Oops, typo. I meant to say $49.95 for the first year of service. They are not going to charge another $9.95/month on top of this. That's from their own press release.
Although I think Microsoft has a really tough row to hoe and the fact that I am not a fan of Microsoft, I still have to diss this article. It has a number of facts wrong. First the $9.95 covers a years worth of subscription. There is no hardware to purchase such as is the case in the PS2. I frankly don't see the differnce between paying the subscription or being forced to buy hardware. The price is going to be about the same.
The other item that I have a problem with is that it is suggested that people won't pay to play online. Wow is that wrong, look at Everquest alone, (not including other pay buy month MMPORG's), it now ranks as having an economy that is larger than a bunch of real countries out there. People will pay and people will play. It's going to boil down to who has the better game line up. That is PS2, (for now).
FYI, The duty cycle of a standard LED is greater than that of the data passed along by a 56K modem. What does this mean? It means that the LED cannot turn on and off fast enough to represent the information going across your phone wire. I would have to see the specs on the specific LED that was being used, but, I would venture a guess that the baud rate would have to be well below 300kb to make this possible.
Old Old news. CERN has been trapping antimatter for a number of years. Further more. There are at least 5 funded programs at American Universities to design a funtional Antimatter drive. Old news.
MS is only using laws that 'We the people' in this democracy wrote to begin with. If there aree faults in those laws, we had ought to be thanking them for pointing them out. I would hate to think that our society is coming to a ppoint that you will be pegged as distrustful if you happen to defend yourself to the best of your ability using the laws as they were written and intended to be used.
Have a problem? Solicite your local government reps. to have the laws changed.
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Oops, typo. I meant to say $49.95 for the first year of service. They are not going to charge another $9.95/month on top of this. That's from their own press release.
Although I think Microsoft has a really tough row to hoe and the fact that I am not a fan of Microsoft, I still have to diss this article. It has a number of facts wrong. First the $9.95 covers a years worth of subscription. There is no hardware to purchase such as is the case in the PS2. I frankly don't see the differnce between paying the subscription or being forced to buy hardware. The price is going to be about the same.
The other item that I have a problem with is that it is suggested that people won't pay to play online. Wow is that wrong, look at Everquest alone, (not including other pay buy month MMPORG's), it now ranks as having an economy that is larger than a bunch of real countries out there. People will pay and people will play. It's going to boil down to who has the better game line up. That is PS2, (for now).
FYI, The duty cycle of a standard LED is greater than that of the data passed along by a 56K modem. What does this mean? It means that the LED cannot turn on and off fast enough to represent the information going across your phone wire. I would have to see the specs on the specific LED that was being used, but, I would venture a guess that the baud rate would have to be well below 300kb to make this possible.
The only video game sounds that I had growing up was pong! Blip. Blip. Blip. Wasn't much of a tune. I guess that means I am getting old? lol.
Old Old news. CERN has been trapping antimatter for a number of years. Further more. There are at least 5 funded programs at American Universities to design a funtional Antimatter drive.
Old news.
MS is only using laws that 'We the people' in this democracy wrote to begin with. If there aree faults in those laws, we had ought to be thanking them for pointing them out. I would hate to think that our society is coming to a ppoint that you will be pegged as distrustful if you happen to defend yourself to the best of your ability using the laws as they were written and intended to be used.
Have a problem? Solicite your local government reps. to have the laws changed.