While I think that the world of gaming has had an over the top reaction to the price tag, there are people who won't buy it at $600. I'm one of them, and I know quite a few other people who feel the same. $600 is too much for a console for a good number of people. So everyone planning on getting one before the announcement most definitely is not going to continue to do so, because no one I know still plans on getting one before major price drops.
convergence: You're assuming BluRay wins. I think it is very likely that it will. But what's to stop Microsoft and Sony competitors (everyone else that makes DVD players) from throwing all their weight behind HD-DVD the day after the PS3 launches?
And because this all comes standard on BOTH the low and high end PS3, it's a winner.
Except that the cheaper one doesn't have the HDMI output, and cannot be upgraded thus. It also doesn't have WiFi or a few other features. I honestly think the $500 one is simply a ploy to make the $600 one look better. "You get so much more for just $100!"
Memory sticks have been addressed by other posters, moving right along...
"The PS3 owners will own more games per console." Right. With what money, after $600 for a system with no games and one controller? What are all the great unique launch titles? What games will there be only for the PS3? And what guarantees that third party developers won't walk away to someone with better market share?
Agreed! I had the same thought when I saw this article -- "Can we please just ignore him?" The guy just wants us to pay attention to him. Unless you're Penny Arcade. Then he gets pissed if you pay attention to him.
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So, to sum up for the AC:
"Dollhouse" is to "The Sims" as "Dolphin" is to "Gamecube."
Thank God they didn't go with "Tactical Domestic Simulator." No one would have played it.
4. Every month / quarter / year (more often is better), let me know that I'm on your list and how to get off of it.
Every mailing list I subscribe to has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. I think every mass-mail should do this. Simple and effective. If you're sending bulk e-mail you need to have somewhere in that a way to get off the list.
The big problem with this is that spammers can and do use this to confirm an address being legitimate.
This is such anti-Bush BS. It was Tipper Gore and her group of bored wives that started the campaign to get music labeled. The ESRB was around before January 20, 2001. Where has Bush spoken on ESRB ratings? He's not rating games.
And freedom of the press is just as strong as ever -- they're constantly critical of Bush, Abu Ghraib was all over the front page of the NYT for months, and whether or not you agree with the policy in question, the leaking of a top secret program is a crime, and it was a crime before Bush was president.
I've also yet to hear Bush's speech on the evils of myspace.
Maybe because I don't live on Planet Moonbat, where everything I disagree with is Bush's fault. I don't like that the ESRB changed a rating based on a fan-modification, but I fail to see how that's Bush's fault. You're like the guy who made Basic Instinct 2 blaming Bush for the movie not doing well in theaters.
There's a ton of stuff to blame Bush for. The ESRB being stupid is not one of them.
You can get a very decent card for $50 now that will play a lot of games... just not the games where the whole focus is how graphical they can be. I wonder sometimes how big the cutting-edge market really is. I can't see myself upgrading my current setup ($50 nVidia, 256MB card, 1GB of RAM, Sempron 64) any time soon, just because there are faster processors and better video cards.
I guess I'd just be annoyed if I tried to have a cutting edge system, and every three months something better came out.
Oh, Firefox has an extension for it? Is it the one that breaks with every new Firefox version?
This is problem #1 for Firefox (with the memory leak being #2), and is very stupid: Say you have five or six extensions, they discover a huge security leak, and you lose those extensions, at least until the developer catches up. And some of them are part of the reason you use Firefox. You're between a rock and a hard place. (Way back when 0.9 came out, I didn't update to it until damn near the time 1.0 came out because I liked my extensions.)
don't give a flying rat's ass about code and source code, I, as a end user, just want things to work a certain way.
And you just put your thumb on a huge problem in the Open Source community. There are people who actively try and discourage the use of closed source -- including drivers like the nVidia ones -- simply because they're closed source. I have an nVidia graphics card. I have Linux. I want to use the two together. (And note: installing the nVidia driver was the easiest thing I've installed in Linux.) Would I rather nVidia release their source? Sure.
But fuck it, sometimes you just want it to just work.
I use Firefox as my primary browser. I've customized the hell out of it. I like that about it. But this article made me think of the last time I went to a website that outright refused to load without IE, and it offended me. I remember the "best viewed..." crap. Telling the user what to use is a load of horse shit and is the type of thing we're better than.
Firefox is a better browser than IE. There is no doubt about this in my mind. But annoying people won't get them to change. Here's how I got my sister to use Firefox: It blocks pop ups by default, and it has tabs. Those two things were enough. She doesn't give a shit if it uses the "em" correctly. My mom and dad don't give a hoot about XHTML.
Open source? Good luck getting 90% of users to care what that means. Most people don't even understand what source code is.
Not everyone is a computer geek, and not everyone has to be.
I write fiction, as well, and sometimes I look at my search terms and wonder exactly what someone would think if they saw them all. I've looked up things like how to make gunpowder so I would know how complex it was and what type of culture could make it. I've looked up things about C4 and explosives. Those two alone are creepy out of context.
Weapons, guns, the damage done to a person by guns, where you can be shot and not die. Obscure medieval torture. Not that I write S&M fiction or anything, and I'm not a gory writer. I just like to know, and attempt to reflect some realism.
I've looked up how to pick locks so I'd know how complicated it was. Someone looking at it the wrong way may assume I'm researching how to hurt people, break into buildings, and blow things up with home made gunpowder.
and remember, the Bill of Rights was meant to protect the most important rights, not to list the only rights you have.
If I had mod points, +1 Insightful for that. And I'm fairly political center-right. If I lived in this woman's state I would do my damnedest to make sure she never won another election again.
Difference is, not a lot of publishing outfits make out like bandits the way that music companies do. That's why in many markets it's hard for even good writers to break in -- they lose so much money if they print a lot of books and the new name doesn't sell.
Too many people don't read books. Every twelve year old on the planet buys music.
Never happen. Despite the fact that the worst nuclear disaster was basically the result of people fucking around, and that nuclear waste is at least storable (in a barrel as opposed to spewed all up in the atmo), and far, far more fficient than solar and wind... it won't happen.
Because people are so very afraid of another Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. We could build it so very safely and carefully, but it won't get a chance, and instead, we'll just continue to pump nasty waste into the air.
Was it banned or did you just not get moderator points? I got them a bunch of times in a row (like 2-3 times within a month), after not having them for a few years, and my karma has almost always been positive. I'm not doubting you so much as wondering what evidence you have about this? I'm very curious, considering how/. is so critical of other forms of censorship.
but but but, how DARE they not mention every single page that criticizes them!
There are always going to be people critical of Wikipedia regardless of what it does. You can't please everyone, especially not on the internet. It's not like the deletion of the article is a secret, nor is it being done without consideration. They're having a vote.
I have a lot of problems with wikipedia, but deleting these articles? Not one of them. None of them seem even remotely relevant to anything.
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Says... who?
Anyone outside Sony?
While I think that the world of gaming has had an over the top reaction to the price tag, there are people who won't buy it at $600. I'm one of them, and I know quite a few other people who feel the same. $600 is too much for a console for a good number of people. So everyone planning on getting one before the announcement most definitely is not going to continue to do so, because no one I know still plans on getting one before major price drops.
convergence: You're assuming BluRay wins. I think it is very likely that it will. But what's to stop Microsoft and Sony competitors (everyone else that makes DVD players) from throwing all their weight behind HD-DVD the day after the PS3 launches?
And because this all comes standard on BOTH the low and high end PS3, it's a winner.
Except that the cheaper one doesn't have the HDMI output, and cannot be upgraded thus. It also doesn't have WiFi or a few other features. I honestly think the $500 one is simply a ploy to make the $600 one look better. "You get so much more for just $100!"
Memory sticks have been addressed by other posters, moving right along...
"The PS3 owners will own more games per console." Right. With what money, after $600 for a system with no games and one controller? What are all the great unique launch titles? What games will there be only for the PS3? And what guarantees that third party developers won't walk away to someone with better market share?
No, of course not.
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Agreed! I had the same thought when I saw this article -- "Can we please just ignore him?" The guy just wants us to pay attention to him. Unless you're Penny Arcade. Then he gets pissed if you pay attention to him.
So, to sum up for the AC:
"Dollhouse" is to "The Sims" as "Dolphin" is to "Gamecube."
Thank God they didn't go with "Tactical Domestic Simulator." No one would have played it.
Ah, okay, I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.
4. Every month / quarter / year (more often is better), let me know that I'm on your list and how to get off of it.
Every mailing list I subscribe to has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. I think every mass-mail should do this. Simple and effective. If you're sending bulk e-mail you need to have somewhere in that a way to get off the list.
The big problem with this is that spammers can and do use this to confirm an address being legitimate.
This is obviously Bush's fault.
This is such anti-Bush BS. It was Tipper Gore and her group of bored wives that started the campaign to get music labeled. The ESRB was around before January 20, 2001. Where has Bush spoken on ESRB ratings? He's not rating games.
And freedom of the press is just as strong as ever -- they're constantly critical of Bush, Abu Ghraib was all over the front page of the NYT for months, and whether or not you agree with the policy in question, the leaking of a top secret program is a crime, and it was a crime before Bush was president.
I've also yet to hear Bush's speech on the evils of myspace.
Maybe because I don't live on Planet Moonbat, where everything I disagree with is Bush's fault. I don't like that the ESRB changed a rating based on a fan-modification, but I fail to see how that's Bush's fault. You're like the guy who made Basic Instinct 2 blaming Bush for the movie not doing well in theaters.
There's a ton of stuff to blame Bush for. The ESRB being stupid is not one of them.
Point. How is it we're discussing baseball on /. ?
Neither does simply hitting the ball.
Yeah, but if the pitcher throws four times outside accepted range of the batter, the batter gets a base.
Agreed.
You can get a very decent card for $50 now that will play a lot of games... just not the games where the whole focus is how graphical they can be. I wonder sometimes how big the cutting-edge market really is. I can't see myself upgrading my current setup ($50 nVidia, 256MB card, 1GB of RAM, Sempron 64) any time soon, just because there are faster processors and better video cards.
I guess I'd just be annoyed if I tried to have a cutting edge system, and every three months something better came out.
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Perhaps you're lost. This is slashdot.
Oh, Firefox has an extension for it? Is it the one that breaks with every new Firefox version?
This is problem #1 for Firefox (with the memory leak being #2), and is very stupid: Say you have five or six extensions, they discover a huge security leak, and you lose those extensions, at least until the developer catches up. And some of them are part of the reason you use Firefox. You're between a rock and a hard place. (Way back when 0.9 came out, I didn't update to it until damn near the time 1.0 came out because I liked my extensions.)
don't give a flying rat's ass about code and source code, I, as a end user, just want things to work a certain way.
And you just put your thumb on a huge problem in the Open Source community. There are people who actively try and discourage the use of closed source -- including drivers like the nVidia ones -- simply because they're closed source. I have an nVidia graphics card. I have Linux. I want to use the two together. (And note: installing the nVidia driver was the easiest thing I've installed in Linux.) Would I rather nVidia release their source? Sure.
But fuck it, sometimes you just want it to just work.
I use Firefox as my primary browser. I've customized the hell out of it. I like that about it. But this article made me think of the last time I went to a website that outright refused to load without IE, and it offended me. I remember the "best viewed..." crap. Telling the user what to use is a load of horse shit and is the type of thing we're better than.
Firefox is a better browser than IE. There is no doubt about this in my mind. But annoying people won't get them to change. Here's how I got my sister to use Firefox: It blocks pop ups by default, and it has tabs. Those two things were enough. She doesn't give a shit if it uses the "em" correctly. My mom and dad don't give a hoot about XHTML.
Open source? Good luck getting 90% of users to care what that means. Most people don't even understand what source code is.
Not everyone is a computer geek, and not everyone has to be.
I write fiction, as well, and sometimes I look at my search terms and wonder exactly what someone would think if they saw them all. I've looked up things like how to make gunpowder so I would know how complex it was and what type of culture could make it. I've looked up things about C4 and explosives. Those two alone are creepy out of context.
Weapons, guns, the damage done to a person by guns, where you can be shot and not die. Obscure medieval torture. Not that I write S&M fiction or anything, and I'm not a gory writer. I just like to know, and attempt to reflect some realism.
I've looked up how to pick locks so I'd know how complicated it was. Someone looking at it the wrong way may assume I'm researching how to hurt people, break into buildings, and blow things up with home made gunpowder.
and remember, the Bill of Rights was meant to protect the most important rights, not to list the only rights you have.
If I had mod points, +1 Insightful for that. And I'm fairly political center-right. If I lived in this woman's state I would do my damnedest to make sure she never won another election again.
Difference is, not a lot of publishing outfits make out like bandits the way that music companies do. That's why in many markets it's hard for even good writers to break in -- they lose so much money if they print a lot of books and the new name doesn't sell.
Too many people don't read books. Every twelve year old on the planet buys music.
Fox = Spawn Campers.
Figures... n00bs.
The ones I made out of AOL CDs and the souls of children.
Think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters!
Yeah, but then when he gets them home he's screwed because he locked himself out...
Never happen. Despite the fact that the worst nuclear disaster was basically the result of people fucking around, and that nuclear waste is at least storable (in a barrel as opposed to spewed all up in the atmo), and far, far more fficient than solar and wind... it won't happen.
Because people are so very afraid of another Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. We could build it so very safely and carefully, but it won't get a chance, and instead, we'll just continue to pump nasty waste into the air.
Was it banned or did you just not get moderator points? I got them a bunch of times in a row (like 2-3 times within a month), after not having them for a few years, and my karma has almost always been positive. I'm not doubting you so much as wondering what evidence you have about this? I'm very curious, considering how /. is so critical of other forms of censorship.
but but but, how DARE they not mention every single page that criticizes them!
There are always going to be people critical of Wikipedia regardless of what it does. You can't please everyone, especially not on the internet. It's not like the deletion of the article is a secret, nor is it being done without consideration. They're having a vote.
I have a lot of problems with wikipedia, but deleting these articles? Not one of them. None of them seem even remotely relevant to anything.
Oh, I didn't want to imply it shouldn't exist. Just that on the few occasions I've gone to the page, it has irritated the hell out of me.
Didn't for me.