. We simply couldn't afford a mobile version of the G5. It wasn't because IBM was more interested in video game markets.
Sincerely, Apple.
I remember reading a bunch of PC magazine reviews in the mid- to late- 90's and Micron PCs always seemed to be near the top of the editor's picks. Which led me to wonder: what the hell is a Micron PC? I knew HP, Dell, Gateway 2000, and Compaq back then, but I never saw a Micron PC in person. I guess I never will...I'm getting all choked up.
Sony angered me with their whole DRM-trojan-on-music-cd's fiasco. I have not forgotten. If I am ever going to buy a sony product again, there must be a seriously compelling reason.
I don't think the Playstation department had anything to do with that.
The PS3 includes an expensive blue-ray player. It is worthless to me. I expect it is equally worthless to most people who are considering buying a PS3. If they want to lower their hardware costs, they should just get rid of that.
I'd say the Bluray support is important to most people buying the PS3. I doubt many of them are hooked up to non-HDTVs.
Instead, they lowered hardware costs by removing the hardware emulation for the ps2. As I understand, that means that the latest ps3's won't play the old games. That is no good, as I like some of the old games and want to play them.
Ah! Finally, a good point. You won't be able to get rid of your old PS2 if you want a PS3. And there are many different PS3 models, all with different capabilities. Muddying up the product line was a stupid idea.
The xbox 360, aside from being cheaper, and from supporting all the games I want to play (especially including the big releases), is fully backwards compatible. It provides better value all around.
The 360 is a great buy if you don't mind losing all your data and having to wait a week for turnaround after it fails (which happens about once a year). It would help if you enjoy paying $20 to replace discs the defective tray mechanism scratches up, as well. Also, the backwards compatibility is more like 60%, and it skews towards older games. Better check the list of your favorite games. And you'd better hope that the next generation of Xbox holds up better, and offers better backwards compatibility, because otherwise those $60 discs and all your DLC will be useless.
Nice to hear that another country has its entire WLAN infastructure polluted by "Hpsetup" SSIDs!
And Jeremy Bentham, but who the hell remembers him? And now, here's how to rock:
Electric Eye by Judas Priest
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
Protected. detective. electric eye
The crybabies aren't going to like your argument.
They think games are all about "unlockables" and watching cut scenes. Maybe they don't understand that the pleasure in playing the game should come from...the gameplay!
You're a lonely voice, my friend.
You don't have to use the sixaxis controls, you know. I never do...it's too hard to hold the controller straight.
Who has time for games?
I do! I'm rich as hell! Suck it!
Just spank her with the keyboard!
She'll learn her place eventually!
That absurdly high failure rate is the number one reason why I don't currently own a 360, and I can't be the only one.
I used to be a big time gamer, but this generation leaves me cold. The 360 routinely fails and takes weeks worth of hassle to replace, the PS3 doesn't have many good games (yet) and the Wii is fun, but outside of Wii Sports doesn't have much to offer. Maybe it's just me, but the PS2 seems so much better than any of the current consoles.
What's with the incoherent summary? Nowhere in the summary did this even mention what "Interclue" was supposed to do, and why we should care about attempts to "monetize" it (lame corporate speak when applied outside the finance world).
Editors must be sleepwalking through the end of '08.
" A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public-" SUNSTOP
or maybe it's supposed to mean that he made a new device called "Public."
I'm confused!
It will be perfect synergy when the Flame body spray meets my "home of the Whopper" underwear.
DOs are allowed to prescribe medicine and are fully embraced by the mainstream medical community at large.
I solved the fat finger problem by cutting off your fingers and making them into jerky!
It's a festive Christmas jerky for you to enjoy. Now...eat your own finger! Eat it!
(Just kidding guys, I would only do that if you owed me like, $2000 or more.) Merry Christmas =)