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"Expensive if your a sheeple that has to buy one"
Or maybe not that expensive if you actually have a job. People pay more than that for a dinner out with friends. Maybe you should ask daddy for a raise in your allowance.
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I loathe MS personally. Yet I have no problem buying an XBox for precisely the reason you stated. They lose money on each one. I also make it a point to buy used games whenever possible for it, so they don't get a cut of that either.:)
Disclaimer: Yes, I did buy Halo 2 on launch. Walked into Target and simply picked up an LE, and they gave me a free book to boot, with NO preorder.
How old are you that a $10 increase in retail price becomes a show stopper? If they doubled the price I could see people moaning, but this does not even get the prices (with inflation) to where they were 10 years ago.
Except for the fact that Halo 3 is reported to be released the same day as the PS3, then there will be a whole lot of people with at least $60 less to put towards that PS3 hehe.
What promises are those? The way I see it, MS left the browser market to stagnate for the last few years. Now, they see FF attempting (and actually making progress) to move this huge market forward, and they went "Oh shit!" and threw the team together than STILL can't get up to par, even with their huge warchest. Remind me again why I should even consider supporting such a company? (oh wait, I'm a Debianian, so I've pretty much written MS off years ago anyway)
"Let's boycott Mozilla, Firefox, and all other browsers while we're at it, since no available browser can pass this test."
Konqueror can pass it, as well as the upcoming Safari. Firefox and Opera *almost* pass, but it blows up spectacularly with IE7. It's really not so much about compliance as it is about the ability to degrade gracefully.
Since the article that was originally in question actually pointed out that MS have *stated* that it will not be compliant, you seem to be missing the point entirely.
Been there, done that. Some forms of optical disks were protected by a floppy like enclosure. It is simply prohibitively expensive to manufacture that kind of media.
Sorry, Bill would have no chance against Linus. Bill is more a marketing guru than a coding one. Bill happened to be in the right place at the right time, and have the marketing smarts to capitalize on the opportunity that fell in his lap. Linus created his opportunities from nothing.
Because with Linux you actually need somebody that knows what they're doing to get set up. Anybody with one finger to click the "Next" button can set up windows.
What exactly, is the point in getting all windows apps running under Linux? Personally I would much prefer to run native software. Running windows apps didn't exactly help OS/2 now, did it? There was a severe lack of native apps for OS/2 due to the way it ran windows apps "better than windows" (i.e. nobody bothered writing OS/2 apps). If all you're going to do is run windows apps, for cripes sake run windows. It would be nice to get a little better compatability for games, but as far as apps go, just running a few critical apps for a higher level of comfort in the OS while moving to Linux (and while in the discovery process of what Linux apps you can substitute based on functionality) seems good enough to me. I certainly don't want to see all windows apps running on Linux (unless they were ported by their developers to run natively... which WON"T happen if they run flawlessly under some emulation scheme.
The currently available Apex's, and any enroute in the forseeable future, do and will have the loophole menu. When/if the "new" units become available (I have heard the new units will have a model change, to AD660-A, though I'm nowhere near 100% sure of my source), well, that bridge will have to be crossed when we get there. Already a couple of emails have been recieved by a few people from Apex, implying that they will be setting up their own store on the web to sell the loophole units. CC has a disclaimer up, saying the in stock item does not have the menu. This is a CYA move they are doing on lawyers advice, and has no basis on the units they are actually selling. In fact, this has been disproven several times on display units, right in front of the stalwart salesdrone insisting that the menu is gone on in stock units, as well as the display unit. The look on their face is priceless. NO I repeat NO valid reports of any "new" units have surfaced, though buy.com did recently have a big problem trying to unload some "pre loophole" units, and some of these units have been spotted elsewhere such as ebay (buyer beware). Pre loophole units are advertised with the spatializer 3d feature. Stay away from these. Far away.
You want to test your disableing feature? Simple. Put the unit on some other region than 1 and try to play a region 1 disk. Logical, no? Is there any point in acquiring PAL format disk when you have an NTSC tv? Sure, since another feature of the Apex is conversion between the 2 standards. Yes, I repeat, the Apex will convert pal signal to ntsc, and ntsc signal to pal.
I, as much as anyone, would LOVE a linux version of Bryce. There are a couple of problems though, Meta does NOT own Bryce, so they cannot sell it to Corel. They never bought the rights to it, only licensed it from it's creator, Eric Wenger. I read this in a post from Eric himself on the Bryce newsgroup. The only thing they own is the UI, created by Kai. Another point is the fact that they announced they were dropping it from the lineup last year. I understand that Eric is going to be working with Corel on this project though, so hopefully this will be a good thing, and Bryce will be in good hands.:)
I would post the message from Eric, but don't know if that would be a proper thing to do or not.
Ok, since I posted this, the poll results shot up from 1,400 votes (+-) to over 3,700 votes, yet the percentage did not change even one point (still 82% yes and 18% no). Can you say rigged? NOT A SINGLE POINT CHANGE! No way.
Sony's quality control? Guess you didn't buy GT2 when it came out. It was so full of bugs, omissions and typos it wasn't even funny. What was funny was that all the mags and such were giving it rave reviews, but none talked very much about the problems, such as the bug that would corrupt your save game (basically delete your garage) when you used the machine test and set more records than there were record display slots, or the breaking the lap record display so that it doesn't work unless you are doing time trial, no drag racing (it was removed at the last minute because they were having difficulties and instead of taking the time to fix it just took it out) but you can still win drag cars plus they didn't recalculate the total percentage of wins so the most you could complete was 98.8%, or having an AI that is so brain dead the cars all drive in a neat little pack unless the race is longer than 3 laps, replays are set to automatically play and there's no way to default them to off, the menu system and user manual was developed by crack smokin' lab monkeys, AI bugs that cause the cars to try to drive through the wall (I mean, at the start of the race, the opponent in a rally starts, the turns abrubtly left, right into the wall, and stays there, trying to drive through it. You can just sit there and watch it, it's pretty funny, for a little while) or the lack of conversion of metric and yen to inches and $ (a ride height of 100 inches? 5000cr for a cars wash when it really only deducts 50cr), Pezzoil for Penzzoil, Bast for East, or... or... I could go on, but you get the gist. They did release a new disk, which fixed the garage bug, the end percentage, the driving through the wall bug and a couple of typo's, but it still has nowhere near the polish and feel of the original GT. I hope they don't totally botch GT2000 the same way.
I also have the card, and will admit I have not compared it to any other computer hardware decoder. There is a reason for this. That reason is that I feel it is a high quality decoder card. I have no reason whatsoever to change to a newer card, as it does everything I need and playback looks awesome through it. When it was first brought out most people touted it as having an equal, if not better image than dedicated stand alone units, and from experience I can confirm that. I see many people still talking about it on the newsgroups. Yeah, there are newer and probably better cards out there but I really can't fathom how the difference can be that great seeing how good the output of it is to begin with. Anyway, I don't even know why I'm talking about it to begin with, because since I purchased a standalone dvd player, I have had no desire WHATSOEVER to torture myself by watching a dvd sitting at my computer. It is just so much nicer to kick back in the recliner and crank it up on the home theater. Watching while traveling is quite a different thing, but since I don't travel it doesn't affect me.
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"Expensive if your a sheeple that has to buy one"
Or maybe not that expensive if you actually have a job. People pay more than that for a dinner out with friends. Maybe you should ask daddy for a raise in your allowance.
I loathe MS personally. Yet I have no problem buying an XBox for precisely the reason you stated. They lose money on each one. I also make it a point to buy used games whenever possible for it, so they don't get a cut of that either. :)
Disclaimer: Yes, I did buy Halo 2 on launch. Walked into Target and simply picked up an LE, and they gave me a free book to boot, with NO preorder.
"I remember many first rate NES games going for $50 back in the 1980s!!!"
/me raises hand
Who here paid much more for that on release of the first NES Final Fantasy?
"One ergonomic game joystick, $150"
;)
You must have scored a copy of Steel Battalion. You bastard.
How old are you that a $10 increase in retail price becomes a show stopper? If they doubled the price I could see people moaning, but this does not even get the prices (with inflation) to where they were 10 years ago.
Except for the fact that Halo 3 is reported to be released the same day as the PS3, then there will be a whole lot of people with at least $60 less to put towards that PS3 hehe.
Sorry, REAL bbq is smoked very slowly. Not plasma broiled.
What promises are those? The way I see it, MS left the browser market to stagnate for the last few years. Now, they see FF attempting (and actually making progress) to move this huge market forward, and they went "Oh shit!" and threw the team together than STILL can't get up to par, even with their huge warchest. Remind me again why I should even consider supporting such a company? (oh wait, I'm a Debianian, so I've pretty much written MS off years ago anyway)
"Let's boycott Mozilla, Firefox, and all other browsers while we're at it, since no available browser can pass this test."
Konqueror can pass it, as well as the upcoming Safari. Firefox and Opera *almost* pass, but it blows up spectacularly with IE7. It's really not so much about compliance as it is about the ability to degrade gracefully.
Easy. Install Firefox, and use the "Big Blue E" as the icon for the shortcut.
Since the article that was originally in question actually pointed out that MS have *stated* that it will not be compliant, you seem to be missing the point entirely.
Been there, done that. Some forms of optical disks were protected by a floppy like enclosure. It is simply prohibitively expensive to manufacture that kind of media.
Nah, this workaround was posted on Neowin yesterday. Slashdot's sources are the ones being slow.
"Imagine the amazing features of the OS and desktop we would have if only MS didn't have a monopoly."
:(.
I concur. It makes me sad
Sorry, Bill would have no chance against Linus. Bill is more a marketing guru than a coding one. Bill happened to be in the right place at the right time, and have the marketing smarts to capitalize on the opportunity that fell in his lap. Linus created his opportunities from nothing.
"I'll take a bet you're not going to say the same thing in 10 years time from now."
Ah, but the cincher is that it's currently "now", not "10 years time from now". What will be in 10 years does not help much in the situation of "now".
Because with Linux you actually need somebody that knows what they're doing to get set up. Anybody with one finger to click the "Next" button can set up windows.
What exactly, is the point in getting all windows apps running under Linux? Personally I would much prefer to run native software. Running windows apps didn't exactly help OS/2 now, did it? There was a severe lack of native apps for OS/2 due to the way it ran windows apps "better than windows" (i.e. nobody bothered writing OS/2 apps). If all you're going to do is run windows apps, for cripes sake run windows. It would be nice to get a little better compatability for games, but as far as apps go, just running a few critical apps for a higher level of comfort in the OS while moving to Linux (and while in the discovery process of what Linux apps you can substitute based on functionality) seems good enough to me. I certainly don't want to see all windows apps running on Linux (unless they were ported by their developers to run natively... which WON"T happen if they run flawlessly under some emulation scheme.
The currently available Apex's, and any enroute in the forseeable future, do and will have the loophole menu. When/if the "new" units become available (I have heard the new units will have a model change, to AD660-A, though I'm nowhere near 100% sure of my source), well, that bridge will have to be crossed when we get there. Already a couple of emails have been recieved by a few people from Apex, implying that they will be setting up their own store on the web to sell the loophole units. CC has a disclaimer up, saying the in stock item does not have the menu. This is a CYA move they are doing on lawyers advice, and has no basis on the units they are actually selling. In fact, this has been disproven several times on display units, right in front of the stalwart salesdrone insisting that the menu is gone on in stock units, as well as the display unit. The look on their face is priceless. NO I repeat NO valid reports of any "new" units have surfaced, though buy.com did recently have a big problem trying to unload some "pre loophole" units, and some of these units have been spotted elsewhere such as ebay (buyer beware). Pre loophole units are advertised with the spatializer 3d feature. Stay away from these. Far away.
You want to test your disableing feature? Simple. Put the unit on some other region than 1 and try to play a region 1 disk. Logical, no? Is there any point in acquiring PAL format disk when you have an NTSC tv? Sure, since another feature of the Apex is conversion between the 2 standards. Yes, I repeat, the Apex will convert pal signal to ntsc, and ntsc signal to pal.
I, as much as anyone, would LOVE a linux version of Bryce. There are a couple of problems though, Meta does NOT own Bryce, so they cannot sell it to Corel. They never bought the rights to it, only licensed it from it's creator, Eric Wenger. I read this in a post from Eric himself on the Bryce newsgroup. The only thing they own is the UI, created by Kai. Another point is the fact that they announced they were dropping it from the lineup last year. I understand that Eric is going to be working with Corel on this project though, so hopefully this will be a good thing, and Bryce will be in good hands. :)
I would post the message from Eric, but don't know if that would be a proper thing to do or not.
Ok, since I posted this, the poll results shot up from 1,400 votes (+-) to over 3,700 votes, yet the percentage did not change even one point (still 82% yes and 18% no). Can you say rigged? NOT A SINGLE POINT CHANGE! No way.
DUH
http://www.msnbc.com/news/392478.asp
Here is a page with an article and poll on it. Let them know what you think! :) Have fun.
Sony's quality control? Guess you didn't buy GT2 when it came out. It was so full of bugs, omissions and typos it wasn't even funny. What was funny was that all the mags and such were giving it rave reviews, but none talked very much about the problems, such as the bug that would corrupt your save game (basically delete your garage) when you used the machine test and set more records than there were record display slots, or the breaking the lap record display so that it doesn't work unless you are doing time trial, no drag racing (it was removed at the last minute because they were having difficulties and instead of taking the time to fix it just took it out) but you can still win drag cars plus they didn't recalculate the total percentage of wins so the most you could complete was 98.8%, or having an AI that is so brain dead the cars all drive in a neat little pack unless the race is longer than 3 laps, replays are set to automatically play and there's no way to default them to off, the menu system and user manual was developed by crack smokin' lab monkeys, AI bugs that cause the cars to try to drive through the wall (I mean, at the start of the race, the opponent in a rally starts, the turns abrubtly left, right into the wall, and stays there, trying to drive through it. You can just sit there and watch it, it's pretty funny, for a little while) or the lack of conversion of metric and yen to inches and $ (a ride height of 100 inches? 5000cr for a cars wash when it really only deducts 50cr), Pezzoil for Penzzoil, Bast for East, or... or... I could go on, but you get the gist. They did release a new disk, which fixed the garage bug, the end percentage, the driving through the wall bug and a couple of typo's, but it still has nowhere near the polish and feel of the original GT. I hope they don't totally botch GT2000 the same way.
I also have the card, and will admit I have not compared it to any other computer hardware decoder. There is a reason for this. That reason is that I feel it is a high quality decoder card. I have no reason whatsoever to change to a newer card, as it does everything I need and playback looks awesome through it. When it was first brought out most people touted it as having an equal, if not better image than dedicated stand alone units, and from experience I can confirm that. I see many people still talking about it on the newsgroups. Yeah, there are newer and probably better cards out there but I really can't fathom how the difference can be that great seeing how good the output of it is to begin with.
Anyway, I don't even know why I'm talking about it to begin with, because since I purchased a standalone dvd player, I have had no desire WHATSOEVER to torture myself by watching a dvd sitting at my computer. It is just so much nicer to kick back in the recliner and crank it up on the home theater. Watching while traveling is quite a different thing, but since I don't travel it doesn't affect me.