"The 360's HDDs are 2.5", aka laptop drives. 250GB $100 laptop drives? Sign me up!"
They're not just 2.5", they come with the equivalent of a firewire casing. The idea behind them is you can yank them out, take them to your friend's house, and plug it in there. No 'cracking the case...' going on here.
I'm amazed at the volume of ignorance the XBOX 360 has brought to light.
"DRM might not sink it, but the movie houses releasing over-priced titles with few distinctly better features than DVD might sink it."
Mixed feelings on that. They *are* going to be overpriced to start. That always happens this is nothing new. However, early adopters will eat it up. Consider how affordable it's becoming to have a 'theater' at home. Extra pixels means better movie!
"Then add the frustration of DRM, lack of component output etc,...."
You're right, that sucks. However, HDTVs are still in their infancy in terms of market share. New customers are going to buy new units and not have this problem.
I appreciate your sentiment, I just don't agree with your diagnosis.
"Why on earth would I buy in to this DRM rubbish - I look forward to it sinking, I hope Sony, MS, Toshiba and the whole damn industry end up learning an expensive lesson."
DRM isn't going to sink this format. The vast majority of people buying DVDs have no clue how to author or copy them.
"but most of the post-production work done on film is done at a specific resolution (2k). so it woud be more than trivial to convert a lot of these movies into high def."
Um, 'hi def' isn't even 2k. It's 1920. Even if they produce a standard that's higher than that, they'll just upsample it. It'll be a little soft, but they won't re-do the effects or avoid it altogether.
The article mentions that you can poke people to say funny things in Warcraft. I first experienced this in the demo version of the game. If you kept poking people, they'd say "Okay, that's enough. It's time for you to go buy the game. Go buy game now!"
"If you can watch the Matrix... you can also watch pornos."
Already done, years ago. Back in 94/95 a friend of mine had 'porn images' on his calculator. I remember being impressed that they actually pulled off shades of gray with the imagery. Turns out they did a neat flickery trick with the image to simulate that.
Sadly, the lack of image quality on the porn made the shades of gray more interesting. Still, it made the nerd clique a little more popular for a day or two.
"I remember vividly the first time I played a marathon session of GTA and then got behind the wheel of a real car. I had to force myself to acknowledge red lights when there were no other cars around. This was after training myself NOT to stop for them in GTA because the cops didn't care."
I had a similar change in behaviour with GTA, but to the other extreme. Several times I found the game got a lot harder because a pedestrian would walk out in front of me, I'd nail him, and the cops would start chasing me. On more than one occasion, I've been 'busted' or 'wasted' while trying to get to my save point after completing a difficult mission. Damn that's irritating. So when driving around in Portland, I found myself eying pedestrians a lot more carefully. In other words, I drove a lot more cautiously around pedestrians in case they decided to bolt across the street.
Compare that to Crazy Taxi. You cannot strike a pedestrian in that game. Granted, I cannot say I drove worse after playing CT, but I do worry about whether that game is actually more dangerous in the hands of kids that are close to learning to drive than GTA is.
"Cue dupes of this comment pointing out that you don't know the difference between "cue" and "queue"."
In this context, the difference between those two words isn't all that significant. But, hey, if you're going to overzealously nitpick somebody's post because they're pointing out the silliness of your views, I guess you'll take what you can get.
"46 hours and 34 minutes, surely this has got to be getting close to a duping record"
Meanwhile, every post that bitches about the dupe means another ad being served. Yeah, you dudes are doing a real bang-up job on encouraging Slashdot to not dupe.
It's a 'textured pixel'. Yeah, I know, that's not too descriptive. In 2D, when you draw a point on the screen, it's known as a pixel. In 3D, when you're filling a polygon with a texture map, every one of the pixels of that texture map is considered a 'texel'. That texel may be drawn of several pixels, but it's still one unit of that polygon that's worth measuring.
"Cooler or warmer, if we are the ones doing it then we are all fsck'd."
If I had to pick between us causing it and the planet causing it, I'd prefer it to be us. At least in that case, it means we have some power to do something about it.
Frankly, though, I don't think the eco system is as fragile as some imagine.
"You've responded to a very simple point by attempting to redefine "global warming", completely changing the subject, and making baseless assumptions about my views. Good job."
He responded by pointing out your 'fact' is not a fact. He kicked your butt, and your 'rebuttal' was completely free of any information that would invalidate his point. Good job.
"Imagine watching a woman on a TV that not only shows the breasts in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the vagina and maybe even pat a woman on the ass."
Suddenly a million voices cry out: "So THAT is what that fish joke is all about!"
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"Because you all know you want those 3-4 year old games for $5-15 month charge when you can buy then for $5 bucks..."
If the game selection's interesting, I'd much prefer this service. Mainly because I don't like rummaging through bargain bins nor do I typically find them as cheap as $5.
Then again, anything can be made to sound stupid if you leave out the right details.
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"There's no reason, whatsoever, that MS could not sell the HDD for $50, and still make a profit."
The extra $100 doesn't buy you just an HD. It includes a wireless controller, remote, headset, an ethernet cable, and an XBOX live membership.
More dumb-assedness attracted to the XBOX 360.
"Yes, you can."
That's not a 2.5" laptop drive complete with a hot-swappable casing.
I can't believe how moronic the anti-360 sentiment has gotten around here.
"The 360's HDDs are 2.5", aka laptop drives. 250GB $100 laptop drives? Sign me up!"
They're not just 2.5", they come with the equivalent of a firewire casing. The idea behind them is you can yank them out, take them to your friend's house, and plug it in there. No 'cracking the case...' going on here.
I'm amazed at the volume of ignorance the XBOX 360 has brought to light.
"Wake me up when Google a) starts being remotely monopolistic,"
Google's got a product in high demand, the key ingredient for building a monopoly. Sooner or later, they will defend themselves.
"DRM might not sink it, but the movie houses releasing over-priced titles with few distinctly better features than DVD might sink it."
Mixed feelings on that. They *are* going to be overpriced to start. That always happens this is nothing new. However, early adopters will eat it up. Consider how affordable it's becoming to have a 'theater' at home. Extra pixels means better movie!
"Then add the frustration of DRM, lack of component output etc,...."
You're right, that sucks. However, HDTVs are still in their infancy in terms of market share. New customers are going to buy new units and not have this problem.
I appreciate your sentiment, I just don't agree with your diagnosis.
"Why on earth would I buy in to this DRM rubbish - I look forward to it sinking, I hope Sony, MS, Toshiba and the whole damn industry end up learning an expensive lesson."
DRM isn't going to sink this format. The vast majority of people buying DVDs have no clue how to author or copy them.
"but most of the post-production work done on film is done at a specific resolution (2k). so it woud be more than trivial to convert a lot of these movies into high def."
Um, 'hi def' isn't even 2k. It's 1920. Even if they produce a standard that's higher than that, they'll just upsample it. It'll be a little soft, but they won't re-do the effects or avoid it altogether.
The article mentions that you can poke people to say funny things in Warcraft. I first experienced this in the demo version of the game. If you kept poking people, they'd say "Okay, that's enough. It's time for you to go buy the game. Go buy game now!"
"What the hell is a jigawatt?"
If you've safely driven faster than 88mph, then you really don't need to know.
Heh. I useta be a technician. But my license expired a few years ago and never really had the interest to try again.
:)
73s.
Out of curiosity, are you a ham radio operator?
"If you wanna play games, go get a console. Computers are for serious work."
Since when is posting on Slashdot 'serious work'?
"If you can watch the Matrix... you can also watch pornos."
Already done, years ago. Back in 94/95 a friend of mine had 'porn images' on his calculator. I remember being impressed that they actually pulled off shades of gray with the imagery. Turns out they did a neat flickery trick with the image to simulate that.
Sadly, the lack of image quality on the porn made the shades of gray more interesting. Still, it made the nerd clique a little more popular for a day or two.
"I remember vividly the first time I played a marathon session of GTA and then got behind the wheel of a real car. I had to force myself to acknowledge red lights when there were no other cars around. This was after training myself NOT to stop for them in GTA because the cops didn't care."
I had a similar change in behaviour with GTA, but to the other extreme. Several times I found the game got a lot harder because a pedestrian would walk out in front of me, I'd nail him, and the cops would start chasing me. On more than one occasion, I've been 'busted' or 'wasted' while trying to get to my save point after completing a difficult mission. Damn that's irritating. So when driving around in Portland, I found myself eying pedestrians a lot more carefully. In other words, I drove a lot more cautiously around pedestrians in case they decided to bolt across the street.
Compare that to Crazy Taxi. You cannot strike a pedestrian in that game. Granted, I cannot say I drove worse after playing CT, but I do worry about whether that game is actually more dangerous in the hands of kids that are close to learning to drive than GTA is.
"Good applications would be between walls of warehouse and shipping. Which could still maintain as a firewall sould one occur."
Heck, I thought it'd be neat to have a door with a built in 'doggie door' mode.
"Cue dupes of this comment pointing out that you don't know the difference between "cue" and "queue"."
In this context, the difference between those two words isn't all that significant. But, hey, if you're going to overzealously nitpick somebody's post because they're pointing out the silliness of your views, I guess you'll take what you can get.
"46 hours and 34 minutes, surely this has got to be getting close to a duping record"
Meanwhile, every post that bitches about the dupe means another ad being served. Yeah, you dudes are doing a real bang-up job on encouraging Slashdot to not dupe.
"2000 posts pointing out how this is a dupe. :/"
Amusingly, nobody checks to see if a comment on it being a dupe already exists before they rush to the reply button.
"wtf is a texel"
It's a 'textured pixel'. Yeah, I know, that's not too descriptive. In 2D, when you draw a point on the screen, it's known as a pixel. In 3D, when you're filling a polygon with a texture map, every one of the pixels of that texture map is considered a 'texel'. That texel may be drawn of several pixels, but it's still one unit of that polygon that's worth measuring.
"Interesting how you were still afraid to risk your karma on that statement."
Or he never registerred. I read Slashdot for well over a year before I before I actually registerred a nickname.
I'm not rushing to his defense, I'm just tired of rash conclusions being drawn from incomplete information.
"Cooler or warmer, if we are the ones doing it then we are all fsck'd."
If I had to pick between us causing it and the planet causing it, I'd prefer it to be us. At least in that case, it means we have some power to do something about it.
Frankly, though, I don't think the eco system is as fragile as some imagine.
"You've responded to a very simple point by attempting to redefine "global warming", completely changing the subject, and making baseless assumptions about my views. Good job."
He responded by pointing out your 'fact' is not a fact. He kicked your butt, and your 'rebuttal' was completely free of any information that would invalidate his point. Good job.
Heh. You expecting 'pristine' types of women to volunteer their bodies for nerd-observation?
"Imagine watching a woman on a TV that not only shows the breasts in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the vagina and maybe even pat a woman on the ass."
Suddenly a million voices cry out: "So THAT is what that fish joke is all about!"
"Because you all know you want those 3-4 year old games for $5-15 month charge when you can buy then for $5 bucks..."
If the game selection's interesting, I'd much prefer this service. Mainly because I don't like rummaging through bargain bins nor do I typically find them as cheap as $5.
Then again, anything can be made to sound stupid if you leave out the right details.