"They wait two days and then activate the game and enjoy playing it. What's the big deal honestly?"
Well, they're inconviencing customers, and there's little reason to think this will thwart piracy or make the price of games go down. I can't imagine you'd be a huge fan of purchasing a highly anticipated product and having to wait to enjoy it for a less than good reason.
"So you wont buy a game that needs to be activated online, but you will pay a monthly fee in addition to around 60$ at the register for a game that can ONLY be played online?"
Seeing as how the service is so much different between the two games, I don't see what is so (Score:3, Interesting) about this comment.
"Do you realise you advise him getting a new computer for an app?"
He suggested it as a consideration. Nothing wrong with that. It's up to him to decide if it's too spendy or not. When it comes to content creation, using the right tools for the job is never frowned upon.
"Wouldn't it suck for your digital camera AND MP3 player AND Game Boy AND PDA to be out of commission just because one device broke?"
I never said anything about replacing all those items. I have all those other items you mentioned (except the Mp3 player, never was big on those). But I don't carry them around all the time like my phone. So, in effect, they're out of commission most of the time anyway.
"2) The quality of features in an electronic device or software is inversely proportional to the number of features in the device or software. Phone? Works fine. Phone and camera? Well, battery life is lower, and the camera sucks. Phone, Camera, and MP3 player? Less room for pictures and MP3s, less than stellar sound quality, even more driver distraction, and even worse reception and battery life."
Again, never said anything about replacement. The flip side is:
a.) Memory only gets bigger. b.) CCDs etc only get better. c.) Reception is fine. d.) The sound quality is infinitely better than not having my MP3 player around at all because I don't want to wear an Inspector Gadget trenchcoat. "Give me easy and effective ways to connect them together and then let me decide how they are used."
This doesn't help your argument much. You want your phone to do less to expand your toolbox?
"Or I decide what I want and need to have and leave the rest at home."
Exactly my point. You leave your bag at home, you have NOTHING except the ability to make a call. You don't even have a basic ability to take a picture. 640 by 480 > 0.
"Indeed. I use Win2k Pro at home, myself, and I must say that ECC memory has really completed the system in terms of stability."
2K's pretty cool, iddn't it? I've been running Lightwave plus After Effects for several weeks straight now. Time == money is very much a fact in my line of business. I'd be the first to go running to Linux (Actually, OSX is a more likely candidate...) if Windows behaved like the anti-MS bunch imagines. Yet, rehashed BSOD jokes still get +5 funnys...
"Maybe I'm just getting old. How do you younger kids feel? You bored by these things, too? "
I don't think it's indicative of the market, really. I think it may have more to do with growing maturity in your life. When you get older, work gets harder, and more serious issues pop up in your life, the desire for simplicity starts to settle in.
You have to remember that "wow! cool!" has been around for decades. I'm not sure how you'd find them, but there are some old commercials from the 50's and 60's of neato wee products that came out. Funny how none of that stuff (or its decendents) are in homes today.
" I think it's because people want everything, but only want to pay for one device. "
Have you ever tried carrying around an MP3 player, Game Boy, digital camera, PDA, and Sidekick all at once?
"I don't watch TV much, but I certainly don't want to watch it on a 1'' screen."
Good for you. Now consider other people's desires for a moment. A phone, because of it's 'phoney' nature, is something one carries around at all times. Since that phone already does the standard phone stuff, why not have it pull double duty as a entertainment device? Why not be able to get movie show times on it? Why not download a 1 minute TV ep? Why not take pictures of your 3 year old nephew being funny at a restaraunt that you so thoughtlessly forgot to bring your $500 digital camera to?
I don't think the problem is that the rest of the world is defective, I think you're just not making the most of your phone. Don't want extras? Fine. Go be happy. However, consider that the rest of us aren't just stupid sheep. I used to have a phone that went a week without charging. Whoopy, I made a few calls on it and.. uh.. I didn't have to plug it into the wall as often. Ok. Now I've got a phone, it's smaller which is easier on the pocket, and yeah it lasts only 3 days on a charge. Did I trade down? Uh, no. I have some classic photos of my nephew I wouldn't normally have gotten. Heck, I've even got a hilarious video of my dog harassing my cat. During waits in line I keep up on the news. I've got a few silly games that keep me entertained on the john. (yeah yeah, giggle giggle, snort snort.) I have occasional text message chats with a friend who's bored at work. I'd keep going, but hopefully my point is starting to come into focus: Yeah, my phone isn't bullet proof, but it's a lot more useful to me now than the 'better' phone I had a few years ago. I don't care about Quality? Perhaps not. I care about value. Oh, did I mention that this phone was half the cost of the 'better' phone that lasted a week on a single charge?
Before I finish my post here, part of my rant here wasn't directed at you. If you take personal offense, I apologize. I'm just sick of "nerds" here suddenly going all minimalist when cool things are developed. I thought we were supposed to embrace technology here. I have.
" According to the article, you use Quicktime Pro to export the movie as thousands of individual frames which you export to the iPod, send the soundtrack to the iPod as well, then, if you haven't guessed by now, while playing the soundtrack, put the iPod into slideshow mode and use the scroll wheel to manually keep the frames in synch with the sound. "
"My Xbox renders frames along with an Athlon 2600+. and an Athlon 750. I'm planning to add more to my network once they drop in price even further."
Erm, with only 64 megs of RAM in an XBOX, is that really all that cost-beneficial? Maybe I'm doing more detailed stuff than you're describing, but I can barely stay within the gig I have now.
" After finding out that the backwards compatability stops at GBA titles, I've lost a lot of interest in the thing. Most of my favorite titles are from the Gameboy and it's Color cousin..."
Err, why would you want a new system to play old games? I mean, if you don't want a DS, that's cool, but why would it being able to play games you already have a GB for suddenly make it interesting?
" but would one of you, any of you, PLEASE say something negative about this movie? "
Heh. I'm one of those twerps who overly nitpicks most movies. As a double whammy, I'm a 3D animator. Despite those two little details, I came away from the theater quite satisfied and really had nothing bad to say. I'm not trying to over-hype the movie here, but frankly, I'm as stunned as you are. All my bitchin was directed at the Episode 3 trailer.
"Good quote. I competely missed it. Mr. Incredible actually becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with three kids. Not two. The reviewer completely forgot about Jack Jack."
My memory's a little fuzzy on this, but wasn't there a reference to Bob having been at that insurance company for 3 years? Jack Jack wasn't that old. It's possible he really only did have 2 kids when it started.
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"They wait two days and then activate the game and enjoy playing it. What's the big deal honestly?"
Well, they're inconviencing customers, and there's little reason to think this will thwart piracy or make the price of games go down. I can't imagine you'd be a huge fan of purchasing a highly anticipated product and having to wait to enjoy it for a less than good reason.
"So you wont buy a game that needs to be activated online, but you will pay a monthly fee in addition to around 60$ at the register for a game that can ONLY be played online?"
Seeing as how the service is so much different between the two games, I don't see what is so (Score:3, Interesting) about this comment.
"Is that a pocket beamer in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Okay, I've seen this joke a few times now, but no "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi" references. What's wrong with you people?
"Anyone else wondering how they got black on the white sheet of paper with a red laser in the image of this device in TFA? :)"
I couldn't hear the explanation because the smoke alarm went off.
"Do you realise you advise him getting a new computer for an app?"
He suggested it as a consideration. Nothing wrong with that. It's up to him to decide if it's too spendy or not. When it comes to content creation, using the right tools for the job is never frowned upon.
"If you're not a smoker, I don't think that you would understand."
I'm a smoker.
"Bootlegging software is not a chemical addiction.'
Not everybody smokes because they're addicted.
"How is a non-smoker telling you to smoke any less of a hypocrite than a smoker telling you not to smoke?"
:P
Well, by not smoking in the first place, they're 100% non hypocrite. That's 100% less than a smoker who is 100% of a hypocrite.
"If doing what they tell you to do is the better choice, then why didn't they do it too?"
Being human is fun, isn't it? We don't have to be entirely rational or logical.
"Yeah, I will. It's called fucking hypocrisy."
Wouldn't a hypocrite be the best person to get advice from? I mean, I'd pay more attention to a smoker telling me not to smoke than a non-smoker.
"Yeah, nice justification! They did something wrong so that means I can do it too!"
Eye for an eye.
"Wouldn't it suck for your digital camera AND MP3 player AND Game Boy AND PDA to be out of commission just because one device broke?"
I never said anything about replacing all those items. I have all those other items you mentioned (except the Mp3 player, never was big on those). But I don't carry them around all the time like my phone. So, in effect, they're out of commission most of the time anyway.
"2) The quality of features in an electronic device or software is inversely proportional to the number of features in the device or software. Phone? Works fine. Phone and camera? Well, battery life is lower, and the camera sucks. Phone, Camera, and MP3 player? Less room for pictures and MP3s, less than stellar sound quality, even more driver distraction, and even worse reception and battery life."
Again, never said anything about replacement. The flip side is:
a.) Memory only gets bigger.
b.) CCDs etc only get better.
c.) Reception is fine.
d.) The sound quality is infinitely better than not having my MP3 player around at all because I don't want to wear an Inspector Gadget trenchcoat.
"Give me easy and effective ways to connect them together and then let me decide how they are used."
This doesn't help your argument much. You want your phone to do less to expand your toolbox?
"Or I decide what I want and need to have and leave the rest at home."
Exactly my point. You leave your bag at home, you have NOTHING except the ability to make a call. You don't even have a basic ability to take a picture. 640 by 480 > 0.
"they try to "hijack" the VoIP-market with their own proprietary standard."
Seeing as how they cannot become a de-facto standard without a willing market to support them, is the term "hijack" a little strong?
"Do you happen to work in Intel's marketing or public relations departments? "
Someone needs to ammend Godwin's law to include "You must work for them" rebuttal.
"Indeed. I use Win2k Pro at home, myself, and I must say that ECC memory has really completed the system in terms of stability."
2K's pretty cool, iddn't it? I've been running Lightwave plus After Effects for several weeks straight now. Time == money is very much a fact in my line of business. I'd be the first to go running to Linux (Actually, OSX is a more likely candidate...) if Windows behaved like the anti-MS bunch imagines. Yet, rehashed BSOD jokes still get +5 funnys...
"Maybe I'm just getting old. How do you younger kids feel? You bored by these things, too? "
I don't think it's indicative of the market, really. I think it may have more to do with growing maturity in your life. When you get older, work gets harder, and more serious issues pop up in your life, the desire for simplicity starts to settle in.
You have to remember that "wow! cool!" has been around for decades. I'm not sure how you'd find them, but there are some old commercials from the 50's and 60's of neato wee products that came out. Funny how none of that stuff (or its decendents) are in homes today.
" I think it's because people want everything, but only want to pay for one device. "
.. uh.. I didn't have to plug it into the wall as often. Ok. Now I've got a phone, it's smaller which is easier on the pocket, and yeah it lasts only 3 days on a charge. Did I trade down? Uh, no. I have some classic photos of my nephew I wouldn't normally have gotten. Heck, I've even got a hilarious video of my dog harassing my cat. During waits in line I keep up on the news. I've got a few silly games that keep me entertained on the john. (yeah yeah, giggle giggle, snort snort.) I have occasional text message chats with a friend who's bored at work. I'd keep going, but hopefully my point is starting to come into focus: Yeah, my phone isn't bullet proof, but it's a lot more useful to me now than the 'better' phone I had a few years ago. I don't care about Quality? Perhaps not. I care about value. Oh, did I mention that this phone was half the cost of the 'better' phone that lasted a week on a single charge?
Have you ever tried carrying around an MP3 player, Game Boy, digital camera, PDA, and Sidekick all at once?
"I don't watch TV much, but I certainly don't want to watch it on a 1'' screen."
Good for you. Now consider other people's desires for a moment. A phone, because of it's 'phoney' nature, is something one carries around at all times. Since that phone already does the standard phone stuff, why not have it pull double duty as a entertainment device? Why not be able to get movie show times on it? Why not download a 1 minute TV ep? Why not take pictures of your 3 year old nephew being funny at a restaraunt that you so thoughtlessly forgot to bring your $500 digital camera to?
I don't think the problem is that the rest of the world is defective, I think you're just not making the most of your phone. Don't want extras? Fine. Go be happy. However, consider that the rest of us aren't just stupid sheep. I used to have a phone that went a week without charging. Whoopy, I made a few calls on it and
Before I finish my post here, part of my rant here wasn't directed at you. If you take personal offense, I apologize. I'm just sick of "nerds" here suddenly going all minimalist when cool things are developed. I thought we were supposed to embrace technology here. I have.
"Do people really want to watch tv on their phone?"
I'd laugh if it came to light that you had a Game Boy.
" According to the article, you use Quicktime Pro to export the movie as thousands of individual frames which you export to the iPod, send the soundtrack to the iPod as well, then, if you haven't guessed by now, while playing the soundtrack, put the iPod into slideshow mode and use the scroll wheel to manually keep the frames in synch with the sound. "
Man... imagine porn becoming a workout.
"My Xbox renders frames along with an Athlon 2600+. and an Athlon 750. I'm planning to add more to my
network once they drop in price even further."
Erm, with only 64 megs of RAM in an XBOX, is that really all that cost-beneficial? Maybe I'm doing more detailed stuff than you're describing, but I can barely stay within the gig I have now.
"Sweet, so Office XP 2k13 will still fit on one disc!"
;)
For the sake of fairness, I'd make a Redhat joke if I didn't fear mod retribution.
" After finding out that the backwards compatability stops at GBA titles, I've lost a lot of interest in the thing. Most of my favorite titles are from the Gameboy and it's Color cousin..."
Err, why would you want a new system to play old games? I mean, if you don't want a DS, that's cool, but why would it being able to play games you already have a GB for suddenly make it interesting?
" but would one of you, any of you, PLEASE say something negative about this movie? "
Heh. I'm one of those twerps who overly nitpicks most movies. As a double whammy, I'm a 3D animator. Despite those two little details, I came away from the theater quite satisfied and really had nothing bad to say. I'm not trying to over-hype the movie here, but frankly, I'm as stunned as you are. All my bitchin was directed at the Episode 3 trailer.
"Can an invunerable man commit suicide? What could he do to himself that supervillans couldn't?"
I tried to commit suicide once by taking over 1,000 aspirin. But after I took 2, I felt better!
"Good quote. I competely missed it. Mr. Incredible actually becomes Bob Parr, an overweight insurance adjuster, with three kids. Not two. The reviewer completely forgot about Jack Jack."
My memory's a little fuzzy on this, but wasn't there a reference to Bob having been at that insurance company for 3 years? Jack Jack wasn't that old. It's possible he really only did have 2 kids when it started.