MiniDisc - Actually fairly successful. Being a bomb in America doesn't mean being a bomb everywhere. The Japanese loved it, and Europeans jumped onto it a bit too.
MemoryStick - How was this a failure? I see these things at every tech store I go to. Yes, you're unhappy it's "another" format, but even if there were no MemoryStick there would still be too many flash memory formats.
UMD - A fuckup. They shoulda used Hi-MD for the PSP, but they were terrified of piracy. But then again, didn't Nintendo and Sega use proprietary disc formats for their most recent machines?
DRM CDs - A fuckup, but a short-lived one that at least got people's attention on the matter.
Blu-Ray - The outcome of this has yet to be seen, but singularly getting on Sony's case for not backing down to HD-DVD is a bit unfair. Why shouldn't the HD-DVD camp have backed-down instead?
I've been trying to run the website for years. By "trying", I mean I virtually have to hold a gun to my boss' head to get him to help write product literature for the site. (The new version of our relatively small website has been in development for over a year for this very reason.)
a) Tough market to crack. AMD's been around for years, and they're still trying to gain significant ground on Intel. (As in mindshare.) May as well spend the effort battling each other to remain at the top of their field, rather than risk losing focus and faltering.
b) These chips are specialised for graphics processing. Just because you can make a kick-ass sports car, doesn't mean you can make a decent minivan.
They're almost certainly going to pack luke's early life with exciting star-flung adventures, cameos of star wars characters, and a constant use of the force powers he supposedly didn't know he had.
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More to the point, the network gave it a slow death in a bad, often-interrupted by Purseball, timeslot.
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I always thought it would be amusing in the Futurama universe if a bunch of Star Trek nerds colonised a planet and genetically modified themselves into Klingons.
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We have had countless reports on how shittily designed the PS2 was. The only console we had to turn upside-down to have it read disks!
I've never heard of anyone turning their PS2 upside-down to read discs. My PS1, on the other hand...you had to turn it upside-down, on its side, or on some weird angle, until you found the perfect reading angle in order to get it to work.
Anyway, Sony's not alone in manufacturing shittyness. My brother's Xbox's power supply blew shortly after the warranty expired. Quite common, I've been told. They wanted $150 CDN (about $130 US) to fix it. THIS is why I fully-support external power supplies, or "wall-warts" as some people call them: if it dies, you can easily replace it for around $20.
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Well, here's the "big ones" everyone talks about:
Betamax - Yes, that was fuckup.
MiniDisc - Actually fairly successful. Being a bomb in America doesn't mean being a bomb everywhere. The Japanese loved it, and Europeans jumped onto it a bit too.
MemoryStick - How was this a failure? I see these things at every tech store I go to. Yes, you're unhappy it's "another" format, but even if there were no MemoryStick there would still be too many flash memory formats.
UMD - A fuckup. They shoulda used Hi-MD for the PSP, but they were terrified of piracy. But then again, didn't Nintendo and Sega use proprietary disc formats for their most recent machines?
DRM CDs - A fuckup, but a short-lived one that at least got people's attention on the matter.
Blu-Ray - The outcome of this has yet to be seen, but singularly getting on Sony's case for not backing down to HD-DVD is a bit unfair. Why shouldn't the HD-DVD camp have backed-down instead?
I've been here a while.
I know the score.
But that doesn't mean I can't complain.
Here we go again with the Blu-Ray = Sony shit.
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Yes, Sony developed the spec, but this isn't betamax. There's a whole bunch of companies behind it.
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Se
Am I the only one who's tired of knee-jerk Sony-bashing? Yes, they've fucked-up on a few things, but there's no need to crucify them.
I think it's a great tune, and I HATE most of the stuff that's on the radio.
Have you even listened to it, or are you just making a snap judgement?
Oh, wait... this is Slashdot, where people don't even "RTFA" most of the time.
We're all morons, now?
Speak for yourself, moron.
Since Ogg Vorbis is the nerd's audio format, we nerds must have a Vorbis-compatible player
Funny. I've been called a "nerd" by plenty of people, but I don't have a single OGG file on my computer.
Slashdotted.
Maybe they should offer "Google Server for your domain".
Your argument is correct... but in this case, we have documented outside interference: a "god" factor, if you will.
Humans programmed this thing to do what it does, whereas "life" as we know it is of still-unknown origins.
But then again, what the hell do I know about anything?
I installed Windows ME when it came out.
It came off my machine after a month, and I went back to Win98 SE.
Yes, it WAS that bad.
I work for a company of about 10 people.
I manage all the IT stuff.
I've been trying to run the website for years. By "trying", I mean I virtually have to hold a gun to my boss' head to get him to help write product literature for the site. (The new version of our relatively small website has been in development for over a year for this very reason.)
You may not playback the movie to more than 5 people.
That would suck for families of six.
One of them would have to sit in another room while everyone else enjoys the movie.
Can you shorten that down to about ten words?
what the hell is a porche cayenne, if not a minivan with regular doors.
About $50,000.
I'm thinking:
a) Tough market to crack. AMD's been around for years, and they're still trying to gain significant ground on Intel. (As in mindshare.) May as well spend the effort battling each other to remain at the top of their field, rather than risk losing focus and faltering.
b) These chips are specialised for graphics processing. Just because you can make a kick-ass sports car, doesn't mean you can make a decent minivan.
They're almost certainly going to pack luke's early life with exciting star-flung adventures, cameos of star wars characters, and a constant use of the force powers he supposedly didn't know he had.
So, in other words... "Smallville". In space.
Clearly he'd try for Agent.Mulder@hotmale.com
But that still wouldn't satisfy his ego.
More to the point, the network gave it a slow death in a bad, often-interrupted by Purseball, timeslot.
I always thought it would be amusing in the Futurama universe if a bunch of Star Trek nerds colonised a planet and genetically modified themselves into Klingons.
It's an F'ing shame, that's what it is!
Yes, now if only more people people would write in bad english...
Oh, wait.
We have had countless reports on how shittily designed the PS2 was. The only console we had to turn upside-down to have it read disks!
I've never heard of anyone turning their PS2 upside-down to read discs. My PS1, on the other hand...you had to turn it upside-down, on its side, or on some weird angle, until you found the perfect reading angle in order to get it to work.
Anyway, Sony's not alone in manufacturing shittyness. My brother's Xbox's power supply blew shortly after the warranty expired. Quite common, I've been told. They wanted $150 CDN (about $130 US) to fix it. THIS is why I fully-support external power supplies, or "wall-warts" as some people call them: if it dies, you can easily replace it for around $20.
I thought Al Gore created algorihtms! To program the internet, you know.
I hate it when people insist on dialing *every time* using their speakerphone. At full volume, especially.
Wait, wasn't Sunnyvale destroyed in the final episode of Buffy?
Wow, they sure rebuilt that fast.
Moving to the Cell processor is not a step in a completely new direction. Right...
Moving to the Cell architecture is like a car moving to a hybrid engine: It's not really gonna change the way you drive.