In this case not anymore. Porn can be obtained everywhere and most of the times cheaper. This is not a system seller anymore. In fact it was not a big pusher on the DVD as well. VHS yes, but after the internet, Porn has become a commodity.
Ahem DVD already was a well established format when Sony entered the scene with the PS/2 and it was a step up. All Sony did was to add it to a console as first player
in the game, but DVD was adopted way before the PS2 came out because people were eager to get rid of their tapes.
And once I am glad about that. The entire behavior of both camps HD-DVD and Blue ray was like a famous quote of John Romero.
First they added enforced revokable DRM so that your player can be disabled by the next purchase.
Secondly now that the pesky hydra of being copyable is removed, they tried to keep up the region codes for price hiking and added substancially higher prices to the movies, which then did not add much value. And thought this thing would sell like hotcakes just because it is in the stores.
I hope the PS3 will go down burning in flames for the same reasons!
It is not like the number of games published on the pc hasnt gone down the drain either, most you nowadays get on the pc is console ports.
The only genre I can currently see flourishing is adventure games, but this genre is highly overlooked by most pseudo gamers warezing anything left and right on the pc, and thank god for that!
The problem is, that it is not used that way, it is used so that patents can be plastered onto crops, it is used so that people get a crop dependency upon corporations and it is used to sell pesticides which kill off the natural floar but the sold crop is resistent.
As usual it could help people a lot of this technology would be used wisely, but it is not used wisely it is just for the sole profits of a few, and guess what via cross contamination of this dreck the word worldwide hunger epedemy is written in the sky!
Microsoft is way too big for the wallstreet leeches...
The wonders I see here is slicing it apart getting the money and leaving ruins.
Sorry but those things have happened and most of the times they just ruined the company
and left the money in the hands of the aquisitors.
You just forget one thing, that the us slowly but surely develops into a central managed economy, monpoloies are not broken up nowadays but they are on the edge of getting way too much political influence, companies do not plan by the market but by quarters which is even worse than the communist five years plan and instead of trying to avoid monopolies, country sanctioned monopolies in form of trade laws and patents are plastered all over every free economy there still is. And what is left of a free economy is sued into oblivion by the existing political and economical oligarchy.
I think the US is more stalinistic (not communistic) than eastern europe (at least poland or hungary) ever was....
Everything is unhealthy if you make it the biggest part of your diet, it is part of the human biology that we have to eat everything, but most of it in moderate doses so that we get a well rounded diet.
Most vegetarians I know do not look to healthy or have a constant fight to get their proteins, some I know reverted back to a moderate dosage of fish to cope with that. Tofu and Soy based substances can only drive you for a few years until you hate them.
Sorry to say that but I think whole veganism (not vegetarianism) is interesting from a pure philosophical standpoint, it is totally idiotic from a health standpoint.
If you like something which feels like rubber and tastes like nothing yes.
Anyway face it, if everyone would just eat meatless only, first of all most of us would be way less healthy, but even worse, given the diet and the number of people we would run into a huge problem cropwise, this would call for another environmental desaster.
Id say meat yes, but we have to get rid of the industrial meat production we have which is the root of all evil.
(well the root of the evil is the financial issues which drove the industrial meat production)
which is still too much for the average end user who just wants to run azureus...
I hope the gcj based compiles are replaced by the native sun jdk in the next version now the license issues are cleaned up, as good as gcj is, the native java is almost twice as fast....
150-250 dollars, the exact price is not defined yet but Nintendo stated that it will not be more than 250 dollars.
Secondly, 500-700 Dollars for a high definition player with almost no hd content is a lot to ask for, especially for one with almost no new games, almost no hdtv content, and add to that that a lot of families simply do not have HDTV...
Go figure who the fanboy is. I dont care for Nintendo, I dont care for Sony, but I can see stupity and arrogance when it comes combined...
Add to that that families usually are on a tight bugdet because there is a lot more to spend on than games, the kids need food clothing, housing you name it, the only adopters Sony surely can count on are the single Sony fanboys, but you cannot find them among families you probably will find them among the 30+ male demographic.
Actually parents also have to look at the price and while the ps1 and ps2 were affordable for most parents
the ps3 simply is not anymore...
Given that a wii with lots of kid friendly games will be around 150-250 dollars and xbox 360 is in the league of 300 dollars around chrismas, and the ps3 with almost no content and certainly no kids friendly content is priced around 700 you can imagine who will get the money...
Sorry but you are way off, yes there will be an initial rush by the usual (idots) ahem early adopters crowd, but after that Sony has a problem on their hands.
Actually, the Wii lineup is pretty strong lets face it:
Wii at start time has about 10-30 must have titles, depending
on your taste, some of them pretty innovative, some of them more on the classical side.
XBOX360 at this time around 5-10 must have titles if at all.
PS3 I cannot see any title which justifies to plunk down 700 Dollars/Euros...
(probably euros as well because companies try to swallow the difference if it feeds their earnings)
I would not count on brand recognition being a driver for sales. Sony has an awfully lousy brand reputation over here in Europe, and has earned that rightfully due to lousy customer service, expensive out of warranty repairs, lots of repairs etc...
If you ask an everage person over here, they probably go for other brands first unless there is a real reason to buy Sony.
Sony used to be good, but their quality has gone down the drain the last years once they centralized their repair network and once they started to treat their customers like John Romero wanted to have his customers in a famous ad...
Actually no, it wont happen, the reason is, it simply is too expensive,
for a console the xbox360 is at the upper limit of what people would spend on a console
and for blue ray, the hdtv adoption still is not widespread enough and there is a huge lack of content.
There will be a huge christmas fiasco for Sony.
has been dead ever since they started harassing teenagers and court and harassing dead people and their families, dragging people into court without having any clear evidence.
They are deader than dead as any moral authority.
If teenagers dont think copying cds is a crime, they are right... I am glad that teenagers still have any sense of morality, the adults dont have it as it seems.
Add to that list, Trauma Center, Another Code, Advanced Wars DS and Metroid Prime DS all of those titles use the touchpad
extensively so does super Mario 64 DS...
Actually FPS seems to work way better with the new wiimote than with traditional analog sticks on other consoles, still not as good as with a mouse but way better than the usual stick on the pad. As for the hype, have you been living in a parallel universe, ever since E3 Nintendo went from the underdog to the must have console and the recent DS push helps that as well.
Parallels is pretty known on windows as well, the reason for this is that the better stuff from vmware costs literally almost as much as a new computer.
I know many people who use parallels on windows, but no sysadmins, because there is no server version.
If vmware can deliver a good vm for OSX then good for them, if it still will cost as much as an entire pc, then no money from me....
I am not married to parallels, but for now it is the best you can get on osx and for client side apps the only good affordable solution for windows!
Parallels really is the counterexample to this paper, the speed is pretty much the same in hardware VT-X or software only, but the main difference is that the processor load is way lower once VT-X is turned on.
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They are just waiting for the PS3 becoming the market leader of the next gen consoles. Then they will release it as a PS3 exclusive...
In this case not anymore. Porn can be obtained everywhere and most of the times cheaper. This is not a system seller anymore. In fact it was not a big pusher on the DVD as well. VHS yes, but after the internet, Porn has become a commodity.
Ahem DVD already was a well established format when Sony entered the scene with the PS/2 and it was a step up. All Sony did was to add it to a console as first player in the game, but DVD was adopted way before the PS2 came out because people were eager to get rid of their tapes.
And once I am glad about that. The entire behavior of both camps HD-DVD and Blue ray was like a famous quote of John Romero. First they added enforced revokable DRM so that your player can be disabled by the next purchase. Secondly now that the pesky hydra of being copyable is removed, they tried to keep up the region codes for price hiking and added substancially higher prices to the movies, which then did not add much value. And thought this thing would sell like hotcakes just because it is in the stores. I hope the PS3 will go down burning in flames for the same reasons!
Only until you want to play a current game with the latest firmware....
It is not like the number of games published on the pc hasnt gone down the drain either, most you nowadays get on the pc is console ports. The only genre I can currently see flourishing is adventure games, but this genre is highly overlooked by most pseudo gamers warezing anything left and right on the pc, and thank god for that!
The problem is, that it is not used that way, it is used so that patents can be plastered onto crops, it is used so that people get a crop dependency upon corporations and it is used to sell pesticides which kill off the natural floar but the sold crop is resistent. As usual it could help people a lot of this technology would be used wisely, but it is not used wisely it is just for the sole profits of a few, and guess what via cross contamination of this dreck the word worldwide hunger epedemy is written in the sky!
Actually the friends codes are not required in mario kart DS....
Microsoft is way too big for the wallstreet leeches... The wonders I see here is slicing it apart getting the money and leaving ruins. Sorry but those things have happened and most of the times they just ruined the company and left the money in the hands of the aquisitors.
You just forget one thing, that the us slowly but surely develops into a central managed economy, monpoloies are not broken up nowadays but they are on the edge of getting way too much political influence, companies do not plan by the market but by quarters which is even worse than the communist five years plan and instead of trying to avoid monopolies, country sanctioned monopolies in form of trade laws and patents are plastered all over every free economy there still is. And what is left of a free economy is sued into oblivion by the existing political and economical oligarchy. I think the US is more stalinistic (not communistic) than eastern europe (at least poland or hungary) ever was....
Everything is unhealthy if you make it the biggest part of your diet, it is part of the human biology that we have to eat everything, but most of it in moderate doses so that we get a well rounded diet. Most vegetarians I know do not look to healthy or have a constant fight to get their proteins, some I know reverted back to a moderate dosage of fish to cope with that. Tofu and Soy based substances can only drive you for a few years until you hate them. Sorry to say that but I think whole veganism (not vegetarianism) is interesting from a pure philosophical standpoint, it is totally idiotic from a health standpoint.
If you like something which feels like rubber and tastes like nothing yes. Anyway face it, if everyone would just eat meatless only, first of all most of us would be way less healthy, but even worse, given the diet and the number of people we would run into a huge problem cropwise, this would call for another environmental desaster. Id say meat yes, but we have to get rid of the industrial meat production we have which is the root of all evil. (well the root of the evil is the financial issues which drove the industrial meat production)
which is still too much for the average end user who just wants to run azureus... I hope the gcj based compiles are replaced by the native sun jdk in the next version now the license issues are cleaned up, as good as gcj is, the native java is almost twice as fast....
150-250 dollars, the exact price is not defined yet but Nintendo stated that it will not be more than 250 dollars. Secondly, 500-700 Dollars for a high definition player with almost no hd content is a lot to ask for, especially for one with almost no new games, almost no hdtv content, and add to that that a lot of families simply do not have HDTV... Go figure who the fanboy is. I dont care for Nintendo, I dont care for Sony, but I can see stupity and arrogance when it comes combined... Add to that that families usually are on a tight bugdet because there is a lot more to spend on than games, the kids need food clothing, housing you name it, the only adopters Sony surely can count on are the single Sony fanboys, but you cannot find them among families you probably will find them among the 30+ male demographic.
Actually parents also have to look at the price and while the ps1 and ps2 were affordable for most parents the ps3 simply is not anymore... Given that a wii with lots of kid friendly games will be around 150-250 dollars and xbox 360 is in the league of 300 dollars around chrismas, and the ps3 with almost no content and certainly no kids friendly content is priced around 700 you can imagine who will get the money... Sorry but you are way off, yes there will be an initial rush by the usual (idots) ahem early adopters crowd, but after that Sony has a problem on their hands.
Actually, the Wii lineup is pretty strong lets face it: Wii at start time has about 10-30 must have titles, depending on your taste, some of them pretty innovative, some of them more on the classical side. XBOX360 at this time around 5-10 must have titles if at all. PS3 I cannot see any title which justifies to plunk down 700 Dollars/Euros... (probably euros as well because companies try to swallow the difference if it feeds their earnings)
I would not count on brand recognition being a driver for sales. Sony has an awfully lousy brand reputation over here in Europe, and has earned that rightfully due to lousy customer service, expensive out of warranty repairs, lots of repairs etc... If you ask an everage person over here, they probably go for other brands first unless there is a real reason to buy Sony. Sony used to be good, but their quality has gone down the drain the last years once they centralized their repair network and once they started to treat their customers like John Romero wanted to have his customers in a famous ad...
Actually no, it wont happen, the reason is, it simply is too expensive, for a console the xbox360 is at the upper limit of what people would spend on a console and for blue ray, the hdtv adoption still is not widespread enough and there is a huge lack of content. There will be a huge christmas fiasco for Sony.
has been dead ever since they started harassing teenagers and court and harassing dead people and their families, dragging people into court without having any clear evidence. They are deader than dead as any moral authority. If teenagers dont think copying cds is a crime, they are right... I am glad that teenagers still have any sense of morality, the adults dont have it as it seems.
Being a jew also was a crime, ad even punished by death penalty...
Add to that list, Trauma Center, Another Code, Advanced Wars DS and Metroid Prime DS all of those titles use the touchpad extensively so does super Mario 64 DS...
Actually FPS seems to work way better with the new wiimote than with traditional analog sticks on other consoles, still not as good as
with a mouse but way better than the usual stick on the pad.
As for the hype, have you been living in a parallel universe, ever since E3 Nintendo went from the underdog to the must have console
and the recent DS push helps that as well.
Not here in Europe, I just walked into a shop and got a white from the rack.
Parallels is pretty known on windows as well, the reason for this is that the better stuff from vmware costs literally almost as much as a new computer. I know many people who use parallels on windows, but no sysadmins, because there is no server version. If vmware can deliver a good vm for OSX then good for them, if it still will cost as much as an entire pc, then no money from me.... I am not married to parallels, but for now it is the best you can get on osx and for client side apps the only good affordable solution for windows!
Parallels really is the counterexample to this paper, the speed is pretty much the same in hardware VT-X or software only, but the main difference is that the processor load is way lower once VT-X is turned on.